I had my first Fanta in Germany in ‘85. Great stuff!
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I f you watch the John Wick movies Fanta is the drink of choice for the underground king, Lawrence Fishburn’s character. Wayne
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Freezer full of steaks that went undiscovered, on left. Note that it can now be accessed immediately. 
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You guys had quite the set up there.
During my first tour in Iraq, my unit was at Camp Taqaddum between Fallujah and Ramadi. One of our medics had a brother who was a C130 pilot. Every once in a while he would fly to TQ and bring enough steaks for everyone in our Battalion to have one. I thought that was pretty nice of him. But having a cooler to store a bunch of steaks sure had us beat.
Today I finished painting the final figure for this diorama. It took a bit longer because I had other stuff to do on our land to get ready for spring and also had to do ours and my mom’s taxes which took some time away from modeling.
A recap on the figure - it is a conversion of the leaning truck driver figure from DEF Models. I sculpted a jungle fatigue shirt and thigh trouser pockets, replaced the head with one from Mantis Miniatures, and added a boonie hat from Bravo 6. The head from Mantis Miniatures is from one of their new head sets containing two of each head in two sizes, one for figures requiring a smaller head and the other when a slightly larger one is needed.
Since the original figure had creases on the trousers and because it is made out of brittle 3D printing resin, I decided to let them remain as these guys in the diorama are on standdown and it is plausible for a NCO to be wearing a patched and freshly laundered, pressed uniform. Plus I didn’t want to ruin the figure trying to remove the creases. If it was traditional resin, then I would have removed them.
Now that the figures are done I can concentrate on gathering the small details and accesdories that support the diorama’s story.