Toot!

[Dan Morton]

I saw this photo of a USN bugler at the Seattle Naval Training Camp in 1918 on one of the online WWI sites. OK - If I don't sculpt this one, somebody just has to!!!

All the best,
Dan

 

[garyjd]

Dan, that is so bizzare someone has to do it. You could use a base from a mounted figure so the amplification device does not hang over the edge. A 54 would probably be the best way to go.~Gary

 

[billyturnip]

As if being woken up by a bugle isn't annoying enough!!!!!!!!


Roger

 

[Dan Morton]

Thanks guys! Welcome to the surreal world of the First World War.

All the best,
Dan

 

[Bluesking]

I can see the title - " US claims record for World's largest Ice Cream Cone"?

 

[billyturnip]

" US claims record for World's largest Road Cone"?

 

[nagashino]

Hi Dan

Oh yes - that photo!

Must have been a very big camp!

Cheers

Phil

 

[Yarok]

That's the type of subject Marijn would do and call it "Wake up Call! (or "Sleepless in Seattle") :lol:

 

[darkeye]

:lol: heh heh! so, where's the ACME stamp ?? theres bound to be a cyote some wheres.

the designer was definately having a larf! makes me wonder if the top brass went postal when they clapped eyes on it?

regards ==timo

 

[Dan Morton]

I admit it's pretty wierd. :lol: But that photo appeared in many of the illustrated newspapers of the period. Hey - it was a different time. No amplifiers, no public address system, etc. So - that's the way they did it. The USN bugler aboard ship had the same function - alarms, reveille, etc., etc.

I've started on an armature for the bugler - should be a pretty simple figure. Anybody got a spare bugle they care to donate???

All the best,

Dan