We are good to go... with our completion date of December 31, 2004. IF you have nothad time to enlist go to Alone, Agaainst all odds Remember the theme is one soldier/warrior facing an overwhelming situation or enemy. Here are the details again:

Operational Overview
1. Theme: Single soldier/person confronted with overwhelming odds.
2. Era - Prehistory to 2004 and Fantasy/Sword & Sorcery

The Rules and Regs
1. Single figure to Max of Five Figures
2. Battle/Campaign Uniform or Dress.
3. Scenery OK - building Ok - No Full Vehicles, but parts OK (i.e. destroyed/debris, etc.).
4. Any Scale.
5. Final Entry to include 2-4 Pictures, Category/Class and list of original figure's Manufacturer and basic building/painting /groundcover process – Not an Encyclopedias or “How To Book”, just the basics.

Contest Element

Categories/Classes:
A. Kit Figures - Stock or Minor conversion (i.e. adjust pose, etc).
B. Kit figure Major Conversation.
C. Original Sculptures.

Awards: Ribbon - (Neill to design) - with
A. With One Bronze Star - Kit Figures Stock or Minor conversion (i.e. adjust pose).
B. With Two Bronze Stars - Kit figure Major Conversation.
C. Three Bronze Stars - Original Sculptures.

Please make sure you update us as often as possible... and we all want to see your ongoing pictures.

Good Luck,

John
www.johnneill.com

Bingo. Alone against all odds might describe me finishing this campaign as work is sending me away again this week. But I intend to be there at the end - maybe just not with the original grand idea.

Brian

A lone, orange jacketed, Rachel Corrie, just before being dozed by an IDF Caterpillar D9 [will not be shown completely]. 1:35 or 1:25

Gathering source images now.

Sounds great!

John

That would work! John

Well here is my contribution - entry to the campaign
A Spartan Officer in the battle of Thermopyles 480 B.C. where 300 really brave Spartans fought till all death against 20.000 and more enemies . They knew they d die but they never retreat, and killed as many as they could ."Agains all odds" describes perfectly the situation.

I wanna thanks Neil for leading the campaign. The idea is wonderfull and i promiss that i ll be fight agains my odds to make one more contri . i f i can have some 2-3 figures i need .

Thanks and congrats to all guys that participate .

Pictures :








As the rules say , some more on the build :

The bust is Athens miniatures 1/10 metal bust sculpted by Costas Kariotellis.
Bets sculpting , mold, perfect surfaces and all. 3 pieces was it. the main body and 2 pieces on the helmet.
The bust has a good historical documentation and 5 coloured pivtures around to help painting. perfect choice, rates about 50 euros i think (i dont know exactly , cause this won of my prizes as an Athens International Competition winner so ...)

Was all painted in Valejo and Andrea acrylics.

mixes used :

Flesh: Sunny skintone, English khaki, vermillion, light flesh, burnt umber
Shadow: base + english khaki and burnt umber
Highlights: base + sunny skintone and light flesh

Hiton clothing : Dark red, vermillion, smoke, burnt umber
Shadows: base +dark red and smoke
highlight: vermillion and light flesh

Metal parts: Old gold, gold, bronze smoke.
Highlights: gold
Shadows:old gold +smoke

Helmet horsehair:
base same as hiton, washes with base+smoke, highlights with vermillion + sunny skintone and high highlights vermillion light flesh and yellow

No specific problems on that very good sculpture

I hope some time in future i paint it again to make it better .
Check others Athens miniatures figures guys . 65 mm about 28-31 euros each , perfect sculpting , nice boxing and colour pictures walkaround the painted figure to help u

Costas

I got a better one. How about a lone heroic suicide bomber Jihadist against a bus full of Israeli schoolchildren.

Figure pieces 'fun tacked' together that will be converted to look like Rachel Corrie.


1:35 scale

The figure pieces were picked from these "T" kits: