17th Luftwaffe, Normandy

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.

KV-1 illustrations

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

Villers-Bocage

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 into an alley when Major Arthur Carr's Cromwell was knocked out by Wittman's Tiger.

Tank accidents

Here are some interesting photos of tank accidents.

Tank accidents photos

D-day landing

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.

Polish Winged Hussar

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 0-88397-131-3 ) which also contains very nice ( and large photos ) of the Winged Hussar's armor and weapons. And to see the hussars in action, "With Fire and Sword" is also a nice reference too.



Both books helped me a lot in sculpting my 120mm Winged Hussar ( see images below ). The model was sculpted in 1999, material used is Sculpey and took me 3 months to finish the model. It won me a gold medal at the 2000th MMSI's ( Military Miniature Society of Illinois ) Chicago Show.

352nd Infantry Division

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:-(

KV1-E

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.

German Railroad Gun : 280mm K5(E) Leopold

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 it's this painting that's sparked my interest in military painting again.

Dicker Max

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, one was destroyed during ammunition explosion, the other was sent back to Germany after considerable success against Russian T-34 tanks.