[정보] 모형계의 대부 세퍼드페인 (Sheperd Paine 선생님이 69세로 운명하다!!

[mirageknight [왕성국]]

안녕하세요~ 미라지나이트 입니다.

덥네요.. 무지하게..

요즘 페북에 빠져 까페 관리가 영 허술합니다.

오늘 새벽에 페북에 올라온 뉴스 하나 전해드립니다.

혹시 세퍼드페인 (Sheperd Paine) 씨를 아시는지요..?

세퍼드페인 (Sheperd Paine) 씨는 미국의 모델러 이자 모형작가로 1970~80년대 모노그람의 작례와 수많은 명작을 만드신 모형계의 살아있는 전설이셨습니다. 그가 어제 그러니까 2015년 8월3일( 한국시간) 69세를 끝으로 운명하셨다고 합니다.

[모형계의 대부로 불리는 세퍼드페인 (Sheperd Paine) 씨가 지난 2일 69세를 일기로 운명하셨습니다.]

아래는 페이스북의 한 모델러의 글 입니다. (원문 입니다.)

Jim DeRogatis‎Military Miniature Society of Illinois

The world of miniatures loses a towering giant

Howard Sheperd Paine, who for six decades tirelessly worked to spread the popularity of the art miniatures worldw...ide, died on Saturday, August 1. An extraordinary artist, prolific author, widely respected military historian, and renowned collector of military artifacts, he was 69 years old.

 Universally known to his many friends simply as “Shep,” the artist suffered a stroke at his home on Chicago’s Northwest Side on July 27. Though he never regained consciousness, he spent his final days in the company of loved ones—a small group representing the countless others who came to consider him a friend and mentor through his four books for hobbyists, how-to tip sheets, classes and seminars, co-founding of the tri-annual World Model Expo, and championing of the Open System of Judging for his beloved Military Miniature Society of Illinois and other organizations devoted to the art of miniatures around the world.

In addition to the MMSI, Shep was a driving force in the Company of Military Historians and several Napoleonic historical organizations. He served as president of all of those groups at different times, and was a dedicated recruiter to their ranks.

Immediate services will be private, but the MMSI is planning a “Celebration of Shep Paine’s Life” where all will be welcome following the group’s annual Chicago Show on Sunday, October 25. Details will be announced soon.

The son of Dr. Richmond and Mary Paine, Shep was the first child born to American parents in free Berlin after the end of World War II. His family, which was completed by younger sisters Emily, Martha, and Diana, all of whom survive their brother, settled near Boston after their father’s service in the Army Medical Corps.

After a year spent in London, where he attended Eaton House, Shep completed his early schooling at Saint Paul’s Boarding School in Concord, New Hampshire. He then bucked his father’s wishes to follow in his footsteps as a doctor by delaying college to enlist in the Army himself. He served with the 3rd Armored Division in Germany from 1965 to 1967, rising to the rank of sergeant and for a time overseeing the company arsenal. “That cured me of any desire to ever have a gun collection,” he said.

Following his military service, Shep benefited from the G.I. Bill to enroll at the University of Chicago. There he earned a B.A. in General Studies in the Humanities—“a classic liberal arts degree,” as he said, reflecting interests in art, history, and culture that were many, varied, and wide-ranging. That plus his encyclopedic reading—in English as well as French, which he could speak fluently—fueled his abilities as a great raconteur and orator.

Shep’s interest in scale modeling began as a pre-teen, shifting from a fondness for model railroading to converting and painting Marx and other plastic toy soldiers and building miniature tanks. He continued to pursue the hobby throughout his time at boarding school, in the Army, and into his college years, when the friends he made in the MMSI introduced him to a community of likeminded historical enthusiasts and scale modelers, and convinced him to stay in Chicago.

“I had no idea of what I wanted to do in life, so I started painting figures in my spare time between classes,” Shep said of his time at the University of Chicago. “When I graduated in 1971, with nothing of greater interest on the horizon, I thought I’d try doing that for a living, at least for a while.”

“Shep and I have a thirteen-year age difference, and I don’t think I really got hip to what he was doing until I was in college,” said his sister, Diana. “I was like, ‘Oh, Shep does this weird miniature thing, isn’t it cute?’ I had no idea about the level of artistry until he sent me a copy of one of his books, and then I went, ‘Whoa, there’s a lot more going on here than I thought!’ But, frankly, I think Shep’s greatest achievement was avoiding a nine-to-five job; that’s where he really escalated in my eyes. Yes, he had to work for a living, but he was doing something he loved.”

Indeed, Shep proudly boasted that he never held a “real” job. From his earliest finished plastic figures through the end of his active period as a scale modeler in the mid-1990s, Shep sold every piece he completed: expertly painted stock metal castings; ambitious conversions of plastic figures; original sculptures of his own scale historical or fantasy subjects; impressive armor, aircraft, and ship dioramas built on commission for the Monogram and Tamiya model companies and various museums, and the 100-percent scratchbuilt box dioramas that he considered the pinnacle of his artwork.

