Adventures in Chat GPT - I'm Okay With This One After a Bit Of Work

This little exercise required a few steps before I was satisfied with the results. The original photo has quite a history dating back to 2014 when the original photos of this plane were taken and blogged. Then the original photos got lost when we had hard drive issues, and finally, the photo shown here today was copied from my blog post of Sep 19, 2014 and used for this Chat GPT exercise.

The original photo was taken simply to show scale by adding a handmade dock and a set of Marx 54mm Medical Series GI's and was not a serious attempt at diorama making, but it made a good starting point for this session.

Ed

Original Photo

Marx 54mm GIs shown for scale

1st Chat GPT Edit

The first edit command was basically: "show the plane and figures by a riverbank".

I do like the backgrounds generated by the program, but then thought this might look better in a Southeast Asia setting.

2nd Chat GPT Edit

The second edit was: "show the plane by a riverbank in Vietnam"

Not bad, but I thought the figure on the boat was a bit out of scale. The house on the right appears a bit out of scale as well, but not too bad. I'll keep it.

Photoshopped Final Edit

I really didn't want that guy on the boat, so instead of using up free Chat GPT sessions, he got Photoshopped out of the picture.

This is the one I like best.

Forces of Valor (FOV) / Unimax Deep Dive: Pt 82 Set #83204 (2005)-#93204 (2004) US 82nd Airborne, 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment Pt 2 Pose 2

This set contained five poses and today we show Pose #2. When pulling the figures from the tote bin they had been stored in, I do my best to color match them which, in this case, meant the figures have lighter colored jackets than some of the other sets.

Ed

FOV U.S. Pose 2

Forces of Valor (FOV) / Unimax Deep Dive: Pt 81 Set #83204 (2005)-#93204 (2004) US 82nd Airborne, 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment Pt 1 Packaging and Contents

This is an odd one in a couple of respects. Apparently, I took the photos of the box way back in 2016 as reflected by the photo details on the computer, but I never recorded the contents. That said, I can't say what 'smalls' were included, only the larger pieces that I can ascertain by looking at the photos. The figures and accessories were just tossed into my bins and when I was segregating all the pieces the past few months, I simply pulled what I needed from the bins to photograph the set. 

As for the photos of the #83204 set, those were acquired from fleaBay just the other day, otherwise this set would have been posted earlier in June in numerical order, just after set #83203 and before #83205. But most importantly: Set #83204 is dated 2005 while #93204 is dated a year earlier in 2004. Another - Why? 

Ed

Series 1 'Light' Box (2005)

(Photos culled from eBay)

Series 2 'Light' Box (2004)

(My set box)

Contents

-4 figures

-Large ruined wall

-Log tank obstacle

-Curved sandbag pile

-Large cart

-Crate #5

 

Forces of Valor (FOV) / Unimax Deep Dive: Pt 80 Set #93040 (2009) Battle Hardened Soldiers (US 82nd Airborne) REPEATED SET NUMBER - Was I Scammed?

Okay, this set became problematic. The set shares the same item number (#93040) as the one we just finished posting yesterday, but the contents are different. That one contained British / UK figures and I bought it off of fleaBay and the box and all of its contents then photographed. Today's set has American troops, and the box photos were culled from fleaBay. Here's the rub: this set number is not listed on any box art, nor does it appear in any flyer so the only resource for identifying it are box photos. However, as all searches for this set number show British troops, not American, I believe the American contents shown here are incorrect.

I've now come to the conclusion that somewhere along the line of ownership, the contents insert and outer sleeve of the box were switched and the set shown here is more than likely totally bogus! If you collect FOV figure sets, I hope you're taking note because this kind of bait-&-switch can rear its ugly head at any time. Mind you, the set contents shown here are nice, and it appears to be complete, it's just not the correct box sleeve with the correct contents.

Ed 

Series 2 'Light' Box

(fleaBay photos

Forces of Valor (FOV) / Unimax Deep Dive: Pt 79 Set #93040 (2009) Battle Hardened Soldiers (UK 7th Armored Division) Pt 6 Pose 5

The last of five poses in FOV set #93040.

Ed

FOV British / UK Pose 5