as you know quite rare

Hey John,

Was this one of your sculpts, if so was it ever officially put into production?



I saw it for sale on ebay once but it was clearly a re-cast so i stayed away from it..

Sort of regret not buying it but i don't do recasts..

Was originally sculpted for Kirin but never went into production a long, long, time ago in 1993 I believe. Not quite sure how a re-caster got hold of it .......

30 years ago. 1/9th scale

This one was for sale on ebay "France" but later found itself being sold to me via "ebay" UK, once i saw it was a recast i requested my money back from the seller and shipped it back to him.

I thought at some point in time i'll acquire a genuine un-started in the original box example, little did i know....





I have also seen this image floating about the net too..

As far as I know the former owner of Kirin (and Jaguar Models) gave away some preproduction castings of this Fallschirmjäger without a box - at last I got my figure from him. There was a similar figure in the Warrior Models line where John had replaced the head and the arms with a new weapon.
Because I liked the sculpt so much I built up both back then. (The magzine pouches for the FG 42 were scratchbuilt by me and were not part of the kit - the same goes for the camo net)
Cheers, Martin

They look great Martin

One more for Raptor in 1/16 closing out the DAK crew....magic sculpt short boots with socks this time

Wow, looks great, John. You guys that can not only sculpt, but paint too, yall got the corner on the market. You can pretty much set the scene for whatever your imagination can conjure up, awesome!

Thanks Steve and Nap

Wow. . Can't think of anything else to add.

Malc

thanks Malc

No he doesn't....can I hell tempt him into 1877-1879

Hi John,
Great Dak figure I just hope all that effort and detail on the soles does not get lost in the casting process.
cheers
Richie

lol Thanks Richie ...me too on the soles

This is one I just completed in 1/16th scale . This was a unique opportunity (commissioned by my friend Zongwen Huang) to sculpt a really interesting subject-82nd "Cowboy" at Normandy 1944. Hope you guys like them

Big thanks to not only Zongwen but Ron Volstad and Christopher Mrosko

note some things are blu-tacked in place

That's so f*cking cool! What a unique and interesting sculpt. I really like that a lot. Thanks for posting that.

Steve

Great looking figure John. Must have been a challenging project. Hope to see it painted in a while. Is it a one off commission?

regards,
RJ

Excellent, great subject matter, and certainly very well sculpted, John! I like it!!!