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Very nice Gary, love the cave setting!

Nice shot. Looks like she’s standing on a beach next to a rocky cliff.

Stryker2011 wrote:Nice shot. Looks like she’s standing on a beach next to a rocky cliff.

That was pretty much the intent.

He. Looks. Awesome.

Stryker2011 wrote:He. Looks. Awesome.

Thanks. This figure has been long in coming and is essentially a labour of love in the sense that The Royal Canadian Artillery was my branch of the service. (2nd Field Regiment, RCA). It also helps that I have the entire top half of his uniform; the hat, badge, bush jacket and Sam Browne belt in 1/1 scale. I don't have the breeches or boots, but I know where to get good quality reproductions if I wanted them

Since I'm sure the sculpt is an unlicensed Sean Connery sculpt, I was thinking of naming him Colonel Arbuthnot, after the character Connery plays in "Murder On The Orient Express," though Arbuthnot is an Indian Army officer in a fictitious Gurkha regiment during the Raj.

Very nice Gary! and well worth the wait too! I like him.

Lieutentant-colonel looks very well dressed. His portrait works really well.

That’s a good choice for a name, Gary.

Beautiful job, he looks like straight out of a forgotten war movie.

Maybe he has friends in the entire 5th Congolese Balloon Brigade, who serve as artillery spotters?

finally got my second S36A (pale) anime body on Saturday, whom I am naming "Aki." If she looks familiar, it's because I'm using the head sculpt from my first S36 from last year, which has been sitting in my parts box for a while as I used a different anime head sculpt parted out from an S40A on Monkey Depot to create "Hoshi." In keeping anime tradition, I am giving all my anime figures Japanese names whether they have Japanese features or not.

Hoshi and Aiko will form the nucleus of the Diablos Island Beach Patrol, as well a run the gas station and gun store. The Beach Patrol is responsible for security on the island's beaches. In most places, they would be simple life guards, but on Diablos Island that can involve quite a bit more, so they are pretty-well armed as life-guards and gas station attendants go.

I have yet to work out full backgrounds for either, but did let on in "Girls und Whisky" that Hoshi's family was incinerated in a Godzilla story and that she had to shoot her boyfriend between the eyes after he got bitten by a zombie and turned.

Overall, I think they make a very cute pair and my next project will be to get an appropriately sized body for this off-brand anime head sculpt that I currently have on an S22A body, but which seems undersized on that particular body.

Very nice Gary!

[quote="ThePhotogsBlog"][size=18][b]Finally, a kitbash I have been collecting parts for for a long time.  This figure represents a lieutentant-colonel in the Royal Canadian Artillery.  His uniform is a mix from various sources.  From top to bottom, his cap is from Banjoman on ebay, while his artillery cap badge is by Tony Barton at Antheads.  The bush jacket is by Ujindou from their SAS Edward MacDonald figure, while the breeches and boots and Sam Browne belt are from the DiD WWI Colonel MacKenzie figure starring Benedict Cumberbatch...(1917)

The head sculpt is from a DiD Gangster set, but too me, looks very much like a middle-aged Sean Connery (The DiD name for this character is "Sean,") and he looks about the right age to be a lieutenant colonel. What identifies him as Canadian is the colour of the edging on his rank insignia. A British Royal Artillery officer would have blue edging, while the Royal Canadian Artillery used red.


I don't know exactly where he'll fit into my little alternate reality yet, but I'll find a place.





I follow Gary on Flickr and highly recommend anyone to take a look at the hijinks of these characters.  It is very reminiscent of Mel Brooks movies, Spaceballs or Blazing saddles.  Very entertaining!

Melancholic wrote:

ThePhotogsBlog wrote:I follow Gary on Flickr and highly recommend anyone to take a look at the hijinks of these characters.  It is very reminiscent of Mel Brooks movies, Spaceballs or Blazing saddles.  Very entertaining!

Agreed! Gary's posts are always fun and entertaining!

Melancholic wrote:

ThePhotogsBlog wrote:[size=18][b]Finally, a kitbash I have been collecting parts for for a long time.  This figure represents a lieutentant-colonel in the Royal Canadian Artillery.  His uniform is a mix from various sources.  From top to bottom, his cap is from Banjoman on ebay, while his artillery cap badge is by Tony Barton at Antheads.  The bush jacket is by Ujindou from their SAS Edward MacDonald figure, while the breeches and boots and Sam Browne belt are from the DiD WWI Colonel MacKenzie figure starring Benedict Cumberbatch...(1917)

The head sculpt is from a DiD Gangster set, but too me, looks very much like a middle-aged Sean Connery (The DiD name for this character is "Sean,") and he looks about the right age to be a lieutenant colonel. What identifies him as Canadian is the colour of the edging on his rank insignia. A British Royal Artillery officer would have blue edging, while the Royal Canadian Artillery used red.


I don't know exactly where he'll fit into my little alternate reality yet, but I'll find a place.





I follow Gary on Flickr and highly recommend anyone to take a look at the hijinks of these characters.  It is very reminiscent of Mel Brooks movies, Spaceballs or Blazing saddles.  Very entertaining!

Thank-you for the kind words. Very often however, you will not get the whole picture on Flickr because the hijinks are part of an ongoing back and forth set of interactive posts between myself and either Dave or Dal or both. The best place to get the whole picture is on Dal's site, ActionManMobileOperations.

We tried bringing this concept here, but to little avail.

Anime Battle Babe is total hawtness!

Great use of the background! It worked out perfectly .

The combination of the photo backdrop and the artificial works well for creating a sense of depth in a limited space. Nice color and foliage match between the artificial plants and the background image.

You've accumulated an impressive assortment of faux-liage.

That’s excellent. Nice use of the foliage and backdrop.

I like it too, but I have to commend davidd especially for coming up with "faux-liage." Punster extraordinaire!

Moody sci-fi thriller lighting.

I appreciate the tidiness of the construction; the rivets and panels are all neatly aligned and believably mechanical in appearance. The detailing appears to serve a purpose rather than being randomly "stuck on the wall."

Agreed. That’s a pretty cool diorama and figure. Nice lighting.

Great shot, Gary! The setting works perfectly!

It all comes together and really works!

Thanks! I can do twosies as well!

Nice set, Gary! Those two look right at home.