Post by Luca Roveda on Jun 15, 2012 5:49:04 GMT -6
I post these builds for the record. I realize that they are probably not to everyone’s taste.
I came across the Born Loser kits several years ago but it took me a while to warm up to them and even longer to get hold of them on ebay. They look much better in real life than they do in photographs and once they are built they look quite good. I have only been able to get the reissues of Castro and Napoleon as the originals rarely show up.
The details make these kits quite interesting although the meaning of some is lost on me. All three kits have a mysterious hand coming out of the ground whose meaning is unclear.
Napoleon is depicted standing on a broken bridge in his trademark pose of left hand in his waistcoat and right hand behind his back. He is riddled with bullet holes and his clothes are tattered. His toes are sticking out of the front of his worn out boots. He is grimacing and crying, with a big tear rolling down his cheek. There is a dove holding an olive branch perched on his hat. In front of him a cannon with broken barrel has released a cannon ball into the mud of the riverbank opposite a tombstone which bears his name, dates and the words ‘He met his Waterloo’ on it.. Just behind him is a signpost with the words Waterloo on it. The hand comes out of the stream under the bridge and seems to be trying to grab him and pull him down.
Hitler is depicted jumping up and down in front of the ruins of a bombed out city. The hand gives him the Nazi salute. He has either a broom in his back pocket, or a paint roller can be used optionally – not sure what this means. He is pointing a Luger at his head and chewing on a piece of carpet. For a long time I thought this was his tongue but it didn’t seem right. He is standing on a bunker with a destroyed PzKpf III tank and a Stuka at his feet. His boots are worn out and broken.
Castro is portrayed making a speech. In his left hand he holds a chicken by the neck, a cigar and a microphone with the letters USSR on it – it seems to be unplugged. In the coconut tree there is a bomb with the fuse lit. The hand beckons him to leave the island – a paradise he turned into a police state. At his feet a faucet next to a Gitmo signpost and an Uncle Sam hat – as a reference to the time he turned off the water supply to the US naval base. Castro is the only figure not to have a tombstone – because he is still alive!
I can think of a few contemporary characters who would make good modern day Born Losers........................
I came across the Born Loser kits several years ago but it took me a while to warm up to them and even longer to get hold of them on ebay. They look much better in real life than they do in photographs and once they are built they look quite good. I have only been able to get the reissues of Castro and Napoleon as the originals rarely show up.
The details make these kits quite interesting although the meaning of some is lost on me. All three kits have a mysterious hand coming out of the ground whose meaning is unclear.
Napoleon is depicted standing on a broken bridge in his trademark pose of left hand in his waistcoat and right hand behind his back. He is riddled with bullet holes and his clothes are tattered. His toes are sticking out of the front of his worn out boots. He is grimacing and crying, with a big tear rolling down his cheek. There is a dove holding an olive branch perched on his hat. In front of him a cannon with broken barrel has released a cannon ball into the mud of the riverbank opposite a tombstone which bears his name, dates and the words ‘He met his Waterloo’ on it.. Just behind him is a signpost with the words Waterloo on it. The hand comes out of the stream under the bridge and seems to be trying to grab him and pull him down.
Hitler is depicted jumping up and down in front of the ruins of a bombed out city. The hand gives him the Nazi salute. He has either a broom in his back pocket, or a paint roller can be used optionally – not sure what this means. He is pointing a Luger at his head and chewing on a piece of carpet. For a long time I thought this was his tongue but it didn’t seem right. He is standing on a bunker with a destroyed PzKpf III tank and a Stuka at his feet. His boots are worn out and broken.
Castro is portrayed making a speech. In his left hand he holds a chicken by the neck, a cigar and a microphone with the letters USSR on it – it seems to be unplugged. In the coconut tree there is a bomb with the fuse lit. The hand beckons him to leave the island – a paradise he turned into a police state. At his feet a faucet next to a Gitmo signpost and an Uncle Sam hat – as a reference to the time he turned off the water supply to the US naval base. Castro is the only figure not to have a tombstone – because he is still alive!
I can think of a few contemporary characters who would make good modern day Born Losers........................
