Correspondent Round Up

Thought you might like to see these together , they all been posted here someplace or other , but have added bonus group shot here . Hope you enjoy .

1st up Joe Galloway .



2nd , Englishman Larry Burrows .




3rd up ,  Tim Page .



4th , Sean Flynn .



5th , Sean Piere .



Bonus Group Pics .

Impressive press corps, outstanding model and miniature work, and fascinating background research!

Awesome lineup Chip...

Really enjoyed that group shot. 
Hope it's a precursor to an upcoming photo story?

Three of them I hadn't seen before. Nice group of photojournalists!!
Have you thought of making a Robert Capa figure?

Daryl

Fantastic work Chip, you really have set the bar of perfection here!

Thanks All , glad you liked them . I am itching to work these guys in a story , will see . I think Robert Capa , sounds a vey interesting person , but a bit early for the period I hover around , but who knows . Thanks again all .

Excellent figures chip.....one of those guys looks like the sniper from saving private Ryan..

Rustygun wrote:

Excellent figures chip.....one of those guys looks like the sniper from saving private Ryan..

Thanks ! Yes that`s Barry Pepper , he played the Sniper in Saving Private Ryan , and also played the war Correspondent Joe Galloway in we were soldiers .

Chip wrote:

I think Robert Capa , sounds a vey interesting person , but a bit early for the period I hover around , but who knows

Capa was actually one of the first photojournalists killed in Vietnam. He was following a French unit. However it was before the US got
involved in the conflict there...

He stepped up on the bank of a rice paddy to photograph the troops, and stepped on a land mine. He lost too much blood before they could do
anything for him.

He led a very interesting life. I have his biography. It's been some years since I've read it.

Daryl

Thanks for that info Daryl , certainly sounds an interesting chap to learn more about .

I’m loving the group shot Chip.

Chip, you may be right about him being a little before the time frame of your figures.

It has been years since I read his biography, but just looking online Wikipedia lists
him as dying May 25, 1954, in Thái Bình Province. Which is actually in North Vietnam.
It looks like other countries were in Vietnam a time before the US got involved. Wikipedia
mentions that some consider him the greatest war and adventure photographer in history.

He photographed a few wars, including WWII. He was born in Hungary in 1913. That
would make him 40 or 41 years old at the time of his death. He was born Endre Ernő Friedmann,
but used the name Robert Capa as a more "American" name. He would greet people at his office
as the darkroom guy, so they wouldn't know that he wasn't actually American.

He had a lot of charm and was known as a ladies man.

How he looked in WWII:



A picture he is famous for, although some think it was staged. It's supposed to be the moment of death
for a soldier:



A photo from the D-Day landing. His images had an eerie look, it's said to be from botched
film processing:

It just hit me that I should make a figure of him. Does anyone know of a head
sculpt that looks like this? Bushy eyebrows.

A bit of modelling paste over normal brows and some paint and you've got it.