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I thought this story was interesting....
Missing soldier?

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Iraqi militants claimed in a Web statement Tuesday to have taken an American soldier hostage and threatened to behead him in 72 hours unless the Americans release Iraqi prisoners. The U.S. military said it was investigating, but the claim's authenticity could not be immediately confirmed.

The posting, on a Web site that frequently carried militants' statements, included a photo of what that statement said was an American soldier, wearing desert fatigues and seated on a concrete floor with his hands tied behind his back. The figure in the photo appeared stiff and expressionless, and the photo's authenticity could not be confirmed.




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The figure in the photo appeared stiff and expressionless.
Liam Cusack, of the toy manufacturer Dragon Models USA, Inc., said the image of the soldier portrayed in the photo bore a striking resemblance to a military action figure made by the company.






I don't consider terrorists to be comedians, but I have to admit this is quite humorous.

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Yeah, I was watching Crossfire and saw a quick glimpse of it on a Wolf Blitzer commercial...that's absolutely nuts though!


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it is amazing how stupid they think we are


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Yah that's completely retarded...the figure is wearing complete dress, armor, knee pads and it looks to be grenades or watnot on his chest


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It was on the Schnitt show all afternoon.


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I don't know about you guys, but at home and at work, we've been praying for the safe release of GI Joe from his captors all day.


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Horrible photography of a miniature model. Sure, it looks like the quality of any other picture taken by these terrorists, but I do this sort of thing in my spare time. They have several aspects wrong and although the detail is there, it didn't fool me for a second. I don't even have it all down and I've been doing it for over a year.

Edit: what I mean by aspects being wrong is this: the lighting of the gun is wrong. You don't oversaturate lighting of a miniature model with lightbulb light; you use a smaller equivalent, or a led. It would be like re-enacting the scene in real life, and using a 5 foot diameter light bulb to light the set. It oversaturates the light, and no hard shadow falls behind your props..

Yeah, that picture is an insult to our intelligence..



Hell, I have another edit. Here's a thumbnail pic of what I've done:

and that model is only 3 inches tall

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LMAO!

Let's send them a picture of Cobra Commander in hopes they confuse him with a post-modern burka-wearing Islamic babe and threaten to subject her to "Sex and the City" reruns until they release our "GI"...



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Originally posted by JaTo:
LMAO!

Let's send them a picture of Cobra Commander in hopes they confuse him with a post-modern burka-wearing Islamic babe and threaten to subject her to "Sex and the City" reruns until they release our "GI"...






good god that was funny.


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Word!

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