Completed Terrible consequences of the inappropriate choice of figure base

[Mark S]

Thanks everyone, I really appreciate all your positive comment.
I'm glad you like it and got a laugh out of it, I certainly enjoyed putting it together.
Now that it's in the display cabinet it's taken on a whole new context in amongst rows of proudly standing figures there's now one hapless figure falling off his perch totally ignored by the others.
Cheers one and all.........thanks again.

 

[John Bowery]

Very funny and very well done.
Cheers
John

 

[yeo_64]

That is so Awesome !!!!!
Kudos on dreaming up this humorous vignette .
Cheers!
Kenneth.

 

[Dan Morton]

LOLOLOL!

Excellent!

All the best,
Dan

 

[Elaphus]

Lol, great idea !
I love it, very nice !!!

Greetings

 

[T-34/85]

This made my day He would get top prize for humor in modeling. You could mess with someone's head with this and tell them that's not how you left him, he must have came to life overnight and didn't make it back in time.
Tom

 

[Edorta]

Brilliant...our hobby need more of this!

I agree.

Military miniatures painted by Eduardo Garcia

 

[Mark S]

Thanks, fellas, I'm so glad you liked the figure...it was a fun piece to put together.

 

[Blue Thunder]

That is absolutely brilliant Mark!

From time to time, a figure appears and we are all pretty sure we will never forget it! This is one of those cases that so rarely happen! Fantastic achievement and a good laugh too!

 

[Joe55]

The long slow fall begins. "Will you tell General Hancock . . . Can you hear me, son?"

"I can hear you, sir"

"Will you tell General Hancock, please, that General Armistead sends his regrets. Will you tell him . . . how very sorry I am . . . "

The energy failed. He felt himself flicker. But it was a a long slow falling, very quiet, very peaceful, rather still, but always the motion, the darkness closing in, and so he fell out of the light and away, far away, and was gone.

From 'The Killer Angels' by Michael Shaara

Beautifully executed Mark, I like it!

Joe

 

[tiberius57]

Holy Moly!
Mark, you made my day! For a long, long time I didn't had such a good laugh! Thank you!
Outstanding and brilliant idea!
Great!
Cheers,
Zeno

 

[Mark S]

Thanks guys , so glad to see you enjoyed the piece as much as I do.
And Joe thanks for the "Long slow falling" quote mate, and so it will always remain a long slow falling!!....cheers mate.

 

[Joe55]

You got it Mark! Its just that I realized that you had hit on something, albeit inadvertently. Or was it inadvertent?

Joe

 

[Mark S]

Joe, I researched this figure just as much as any other I've done, and indeed I had some 'general' knowledge so to speak of Armistead previously but I was totally unaware of those quotes. Those words now take on a whole new meaning and it does seem a little spooky.
If I had known of them I probably would've used them on the name plate.............thanks again for the post, Joe, cheers mate.

 

[davidmitchell]

A fantastic idea, very well done and really funny as well .Great stuff Mark.

Cheers David

 

[Joe55]

Mark, 'The Killer Angels', is a novel. Incidentally, Michael Shaara won a Pulitzer prize for this work, and if I remember correctly, the movie 'Gettysburg' is based on this book. Did'nt know if you were aware of this. Once again, great job on your rendering!

Joe

 

[Markus]

LOL !! Cool work !!!

 

[Gaudin]

There was a young laddie from Coll
Who fell in the spring in the fall.
'Twould have been a sad thing
Had he died in the spring
But he didn't, he died in the fall.


ROTF, figure is priceless, well done my friend!

 

[Kisifer]

Very very clever and well executed. Congrats.

Xenofon

 

[Mark S]

Markus, glad you like it..cheers!
Gaudin, I'll remember those words always, and pass them on to my children and their children and so on......... they may wonder what the hell I was on about but that'll be their problem....cheers mate!
Xenofon, I hope the birthday party was a hoot, I'm sure it was.....cheers!