#410 - LITTLE ROUND TOP DIORAMA
An honored artistic tradition is to paint miniature metal solders and incorporate several into dramatic battle dioramas. At museums and tourist stops near old battlefields, a visitor can often see huge displays of hundreds if not thousands of warring troops. But when indivudual pieces are made, the time permitted to each work is greatly enhanced with detail becoming metculous. Nowadays, many paintable soldier kits are made of resin hard-plastic. The old metal "lead" soldiers have been replaced by zinc and tin alloys to keep the toxic lead out.
This is a dramatic tableau of Joshua Chamberlain, and three
soldiers from his famed 20th Maine regiment. They battle from atop the rocky crest of Little Round Top on Day Two of Gettysburg. Had they not held the far flank of the Union army from being turned the overall battle might have tipped to the Confederates that day. In seeking realism, the artist built a base of carved plaster covered in synthetic grass, brush & trees. The "boulders" are real pieces of granite! Size of troopers: 75 mm/ Created by Matt Catania, my brother, who has done such figures since age 12 during the Sixties.
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