DEAD PILOT HORROR!![dio]

Anonymous

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November 2005

DEAD PILOT HORROR!![dio]

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 5:53 AM

hi all here are a few more pics of my butchered bird diorama..
i still have to pour the resin. to complete the marshy/boggy effect.
i scratchbuilt the pilot using legs from a tamiya officers legs.and the arms from a dragon figure..the body and skull were made from milliput.
the wooly jumper and flying jacket are made from cigarrette paper..
the weeds and reeds are human hair and old housepainting brush bristles..the duckweed on the 190 is ground up sawdust...the gunsight is scratchbuilt..[thanks to B.W for pics]..i am trying to sculpt a raven from milliput. to sit on the canopy..but i'm not having much luck so far..anyways enjoy the pics..
REGARDS...D....

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 8:37 AM

Interesting, if not a little morbid. That's ok, I like morbid.

Great job!

demono69

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mandrake

Member since
April 2003
From: Mexico

Posted by mandrake on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:34 AM

Nice dio, looks good to me, is something i have never seen before, congrats!

great!

Regards
Hector Reymundo

Thanks! My Best Regards Hector Reymundo

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Hoser

Member since
January 2003
From: Foothills of Colorado

Posted by Hoser on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 12:20 PM

Great job, Deakon!! I had a similar idea after watching the scene in 'Romancing the Stone' where they come across the downed drug transport with the two skeletal pilots in the cockpit. (Could never figure out what kind of plane it was.)
Be sure to post more pics when it's finished!

"Trust no one; even those people you know and trust." - Jack S. Margolis

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 2:02 PM

Good work, I like the moss growing on the plane.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 4:51 PM

Looks great! I've got similair moss growing on nooks and crannies on my Land Rover's soft-top..

The pilot looks decidedly uncomfortable..

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renarts

Member since
April 2003
From: Sunny Florida

Posted by renarts on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 11:56 PM

I like it. (I'm also a big fan of Night of the Living Dead too). I saw something similar to this years ago(1975-76), only it was a Japanese plane in the jungle and the pilot was in the cockpit. The guy that built it used a skeleton from an old (Disney)Pirates of the Caribbean kit and had him still clutching the stick and slumped over. I remember being amazed at the amount of detail (and this was before the resin or brass detail add on stuff). I was also sort of amazed recently that more of this type of subject matter doesn't show up more often. You've done an excellent job and the details are great. Also very imaginative. thanks for sharing.

Mike

Mike "Imagination is the dye that colors our lives" Marcus Aurellius A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"

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Dwight Ta-ala

Member since
July 2003
From: Philippines

Posted by Dwight Ta-ala on Wednesday, August 27, 2003 8:05 PM

Nice work!!!

Smile [:)]

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Keyworth

Member since
January 2003
From: NE Georgia

Posted by Keyworth on Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:46 PM

Deak, really nice job!

"There's no problem that can't be solved with a suitable application of high explosives"

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, August 28, 2003 6:44 PM

This is so new, good idea the dio is just awesome.

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Tiger44

Member since
February 2003
From: Wisconsin

Posted by Tiger44 on Thursday, August 28, 2003 6:46 PM

That is a great job, excellent job on weathering the 190. One question though, I'm passing through from the armor forum. And I was wondering how that Tiger1 in the first photo is comeing along.

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, August 29, 2003 5:39 AM

thanks chaps your comments are appreciated..
TIGER 44 . there should be an update this weekend on the TIGER build...
but since you asked she is comming along nicely. thanks

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, August 30, 2003 3:47 AM

Hi there
Looking great, what a cool idea.

Keep well.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, August 30, 2003 7:36 AM

Jeeeeez,DEAKON
Ya trying to give us nightmares, or what?
I like it though......I do

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, August 30, 2003 9:00 AM

It's just so different and a good idea Evil [}:)]

Nice job Deakon!

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klem

Member since
May 2003
From: Fall River, MA

Posted by klem on Saturday, August 30, 2003 11:14 PM

SSSWWWeeeeetttt!My only problem is that someone beat me to it ! Looks great!

"We the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible, for the ungrateful. We've been doing so much for so long with so little we are now capable of doing anything with nothing." Unknown

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, August 30, 2003 11:30 PM

WOW! absolutely fantastic!

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J-Hulk

Member since
February 2003
From: Tochigi, Japan

Posted by J-Hulk on Sunday, September 7, 2003 12:35 PM

Great work, Deakon!
Powerful impact. War ain't all puppies on Stug. IIIs and wine for the Greyhounds, that's for sure!

One observation: I know flight suits are pretty thick affairs, but the pilot seems a tad robust for a skeleton!
I suppose the rats could only get to his face...

~Brian

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 8, 2003 3:16 AM

thanks for all your comments guys i appreciate them..J.H you hit the nail on't head old bean..the vermin/crows have made dinner of his head,.....i tried to puff out the body of the pilot to represent bloating, ..[yeuch], and you spotted it...[i thought maybe i was being to clever.].. it shouldn't be as obvious once the water/resin has been poured,
REGARDS....D.....

