Red Army Soldiers :

The Red Army of the Great Patriotic War ( as they called it ) is another area of fascination to me. Ground between the upper and nether millstones of brutal Stalinism and a genocidal Nazi invasion , the sheer grit of the Soviet peoples has always drawn my admiration. They recovered from catastrophic losses of territory , industry and manpower in a supreme effort of will , turned their whole state into a war machine, and threw out and destroyed the Wehrmacht. The sheer epic scale of it has no parallel in history.

Their uniforms and their equipment are a study in simplicity and absolute functionality , sometimes to the point of crudity.

                                                                     And I have to admit I love creating the faces.

A selection from my collection :

The archetypal steppe landscape : Kursk 1943