2nd Rangers, aaand action! (now with pics.)

[Johnny Tip]

Evening everybody, 

 

as threatened, I present my small squad of well-known US Rangers in Normandy, without beach obstacles placed backwards. (Yes, they're trying to save a Private Ryan.) 

The figures are all from Master Box, I just like what they're doing. How come Ukraine is such a powerhouse in making model kits?

I went the Band of Brothers series road of trying to make the figures more or less look like their real counterparts - please give your own opinion whether I succeeded more, or less. As always, better views from further away 🙈

 

WARNING - contains spoilers! 

 

Sgt. Horvath, I used some putty to make his face rounder like Tom Sizemore's. 

 

This is supposed to be Pvt. Caparzo.

Steven Spielberg has a n absolute thing for children in his movies, even this one. Vin Diesel had to pay the price for it. 

 

And his buddy Mellish. More putty to make the face look like Adam Goldberg's - the bare kit face more resembles his short-time roommate Chandler Bing. 

 

The Captain -I mean, the teacher.

Without a volleyball or a box of chocolates. 

 

Oooh yes, Wade. Haunting death. 

And that medic's harness wasn't easy to do... I scribed it into his jacket with a scalpel. The bags are pieces of plastic with foil and blister packaging glued onto them. I can live with em.

 

Jackson with his sniper rifle. Not sure if that scope is one of the two he uses (and I only now think of the quiver for the other one that he's wearing on his back all the time!) but I could build it and it clung on to the Springfield. 

 

Aaand here's Reiben at the bar. Sorry, on the BAR. Tried to find at least a face that about looks like Ben Affleck... leave alone Ed Burns. But hey, I'm pleased with the way the scratched ammo pouches on his right came out. Plus, that rifle makes him recognizable. 

 

Wot, no translator?! No, as he's not a Ranger. But I still got 6 guys in 2 D-Day sets, so maybe he will join the squad. 

 

And here's the gang together, before everybody except one of them buys the farm. 

 

Hope you had fun (and were not put off by my pictorial problems, don't know why this won't work anymore via cellphone),

 

Greetings,

Johhny FUBAR.

 

Edited June 17, 2022 by Johnny Tip
pics are troublemakers.