Creating and painting of war dead

[Dustbin]

As far as keeping things tasteful with this very difficult subject matter, a lot may be learnt from studying the work of war correspondents. Their work is often constrained by whichever company they sell their work to, ie the BBC, here in the UK. My own thoughts are that if you are careful with who you share viewing your work, then remember that war casualties are rarely tasteful and you can take your subject matter as far as you wish.

[Guest]

sometimes I wish me and the Missus just lived in a nice retirement community and all I had to worry about was my next build....but what of the Clan?...13 strong including the grand kids in three separate homes of course...so please be patient with my delayed posts. I do promise to be as active as I can if only for my own mental pleasure for I do enjoy so much my modeling.

Nah! It's the "light and shade" of real life that keeps you on your toes I reckon, also, the sense of community that needs to exist in such environments. Most city dwellers don't even know their neighbours, let alone give a toss how they're fairing in the bad weather. What is a normal winter to you would make the national news headlines every day here, but it does seem that whenever we meet conflict here, a sense of community somehow raises its head...

[grumpa]

Nah! It's the "light and shade" of real life that keeps you on your toes I reckon, also, the sense of community that needs to exist in such environments. Most city dwellers don't even know their neighbours, let alone give a toss how they're fairing in the bad weather. What is a normal winter to you would make the national news headlines every day here, but it does seem that whenever we meet conflict here, a sense of community somehow raises its head...

Maybe you're right John, physical activity is the right way to go says the docs, you wouldn't believe some of the old codgers here about, walking miles up and down the hunting trails, hauling deer and bear back on sleds...unreal ^_^  We do manage to yank a few sticks out now and then to stoke the fires and try to help out when we can .......Jim

[monica]

you boys and big toy,s


I ,remember very similar happening around this time last year, 9_9

[Guest]

I have just finished watching the recent three programmes about the Battle of the Somme. It said that the number of Allied combatents killed in  WWI was 600,000, the figure for Germany was 400,00 That's a million! The wounded and crippled would have been more than that.

[Guest]

Well done.

[Ian M]

I know what you mean about helping out around the community Jim. We lived in town and hardly knew the people that lived around the house. We now live in the countryside and know half the people in the area! By Name!
I see that your Garden tractor is a bit bigger than mine LOL

[grumpa]

I know what you mean about helping out around the community Jim. We lived in town and hardly knew the people that lived around the house. We now live in the countryside and know half the people in the area! By Name!
I see that your Garden tractor is a bit bigger than mine LOL

Same thing here Ian, when we lived in the city (25 years ago) one would not even know the name of the person living right next door, but out here things are different. Though we are very sparsely populated in these parts everyone seems to know or know of everybody else. When Hurricane Irene barreled through, our mountain creeks and rivers became raging torrents wiping out many bridges and roads cutting off many folks for weeks and only all terrain vehicles could get through in many cases, we made sure everyone was accounted for (especially the oldsters and those with young children) We ran food convoys and got those out who needed medical attention. Winters are indeed rough for the most part but can be very beautiful at the same time. Bet you guys would love snow like this


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but we do mange to keep warm enough


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