Malayan Emergency 1/35 scale.

[wotan]

Richard

This is outstanding attention to detail and persistence. Each bit you add, excellent in itself, is adding to an overall terrific dio.

John

[rtfoe]

Bloody marvelous old chap!

Thanks fellow surgeon. Can't go wrong with a banana can we having a companion since child birth. :smiling6: :tears-of-joy:

Richard

This is outstanding attention to detail and persistence. Each bit you add, excellent in itself, is adding to an overall terrific dio.

John

Thank you John b. Living in the tropics, if I can't get jungle looking as it should be would be an injustice besides my morning hiking treks through the hills give me lots of inspiration. There's always something new round the corner.

Cheers,
Wabble

[rtfoe]

Good thing I posted the banana tree on my local chatgroup and was told a banana tree bares a single bunch of fruit at a time. I will replace the other bunch with a flower stalk and place the extra bunch into the truck to provoke the monkeys.

Cheers,
Wabble

[Mini Me]

Sounds like fun Richard......just don't leave the keys in the truck ignition or the little beasts will be out "joy" riding and having a banana feast at the same time! :tears-of-joy:

[rtfoe]

Just to show how the petals reveal the little combs of banana...


Cheers,
Wabble

[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:

Cheers,
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.[ATTACH]475094[/ATTACH]
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:

Cheers,
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!