Here is another old British Pathe film from You Tube. A young miner, Jim Trice, whose hobby was model soldiers.
The figures are carved from blocks of lead. Cut to approximate shape with a file, and then carved with a simple pen-knife and finished with a file. Wow.
Foot figures, mounted, a Roman chariot. One of the knights shown even has a hollow, removable helmet.
A very talented man.
Paul Adams from New Zealand
That is an art almost as daunting as sculpture - creating a figure in reverse, out of a block of nothing! SFZ
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing Paul.
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