Hi All,
And hi, joshuajaeseo. For a few months now, I have been building dioramas from paper models that were published during the First World War by, among others, the French publisher Imagerie d'Epinal Pellerin & Cie. I am building these models to illustrate a series of posts that will appear in the Vintage Models sub-forum under the title, “Bandages and Baguettes,The Care and Feeding of the Great War Soldier.” The dioramas I’m building are focusing on the life of the soldier away from the battlefield. Training, camping, church services and time spent recuperating in aid stations and hospitals are some of the subjects I am modeling.
Many of the models I have built came from a terrific collection of sites that was first posted in these pages by John Wagenseil back on 7/28/17/. Here is the address for the large collection:
http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/590488-post1.html
Once in the collection, have a look around, but pay special attention to his entry called The Mother Lode, here:
http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/r...7maquette%2527
This is where I have found many of the models from Pellerin and a few other publishers that fit the premise for my upcoming thread. I mention these models because they show soldiers in many poses that may be of interest to you in your project. I am attaching a couple of photographs of one of my dioramas showing a forest camp of French soldiers. In the far left corner is just the thing you are looking for, a solitary man reading a letter from home. Unfortunately, I think it’s the only such pose of all the soldiers I have modeled, but the wide variety of images in these paper models may be of some use to you.
Best of luck in your interesting project,
Score and fold,
Thumb Dog