Miniature War Scenes

1. Algonkin
   September 24th, 2008 at 12:16 pm

   That's pretty cool. I used to do just that when I was a kid. I wish I had taken pictures of it.

2. Gwaereth
   September 24th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

   Cool, as far as translation, I ran it through the Google Translator and you can make some sense of it:
   http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftrinadzatij.livej ournal.com%2F230019.html&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=ru&tl=en

3. phrancis
   September 24th, 2008 at 1:23 pm

   Wow, really cool stuff. Wish I had the patience to build stuff like that. The Jewish execution / mass grave scene was pretty disturbing though...

4. valr
   September 24th, 2008 at 2:11 pm

   I believe that the artist who created this work was on this american life, the television version on showtime, season two. his story was really amazing.

5. kid_icarus
   September 24th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

   i like how someone used a the roy fokker skull squadron leader f-16 in one of them...

6. pfelelep
   September 24th, 2008 at 5:45 pm

   as phrancis says, the Jewish execution / mass grave scene is... disturbing indeed. Better never forget.

   The rest of the miniatures are truely amazing, as I remember building and painting those kind of stuff as a teenager, I can testify, it's a HUUUge piece of work.

   ...japanese otakus! ^^

7. PancakeMan
   September 24th, 2008 at 5:54 pm

   How did they make the water? It took me a minute to figure out what it was, but once I did...wow.

   The one where they are photographing the plane is amazing.

8. fz
   September 25th, 2008 at 2:44 am

   The water, cloud and smoke work are amazing!

9. Scotchdrnkr
   September 25th, 2008 at 6:15 am

   I love the one where the cow & goose are running away from the tank & the women is hitting the tank with a broom. I can just see that happening in real life.

10. hedwig
    September 25th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    still interested in translation? I can do some of it, although I'm not a native speaker and some of it is not in my realm. Here goes.
    Post title: Toys?
    comments:
    -super toys
    -and the right up is also pretty good
    -cut off the head of anyone who calls them toys. this is nothing less than 'artistic miniatures'
    -true, in fact very high quality
    -classy. if you're not opposed, I'll post a link
    -not against. I don't get worked up over that.
    -ok
    (from here it's going to get more general, since there are phrases I'm not 100% about)
    -I noticed they really like to do Germans
    -Japanese? (they) simply love it. it's purely esthetic, however-- photogenic even. but if there's a nationality of pure visualists, it's the Japanese.
    -yes, but in general, not just the Japanese... as someone who's very much interested in model figures, I can say that in [BBT- don't know what this is] and aviation, percentage of Germans is quite high, not to mention in miniatures and dioramas. as far as ships, [they haven't reached the same level in number of vessels as the Japanese, Americans and English]
    -it's notable among the Japanese. but these photos are from some Japanese model convention- notice the labels. as I said, everything they do is esthetic.
    -yes, what they do as far as models go, that's so. I'm talking about something different altogether- about the fact that the '3rd Reich' theme is very popular
    -that's what I'm talking about- they look cool. They've even managed to shoot the Jews in a stylish way.
    -yes, these dioramas have affected me greatly.
    -esthetics, [?]
    -it's just that you've not seen many kits (many displays??). I, having seen similar ones and also on the theme of the arab wars and the theme of [VMV??] I'm used to it. Dioramas with unhit T-34 or KV- there are very few of them. Interesting that dioramas with Is-2 that have been hit don't exist at all. And Soviet aviation as a class is missing.
    -a question in regard to 'person in general interested in model figures'- what do you collect? I'm not just being nosy, I mean for what purpose?

    this is too long for the comments- is there a way to get in touch with you? are you interested in the rest?

11. Miss Cellania
    September 25th, 2008 at 2:01 pm

    Thanks, Hedwig. We know enough that we know we won't find the original source on the Russian site.

12. Pijus
    September 28th, 2008 at 4:58 am

    it reminds me a game Commandos

13. Miss Cellania
    March 2nd, 2009 at 10:18 am

    OK, thanks to valr's comment, I found the artist.

    http://www.haleyandnicole.com/art/photos/mark-hogancamp-photos

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