I am. Hence my stance against using more than 6-8 Rebels, and against using any Imperial customs other than Daigo-Bah's and this latest one from Fritz. The way I see it the time spent on every Imperial custom is time that could have been a citizen or two. Part of the reason we took Anton's army was so that we wouldn't have to worry about any Imperial customs, the other part is so we actually have Imperials that look alike.
Just for reference: At the moment there are 483,791 Coalition and Iraqi troops in Iraq. Iraq has a population of 26,783,383. That's a ratio of approximately 55.4 civilians for every 1 trooper. We would need about 3988.8 civilians to match that.... Granted this right on the hub of the military base so we can get away with fudging that ratio a bit since we are concentrated on just this one heavily militarized area. There would be a bunch of civvies just outside the diorama, in the surrounding city. But we still need the civvies to outnumber the Imperials at least 2:1 better yet 3:1 or 4:1. Meaning we have to get cracking on civilian customs and stop all together on all Imperials. 4:1 means 288 civvies, which may be a bit unrealistic, but I think we can hit between 216 and 144. So anyone working on Imperials for this project needs to stop now at switch to civilians.
Also as to why I wanted so few Rebels...
It is estimated that there are 13000-17000 insurgents in Iraq, that makes a 1575.5:1 ratio of Rebels to Civilians and a 28.6:1 Trooper to Insurgent ratio. Based off that we SHOULD have 2.51 Rebels. But since that is ridiculously small we can have a few more. This small group would have no access whatsoever to heavy armor, and as such would have no business even attempting a frontal assault on the city. I could maybe see a rebel swoop or two, but no armor. The Rebels need to be able to blend in with the crowd, they don't stand a chance at any tactic other than guerilla warfare. And if this is still early on between Episodes 3 and 4, the Alliance has little to no organization and very little manpower. More reason to have no logos of any kind on the rebels. And their cloths need to be fairly inconspicuous as well, so I don't particularly like and of the fleet trooper helmets. They need every advantage they can get without the numbers or technology of the Empire. A big white helmet in the middle of the forest might as well be a bright orange vest that hunters wear. Not the kind of advantage they are looking for. I think a small party (3-4) ambushing a small Imperial patrol in the wilderness and maybe a few (3-4) in the city is plenty. There could be more rebels if this was part of a large attack but they would be in other parts of the city away from the main base here, avoiding the main gate. Perhaps they could be creating a diversion for the Jedi we will have who are attempting to get to the Imperial Command center, and destroy it. More rebels beyond the 6-8 is overkill. Oh and Fritz I agree with Chewie that the Heavy ordinance Rebel looks better without most of the gear. The accessories just look too GiJoe to me, I think it is mainly the heavy weapon; the other parts sans the white helmet are fine. Like Chewie said go with an Endor helmet here. And maybe you could remove the Rebel logos from all the arm pads.
I don't need to explain vehicles anymore as Justin did a good job presenting what we talked about and no one really seems to have a problem with those numbers.
I have several civilian types already made to contribute as well, at least 6 maybe 10. And I will be making more too hopefully I'll send around 15.