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J-Hulk

Member since
February 2003
From: Tochigi, Japan

Posted by J-Hulk on Monday, September 8, 2003 8:24 AM

Every gory detail meticulously recreated!
Very clever (if not totally disgusting!), but are you going to add the unforgettable stench of death to the diorama as well?

Yikes! Perhaps that would be taking it a bit too far!

~Brian

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reddog-03

Member since
June 2003
From: USA

Posted by reddog-03 on Saturday, November 22, 2003 10:35 PM

I'm with J-Hulk on this one. From your excellent weathering job, it looks like your FW has been down for about 9 months to a year. By that stage, your pilot would be noticably thinner. A while back, I helped recover a guy out of the woods after about that long. For some reason, the scavengers had pretty much left him alone and he was mainly a leather-covered skeleton. His clothes were weathered but still intact and they just hung, kind of over-sized looking, on him. If he's laying in the swamp for that long, the bugs and crustaceans will probably have him picked pretty clean. I like Renarts' anecdote and the the idea of him still strapped in, head slumped forward. Good luck adding the raven; it's a nice touch.

Airborne-All the way!

Doug

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MartianGundamModeler

Member since
November 2003
From: Tennessee

Posted by MartianGundamModeler on Saturday, November 22, 2003 11:29 PM

I'm a "Night of the Living Dead" fan as well. But anyway AWSOME build! It reminds me of the scene in Heavy Metal when the pilot lands on a deserted island full of crashed war planes which sill had corpes at the controls. thepilots later came to life and...well you get the idea. Creepy stuff. Off topic but there is a new comic out called Walking Dead about a cop who just woke up in a hospital from an injury to find the city abandoned and full of zombies. Heads for Atlanta, Ga in search of his family. that's issue #1. Can't wait for #2. Finally a good comic about cops.lol

"Some men look at things the way they are and ask ' Why?'. I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?".--Robert Kennedy taken from George Bernard Shaw's "Back To Methuselah" (Thanks to TomZ2) http://martiangundammodels.50megs.com/index.html

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Woody

Member since
December 2002
From: Third rock from the sun.

Posted by Woody on Sunday, November 23, 2003 3:26 AM

Deakon, that really is an awesome diorama! Cool [8D]

I still visualize a picture of his wife or sweetheart somewhere.
MartianGundamModeler, Zombie movies are the coolest! I can't get enough of zombie flixs and horror movies in general. Have you seen "House of a Thousand Corpses"? It does bring to mind story from "Heavy Metal"! The comic you are talking about sounds alot like "Resident Evil" the game.

" I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." --John Paul Jones

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MartianGundamModeler

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November 2003
From: Tennessee

Posted by MartianGundamModeler on Sunday, November 23, 2003 4:24 AM

Haven't seen House of a Thousand Corpses yet. I will admit the Cop waking up in the hospital in the comic does remind me of the final scene of the Resident Evil movie and the game was too cool. "28 Days" also began in similar fasion but i hated that movie. Deakon you must see "Heavy Metal" i'm certain it will inspire even more horrific dioramas! Man you kick butt dude.

"Some men look at things the way they are and ask ' Why?'. I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?".--Robert Kennedy taken from George Bernard Shaw's "Back To Methuselah" (Thanks to TomZ2) http://martiangundammodels.50megs.com/index.html

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 23, 2003 4:12 PM

Very nice, The pilot looks like something right out of Diablo 2. keep up the good work

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mark956

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February 2003
From: USA

Posted by mark956 on Sunday, November 23, 2003 9:08 PM

Breath taking Deakon.
mark956

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djmodels1999

Member since
December 2002
From: United Kingdom / Belgium

Posted by djmodels1999 on Tuesday, November 25, 2003 2:46 AM

That's quite cool! I like it. Different, original, and kind of funny!

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MartianGundamModeler

Member since
November 2003
From: Tennessee

Posted by MartianGundamModeler on Wednesday, November 26, 2003 1:19 AM

"FUNNY!?" Okay.
oh i see you are from the United Kingdom i suppose that might make a diff.LOL But still if this is funny to you i'd hate to see your idea of "morbid".LOL but once again though, this dio kicks butt!

"Some men look at things the way they are and ask ' Why?'. I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?".--Robert Kennedy taken from George Bernard Shaw's "Back To Methuselah" (Thanks to TomZ2) http://martiangundammodels.50megs.com/index.html

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 26, 2003 3:59 AM

Very nice dio and the weathering job on that FW is superb....looks very realistic!

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 2, 2004 5:40 AM

THANKS FOR ALL THE KIND COMMENTS YOU GUYS..sorry i have not been around for a while,,work.....life,,, you know the score.....anyway i should be able to pop in a bit more often when things get back to normal after the holidays.....cyalll....

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