MaxMini Release Cpt. Roohaz and His Men Into the Jungle

March 20, 2014 by dracs

If you cast your mind back a few days you may remember MaxMini showing off a heavily muscled jungle fighter wielding a heavy machine gun. Well that jungle fighter has arrived, along with the rest of his platoon.

Any troop of jungle based soldiers tends to draw upon some classic 80s sci-fi movie, one in particular, but these guys really do look like they just stepped out of an action movie.

Each of the miniatures has been sculpted with a great deal of individual character conveyed through stance and clothing. You look at them and you find yourself mentally assigning them personalities. This is a great sign as it means MaxMini have avoided their minis looking like another collection of faceless, muscle-bound goons.

Will you send this uni out into the dangerous depths of the jungle?

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vetruviangeek

Despite also drawing on the ‘hard as nails jungle fighter’ trope that hails from a certain movie featuring a reptilian antagonist as Sam points out, these guys have still somehow managed to find more clothes between them than the Brother Vinni version. Why, three out of five of them have shirts or bullet proof vests that cover their torsos, and they have all been issued with actual trousers.

Now, I wonder why that should be…?

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poosh

I thought it was Rambo ?

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deaddave

Gratuitous male sculpts, with unrealistic muscles, how dare they…

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dorthonion

The one with the no-so-minigun must have size issues…. and no ammo.

OK, fair points. I agree that these are also kind of ludicrous sculpts – you sure as heck wouldn’t go into battle dressed like this either. Poisonous snakes or bugs would be an issue. Running out of food/water/ammo/supplies of all kinds would happen within a matter of hours. And you are right that the minigun-toting guy does have an intimidating weapon but one that is entirely impractical as a man portable weapon system. And as you say he has no actual ability to fire it, which is rather amusing. Still, these models play into the common pumped up adolescent male… Read more »

Um… isn’t the creepy subtext subjective via your sex and sexuality?

Also… four of these models are not “buff” .. some of them look actually like they’ve been starving out there in the jungle. One of them has lean muscles. The other is pretty muscular but he’s carrying a MACHINE GUN… possibly on steroids.

These are actually well proportioned apart from the MG guy.

Some of us out here on the fringe worlds cannot afford flak armour like you posh inner-core world boys. We make do out ‘ere.

The creepy subtext is not just a matter of personal sex and sexuality, but also relates back to the context of the relative treatment of men and women in popular culture. The gross sexualisation of female characters has become so ubiquitous that it is now the background noise of how women are depicted in most works of fiction. The same cannot be said of men. It is a stretch indeed to try to cast these two sets of minis as equivalent, given what we know about dominant cultural norms. While only two of the minis here are obviously highly muscled,… Read more »

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cpauls1

If they put them all in ‘Daisy Dukes’, like Brother Vinni’s girls, you’d have the Village People. I admit to cutting the sleeves off issued T’s while in the desert, just to let my pits breathe. And of course it would be far more comfortable just wearing a tac vest, but not all that practical, especially if it’s not closed… duh. Besides, I really need to work on my six-pack if I’m going to shamelessly expose it to enemy bullets. As for our intrepid hero with the gatling gun, unless he’s got an ammo trailer strapped to his ass he’s… Read more »

I’ve heard of ‘abs of steel’, but bulletproof ones?

The gatling is roughly the size of a compact 30mm like the GAU13/A, which typically produces about 45kN of recoil, so the clown holding it will fire one round and then get knocked backwards.
I think that is what Warren refers to as a ‘Cinematic Moment’.

I’m guessing it’s meant to represent the 7.62 mini-gun, often affixed to scout choppers. Still, it has a ROF of 6,000 rounds per minute. Even if everyone in the section carries a belt, our hero would be hard pressed to lay down more than 10 seconds of suppressive fire. Does a gatling trace up and right, like a machinegun? Never encountered that problem in my 26 year army career!