Here´s what I came up with for the contest:
Kosovo, the ´90s. A Serbian sniper inside a room with a window nailed shut with planks and pieces of board. There are small holes between planks, barely enough to shoot through and let some snow in the room. Thin curtains frame the setting left and right. The sniper is waiting, "killing time", sitting in a chair, relaxed, smoking, just observing through scope, adjusting scope with the other hand. He holds his rifle on his left knee, his leg raised against the corner of the window. He rocks the chair, bored and moody, there are lots of cigarette filters, beer cans and empty shell casings on the floor. The room is someone´s bedroom, there is a crucifix hanging on the wall. The house could easily belong to this man´s former neighbour...
The "Killing Time" is a working title at the moment with the double meaning and all, I haven´t come up with a better name yet. At first I thought about something about hating your neighbor, ("A Neighbor To Kill" or similar), which the case was. I´m open to title suggestions!
The building will consist of first attempts with balsa, scratchbuilding the sniper with variable equipment and difficult pose and trying to keep it simple. I´m not going to say this will be a fun project to build because for some reason the subject makes me very emotional. But it will certainly be an interesting one.
Cheers, Toni