Though he spent several years sculpting 1/32nd scale soldiers for Valiant Miniatures, Shep said he disliked being part of the hobby industry, preferring to follow his muse by working on one-of-a-kind pieces that sprung from his unique imagination and vision. Among his best-known collectors were painter Andrew Wyeth; financier Malcolm Forbes, and industrialist Ralph Koebbeman. The Wyeth pieces remain on display at the Brandywine River Museum dedicated to that painter in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, while other works can be seen at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry and the Pamplin Historical Park and National Museum of the Civil War Soldier in Petersburg, Virginia.

Though his attentions eventually shifted toward researching and collecting military artifacts, from medals to Napoleonic and Victorian uniforms, Shep remained active in the global community of miniaturists long after he stopped producing work of his own. He often presided as head judge at the most respected modeling shows around the world, and the honor for any artist claiming a gold medal was all the more significant for hearing Shep Paine read his or her name.

Since Shep set the bar for the realism and artistic ambition of sculpted and painted figures through the ’90s, other artists have raised the standards for excellence ever higher, as he was proud to note. But his ability to tell dramatic and imaginative stories with miniature figures was a skill few others have matched. “Dioramas are so interesting because they combine so many elements in different forms,” he said. “You are basically telling a story without words. It’s like silent movies, except you don’t have anybody moving.”

Never hesitant to share his techniques or inspire others with his ideas for stories to tell in miniature, Shep wrote dozens of articles for scale-modeling publications and published four invaluable how-to books with Wisconsin-based Kalmbach Publishing: How to Build Dioramas (first published in 1980 and released in an updated and expanded edition in 2000); Modeling Tanks and Military Vehicles (1983); How to Photograph Scale Models (written with former Sports Illustrated photographer and hobbyist Lane Stewart in 1984), and Building and Painting Scale Figures (1993). The most successful of these titles, How to Build Dioramas, has sold more than a hundred thousand copies worldwide, and it has been translated into Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Chinese.

Shep believed that teaching others forced him to focus even more on what he was doing in his own work—and why. “He said that if you have to teach something, it forces you to learn what it really is,” said his friend, MMSI President Mike Cobb. “Shep always had his own ways about things, and he was going to do it his way. But the annoying thing was, he was almost always right!”

“Shep and I used to drive out to the Miniature Figures Collectors of America show near Philadelphia every year, and Shep would have his latest masterpiece,” said his friend, retired Oak Park art teacher Joe Berton. “He’d be uncrating it out of the box, and there would just be a buzz in the crowd, waiting to see what Shep put out there. People were just so enthused, waiting to see whatever the latest creation of his would be, and they would be standing in line. There was that excitement, because he was always on the edge, always the most innovative, always the most creative—I mean, he was the best. But I think Shep’s real strength for the rest of us has been his complete willingness to share his knowledge, his techniques, and his skills. He’s always willing to share what he knows: There are no secrets. So many of us took painting classes with Shep, and he’d always encourage us: ‘This is how I do it, but eventually, you’ll find your own style.’”

As a painter, Shep worked in oils over a base coat of acrylics, bringing a much greater level of artistry to painting figures than the previous method of using enamel hobby paints. His books and the classes he taught around the world prompted many to call this technique “the Chicago school,” though as several MMSI members have said, “The Shep school really would be more accurate.”

In the late 2000s, Shep spent dozens of hours in interviews with music critic and hobbyist Jim DeRogatis, working with him to document in photographs and words all of his miniature creations and the stories of his life’s work. Their extensive hardcover book Sheperd Paine: The Life and Work of a Master Modeler and Military Historian was issued by Schiffer Publishing in 2008.

Having survived several health scares in recent years, Shep was as always deep into several new projects, including a revised armor modeling book with contributions from several of the best scale modelers in that field and new editions of some of his other older titles. He also was cheerfully contributing to the planning for the next World Model Expo, to be held in Chicago in July 2017, just as he’d pitched in for previous events in in Scotland, France, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland.

In the final days, Berton, Cobb, and DeRogatis joined Shep’s sister Diana in placing two items at his bedside to represent his extensive and treasured collection of art and historical artifacts: a replica Napoleonic marshal’s baton, the symbol of having achieved the highest rank in the French Army, awarded by the Emperor to “the bravest of the brave,” and a small stuffed cow.

Shep’s fondness for what he called “bovine beauties” was a running joke and a celebration of his eccentricities among friends throughout his life. But there was a serious side to the dozens of cow collectibles that filled his kitchen and spilled over into the rest of his house, as he told DeRogatis in their book.

“I never buy cows for myself; these are all things that my friends have given me over the years,” Shep said. “When I’m feeling low and want to go out in the garden and eat worms, I come into the kitchen, look around at all of these things, and realize that I’ve been a very lucky man to have had so many friends and people who care about me.”

In the end, those many friends and his ability to forge countless other lifelong bonds among people he brought together from far-flung corners of the globe via a shared passion for an esoteric hobby and myriad historical obsessions was the legacy of which he was most proud, and which will live forever in the hearts of those whose lives he touched.

