- Scale
- 1:35
- Size
- 52 mm
- Category
- Miniature
Tommy, Pointing the Way
A British infantryman mid-shout, arm out, small enough to stand on a fingertip.
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NZ$120
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Ships from New Zealand, wrapped like it's going to war. Shipping: NZ NZ$8, Australia NZ$18, rest of world NZ$30.
Step one, step last
Primer to paint
Every piece starts grey. Here is what the brushwork adds.
True to scale
How small is it?
Photos lie about size. This doesn't: everything below is drawn to the same millimetre ruler.
About 2.0x the length of a $2 coin.
From the workbench
He started life as a spare figure in the bottom of a box and turned into my favourite of the year. I re-sculpted the right arm with putty so he is pointing hard at something just out of frame, and gave him an open mouth because a pointing soldier is never a quiet one.
The battledress is three shades of khaki brown laid over each other with a brush that has about six hairs left in it. The webbing is a paler blanco green, and the Brodie helmet has a scrim net made from a single strand of gauze. His face took longest: a warm base, a little red on the cheeks and nose, and a dot of white in each eye that I redid four times.
He stands on a tiny scrap of cobbled road, 52 millimetres from boot to fingertip. Photos of him balanced on my finger are on the Instagram, and yes, he really is that small.
— Sunanda