As a child growing up in Coventry (UK) during the 1980's, content with his own company and never understanding others who were always bored, my over active imagination led to to build and make things on a daily basis, from Lego to making clothes, weapons and armour for Action Man, or recreating scenes from Sunday afternoon films. As I get older that early creative passion whilst tested has never left me.
Completing a Degree in Fine Art taught me many things about the art world and Art history and ways of seeing, with creative skills honed in model making from Scratch building and converting, kit bashing, airbrush, painting and weathering or simple kit building to create miniature historical dioramas.
With an interest in military history, strategy, Art history. research and Fine Art techniques; I hope this comes through in my own work. Regards and enjoy.
Thanks mate, your table looked great as well. Hoping to get a bit fitter for future shows to give a wider perspective. My knees were shot yesterday so limited to how much walking I could do. Hope you had a fun weekend also. 😁👍
Hi Marcus, as you suggesred I have checked several more of you diorama work, this particular one reminded me of a seriex that was on TV way back in the early to mid 1960's 77 Bengal Lansers, have ever done one on Custers Last Stand? Again thanks for sharing your excellent work, best regards again from a Kiwi living in Australia
Thank you again. Not tackled custers last stand. Funnily enough was chatting to a fellow modeller today who is a gun expert about the use of repeater rifles at little big horn, compared to the 7th using single shot carbines. An interesting topic in its own right. I’ve done Rebel Yell, depicting a skirmish at the battle of Chancellorsville in 1863 and a very early diorama at Tonto basin 1871, probably the closest thing to the Custer last stand. Regards, M
Hi Marcus, that was absolutely outstanding, I am not a figure modeller, but would like to try some day, I have subscribed to your channel as, if this is the standard of your work then I wantbto see more, congratulations on a job extremely well done, best regards from a Kiwi living in Australia
Thank you Les, very kind. You might like my Chunuk Bair tribute diorama, Kiwi’s at Gallipoli diorama, it’s 1/35 but a great battle to commemorate. Also my Waler creek dio depicts light horse set in Australia just before WW1. Cheers M.
Hi Tony, Sadly no longer on X (Twitter) indeed someone hacked my account and changed the email address. I tried 3x to sort with X, they didn’t want to know. So all I could do was delete all my content then log out. So my account is gone after 8yrs. I’ve since tried to create a new X account, that just kept crashing. So for now I’m no longer on X. 😬
That is rubbish and a great shame Marcus, for I cannot be the only one who has scratched their head and wondered where you are, missing out on your next project as you start, just glad I follow you here. Well, I will keep looking in, your display when put together looks amazing 👍👏 Take care
Many thanks. Artistic license for the shields, nobody knows for sure what they looked like, depicted or referenced it’s pure speculation as only fragments exist. I read that the bull is both linked to the 9th having its roots in Spain as you say, also with devotion to the Roman god Mithras who is usually depicted with bull. That was a historic reference only and I like the dualism.
Mr. Marcus White, I appreciate your works very much, they are very realistic. I love their WWI dioramas. It would be great to see the Diorama of the French and the Diorama of combat between the British and Germans with gas masks in more detail. Thank you
Thanks mate. I didn’t make a movie for those WW1 vignette’s but you can see more images of them on my Facebook page if it’s of interest. Thank you. facebook.com/marcus.white.35728
Marcus a un sens incroyable pour la mise en scène, ce qui est parfois, pour nous figurinistes, plus compliqué que la peinture . Chapeau Marcus, great job !!!
WOW!!! That sir is a work of art. 👏👏👏👏Quite moving really I have to confess. I am just blown away by how you created this and the end result. Subbed your channel, how can I not.👍👍😉
Thank you kindly. The study into the subject and build was a labour of love. A story I’ve always been fascinated in since a child thinking the exploration of the South Pole with wooden ships and men in fur was a story from centuries ago, not until an adult realising it to be a 20th century affaire leading up to and during WW1. The contrast couldn’t be more stark historically speaking so had to be made. Thanks for your support. 😊👍
