Help identifying era?
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Sand Rat
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Gear is US WWII to Korea - Early Viet Nam -
Eddy has on US WWII tanker helmet, and uniform, the SMG is the venerable Thompson - and it looks like a German Luger holster -
The other individuals all look like standard US ETO WWII, and the tank looks mid 50\'s Russian production (T-55 or so)
Hope this helps - all I can pull off the top of my head from work without my reference materials.
Eddy has on US WWII tanker helmet, and uniform, the SMG is the venerable Thompson - and it looks like a German Luger holster -
The other individuals all look like standard US ETO WWII, and the tank looks mid 50\'s Russian production (T-55 or so)
Hope this helps - all I can pull off the top of my head from work without my reference materials.
generulpoleaxe
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the artist that did the eddie stuff for maiden (at least the early stuff) based it all on picks from vietnam.
eddie was actualy based on a corpse.
eddie was actualy based on a corpse.
PegaZus
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I\'m going to say that its appears as a mixture of a lot of different eras, from my unegumakated opinion. The do-rag guy (2nd from left) looks straight from Vietnam, the weapons look like Korean War, and the tank looks WWII-ish.
Since they are skeletons, who says you have to pick an era? Have any figure you want as part of the zombie army undead. Have Zombie-Patton leading a pack of Vietnam soldiers with a Korean medic from the 4077th. Hell, have Zombie-Rommel teamed up with Zombie-Patton.
Since they are skeletons, who says you have to pick an era? Have any figure you want as part of the zombie army undead. Have Zombie-Patton leading a pack of Vietnam soldiers with a Korean medic from the 4077th. Hell, have Zombie-Rommel teamed up with Zombie-Patton.
@Verm1s lol So does Sean Connery 
Cheers guys.
Having a T55 seems a little odd, but hey, it\'s art isn\'t it.
And yes, the I recognised the good old Thompson and the grease guns
I think, if I ever actually get round to doing this, I\'ll take Pegazus\' tip and get most of it where I can - I\'ll only drive myself mad trying to get everything perfect
What do y\'all think of it as a concept though?
Cheers guys.
Having a T55 seems a little odd, but hey, it\'s art isn\'t it.
And yes, the I recognised the good old Thompson and the grease guns
I think, if I ever actually get round to doing this, I\'ll take Pegazus\' tip and get most of it where I can - I\'ll only drive myself mad trying to get everything perfect
What do y\'all think of it as a concept though?
I think that the term \"loose artistic interpretation\" needs to be taken in mind: it doesn\'t seem to me to be a focus on any special era (gear from WWII to Vietnam seem to appear), nationality (the tank seems to be a soviet model to me too) or accurate depiction. If you look at the crossed M16 depicted on the front of the tank you\'ll notice that their magazines are about half a meter too forward: they should be close to the trigger guard, not almost at the end of the barrel. The artist took the liberty so that the crossed rifles shape would look more clear.
To me the tank almost looks like a German WW2 Tiger (the ball gun on the front) with a Soviet turret. And looking at it the do rag guy has a sten <sp?> gun or a German M42 machine gun (the one at is always see in Hollywood movies) not sure about the rifle (German or American) but it looks to be bolt action WW2.
Just my two coppers.
Just my two coppers.
you could be right there... if u cut away the turret and imagine no extra armour plate where the smoking guy is sitting, though it looks a bit to short in front... but it\'s an artists right to change things like that
Tiger Tank
the guy in rags def got a german MP42 (machine pistol 42) or (wrongly) commonly known as a \"schmeiser\", the real one was an earlier version of it... then the other \"guy\" in back of him is also carying a \"thompson\"...
Killing With A Smile
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did you ever do this Diorama?
