Autobahn Einsatz 1945

Modeling Subjects Dioramas
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Dear all,

Greetings from the Netherlands! My first post on this forum, I had been looking for a nice mkb forum for quite some time and managed to miss the obvious…

Great magazine, not subscribed yet, but it’s also great to look forward to buying it on airports before flights, most of my copies therefore come from Vienna Airport [:)]

Here’smy first topic then , currently on the workbench. Scale 72

It represents the last of the Luftwaffe jets gathered under a autobahn viaduct for operations against advancing US Army units across the Rhine bridges. You can se I use mostly domestic stuff for diorama’s, bbq sticks, buttercups, cardboard boxes , sandingpaper, etc. I actually have a soda bottle under reconstruction as Shuttle Enterprise’s Main Fuel tank…

The models are quite old; from the very early eighties when I was a teenager. I never threw anything I built away, lots of it sits in boxes, and I call this ‘deep storage’ . Apart from the buying of new to create my stack as I read about elsewhere, I can have lots of joy from disassembly of old models that I built rather crudley as a kid, and try to do better in a second shot, with years of experience and more patience under the belt. With all the aftermarket stuff around , it´s a lot of fun.

back to the dio… The Me 262´s are matchbox, but most of the UC is scratch built, having lost the originals. The cammo is a long drybrush of green over a greyspot cammo typical for 262´s. Still needs some cleaning up, I´ll redo the bombs, and tone down the arado rivets…that´s really neccesary.

Viaduct is cardboard covered with railroad application brickwall printing.I have cut out some parts along the bricks to create depth. Road is sandpaper. Just put all on to figure out final setup. Still looking for pics of german roadsigns and roadmarkings. I´ll put a conrete slab pattern on the road and go for weathering.

Now for the pics…I see i need a mod´s or admin´s permit to add attachments…meanwhile look here

http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/forums/scale-modelling/1091-autobahn-einsatz.html

Hope to post directly here soon…

regards

Skybert

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Welcome to the site! I like your use of household materials to create the diorama, especially the sandpaper road, thats a good idea. You have an interesting array of planes there. I think the dio looks like it is off to a good start. Good luck, and happy building!

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You need no approval to post pictures.

The green button next to the smiley face is a quick link. Click it and replace h t t p : / / with the URL of your picture. To get the URL address, right click the picture, chose “Properties” from the box and copy the full address from the next box, starting with h t t p and ending in jpg.

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[#welcome] and your work looks great! hope you stop by more often.

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[#ditto]

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Thx buddy,

Feel really stupid but i’m not getting it;[img]http D:\Mijn afbeeldingen\Bert’s foto’s\Modelbouw\Autobahn\P1000906.jpg/img]

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No, you have to go where you hosted your pictures online, in your case, Simmerpaintshop or by following the link you have in your first post. Then follow the directions.

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Aha, now I understand what you were trying to show, but I was actually hoping I could upload directly from my HD. How can I do that in this forum?

Thx for patience, all i need is to get it right once then I’m on my way [:)]

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You can’t. The pics have to be hosted somewhere on the web to get them to show up on the forums.

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Ok thx guys, i’ll post the images that I show first in another local forum. I have a mailserver , but it’s down currently.

Meanwhile I managed the trick with the quicklink…:slight_smile:

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Well guys … it’s taken some time to finish; almost a year…

but here she is; the final version of Autobahn Einsatz 1945 … enjoy…

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What a fantastic diorama. There is a great deal happening.

Cheers

Mike