I sculpt from plasticine

Writes ottenki_serogo:

This post is about the early died of his father's illness and his life's passion - sculpting military miniatures. Pope to stay after an amazing collection of clay soldiers saw only close people. She never exhibited for the first time shown on the pages of this magazine.

The very first soldier for 31 years, Sergey Viktorovich Kiselev sculpted them to fifteen years. First, for the game, then they were quite simply, without faces. Dozens of them arranged the on cardboard, formed the army moved by simulating the battle for some its rules, and fighting - were shot from a pellet gun. These battles lasted all day. Over time, he stopped going to the games, and hobby grew into something more.

 - Soldiers dressed in strict accordance with the historical realities: before sculpt father studied tons of military literature, including in the original languages ​​- a whole library of dictionaries, military books and folders with photocopies of rare sources. Everything down to the color of gloves and breeds horses, comparing with historical documents. No superfluous buttons, rope and detail, nothing has been invented for beauty.

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Small in scale 1:54, three-centimeter (!) Soldiers thousand (!).

 - The collection - different regions of the tsarist army, the Red Army, the French, the British, several historical periods. Each series of carefully laid out in the appropriate box, every soldier is on a stand, which was signed on the back, for what period and a specific unit he belongs to. His father used his own cuts and tried to do a signature on the language of the country, whose army sculpted.

 - It is difficult to say how much time he spent on one soldier, he never made them quite alone. First batch of blanks, and then the piece work.



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