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  • Member since
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  • From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Looking for a context
Posted by T-rex on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 10:04 PM

Just about finish on this small dio here, its hobby boss V150 but its missing something really important.

 

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If Paine taught me anything, is that every dio must have a context describe, unfortunatly I'm not too sure what to put.

Original it was for a Iraq dio, but The V150 (this anti-tank model anyways) never saw service, but it is use in small role, like support Military police and small countries like malaysia use them.

Since I needed a tropical theme (a first actualy) , I use real plants from outside for small foliage, work out pretty good.

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I though of making it a jamaican defence force unit at a checkpoint, where a guard is asking a pedestrian for his papers, but I couldn't find some suitable figures.

I'm all out of ideas, what else could this scene need?

Working on: Trumpeter SU-152 (1/35) Trumpeter E-10 (1/35) Heller Somua (1/35)

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  • Member since
    October 2008
  • From: New Jersey
Posted by oddmanrush on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 10:13 PM

Adding figures would certainly be a start in building some context, in my opinion. Good work on the V150 and ground work as well!

Jon

My Blog: The Combat Workshop 

  • Member since
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  • From: Ventura (at the beach) in California
Posted by *INDY on Thursday, March 18, 2010 3:02 AM

T-rex------Nice Model!  Nice base!     GREAT JOB WITH THIS SO FAR.

The obvious suggestion would be find a figure that interests you (possibly 2?) --I don't see you have room for much else---and maybe the uniform of said figure would provide some "context"?-(a Jamaican soldier would be very unusual!)---and take your time painting it well--because you've raised your own bar with the rest of this

Other than that....

It is a bit tuff to form the Dio idea at this point, though maybe post it in the Armor forum and if some of those guys know something about this vehicles deployment (that your research missed) then maybe that will lead you to an interesting idea.

If you need help locating a figure you have in mind, then throw up a thread for help with that.

Good luck--keep us posted!

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  • Member since
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  • From: Poland
Posted by Pawel on Thursday, March 18, 2010 3:08 AM

Like I'd LOVE to see a black Jamaican soldier asking a rastafarian for his papers - that would be so cool. Give it a try, T-rex, modifying figures ain't so hard. For help, you could check my Quad 50 crew thread in the figures section. Hope you are going to pull this one off, have a nice day

Pawel

All comments and critique welcomed. Thanks for your honest opinions!

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  • Member since
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  • From: Ventura (at the beach) in California
Posted by *INDY on Thursday, March 18, 2010 7:00 PM

Exactly Pawel !  And then the Rasta offers the soldier the wrong kind of papers and angers him?Wink

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