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[Fitzgibbon]

Thanks to Jack for the pick-up...very inspirational

PS - Tom, it's not Normandy but it's a shop...and soon to be a bar.

 

[villagehorse]

All the brand icons around in the 1930's I think all owned by other counties these days, see you still lose even when you win the war, great peace time scene, everyday life in the civilian world. Cheers, Robin.

 

[waynepoo]

Bob, that my friend is a classic, just a wonderful set up......:salute::{bravo}}
Wayne.

 

[OzDigger]

Excellent Fitz, also show how versatile those figures are.

 

[Jack]

Tremendous - you are a very clever man!

 

[TomNT]

Plenty of Aussie product advertising going on there...:rolleyes2:^&grin Nice one Bob and i forgive you that it's not Normandy...

Tom

 

[Fitzgibbon]

Plenty of Aussie product advertising going on there...:rolleyes2:^&grin Nice one Bob and i forgive you that it's not Normandy...

Tom

Tremendous - you are a very clever man!

Excellent Fitz, also show how versatile those figures are.

Bob, that my friend is a classic, just a wonderful set up......:salute::{bravo}}
Wayne.

All the brand icons around in the 1930's I think all owned by other counties these days, see you still lose even when you win the war, great peace time scene, everyday life in the civilian world. Cheers, Robin.

Thanks for the encouragement - the challenge was to produce large glass surfaces in the single day time frame. The building is modelled after the billet 'Au Cuirassier' on P64 of The Western Front (Cochrane, P; 2004). The final conversion is down for another single day project.

 

[Guy]

This is marvellous. I love that " out of the box thinking" using figures in another setting than the one they were intended for.Well done my friend
guy

 

[PanzerAce1944]

Terrific use of the newspaper seller. Building, ground work, scene all well done {bravo}}

 

[Fitzgibbon]

This is marvellous. I love that " out of the box thinking" using figures in another setting than the one they were intended for.Well done my friend
guy

Thanks Guy. The manufacturer is not so much a governor of context but rather inspired in the first place by imagery from history; and he in turn is governed by perceptions of the market. The problem with 'standing firing' is that there are so few uses and little inspiration as a consequence. Soft figures and non-armoured vehicles are not so limiting. While 'standing firing' may evoke in the majority the monotone collective memory, the fact remains that most of a soldier's time is not spent standing firing. The interaction with softer trappings brings the soldiers to life and further away from the 'dead' statue. There are some wonderful photographic records of WWI snapped by hobbyist cameramen who were the soldiers living those experiences - these I find inspirational and evocative of more 'person-like' imagery; when Andy started to expand this series, I started turning old photos into 3D - the personal facet to this is that most of us have recent family members (deceased but remembered) who served in that war...and that's my two cents done.

 

[Fitzgibbon]

Terrific use of the newspaper seller. Building, ground work, scene all well done {bravo}}

Thanks PA - it is a wonderful figure and the newsprint adds a detail for any dio that is 'life-enhancing' - it also inspired the addition of the other signs that are borrowed from the doll's house section of the hobby shop. Dio bits are where you find them...

 

[Northgate Woods]

Bob mate,
Nice Dio cobber, but are we to presume from the title of the thread that all the collectors in Brissy have now recognized that Melbourne is the new capital of the Land Downunder..:smile2::smile2:
Cheers Howard

 

[villagehorse]

Bob mate,
Nice Dio cobber, but are we to presume from the title of the thread that all the collectors in Brissy have now recognized that Melbourne is the new capital of the Land Downunder..:smile2::smile2:
Cheers Howard

Now Howard we do not want a civil war in Australia after all everyone knows Adelaide is the capital and the best place to live to boot, cheers, Robin.

 

[waynepoo]

Bob mate,
Nice Dio cobber, but are we to presume from the title of the thread that all the collectors in Brissy have now recognized that Melbourne is the new capital of the Land Downunder..:smile2::smile2:
Cheers Howard

Howard mate, we all know that the real capital of Oz is Donnybrook (the Queensland one that is).....:wink2:{sm4}
Wayne.

 

[TomNT]

Bob mate,
Nice Dio cobber, but are we to presume from the title of the thread that all the collectors in Brissy have now recognized that Melbourne is the new capital of the Land Downunder..:smile2::smile2:
Cheers Howard

Now Howard we do not want a civil war in Australia after all everyone knows Adelaide is the capital and the best place to live to boot, cheers, Robin.

Howard mate, we all know that the real capital of Oz is Donnybrook (the Queensland one that is).....:wink2:{sm4}
Wayne.

Ok, i'll weigh in on the argument, the "real" capital of Oz is Darwin, get it right fellas...:rolleyes2:^&grin

Tom

 

[Poppo]

Great diorama!!! So real!!{sm3}