JamesOLeary
Master at Arms
Although I am still working on the "Can we keep him, Sarge?" diorama, I came up with a thought for a funny diorama and this is what the concept is: Soldiers who have come back from the field are returning to their tent area after drinking for a while and on their way back engage in some shenanigans.
The way it started was I was trying to figure out how to use one of Bravo 6's fairly recent releases of a Soldier urinating in a piss tube. Since I really don't care for figures that are wearing just t-shirts, I converted the figures by sculpting in the jungle fatigue shirt details and replaced the head with one from Hornet. It is topped off by a baseball cap from a head from an Alpine figure.
I thought he looked fairly decent, so I needed to figure out how to incorporate him into a scene. Having him urinating into a piss tube is something that would be expected because the kit came with one. I wanted to do something different and something that was somewhat humorous. Since the Grunts and MPs at Bearcat did not get along very well, I thought it might be funny to have this guy peeing on a MP jeep. The angry MP is about to confront this guy pissing on the jeep. (This is an old model of a vehicle I built a while back that I never used. I will be using the model I am building for the Workhorse Group Build for this diorama)
Then I was thinking about why he might be peeing on the MP jeep. I then remember stories of guys on stand down getting drunk before having to head back to the boonies, so I thought I would make that the reason. Once I build the jeep, or MUTT, I will have a couple of beer cans present so the audience gets that these guys were drinking. I am adding a few of this guys cohorts, one who is trying to half-heartedly stop him from peeing on the jeep, and then one guy who just threw up and his buddy laughing at him while holding a couple of beers. Since these photos have been taken, I have done some more work on these figures and tomorrow I will try to complete the putty work on them.
So that is what I am working on. Thanks for looking.
Cheers,
James
The way it started was I was trying to figure out how to use one of Bravo 6's fairly recent releases of a Soldier urinating in a piss tube. Since I really don't care for figures that are wearing just t-shirts, I converted the figures by sculpting in the jungle fatigue shirt details and replaced the head with one from Hornet. It is topped off by a baseball cap from a head from an Alpine figure.
I thought he looked fairly decent, so I needed to figure out how to incorporate him into a scene. Having him urinating into a piss tube is something that would be expected because the kit came with one. I wanted to do something different and something that was somewhat humorous. Since the Grunts and MPs at Bearcat did not get along very well, I thought it might be funny to have this guy peeing on a MP jeep. The angry MP is about to confront this guy pissing on the jeep. (This is an old model of a vehicle I built a while back that I never used. I will be using the model I am building for the Workhorse Group Build for this diorama)
Then I was thinking about why he might be peeing on the MP jeep. I then remember stories of guys on stand down getting drunk before having to head back to the boonies, so I thought I would make that the reason. Once I build the jeep, or MUTT, I will have a couple of beer cans present so the audience gets that these guys were drinking. I am adding a few of this guys cohorts, one who is trying to half-heartedly stop him from peeing on the jeep, and then one guy who just threw up and his buddy laughing at him while holding a couple of beers. Since these photos have been taken, I have done some more work on these figures and tomorrow I will try to complete the putty work on them.
So that is what I am working on. Thanks for looking.
Cheers,
James
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