Here is my 1st attempt to a dio, I’m planning on adding a few other resin elements that I’m still waiting for in the mail. This is the Eduard 1/48 Fw 190A-8 Profi Pack I’ve got at my LHS. I used a piece of black foam board topped with a roll of Scene-A-Rama green grass. I used a spoon to scrape off the trail and some random areas.
To keep it dust free, it rest in a IMEX 1/48 display case.
Thanks for stopping by and looking!
UPDATE: The figures come from the Cyber-Hobby Me262A-1/U4 kit # 5567.
I like this alot. The kit itself is very good. I think the only thing i would have done different for the dio is make the soil darker, looks more sandy that soil. But in my view you have it all right for your first dio. [Y]
Thanks for your kind comment Bish. Originally the green stuff was so green and perfect that it looked like a golf course. Maybe I went a little overboard. Thanks again mate.
Looks good from here El Taino. The only things I would suggest are totally my taste & not anything really technical or necessary.
Again, just things that my eye would like to have seen done differently. Good job! [Y]
not to shabby for a 1st attempt… [Y]
The plane looks very sweet !
Gracias for stopping by Vance [:)] I understand what you mean. I’m going to blame myself for over exposing the picture around half a stop. The grass certainly does look greener than that on the pictures. You’re right about the bomb. I’m expecting a few AM stuff from Verlinden including drums and wooden crates. I have an unopened Tamiya kit 32533 that I’m planning to use on another small dio featuring a Hassy Bf-109F-4/7 Trop. I will use some parts from the Tamiya kit to populate this one a little bit more.
Have a nice one and thanks for commenting.
Thanks a lot for taking your time and comment. Well appreciated.
Be gentle?! Looks darn good to me.[Y]
Better than anything I can do.
Great job.
When i apply grass, i mix a variety of shades and lengths rather than jusy use one colour. Other people spray paint the grass once its been added.
I would deffinatly agre with Vance on the bomb looking lonely. But as for the track running parallel, this seems to be a no no in dio building but i am not sure why. As he says its a matter of taiste, but i don’t see anything wrong with somthing running parallel to the board if it suits the dio in question.
Like the dio! Nice work on the ground cover, and the weathering on the Wulf is well done. Going to offer a little criticism on the technical aspect of the airplane to make your next one even better. You have both ailerons posed down, and on the FW-190, they don’t work that way. The ailerons travel opposite each other, so one needs to be up and the other down. If the ailerons are deflected, then the stick in the cockpit will be tilted toward the up aileron, and since the stick is free to move, the elevators will be deflected down on the FW. Tiny details, but they really add to the realism. Keep up the good work!
Pretty sweet ground-work…nice plane…it has the Defense Bands of a fighter outfit so I don’t think a bomb would really be appropriate in the dio at all…
Ashley, thanks so much for bringing this to my attention. We all learn something new every day. There is room to fix this without messing with the integrity of the build and/or paint.
Thanks a lot to all other fellows for commenting and offering tips. They are more than welcome.
Thanks a lot Manny, another new thing I just learned. Have a great day!
nice work! [Y][Y] Agree about the parallel tracks and bomb
very nice work enjoyed the pics
Ron
Nice work… However, a couple things… One is that Scene-a-Rama grass… Leave that stuff on the shelf next time, it’s useless for anything larger than 1/72 scale, and as you said, it looks like a golf course… Static Grass is much better, has individual blades, comes in a variety of colors and can be mixed… It looks much more like scale grass… The trail running parallel to the edge of the base has been covered… The lack of a tool-box for the engine mechanic makes one wonder exactly what he’s doing there, but both he and the other figure looking into the cockpit go a log way towards making your viewer notice the work you did in those areas…
As for the bomb… That little detail can be fixed easily… I’d just build a bomb-cart and then put the bomb on it, where the fuel dum is, then make a hand-pump and hose (from solder) for the drum and put it over where the bomb is… The hose will take up a little more of that open space up there… Having a hand-pump on the drum will also go farther in making the diorama tell the viewer more about the primitive conditions on forward airfields… Having the Kettenkrad pulling the bomb-cart into position would go even farther, and give it a better reason for being there, rather than the “just passing by” look… Also, it appears that you have both ailerons in the “down” position… This would be incorrect… When the stick is pushed left, the left aileron goes up, the right one goes down, and vice-versa… Be sure to have the stick in the correct position when you do that, too… Contest judges will kill you on stuff like that (I’m one of them, lol)…
Lastly, although it may just be my screen, it kinda looks lke the FW did vertical landing, since there’re no tracks from it’s landing gear…
Keep in mind that you don’t need kits or kit-parts to fill space… Bushes, clumps of foliage or tall grass, and signs work well for that too…
For a first attempt though, it’s pretty good…
At least you did one … and looks good, i’ve lots of stufs to do dioramas but not one finished [Y]
Looks great! Makes me want to do a dio! Very inspirational!
Nice job El
Agree, vary a little of the grass coloring. An easy way is to use some ground pastels… little darker green, a little lighter… mix in some lighter shades of brown here and there… it will add depth and break up the solid green color.
Still, very well done