In that spirit and per his wishes, the MMSI has established the Shep Paine Education Fund, which is accepting tax-deductible donations in his honor to continue his invaluable work as an educator and proselytizer for the art of miniatures via classes, seminars, and other projects. Contributions to this dedicated fund can be made via PayPal at MMSIChicagoShow@gmail.com or by mail to The Shep Paine Education Fund care of MMSI Treasurer Tom Surlak, 3136 Secretariat Dr., Aurora, IL 60602

세퍼드페인 (Sheperd Paine) 씨는 모형이라는게 아직 생소한 시절에 스스로 독학으로 공부하여 그만의 독특한 모형제작 기법을 개발 보급한 것으로 유명하신 분입니다.

특히 그는 현대 인형도색의 기법을 체계화 시킨 분이시기도 합니다.

[세퍼드페인 (Sheperd Paine)씨가 그의 저서에서 설명하고 있는 인형도색의 기법은 현대 인형도색의 교과서로 불리울 정도로 체계적으로 기법을 잘 연구하여 보급하였다]

그는 손수 인형을 제작하여 도색하여 만드는 인형 모형의 전문가이기도 하셨고.. Parrott Naval Rifle(1_10 scale)

The Death of Nelson  (100mm)  같은 작품은 비넷이지만 인형작품의 예술품으로 불리죠..

특히 그의 장기는 손수 자작한 인형을 이용한 이런 대규모의 디오라마 였습니다. 그의 수제자임으로 자청하는 이대영 선생님도 쉐퍼트페인씨의 영향을 강하게 받았음으로 스스로 밝히고 있습니다.

그뿐 아니라 전차나 이를 이용한 디오라마 제작에도 천재적이였는데 1970년대 타미야 제품들을 이용한 작품들은 지금도 고증이라는것이 뭔지 제대로 보여주는 멋진 작품들이 많습니다.

어디서 봄직한 역동적인 포즈와 인형등의 동세 그리고 실감다는 웨더링기법은 사실 그가 1970~80년대에 개발하여 체계화하여 이를 참고로 수많은 걸작들이 탄생하게 됩니다.

그의 장르를 전차나 인형에만 국한되지 않고 에어로 쪽에도 천재성을 발휘했는데 1980년대 모노그램의 작례는 거의 이분의 작품이 쓰였습니다. 박스아트 대신 이분 작품 하나로 제품을 말해줬다 해도 괴언이 아니죠.. 

특히 그는 자신만의 기법을 독점하지 않고 책으로 출간하며 모두와 공유하였는데 그가 남긴 How To Build Dioramas 는 지금도 회자되는 모형서적중 명저로 정평이 나 있습니다.

그가 출간한 피규어 도색 가이드북도 예술이죠..

노년의 쉐퍼트 씨는 각종 모형대회의 심사의원을 맡기도 하면서 후배양성이 큰 노력을 하셨습니다. 미라지도 그가쓴 서적과 작품들을 보면서 어릴적 꿈을 가꾸어왔습니다.

69세면 아직 한참인 나이신데... 가슴이 미어지네요.. 부디 하늘나라에 가셔도 좋아하시던 모형 많이 만드시고 영면하시길 진심으로 기원합니다.

정말 안타까운 분이 너무 일찍 돌아가셨네요.. 참고로 지금 페북등에서는 그를 기리는 수많은 애도글이 넘쳐나고 있습니다.

이제 페북에서 놀아여`~~ 페북으로 오세요~~ 페북에서는 무료 나눔 행사라던지 빠른소식들이 올라오고 있습니다.

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[Darkfree [김시환]]

고인의 명복을 빕니다. 정말 모형계의 원로가 돌아가셨네요. 며칠전에 이대영 선생님이 위독하시다는 글을 올려 주셨는데....회복 못하시고 운명하셨군요.

[mirageknight [왕성국]]

죽기전에 공방에 쌓아두신 킷 다 넘기세요~~~ 아님 오래사시던지~~

[두리하나 [이광천]]

지금의 피규어의 채색 기법을 이분이 전파하고 많은 분들이 영향을 받으셨군요 .... 대단한분이 돌아가셨네요 ,,, 항상 카페글 잘보고 있습니다 많은 분들이 카페에 들르고 있으나 모바일로 보다 보니 저역시 괸잖아서 일일히

답글 달기가 귀잖더군요 .. 저도 먹고사는일이 바뻐서 글과 작품 올리기가 쉬은일이 아니더군요 ... 더운데 건강유의하세요

[mirageknight [왕성국]]

현대 모형도색 좀 한다는 사람치고 이분의 영향을 안받은 모델러는 드물죠.. 아직 모형도색이라는게 기초조차 세워지지 않았을때 이를 체계화 하여 이론으로 정립하신분 입니다. 요즘 다들 먹고 살기 힘드니.. 저도 딱히 뭐라 드릴말이 없습니다. 얼른 고난의 시기를 벗어나길 기도해봅니다.

[white horse [ 한철희]]

삼가 고인의 명복을 빕니다. 참 전서계 모형인의 큰 별이 떨어졌네요. 저도 그분이 쓴 잡지 달토록 봤었는데...

[아나키스트[김동선]]

고인의 명복을 빕니다. 모형계 대부가 돌아가셔서 많이 안타깝네요.