ITALERA WW2 RUSSIAN INFANTRY

ITALERA

WW2 RUSSIAN INFANTRY

(Winter Uniform)

1/32 Scale 8 Figure Set

I saw this set a while back and I hummed and hawed as to whether 

I should acquire it. Well now it is mine.There are 8 different poses by 2 so 

you get 16 figures. The sculpting is very good and the set is pretty imaginative.

There are four men with helmets and the other four have fur caps plus long coats.

There is a nice selection of arms too, varying from PPSH sub machine gun, 

Tokarev rife, Mosin-Nagant rifle, Degtyaryov light Machine gun and a small mortar.

The faces of the men are very sharp and the poses pretty natural. Italera make

Elite German Troops too as an a companion set and there is even an anti-tank

gun set for both sides with servants. This is a great set and it's nice to get 

Russians in winter gear for a change. The plastic is hard but much better

than the Hornby Airfix reissues of recent. Oh, and they are actually 

made in Italy! 

The box is dramatic and depicts "The Russians are coming"!

Box rear with painting guide.

Two of these in the box! They were pretty hard to get 

off the sprue. Be careful with that Stanley knife Eugene!

Free from the sprue the 8 poses! Nice!

A lick of paint and they ready to fight for the Motherland!

Fighting a relentless enemy!

Nice coat you got sir!

IN THE FIELD

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!

AIRFIX FOOTBALLERS 1/32

I didn't realise these existed until I got a lash of them in 

a lot of figures on eBay last year. I have no particular interest in them 

as I have zero interest in football. These were the only football set Airfix 

made in the 1970s and they were very well sculpted and moulded. Maybe 

with the popularity of Subutteo table soccer back in the age before gaming 

consoles, these figures were hip and could be painted like your footy heroes, 

who knows! I just made do with a Kevin Keegan colouring book!

If they made modern versions you would have to get the

managers and W.A.Gs in the set too! 

Itsa gooooooal!

The earlier box artwork

And here are two I prepared earlier!

WALKING ON THE MOON

AIRFIX HO/OO ASTRONAUTS

Even though I bought a fair share of HO/OO, 1/72 and 1/76

in my younger model making days, 1978 - 83, I was never

really too mad about those scales, but in saying that they are ideal
scales for large projects and dioramas. I do not have any more stuff in

such scales now except these Astronauts. I stumbled across them last year
again from a box in storage and feeling slightly sorry for them I decided
to paint them and photograph them, so here they are in all their
glory, an 1980 pack of spacemen!

Giant steps are what you take, walking on the moon!

Moon Rover!

Take me across town!

Help! I'm lost!

Let's make a Space Movie!

Space Hopper!

I think I found something here!

Time for a moon picnic!

One small step...

MISSION DATA

These photographs were taken with a Panasonic Lumix

digital camera. To make the 'lunar' setting, a few shovels of sea sand 

were placed on top of a black PVC refuse bag. A black bed sheet was put in the

background and then the figures were put in place. The lights were turned

off and a large flashlight was used overhead, shining directly down

to create sun shining on the surface of the moon. This gave excellent 

blackness behind the sand and then I took the shots!

WALKING ON THE MOON

I used these figures in a stop motion film 

which can be viewed on you tube.

The URL is here:-

http://www.youtube.com/user/KRAZEEIZATION?feature=mhee

A collection of stills from the film.