"For the Emperor - BANZAI!" Okinawa, May 1945

[spanner570]

1/35 Masterbox figures. I cut a couple of them up and modified them to get the required poses. Brush painted with Vallejo acrylics.

The burnt out concrete m.g. bunker is made from scrap polystyrene and the tin sheeting from kitchen foil.....with bits added.

A final, desperate 'Suicide Charge' by a group of Japanese soldiers......Banzai!































Cheers all and thanks for looking.

General Douglas MacArthur

[papa 695]

Cracking work Ron.

[Gern]

Very nicely done, but where's the blood? I know we don't need to see all the gory bits, but there should be at least some spots on the uniforms to show where they've been hit. Doesn't look right somehow and that's really unusual for your dios which always look so real.

[spanner570]

Dave.
The Officer has been hit fair and square in his knee cap. That is enough to see him fall.

The soldier to his right has been hit twice in his right lower rib cage and once in his upper right arm.

The soldier on the far right has been hit in his upper chest just to the side of his lapel.

Keep in mind, sometimes when a bullet impacts flesh through a uniform, the blood doesn't splatter and come out of the wound in huge gushes immediately.

I've tried to depict a split second in time as the bullets strike.

I'm sorry it doesn't look right. I tried my best.......

Ron

[Gary MacKenzie]

I've tried to depict a split second in time as the bullets strike.

I'm sorry it doesn't look right. I tried my best.......

I like it, made me try to work out what was going on.

[Guest]

Brilliant as always Ron.

[Jack L]

Love it. The scorched bunker is great!

[Gern]

The Officer has been hit fair and square in his knee cap. That is enough to see him fall.

The soldier to his right has been hit twice in his right lower rib cage and once in his upper right arm.

The soldier on the far right has been hit in his upper chest just to the side of his lapel.

Keep in mind, sometimes when a bullet impacts flesh through a uniform, the blood doesn't splatter and come out of the wound in huge gushes immediately.

I've tried to depict a split second in time as the bullets strike.

I'm sorry it doesn't look right. I tried my best.......

I owe you an apology Ron. I've had another, closer look and now I've seen the wounds I understand the poses better. I wasn't looking for huge showers of blood a la Sam Peckinpah, it's just they were so subtle I missed them. Ooops - my bad! Sorry.

[Jason Crausby]

Nice job Ron...very atmospheric as well,
Jason