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Jon Smith Modellbau will be attending this year’s Scale Model Challenge in Holland. I look forward to seeing anybody who can make it there.

Jon Smith Modellbau wird an der diesjährigen Scale Model Challenge in Holland teilnehmen. Ich würde mich freuen euch dort zu sehen.

Jon Smith

Coming soon the new JSM 1:10th bust, German Sapper Sturm-Btl. Nr. 5 (Rohr), 1916. Design and prototype figure (master) are finished and I will start the casting and production in the coming weeks. The bust will have a choice of 2 alternative heads and is supplied with the normal 6mm buffed diameter brass tube for mounting. Here are a few of the 3D program snapshots.

Now available is the new JSM German Prisoner bust in 1:10^th scale. Below are photos of the bust, sprayed only in grey. This bust has a choice of 2 heads, each with 2 gas mask spectacles.

David Youngquist from Last Cavalry www.lastcavalry.com has built and converted some JSM figures and set into a trench diorama with MG08 stand. Only the left hand corner of trench is from the original kit, the rest he has scratch-built. I really love Dave’s models, especially the groundwork and I have to admit, that it looks like the real thing! The painting of the wooden posts and planks, with the different stages of exposure to the elements is excellent.

Coming soon – the 2nd JSM 1:10th scale bust German Prisoner. Here are a few of the 3D program snapshots.

JSM Trench Rats and British SRD Jars in 1:16^th scale / 120mm and the smaller 1:32^nd or 1:35^th scales / 54mm sizes

Now being released are the new JSM Trench Rats and SRD Jars.

There are also smaller Rat Pack Specials in all the scales above, showing these rodents together with the German Steel Helmets and British SRD Rum Jars.

Note: All the 1:16^th scale / 120mm Trench Rats can be purchased individually / Hinweis: Alle im Maßstab 1:16 / 120mm Ratten können einzeln gekauft werden. 

These model rodents are intended to enhance any dioramas or modelling scenes, historical or otherwise, but particularly models of the Great War period. As these creatures varied in sizes, the differences between the smaller scales of 1:32^nd & 1:35^th is virtually unnoticeable.

A selection of the new items and links are below:

1:16^th (120mm)

Trench Rat Pack Set

British SRD Rum Jar Set

Special – Rats in Helmets

Special – Rats with SRD Jars

Single Trench Rats

Also new in this scale:

German Body Armour / Grabenpanzer - separate segments

German Steel Helmet with Inside Detail (Special Edition)

German Gas Mask Tin M16 / Bereitschaftsbüchse M16

1:32^nd (54mm) & 1:35^th

Trench Rat Pack Set

British SRD Rum Jar Set

Special – Rats in Helmets (only 1:32^nd / 54mm)

Special – Rats with SRD Jars

Also in 1:32^nd / 54mm:

German Steel Helmet with Inside Detail (Special Edition)

3 x Spare Heads

French Chasseurs Alpini – with Goatee Beard

French Infantryman – Kepi – Full Beard

Scottish Infantryman – Balmoral Bonnet

Some of the pictures above are a design feature of the 3D programs, which are now used by me to partly create the master models. These are then cast in the usual grey resin common to the JSM models. Some objects are also shown transparent – this is to help display hidden parts of the model.

Dan Moore from Australia builds the JSM Mauser T Gunner Vignette. Part of Dan’s own text to this figure and painting – the pictures speak for themselves:

The figure is based on an officer of the 27th Prussian Reserve Infantry Regiment who participated in a defensive action during the Beaucamp-Cambrai offensive of September 1918. The figure was base-coated in Tamiya acrylics via airbrush, with oils used for blending, shadows & highlights. The head was finished in various Vallejo shades. All weapons and field equipment were slightly enhanced where required & painted using Tamiya shades. The basic plaster Vignette base was used, with pigments and foliage added. The poppies were fabricated from stretched sprue & crepe paper. The stakes & barbed wire were also scratch made.

Konstantin Kapitonov from Russian has sent pictures of 4 different JSM kits he has assembled and painted – 2 of the kits are combined into one vignette. I love the colourful appearance of these photographs and especially the rusty metal.

The all-round effect of these small dioramas is just wonderful. He tells me that he always uses water-soluble polyvinyl acetate tempera paint. The full set of these pictures are shown on the JSM Gallery page. I look forward to more of his work.

Another batch of 8 new 54mm Heads has been released along with some 54mm equipment & weapons. I have chosen this time subjects with less well known headdress types, incl. the rare Gaede helmet and Landsturm oilcloth caps.

The 54mm Spare Parts are mainly taken from existing JSM figures, along with a few totally new items. These are intended for figure conversions / accessories and of cause dioramas.

Another batch of 1:16^th scale JSM spare parts has just been released.

I have chosen a mixture of standard equipment and some less well known subjects, incl. the rare German Poppenberg early type stick grenades.

The following new parts & links:

German Helmet & Body Armour, Haversack & Late War Production Water Bottle, Pioneer Wire Cutters

German Poppenberg Stick Grenades

British Hobnailed Trench Club with Lead Band

French Adrian Helmets (Chasseurs, Artillery & Tank Crew)

German Empty PK11 Ammo Box (for tools / spare parts)