Shot in Motion Standing Figures...like or dislike... (1 Viewer)

mikemiller1955

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It seems to be getting more popular to the manufacturers to sculpt these "shot while running " figures lately...

you know the ones I'm talking about...

where the figure is sculpted leaning way back...maybe dropping his weapon...arms flailing as he appears to be going back wards as a result of being hit...

I have never been nuts about these poses...

they just don't seem to come off as realistic to me...

I would rather have a wounded or dead figure laying on the ground...

I don't mind a wounded guy standing/kneeling/lying (msp?)...doubling over...holding his wound or retreating...but almost nothing really bothers me like these weird animated poses of guys taking a hit while running...

I just don't like these exaggerated poses of figures hit on impact falling back wards in these weird poses...I realize no one is making me buy them...just stating an opinion...

anybody else feel the same way or different...
 
Good question Michael:salute::

I have a figure of a British Infantryman in my Trophy collection falling backwards as if hit, he appears in several Command sets as a bugler and also in the AZW Hand 2 Hand series as a rifleman, I must say I quite like him.

Trophy also made a set of 6 Zulu warriors in various stages of being hit, these figures are very necessary if placed in front of a Gatling Gun dio ^&grin

Cheers

Martyn:)
 
Sorry Mike, I like em. Anything with action is a plus for me!!

Granted, I think one needs to look at the diorama they are being used for- hitting a moving target, especially in an active zone like say Baghdad is a tremdously difficult thing to do. If it's a WW1, ACW, Nap, Zulu charge though it would make a lot of sense for their to be several of these types of figures as they essentially massed and charged and took casualties.
 
I like them too Mike.The human body contorts all different ways when shot.Be glad no one does figures with body parts missing when hit from an artillery blast.
Mark
 
Mike, I call those artillery blast casualties. I don't know about Humans, but I HAVE shot all manner of 4 legged animals , Some while hunting, others for slaughter and others that just needed put down. I always felt some remorse about it, no matter necessary or just hunting.I used to live for waterfowl hunting, eventually, gave it up, shoot skeet instead! A kill shot and they usually either fall straight down in a heap, or sometimes a shocking straight up in the air a couple feet and right back down in a heap. I don't like to see them jump and then run, though they might go a hundred yards or more then collapse, but if it was a poorly placed shot, you might have a wounded animal on the run you may never find, a waste except for the Coyote, and who wants to feed them big game on purpose.
A wounded animal , cripple, will thrash pathetically , I've seen them shot in the spine and it's awful, I don't care to think about people in such shape, or collect too many . I have wounded and dead for my ACW and Napoleonic collections.
They are necessary for Diorama's but I don't care for the falling wildly.
FUB
 
I don't mind them. They do add some visual interest to my dios.
 

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Hand to hand is a bit different. I have went out of my way on a few Dark ages Conte plastics. One is the wounded Viking, doubled over.I drilled a hole through him, made a piano wire steel spear, flattened the head out and ground into a nice spear tip shape and shoved it through the poor guy, then painted him. One of my easiest and favorite figure adjustments. I converted on of the plastic Spartans into a fierce pose, then drilled and inserted a few arrows into him in non lethal spots along with a few more in the Hoplon. Another favorite.Grim stuf war is.
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I think a couple are nice, but the pose does defiantly get worn out. We do need some real artillery casualties- no one makes true blown up guys- it's just not PC. I'm all for casualties- correct casualties, not movie ones.
-Sandor:salute::
 
Anybody who wants to see graphic should check out www.jaywhitsminiatures.blogspot.com .Go to his posts in Oct./Nov.2008 and check out his vignette based on a painting by Otto Dix called "Krieg".Look through his blog and you'll see many of his projects and not graphic like Krieg.Quite a talented man.
Mark
 
marco55 said:
Anybody who wants to see graphic should check out www.jaywhitsminiatures.blogspot.com .Go to his posts in Oct./Nov.2008 and check out his vignette based on a painting by Otto Dix called "Krieg".Look through his blog and you'll see many of his projects and not graphic like Krieg.Quite a talented man.
Mark
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Mark...if you're talking about the foxhole vignette...yes...that's pretty gory...even for me...
 
Napoleon1er said:
I think a couple are nice, but the pose does defiantly get worn out. We do need some real artillery casualties- no one makes true blown up guys- it's just not PC. I'm all for casualties- correct casualties, not movie ones.
-Sandor:salute::
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I can make you some--I'll just cast the pieces, and not assemble them ;)
 
Here are Zulus from two sets of Trophy of Wales set# ZS 50A - ZULU CASUALTIES

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Cheers

Martyn:)
 
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