Is she under the rubble pile? [:-^]
Excellent work, as always!
A great dio MR. I too think this is one of your best. I don’t think your street is too clean. As you have said, streets were cleaned of rubble fairly quickly at times. Your dio does not depict a battle or a period just after battle. I believe you made it to depict the time before the battle of Aachen, therefore there would have been time for the streets to have been cleaned. If you were portraying a lull between fighting, then you would have to expect more rubble. I hope this makes sense…
Honestly, the only ctiticsm i have with your dios is that i think your vehicles are always too ‘clean’. But that is just my personal preference, and i am sure that the way your vehicles are done is to your preference, and thats what matters.
Nice one…[tup]
Boomer…
Thanks! …finally, someone who understands my “rubble theory”…lol…
LOL!..do i detect a big sigh of relief that comes with this comment MR?[(-D] I do understand, it all makes perfect sense to me!
Boomer…
I second the compliments of the others in this thread. Its very well done. The only thing that bothered me was that the highlights and shadows on the figures’ faces seemed to stark, or like they needed to be blended together more. I’m not an expert on this, but since starting out with figures in this scale I have tried to avoid this in my own figures so I noticed it on yours. Of course I seem to be having trouble with blending to much to the point where the shading is washed away, so I’m still working on that as well.
Hey Manny has’ent anyone figured out why you’r Dio’s look so clean…it’s those dang female’s thay see a mess and just have to start cleaning [(-D]
I think you cracked it panzerguy…The girl is in the tank. She has swept the street, cleaned the exterior of the tank and now she is detailing the interior…will be the best looking KT in the entire german army…[(-D]
Boomer…
a bit more weathering on the tank and you’re ready for the cover
Manstein does weather his tanks. It’s just that the cleaning lady keeps wiping the pastels off!..[:-^]
Boomer…
sawdeanz wrote: “I second the compliments of the others in this thread. Its very well done. The only thing that bothered me was that the highlights and shadows on the figures’ faces seemed to stark, or like they needed to be blended together more. I’m not an expert on this, but since starting out with figures in this scale I have tried to avoid this in my own figures so I noticed it on yours. Of course I seem to be having trouble with blending to much to the point where the shading is washed away, so I’m still working on that as well.”
Thanks, I posted this in an earlier reply that may fit your comment as well:
…Since this was the most pointed out thing I will expand a little bit…the sunken eyes look on the NCO fig is partly because the guys face is molded with a “boyish” expression and his eyes are a little sunken in in the casting…one thing I do with my dios that I haven’t seen much of elsewhere is that I shoot pics VERY close (most dios–or figs–in the Forum are never shot any closer to approx. my 7th pic as an example). Some of my 35th scale figs appear to be 4 to 5 times their real size on your monitor—closer to 120-200mm (1/16th or 1/8th scale) in real life! When you shoot pics that close you will definately bring out flaws that are not visible to the naked eye, or painting techniques that look good when viewed naturally but not when blown up 4 to 5 times. I shoot that close to get a more “dramatic” effect to the pics and also because I feel that even under that magnification the figs stand up pretty well, but sometimes flaws will pop up and I just have to be prepared to take a little more heat because of the closeups (go back and look at the 8th pic in my series; this is approx. 1/35th scale on my screen)…all of my painting is done to be viewed at that size: real-life…
Thanks for the comments…
A BIG LOL !!!
Sorry if this has already been asked…
but what do you use for painting yout figures?
THanks,
David
Achtung, Baby!
Tch…tch…tch…the bird waiting to help feather beautiful nest of men in grey/green…
Is hanging by her fingertips…from the sewer grate!
Where is your imagination?
Excellent work, the paint job,model and ground work is fantastic
Pedro
Humbrol enamels for the uniforms and oils for the flesh tones (over an enamel sand base)…
Thanks for the reply, and again great work.
David
That’s right…!!! She’s waiting for those nasty Germans to get back into their tank and leave, at which point she’ll emerge from the sewer and quickly indulge in a warm bath…
Hi Manny,
I wanted to congratulate you on your dio. It has a strong composition, and like the way the tank seems to hang over the edges, emphasising the size of it. I also like how the camoflage on the tank blends with the base, showing why the crew chose to paint their vehicle like that. The mortar in the bricks made a huge improvement, well worth the effort. One thing I noticed is that the outside of the building was a little bare…often the exterior has brackets, drains, shutter hinges, mismatched paint, mismatched bricks all kinds of add ons giving it a sense of history and everyday civilian life…which makes its destruction even more tragic…it makes us think about where we live and how we would feel if we saw a tank outside our home. Even seemingly plain exteriors have a lot of small details, and I think in the future this will be something that will really add an extra little zing to your diorama buildings…check out what model railroaders do… they are amazing at depicting structures( and please know that this is not to take away the success of yours).
The pavers on the road look really good and capture those grey European streets. I would have like to see more debris, as it looksed a little arranged around the tank. I would have like to see the tank crushing/grinding its way over the rubble leaving dust/fine gravel in its path (another way to get across the sheer weight of such a vehicle)
I know that the interior of the building is not important in this dio, but in the future, I think that more details, burn shadows, debris would really add to it. Even a looted burned building is full of so much crap that you can hardly believe it was all in there.
Please take what I have said in a constructive way, you have no need to defend your choices, these are just some of my thoughts and may well be off the mark. Congrats you have a really strong well composed and executed diorama
Thanks, Vespa–some great feedback that I will certainly utilize on my next urban diorama!
Very nice job love the groundwork although the figures look like they have black eyes abit, shading is overdone in my opinion. the Tiger looks great and is made very welljust abit to clean for the surroundings. nice job though.