Conversion: British tanker scoring a hit 1/35

Modeling Subjects Figures and Misc.
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Here’s a conversion of a British tank commander from one of the RTR (Royal Tank Regiments), set in the desert. It’s made out of parts from Italeri, Dragon and Tamiya. Since I wanted a tanker with an attitude I added a resin head (from Warriors, I think), with a more expressive look.

The quality of the old Italeri kit, which is from the 70’s I think, is really bad, but the figures can at least be used as a starting point (if one adds new details - pockets, shoulder boards, belt).

/Tony aka bultenibo

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COOOOOL! Now get that bloke a Firefly! [:D]

Really excellent expressiveness, and equallly good painting! The skin tones and mouth detail is terrific!

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Being a pommie tanker, he is not quite modelled saying “Yoiks!” or “Spiffing shot what?”

Somehow “booyah!” suits but wrong timeframe…

I would settle for YES!!! as a PzIV goes up at long range…

Very nicely done figure. The expression is really well animated!

cheers

Mike

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Very nice work. Could also be saying, “You bloody hun, now you’ve made me spill me tea!”

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Oh, geez! That’s good.

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Perhaps, “Oi mate!”

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Well, if it was an aussie tanker, it would more likely to be…

“Yew bloody beauty!” or “Grouse shot!!!”

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…not “KRIKEY”??? LOL! [(-D]

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Crikey?

Only if he was totally surprised he hit the target and killed it! Might replace the PzIV with a Tiger I kill if that was the case [:)]

Crikey means “wow” or “bloody hell!” an exclamation of amazement as it were.

cheers

Mike

rad your FSM article, mate. Very well done! Congrats on getting it published. I would love to know more on how the figures were done.

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A US expression: DUDE!

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Thanks guys for all the suggestions! I actually thought of the question “What is he really shouting?” when I was painting the little fellow, but since I don’t know that many British-english expressions, I was kind of clueless. The only thing I thought of was that that his facial expression kind of looked like Sylvester Stallone in “Rocky”, so the most natural thing would be that he was shouting “Aaaadrian…”.

/Tony