Background- My grandfather was a radio operator/tail gunner on a B 26 bomber during WWII. He was on 73 successful missions throughout the war (for reference, crews statistically only lived through 25 missions on average). In honor of the solders involved and as a symbol for remembrance of the war, I have decided to do a themed mini.
How- I want the whole thing done by hand, to give it a sort of feel as if a soldier may have carved it on their rifle in the war or something. I will be representing many parties involved in the war, including US soldiers, Nazis, Jews, Russians, and Japanese. I intend to include symbols of all sides, as well as propaganda comics and whatnot. The whole thing will be done with my VERY basic tool seen below. I am not shooting for detail here, although, you should clearly be able to make out what everything on the marker is.
I will be documenting progress in this thread, and would appreciate any input as to what to include on the marker, or just how you feel about the project.
-My "tool"- fashioned out of a broken safety pin and a BIC pencil. (doubles as my prison tattoo gun
)
Add the vice grips when the hand cramps get TOO unbearable
-How I'm doing it
-do a dotted outline of what I want to get the design down
Then fill it in as desired.
Progress so far (very little, but, doing this by hand is time consuming)
Keep in mind, I am not shooting for detail in individual pieces here, in the end, this thing is going to be pretty cluttered, and, if individual pieces are decently easy to just pick out what they are from any distance, ill be happy.
How- I want the whole thing done by hand, to give it a sort of feel as if a soldier may have carved it on their rifle in the war or something. I will be representing many parties involved in the war, including US soldiers, Nazis, Jews, Russians, and Japanese. I intend to include symbols of all sides, as well as propaganda comics and whatnot. The whole thing will be done with my VERY basic tool seen below. I am not shooting for detail here, although, you should clearly be able to make out what everything on the marker is.
I will be documenting progress in this thread, and would appreciate any input as to what to include on the marker, or just how you feel about the project.
-My "tool"- fashioned out of a broken safety pin and a BIC pencil. (doubles as my prison tattoo gun
)Add the vice grips when the hand cramps get TOO unbearable
-How I'm doing it
-do a dotted outline of what I want to get the design down
Then fill it in as desired.
Progress so far (very little, but, doing this by hand is time consuming)
Keep in mind, I am not shooting for detail in individual pieces here, in the end, this thing is going to be pretty cluttered, and, if individual pieces are decently easy to just pick out what they are from any distance, ill be happy.
, so I'll just 
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