Marlene Lilli the famous singing star and “Forces Sweetheart” visits a lonely desert airstrip to cheer the lonely NAK NordAfrika Korps troops.
#FEMbruary 2020 – a chance to celebrate beleivable female gaming miniatures.
Marlene Lilli is a useful little platform figure from the Peco / Merit / Modelscene set 5201 Unpainted Army, Navy and Air Force personnel.
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/ShowFeature.aspx?id=107
5116 Army Personnel
https://peco-uk.com/collections/4mm-oo/products/army-personnel
Her visit to the troops was inspired by one of the latest song covers by one of my favourite bands Postmodern Jukebox. Previously featured on Man of TIN / Pound Store Plastic Warriors:
https://poundstoreplasticwarriors.wordpress.com/2019/03/15/thinking-outside-the-postmodern-paintbox/
This is its first German language cover, the 1980s Nena song 99Luftballons or ’99 Red Balloons’. This is covered in a 1940s / 50s jazz vibes style in German by singer Aly Ryan.
The 1980s original song was released in both German and English.
Blogposted by Mark Man of TIN, 11 FEMbruary 2020. Enjoy!
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Wonderful little addition. I love that kind of rear area scene- adds a human element to it all.
Cheers,
Pete.
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I like the scene but as for the new version of 99 Luftballoon, sorry to say but for me, its a pale shadow of Nena’s original both for the singing/playing and the sex appeal.
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The original, as you say, may be the best. However sent back into the 1940s 50s by a time machine …
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Wonderful little slice of life moment with the figures Mark, thanks for the PMJ song. Happy gaming. 😀
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Great figures and pmj, what is not to like?
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I can see why you like this band or the singer in particular !!!!
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PMJ are a great fun band (not seen them live yet) with a very varied line up of vocalists.
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One of my favourite pieces of music is Moonlight Sonarta and the best rendition I have ever heard is by Lola Astranova who is without doubt one of the greatest classical pianists in the world. Check it out on You Tube.
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A lovely piece of music – I tracked down a snippet your favourite pianist on YouTube and also found on YouTube a man called Paul Barton in Thailand who plays music to retired elephants in a sanctuary https://youtu.be/_4AcjvsVn5k
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Just watched that film, very impressive, the elephant was as enchanted as me, but I still prefer Lola on balance.
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Ja! Wunderbar! A clever scene und a sehr gut submission to FEMbruary, mein herr! 🙂
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