LH] Mussolini

[mourndraken]

sounds good

 

[Shqype]

Good work in progress. It looks like him!

Fun Fact: Not too long ago the machine gun that killed Mussolini was discovered in Albania.

 

[mourndraken]

hmm .. did Albania ever recover from that pyramid scam ?

where can I get Il Deuce ?

 

[KrugerPritz]

This may be asking for too much, but I'm not fond of the hat (plus it seems to be sitting too high-up on his head).

Any chance of just showing us Benito's bald head (prefered)? Either that, or get that hat back down on his head, it looks like it's about to fly off his head (less desireable, but that hat doesn't look right).

Or give Mussolini his silly little Fez... but that hat just doesn't look good.

There has also been some talk of using the "Mr Clean" version of Hiawatha as Mussolini... with an altered nose, that might be a good idea.

Also, this model seems a little "thin" for Benito... not enough pasta-eating (needs to be chubbier).

Sorry for the criticism, but you asked, so I'm trying to be constructive.

I agree with the critics about the hat.
Anyway is the best Mussolini seen since now....
p.s. Pasta-eating???

 

[Shqype]

hmm .. did Albania ever recover from that pyramid scam ?

where can I get Il Deuce ?

Not to hijack the thread, but here's a recent article snippet from Forbes that speaks about the financial situation in Albania:

Here's How to End the Panic - Forbes.com

Muslim Success Story [Note: Albania is a secular nation with about as many Christians as Muslims]

Kosovo, with a predominantly ethnic Albanian Muslim population, has grabbed headlines by declaring independence. Skeptics wonder if the new state can make it economically. But there's one Muslim country in the oft-tumultuous Balkans that's already doing things right: Albania. During the past two years Albania's government has enacted a number of exciting and eye-opening reforms.

On the economic front Prime Minister Sali Berisha proudly points to Albania's now having the smallest government per capita in Europe. It has enacted a 10% flat tax on both personal incomes and business profits. This rate is lower than Albania's previously low maximum rates of 23% on individual incomes and 25% on profits. Social security levies have been lowered by 31%. Tariffs with European countries have been eliminated. Government personnel has been cut by almost 30%, and the cost of procurement is down 20%. Total revenues have surged from 22% of GDP to 27%. Not surprisingly, the IMF strongly advised Albania against slashing tax rates. "So did many of our budget people," chuckled Berisha. Such advice was profitably ignored.

To make government more efficient, the prime minister initiated a program with Estonia--a pioneer in this--to bring high tech to tax collection and government contracts.

Foreign direct investment--albeit from a low base--is growing impressively, having tripled in 2006 and nearly doubling again in 2007.

Albania boasts a plethora of minerals, including chrome, nickel and iron, and has an abundance of freshwater from the surrounding mountains. The government is promoting tourism, claiming its coasts are more beautiful than those of Bulgaria and the Riviera.

Albania is vigorously pursuing membership in NATO, figuring that would give foreign investors more confidence in investing in this once isolated and poverty-stricken country. It is also strengthening ties with the EU. The government has made a successful, vigorous attack on pervasive corruption and crime, including the trafficking in women for Europe's burgeoning prostitution market. As Prime Minister Berisha pointed out, "Corruption was almost an industry." The nation's prosecutor-general was dismissed for insufficient zeal and not tackling organized crime. Berisha's government has, impressively, been going after members of the prime minister's ruling coalition.

The government has worked to make it easier to do business in Albania, instituting a "one-stop shop" for registering a business. Education is also being emphasized, particularly by the private sector.

Since the fall of communism, Albania has been a stalwart U.S. ally, even supplying troops to help us in Iraq. Its economic and anticorruption successes are models for other Muslim nations.

Since Mussolini invaded Albania, I guess this isn't too far off topic!

 

[mourndraken]

@Ekmek - So I'm making brownshirt Mussolini . so that you can necromance him later ? I'm very familiar with that nonshader right now.

I'll be able to do stuff by tuesday, but this LH may take time to give the quality it deserves. It will still be my augustus but mostly body adjustments so if we decide to go from there its easy for me to swap the fattened body and put it on mourndraken's bald guy.

 

[Ekmek]

I figure I'll post what I have now so mourndraken or anyone else can play with it this weekend.

I did a quick 15 min job on this (maybe longer) :

-I raised the shoulders and made them more horizontal

-I broadened the chest and fattened the neck

-I stretched his mouth but i think i messed up on hisright side (easy fix for later)

-Grew the hat..but its going away anyways. I'm committed to the fez it will make him look more unique and will be fun to see in game.

-I am/was committed to augustus because his animations work best but I just checked and saw that shaka works with Julius Caesars. (the greeting if anything is what I'm after). So mourndraken if you want to play with putting the suit on your ancestor head. go for it and post what comes out.

I'm leaving the original first post pictures to compare to the new below.

 

[mourndraken]

cool. new things to play with .

 

[Wolfshanze]

Mussolini silly fez hat stuff...

Mussolini's hat and other possessions were liberated by a British pilot

A boat-shaped hat topped bids at an auction of Mussolini memorabilia.

The black boat-shaped mutz hat once owned by the Italian fascist dictator was sold for £2,300 to a private bidder.

It was among a collection of books, private papers and other effects liberated from Mussolini's personal library by a British pilot at the end of World War II.

Captain H Richard Beck retrieved the items from the abandoned Villa Carpena, near Mussolini's native village of Predappio, when he was stationed there towards the end of the war.

"I'm particularly pleased and amazed with the £2,300 for the hat, it's a lot of money for a hat.

"For a lot of people, it was a chance to pick up a piece of history for not a lot of money."

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Links to big ones:
http://www.emscuola.org/dofras/ap5c/Duce_al_balcone.gif
http://www.diggerhistory.info/images/leaders/mussolini.jpg

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Okay... is that enough silly fez hat pics?

 

[Ekmek]

Okay... is that enough silly fez hat pics?

I guess that will get me started...

 

[Wolfshanze]

Well if that's not enough, here's one more!

 

[Dom Pedro II]

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that he gets the point...

 

[Wolfshanze]

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that he gets the Fez...

Corrected...

 

[KrugerPritz]

It could be good also with an helmet,

 

[Dom Pedro II]

I looked at your quote of me, and I was like "I don't remember phrasing it that way..." and then it all became clear.

For future reference, you might want to bold the word "fez" or strike out the word "point" and put "fez" next to it.

Also, I don't think it's actually a fez, but my google searches have not turned up a more accurate name (or the word fez to describe it either).

 

[KrugerPritz]

but maybe You have to change the LH...

 

[Wolfshanze]

It could be good also with an helmet

Ummm... no... the silly fez is sooooo Mussolini...


On another note, after Benito, we shouldn't forget to do a LH of his other famous politician family member... his grandaughter...

 

[C.Roland]

I played a bit with him during my insomnia :

-A new hat (not textued)

-A modified face

-A chubby torso (a bit bugged, would have to be corrected)

If you like those changes, I can send you my blend files.

 

[mourndraken]

I've just done a little sleeve ..
that looks really really great C.
looks fairly far along.
I'd say it's him !!

 

[Ekmek]

I played a bit with him during my insomnia :

-A new hat (not textued)

-A modified face

-A chubby torso (a bit bugged, would have to be corrected)

If you like those changes, I can send you my blend files.

nice Roland! collaborative leaderheads brings out all the modders

Please post the blend. I still want to fix that right lip a bit.