Hi guys
I did this vignette inspired on a drawing that appeared on the Nº 56 Magazine of The British Empire, where the artist was presenting, to the British public, an heroic image of their soldiers to avoid the reality of stunning defeats, at the beginning of the war...
I tried my best to make a 3D version of the scene of soldier´s drama and terrain details, as show in the drawing. I named it “The last bullet “.that was the most appropriate.
The base was done adapting real stones and building the rest with putty.
The soldiers were created using, some spare plastic parts, and over it I sculpted all the uniform and equipment details adding the arms, hands, belts, haversacks and the empty 50 round bandolier: all hand made, has well as the helmets and the water bottles .The artist was not accurate to the standing soldier uniform, so I did some changes and decide to show it as a mounted infantry man. The rifle was transformed to the Long Lee Enfield MKI model, with the opened magazine
I used acrylic Vallejo for the soldiers and terrain

All your comments are welcome

Regards

Adriano

Adriano, an excellent recreation and great painting. Very nice job on the groundwork .
Cheers Ken

Looks very cool

Adriano,

That's a brilliant piece of modelling. Great concept and brilliant execution. Well done.

Thanks Carl, Ken, Dan and Tony,
I really appreciate the kinds words

Regards

Adriano

Adriano,

A beautiful example of scratchbuilding & painting - Congratulations!

Chris

Just awesome work, the sculpting and painting.
It's telling us a story.
Well executed.

marc

Hi! Cris
Hi! Marc
Thank you very much for your kind comments.

Adriano

Excellent work, Congratulations

Melanie

Hi! Melanie
I am glad you like it
Regards

Adriano

Brilliant! I've done my own share of illustrations>> into>> 3D>> vignettes and they are not easy! Very well done!

All the best,
Dan

Thanks Dan,
so you know there is more work to tray to realize a copy of a picture.
Regards

Adriano

Thats an inspsirational piece of modelling you have produced Adriano . I admire the fact that you have sculpted your own parts to get the right pose on the figures and not just adapted plastic parts .
chippy

Thanks Gordon,
I use some Historex spare parts, but the body ít`s just for the base and, as you wrote, I sculp the rest over it.
Best regards

Adriano