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During the last 2 months, I had worked on some projects of figure illustrations. Here's one of them which is a 17th Luftwaffe soldier, Normandy 1944.

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Here are some more Russian KV-1s that I'd done

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This is a painting that I'd done showing some of the British Cromwells during the Battle of Villers-Bocage on June 13, 1944. On this fateful day for the British 7th Armoured Division, the German Tiger tank Ace, Michael Wittmann, led his Tiger tanks charged into Villers-Bocage and inflicted heavy loss to the British.The image shows Lt. John Cloudsley-Thompson's Cromwell tried to rear backward

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Here are some interesting photos of tank accidents.Tank accidents photos

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This is a book cover that I'd done which shows the US infantry landing the Omaha Beach at Dog Green sector on D-day.

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For anyone who is interested in Polish Winged Hussar, the book "Husaria The Winged Horsemen " ( ISBN 83-223-2682-3 ) is a worthwhile photo reference. The book is in both Polish and English text and comes with a lot of photos of the armor and weapons used by the Winged Hussar ( shown here with a scan of the page with various helmets. Another book about the subject is the Art in Poland ( ISBN 0-

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This is a figure that I am working on this weekend: a soldier from 352nd Infantry Division in Normandy 1944. It's now halfway finished except the rifle sling and the grenade tucked to the waist belt. Will post the finished image when it's done.It's been snowing here in Toronto this week, well finally. So apart from painting, my other job is to clear the snow in front of my house:-(

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I had been drawing more soviet tanks than anything in the last few years. Most of them are T-34s and KVs. Here's a KV that I'd drawn last year, it's a KV1 model 1940 s ekranami (with appliqué), or KV1-E. Armed with a F-32 gun, it was manned by a crew of 5. At the start of the German invasion, the German Army had few weapons that could knock out these KV tanks because of it's thick armour.

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Last night, I looked through my my piles of backup with all my illustration works dated back from 1995 to now and seems like journey through the last ten years. I can see my style changed a lot and there were works that I particularly fond of and works that I don't like. The Leopold which was done in 2003 is an important one to me. Before the Leopold, I'd stopped painting for almost 3 years and

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This is an illustration of the German Panzerjäger: Dicker Max. In 1941, the project of creating a heavy self-propelled gun was ordered for the purpose of tackling fortified bunkers. Two prototypes were built based on the chassis of Panzer IV. This heavy Panzerjäger was equipped with a 10.5 cm high-performance canon but production was stopped due to changes of requirements. For the 2 prototypes,

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This is an illustration showing the 9th Battalion of the 6th Airborne Division attacking the Merville Battery in the night before the Allies assault on D-Day.

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Have just finished adding more details to the painting of Rudel's Ju87G Stuka which I'd posted a while back. I did some modification to the plane's tail and changed the tanks in the background from T-34/76 to T-34/85. Posted here are images of the updated painting.

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Have been working on this Tiger II profile drawing last week. This is a Tiger II from the Schwere Panzerabteilung 505 with their unique marking of a charging knight on horseback. The heavy tank battalion was formed in January 1943 and fought at Kursk, refitted with Tiger II in 1944 and continue fighting at the Eastern front. The battalion's top scorers included Wilhelm Knauth with 68 tank kills

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Finally I'd worked more on the Rudel's "Kanonenvogel" ( Cannonbird ) stuka for the last several days and able to post some preview images here. The plane is a Ju87G Stuka which was equipped with 2 Flak 18 37mm cannons and is mainly for tank buster role. Although the Ju87Gs were the least maneuverable of all the JU87 variants but they were used extensively on the Eastern Front and proved to be

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Posted today is one of my boxart projects for wargamming figures. It depicts a team of Terek Cossacks raiding a German supply depot. To me, the cossacks has always been an interesting subject matter ( same as the Polish cavalry ) especially they are a dramatic contrast to the weapons and machines used in that period.

