BigGrandad
Comfortably Numb
Hi this is a bit out of my comfort zone, usually stick to 1/350 and 1/700 naval.
My late pop served with the 2nd West Yorks in Burma. He never spoke about it much when we were kids, which I later learned was the way of things with most who served out there. He suffered late in life from dementia and it was only during some of his worst periods of illness that the subject surfaced, mostly in the form of terror and and obviously visceral recollections.
I have wanted to do something like this and when I saw this resin cast on EBay thought it would be spot on.
The figure came from AC Models in NZ, branded as a ’Chindit Bren Gunner’, dad served in a Bren Gun section although he had little nice to say about it ‘Bloody heavy and cumbersome’ were, I think, the best comments!
The casting itself turned out to be rather a mixed bag in terms of quality, so I think I will be doing some basic remedial,work. Already done some scratch work on the Bren (carry handle and bipod were a complete mush!)
Like I say, this is way ‘off piste’ for me so any help/advice/references would be greatly appreciated.
i will post my ongoing efforts regardless of quality,
My late pop served with the 2nd West Yorks in Burma. He never spoke about it much when we were kids, which I later learned was the way of things with most who served out there. He suffered late in life from dementia and it was only during some of his worst periods of illness that the subject surfaced, mostly in the form of terror and and obviously visceral recollections.
I have wanted to do something like this and when I saw this resin cast on EBay thought it would be spot on.
The figure came from AC Models in NZ, branded as a ’Chindit Bren Gunner’, dad served in a Bren Gun section although he had little nice to say about it ‘Bloody heavy and cumbersome’ were, I think, the best comments!
The casting itself turned out to be rather a mixed bag in terms of quality, so I think I will be doing some basic remedial,work. Already done some scratch work on the Bren (carry handle and bipod were a complete mush!)
Like I say, this is way ‘off piste’ for me so any help/advice/references would be greatly appreciated.
i will post my ongoing efforts regardless of quality,
