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.