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Shown here are some images of the completed painting of the "Schwere SS Panzerabteilung 503, Potsdamer Platz of Berlin 30th April 1945". The painting shows Unterscharfurher Karl- Heniz Turk and his SS Abt. 503 Tiger I I which stay at Potsdamer Platz during the Battle of Berlin on 30th April 1945. Fighting along side with his Tiger II were the troops from the Munchberg Division. It will be

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This is a cover painting that I had created for Battlefront WWII Miniatures a few months back. It shows T34s charging side by side with the soviet troops and Cossacks. Battlefront WWII Miniatures produces a unique and vast line of WWII wargaming figures and military vehicles under the name of "Flame of War", very detailed. Also, their web site features a wealth of information of WWII uniforms and

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Hello all,Sorry for haven't post anything for a while as I was busy with my book cover projects, will post some of those works in the next couple of days. Also I had found this footage showing some German StuGs.( original site is : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3803095897296941358&q=stug )

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Got the book this afternoon at Chapters Book Store. It's 13 inches X 11 inches with 384 pages, hard cover and with large color images throughout......but the best of all is the unbelievable price.........just $12.99 ( original price is $77.95 ) The work of artists like Tom Lea, Kerr Eby, Anton Otto Fischer and Charles Waterhouse is already worth the small price tag.

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Here are some more images of the Tiger II project:More work is done with the background sky.Detail of the Flak 88 is added and is moved more to the right. Also the rough linework of the soldiers on the left is added back to the image.The soldiers and the tank commander are almost finnished.Will go back to work more on the tank itself, will post more pics soon..........

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Here are some WIP images of the German Tiger II that I'm working on right now. The painting is about Tiger II #100 of the ssspzabt 503 during the Battle of Berlin. The background is Der Potsdamer Platz with Potsdamer Station in the middle. The station was demolished in mid sixties and the area was completely rebuilt with skyscrapers now. The Tiger II was believed to be commanded by Karl Heinz

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Have been lazy for the last few days and haven't done much except doing some research and preparation for my next project. I am thinking about doing a painting of the SS Pz.Rgt.503 Tiger II during the final battle in Berlin. Got 2 photo of this Tiger and is now trying to establish roughly where it was in front of Potsdamer Bahnhof. Also, the German Das Reich S33 Tiger I tank is finally finished

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This is a painting I had done a few years back. It's about the 2nd Rangers scaling the cliff of Pointe du Hoc during D-day, 1944. Their mission was to destroy the German batteries on top of the cliff but finding the guns were moved away when they finally got to the top. It's my first attempt to do a military art limited edition print, feedback is quite good, I even have five 2nd Ranger veterans

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The painting of the USMC at Guadalcanal is finished. Posted are the images of the painting and some closeups of the details.

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Here's another painting that I am working at the moment, a Marine at Guadalcanal. I haven't paint the trees at the background yet and the clouds needed to be more refine. For the Marine uniform, more detail will be needed to enhance the look and texture of the herringbones jacket. This will be part of my military art series of US soldiers.

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Attached is a sketch that I am working on and may develope into a full color painting. It's a Japanese samurai that's supposed to be in the Momoyama period ( about 1600 AD ) . The armour represents the bare torso of the starving Buddha. Also, I had done a painting of Takeda Shingen 2 months ago ( see below ). The painting depicted him just before the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima in 1561. Bigger

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It's been a hectic week as I was busy working on a comissioned project of a French Char B1 tank. Finally, I can find time at the weekend to finalize the detail of the German Tiger 1313 of LSSAH. The LSSAH Division Marking is added as a background design. I am planning to produce it as a limited edition print ( about 300 piece ) in very fine velvet art paper. Size will be 13in X19 in with image

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JgStephan's blog has some really nice pictures of German tanks of the Munster German Tank Museum. The link is Munster German Tank Museum

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Apart the LSSAH Tiger 1313 profile, I am also working on the Das Reich's S33 Tiger I. At this point, I've only painted the dark yellow base coat and the green camouflage will be added in the next couple of days. Shown here is what I'd done so far.

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For those who are interested in WWII Tiger tanks, especially about the camo painting and markings, Panzer Color 1, 2 and 3 are the three books which provide some essential knowledge about the tank. However, there are a number of errors with their info and here's a web page that listed some of the obvious errors found in the books. Tiger Markings:Errors, Myths & Questions

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The German Tiger tank has always been my favorite WWII AFV. So it's kind of natural Tiger I came right up to my mind when I decided to do a tank profile for my military art limited edition prints. I had painted the LAH Tiger 1313 ( in dark yellow and red brown camouflage ) about 8 years ago, but since then new information about the camo scheme are published in more recent books such as Tiger in

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Hi all,This is my first blog and I am still exploring all the settings. As the title goes, this blog is to share my thoughts and WIP (work in progres ) about my military art and researches. Here's a painting which I had finished last month. It's a soldier from the 101st Airborne Division at Normandy. The background is the church at St. Marie du Mont. For anyone who is interested in seeing more of

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