From the Wayback Machine

[Geektopian]

I was looking around for some photos I had posted on the JS forum and realized the IMG links were dead. I had forgotten about the "Great Crash of '07" that nuked the host I was using at the time. Fortunately, I had everything backed up and eventually reloaded most of it but I realized that I never went back and fixed the links. Who the heck is going to dig through five years worth of threads anyway? So, I set the Wayback Machine for late 2005- early 2006 and brought back some dubious "gems".

Meg in a police uniform:


I've never done "unboxing" photo stories but I took this photo shortly after I bought this lady from Emory in late '05. I had this thought in mind that she would be the older, wiser and more mature member of a group of friends in a photo story series I was planning. Rooting around for clothes she could wear produced a uniform from Dragon's Winona NYPD figure and few other police items rounded out her look. While she never appeared as a cop after this, the uniform idea got stuck in my head and she spent the next three years wearing camouflage! (Poor girl) She also decided that the "modest" SB3 body she had wasn't going to work (yep, blame the doll!) so a new SB2 was soon purchased for her. She reappeared a short time later in the version many JSF veterans will remember:

[Iwa_Hoshi]

Meg looks lovely in her camou outfit (for that angle she looks like she's smiling), she seems ready to kick some ass.

[Geektopian]

Meg looks lovely in her camou outfit (for that angle she looks like she's smiling), she seems ready to kick some ass.

Thanks! Of course, now I have THIS SONG stuck in my head!

[Geektopian]

In late 2008, Meg had mostly "gone civilian", largely due to the fact that I was getting tired of the whole camo look AND I had bought my Obitsu girls some decent, normal clothes.


However, there was one last mission. I was in to this whole post-apoc phase and decided to do my own goofy homage to the Desert Rangers from the old computer game Wasteland.


Here's a shot of her with some of the guys from her command.


I had this allegedly great idea for a continuing photo story set in the post-apocalyptic near future in which the Desert Rangers lived in and defended a fortified town on the edge of the wastes. I suppose it would've been a bit like Mark Hogancamp's Marwencol meets the setting from Fallout. I lost interest and there just wasn't the spare time to make it happen. Not to mention the lack of an available vast desert wasteland in my very green, subtropical environment!

[Eseme]

Thanks for posting these. I'm new to the hobby, and hasn't seen them.

Your desert epic sounds cool, though I can understand the difficulty in shooting photos. Maybe you should give in and work with a jungle setting? I'm sure the apocalypse happens in the jungle too...

I'm impressed that you were able to get her a uniform which matches the uniforms of the rest of her unit. Given that she is of a much different build, I'm impressed.

[Geektopian]

Thanks for posting these. I'm new to the hobby, and hasn't seen them.

Your desert epic sounds cool, though I can understand the difficulty in shooting photos. Maybe you should give in and work with a jungle setting? I'm sure the apocalypse happens in the jungle too...

I'm impressed that you were able to get her a uniform which matches the uniforms of the rest of her unit. Given that she is of a much different build, I'm impressed.

Thanks! Due to the "manga-style" proportions of the Obitsu 27 cm bodies, the pants from Dragon's current female bodies will fit. The shirts are usually way too big but the t-shirts fit OK, so they can at least be fully dressed!

I finally had to admit defeat on the desert idea. Because it's unlikely I'll move to New Mexico, Arizona or Southern California in the near future, the story has literally moved to greener pastures. A lot of the story has been reset to the modern era with much of the action taking place in the fictional nation of Aventine. The outpost on the edge of the wasteland is now an outpost in an occupied salient just beyond Aventine's western border. Meg has been recast as the character I originally wanted her to be back in 2006. After spending a number of years in the private business sector, she's working on a history degree and pursuing her dream of being a writer. She has no military background in this version of the story.

While this current scenario has a lot of story possibilities it somehow seems more, I dunno... mundane. I've enjoyed creating the background and writing a "story bible" but I'm not very enthused about actually posting photo stories.

[Eseme]

My philosophy is "It's a hobby - if it's not fun, don't do it."

If you have more fun planning the story than writing/storyboarding or shooting photos, then do what's fun for you. I did like seeing the flags...

[Dark Angel]

Aaaww Meg is so adorable!

[Mary Kathryn]

Meg - she can rock camo or casual.

[JanetT]

Love seeing the old pics of Meg!

We tend to do photo stories more like comic books or movie storyboards -- lots of pictures, relatively small amounts of text -- but there's no reason you couldn't do it the other way 'round, more like an illustrated book, with more text and fewer photos. (I've debated doing that myself, since setting up and shooting photo-intensive stories is such a huge time-investment, and right now my 'spare time' is somewhat limited...)

Meg does look good in cammo! Or civvies. Whatever story you want to tell, it's all good.

Or just post occasional random photos. We're easy to please!