discussion Malayan Emergency 1/35 scale.

[rtfoe]

There's an on going debate as to whether banana trees only bare fruit one at a time... the following picture concluded it...

:smiling2:...could be a hybrid but I'll go with it.

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[Jim R]

You join a modelling forum and learn new things about bananas!! There's no end to life's surprises

 

[rtfoe]

You join a modelling forum and learn new things about bananas!! There's no end to life's surprises

Also thank goodness my comb of bananas look equally alright up or down as I realised from the image that they grow facing up...just didn't expect it even with them growing right in front of my opposite neighbours house. :smiling5:

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Wabble

 

[rtfoe]

Hopped over to do some surgery on the figures...
Added filler putty to the armature spaces and gaps.

Put a head on the chap on the armoured car turret...

Then tweaked the pose for the Sikh...he's trying to avoid a fruit and not doing a Bangla dance.
I'm working on the other 3 figures for a total of 9...should be busy enough.

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[Mini Me]

Hopped over to do some surgery on the figures...
Added filler putty to the armature spaces and gaps.
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Put a head on the chap on the armoured car turret...
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Then tweaked the pose for the Sikh...he's trying to avoid a fruit and not doing a Bangla dance.View attachment 475094
I'm working on the other 3 figures for a total of 9...should be busy enough.

Cheers,
Wabble

I Thot it was Y...M...C...A. Richard :tongue-out3: :tongue-out2: :smiling5::tears-of-joy::thumb2:

 

[rtfoe]

I Thot it was Y...M...C...A. Richard :tongue-out3: :tongue-out2: :smiling5::tears-of-joy::thumb2:

This guy has his own take on the Village People...he's actually from a village in the Punjab state. The Bangra dance is quite energetic with a lot of hand movements and the accompanying music very persuasive and can get you moving to it and is performed mainly by men hence the similarities to Y.M.C.A. :tears-of-joy:

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Wabble

 

[Mini Me]

And a very convincing performance, I might add!! :thumb2:

 

[Graeme C.]

The figures look good Richard, I can imagine them under bombardment from those pesky primates!
My banana education continues!

 

[rtfoe]

And a very convincing performance, I might add!! :thumb2:

The figures look good Richard, I can imagine them under bombardment from those pesky primates!
My banana education continues!

Thanks Rick and Graeme, not an ideal way to pick fruit. :smiling6:

Okay this guy was the toughest to modify from a driving position to this...

Lots of flesh grafts to the buttocks, underarms and waist. Actually all nine figures don't look like the original except the one peering over the bridge but he'll be in a short sleeve collared shirt and 'bakul' hat.
Spending the whole day tomorrow puttying.

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[Neil Merryweather]

Superb animation, Richard!
Those twisted poses (or Contrapposto, as we classical sculptors say ...) are really difficult to do convincingly.
Top Job Sir!

 

[Mini Me]

Yeah.....wot Neil said. :thumb2:

 

[rtfoe]

Superb animation, Richard!
Those twisted poses (or Contrapposto, as we classical sculptors say ...) are really difficult to do convincingly.
Top Job Sir!

Yeah.....wot Neil said. :thumb2:

Thanks both of you, with the contrapposto I do maximum contortion or slightly exaggerated to get the effect which is needed or the scene will look flat. I try out the pose myself in the mirror to see how far I can go. Sometimes the old bones protest.

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[Jim R]

Your figure alterations are really good. As Neil says they must be difficult to get looking natural - yours certainly do.

 

[scottie3158]

Richard,
Watching this I think I will dig out a couple of old figures and have a play.

 

[rtfoe]

Your figure alterations are really good. As Neil says they must be difficult to get looking natural - yours certainly do.

Thanks Jim, all it needs is twists and turns until it looks right from all 360 degree angles. Best is for all joints to be free to move.

Cheers,
Wabe

 

[rtfoe]

Richard,
Watching this I think I will dig out a couple of old figures and have a play.

Great, for the arms I cut them at the elbow then drill through the arm till the shoulder and the a short way through the elbow on the other part of the arm then insert wire armature to connect to the shoulder. The wrist, hands and fingers can also be manipulated buy just cutting and gluing.

Enjoy,
Wabble

 

[scottie3158]

Great, for the arms I cut them at the elbow then drill through the arm till the shoulder and the a short way through the elbow on the other part of the arm then insert wire armature to connect to the shoulder. The wrist, hands and fingers can also be manipulated buy just cutting and gluing.

Enjoy,
Wabble

Thanks mate I will give it a go.

 

[rtfoe]

Got myself two bottles of loose foam. I used to get this free from old latex foam mattresses but now are hard to come by being replaces by spring mattresses.

The stuff next to them is lichen I harvested years ago from my trip to Cameron Highlands so much that I still have a box full.

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[rtfoe]

My wife recently slipped and fell while mopping the floor and hurt her wrist so we went to a local physio chiropractor to see if it was fractured. Just outside the establishment in the old part of town I spotted a fruiting banana tree only 3 ft tall. Just look at the huge bunch. The owner can have it for breakfast, lunch and dinner for the whole week or more.


Cheers,
Wabble

 

[rtfoe]

Currently working on the Bakul cap that is similar to the ones worn by the British Gurkha units during official ceremonies. Basically a strip fastened round a dowel and stuck to a more stiff plastic sheet for the top and cut. Will add a ban round the base and a round knob on the top center. I'll use putty to scribe a badge.

Above the caps are rolled extra left over putty as the thrown fruits.

Cheers,
Wabble