CRIME SCENE: BUCHENWALD, APRIL 1945
By: cosmicbaby
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As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives on
Nazi Germany, they began to encounter and liberate concentration camp
prisoners. Allied troops were shocked at what they found.
Large ditches filled with bodies, rooms of baby shoes,
and gas chambers with fingernail marks on the walls all testified to Nazi brutality.
The Nazis and their allies built more than 10,000 camps across Europe to imprison their enemies and to implement their ruthless policy of radical racial eugenics that targeted 6 million Jews for extermination. That systematic murder was the Holocaust. But the Nazis also savagely murdered Gypsies, communists, Soviet POWs, Poles, the mentally ill, persons with genetic birth defects, the elderly, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, intellectuals, outspoken clergy, and nearly anyone else who was labled an enemy of the Third Reich. Their deaths reached 5 million. All told, 11 million human beings were murdered by people who believed they were superior - physically, genetically, culturally - to other human beings. Soviet forces were the first to approach a major Nazi camp, reaching the Majdanek camp near Lublin, Poland, in July 1944. Surprised by the rapid Soviet advance, the Germans attempted to demolish the camp in an effort to hide the evidence of mass murder. The Soviets also liberated major Nazi camps at Auschwitz, Stutthof, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbrueck. U.S. forces liberated the Buchenwald, Dora-Mittelbau, Flossenbuerg, Dachau, and Mauthausen camps. British forces liberated camps in Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen. |
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Work Done: Skulls was re-cast from garage kit, imperfect cast was then puttied, re-tooled, sanded, drilled for corrections. The above same step were done to created variations of skulls. Extra texture were added to the smooth surface via adding thinner to soft putty & applying it over with a rough squre brush, then let dry. Later coated with resin primer, & air brushed. Dry brush tech & wash with layers of artists oil paint applied for result. The base was made of gypsum contruction/renovations boards. 4 pieces of gypsum were stack & glue on top of each other to form slope. Poly cement applied to hold gypsum together & form the suface of base, old paint brush use to add texture to the base before cement dries. Painted with acrylic paint in hue of browns. Washes of of artists oil paint apply to recess area. Lighter wash of brown was dry brushed to fprm hightlights. Using white glue, static grass from rail road modelling material was added. Static grass later painted in shade of green & brown to bring it to life. After fixing skulls to base, poly cement once again use to blend skulls and base together, water colors mix with cement was applied with brush, Finally, wash of artists oil paint & dry brush tech applied. As a result, bottom row of skulls looked more connected to the base. Dragon American soldier face was hightlighted & shaded with artists oil paint, same treament was done to his hair, but this time with enamel modelling paint. This is then top coated with matt varnish. Oil colour washes was applied to the all his 21st Century accessories & weapon, then dry brush for a worn out & used effect. 21st Century shoes & ankle socks painted with acrylic & enamel model paint, later hightlighted & shaded with artists oil paint, dirt & dust look applied with air brush & dry brush tech. Sand paper was used to weathered the uniform & helmet. Rifle Sling re-made from leather strip, hightlighted & shaded with oil paint & acrylic. Small strip of green cloth cut & fitted to helmet netting for camo. |
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