(NEW) CHAPTER 2 ! - Rock'n Roll Greats: The Evil Looks at 50 (part 2 of 3)

I promised this for Friday, and in the great tradition of Rock’n’Roll, it’s leaking one day early.

This is Chapter 2 of a (large) project that’s been a long time coming.   As said before, this is a “MOCKUMENTARY” little booklet about the 50 year career of the Evil Band in the music industry and pop culture generally. They're a little like KISS, a little like the Dead, and little bit like Forrest Gump because they've been everywhere and met everybody.  And ok yes, they’re a little bit like Spinal Tap but don’t tell them.

Chapter 1 is here:  https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t155-rock-n-roll-greats-the-evil-looks-at-50-chapter-1-now-teaser-for-chapter-2.  Hoping to do Part 3 next week.

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There are supposed to be more “Evil play Sturgis” pictures eventually, but to be honest it’s probably just an excuse for me to show off a lot of 1/6 motorcycles.  Unlike the other big missing set piece “Egypt ’78,” which does have a good punchline, which I’ll shoot eventually, “Evil play Sturgis” isn’t central and is represented by a couple of pics anyway.

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Several of these made me laugh... from "table of malcontents" to "breaking evil" and plenty more; some of these were familiar (like the "bonfire of inanities", which is still precious), as you had shown them before; some went right over my head, as I am not particularly knowledgeable about music. But no doubt, this is one epic project.

Holy cow! What a project. Is that Harry Potter's head in the trash can at the Wax Museum? And Stan Lee sitting in for Hef? Awesome amount of work on the dios and all the group shots. Really cool. Love the rockumentary style to the whole thing. It's like a twisted episode of Behind the Music.

Oh man that a lot of work, great looking dioramas, great looking photos cool looking characters and lots of neat props for the dioramas, Great Job on the project!

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Thanks guys! Comments much appreciated.

That is indeed poor Harry's head in the bin. Unfortunately, at the Madame Tussaud's in this story, Harry Potter's popularity didn't last as long as the Evil Band. And Stan Lee's resemblance to Hef, or the other way around, was a joke in the first Iron Man movie so I borrowed it.

A final part still to come.

Man, this keeps getting better and better!I just want to scour these for Easter eggs. Debbie Harry and Joan Jett!! I so just love them both. And I must say, the stylized likeness on both of them really nails it. Animatronic Eddie and Iron Maiden (from my favorite Maiden album no less)! Phil R. Manic and his Corner of sound is such a brilliant Phil Spector reference. Yoko O'helno made me laugh out loud, and the Doc's meeting with Duke and Leon sure does looks suspicious... The around-the-world photos are so fun, and all the candid pics of them practicing/playing under the summer of 69 really just look fantastic. The album covers are great, and that Robert Palmer one is simply irresistible (oh!). And that Pin-up poster rules, and looks straight out of one of those old rock magazines. And Stan Lee/Hef , "throwing up his goats" as the kids once said, cracked me up. I think I may NEED that head sculpt one day soon. Loving hell out of this project man. Can't wait for more!

ReverendSpooky wrote:Man, this keeps getting better and better!I just want to scour these for Easter eggs.  Debbie Harry and Joan Jett!!  I so just love them both.  And I must say, the stylized likeness on both of them really nails it.  Animatronic Eddie and Iron Maiden (from my favorite Maiden album no less)!  Phil R. Manic and his Corner of sound is such a brilliant Phil Spector reference.  Yoko O'helno made me laugh out loud, and the Doc's meeting with Duke and Leon sure does looks suspicious... The around-the-world photos are so fun, and all the candid pics of them practicing/playing under the summer of 69 really just look fantastic.  The album covers are great, and that Robert Palmer one is simply irresistible (oh!).  And that Pin-up poster rules, and looks straight out of one of those old rock magazines.  And Stan Lee/Hef , "throwing up his goats" as the kids once said, cracked me up.  I think I may NEED that head sculpt one day soon. Loving hell out of this project man.  Can't wait for more!

Thank you so much. I think you're picking up on pretty much all the Easter Eggs I intended, and it's it's most appreciated. I figured I might want to "annotate" stuff at the end, but that could seem pretentious, and you're saving me the trouble. There's a couple of Eggs that might just be too small to see, like the Doctor sitting on Bumblebee's head (no real joke there, just looks funny to me); or an added guest appearance when the same Beatles picture appears a second time for London '69.

I finally got a chance to use that Neca 18" Iron Maiden Eddie. Given the size, it didn't seem to have a 1/6 use but I figured it could be a big concert stage prop. In the same way, I never thought I'd find a 1/6 use for the Playmobil Elvises (Elvi?) that are in the studio. And yeah, I really enjoyed doing the Robert Palmer cover when I realized those OE Army Attractive figures seemed to work so well for that. And it was kind of fun to throw in Robert Palmer, Tony Orlando and Dawn, and the Frank Sinatra references to "go wider" into the music scene.

It's a funny thing to work with Easter Eggs in 1/6 dioramas because I find it hard to gauge what is too obvious or what is too subtle. When we assemble any 1/6 setup we ourselves are focused at the micro level, but will those details communicate to someone else's fresh glance? And Easter Eggs aren't like eg weapon or uniform details, that people may also appreciate unconsciously -- they need to click at a conscious level.