Just thought I’d share some pic’s of my latest dio. Still haven’t come up with a title yet.Here’s the scenario,a group of germans armed with a 2.8 anti tank gun and a mg34(to be added later) are preventing a russian motorized unit from advancing into a town somewere in Russia.A group of russian’s have popped up out of the sewer’s and while the german gunner is determined to get off one more round all hell is breaking loose around the building.Let me know what ya think and any help with a title would be cool too.Any qustion’s just ask, I’ll post more pics soon(I hope).
sounds interesting, what material did you use for the building and road?
panzerguy,
The guy coming-up out of the sewer is a great idea! I’d make sure the focus of the viewer leads to him. I think the name has to be a pun on sewer filth…toilet humor…something like that. Is that arm of the Russian in the window holding the pistol from the figures in the old Tamiya T34/76 kit?, it looks familiar.
The guy leaning out the window is actually a german who’s tring to pick off the russian that’s tossing a grenade into the building.No,the arm is from a dragon kit and the hand is verlinden.Your right about the guy coming out of the sewer I want the viewer to pick up on him first,ask whats he pointing at…the german in the window,who’s he getting ready to fire on…the guy that’s about to throw the grenade in the window and who’s he throwing the grenade at.Toilet humor hmmm might be on to something there I was thinking about making the second floor a bathroom.
Howabout “Sew-prise Attack”? [:D]
Looking forward to watch this one progress.
Steve
Nice SteveM,I think you just gave me a title for this dio[tup]
I started whith 1/4" styro foam for the house the side walk is a piece of 1/8"poster board I coated every thing with patching plaster once it dries for a few days I’ll sand it all and starte carving the stone work.
Looks good so far, Steve. Looking forward to seeing it in person.
Here’s some more pic’s of some more work I got done on my dio “Sew-prise Attack”(thank’s SteveM).I’m hopeing to have it done in time for Vally-Con in March, give’s me just over two month’s.I actually have my own workshop and some free time now, so just maybe.Any question’s just ask.
panzerguy,
“Sew-prise”, I love it[(-D], I told you a sewer pun would be perfect…
OK, you’re kinda’ tickin’ me off here…man that’s GOOD! Wish I could say I did it…dang-it!!![;)]…You sure are a “master with plaster” I know how hard this kind of stuff is to do, especially the bricks protruding from the plaster…they look great[bow]! “Lace me up” with some info on how you did that. I want to do a bridge made of bricks in a future dio’ and I know the pre-fab styrene sheet brick will suck…
Looks an awesome Dio. Heres another idea for a title. What about
Stench warfare!!
…Guy
you have an opportunity to really place the diorama by including the name of the town (or other text) on the manhole cover, in whatever language is apropriate. I like the exposed bricks in the walls. Its care over these details details that really add up to a great whole.
SMJ thank’s,I thought that was a great title also, gotta give the credit to SteveM for that(thank’s again SM)[#toast]
I used self hardening clay for the brick’s. Start by flatting the clay with a roller till it’s about 1/8" thick and look’s like a pie crust.Take a steel ruler and cut strip’s 1/8" wide.Then cut these into your brick’s.The clay I use shrink’s a little when it dries so I make them a little bigger to compensate for it.After they’ve dried drag each brick across a piece of 180 grit sand paper to get the side’s nice and flat,take’s me around half an hour to do a hundred of e’m and my nail’s look great after LOL.
Now start breaking some of your brick’s in half,but not all.I took some patching plaster smeared it on and stuck the brick’s into it.I left some of the brick’s whole,I think it look’s better when some of them look undamaged.Now take some elmer’s glue and thin it about 50/50 and “paint” the brick’s this will help them stay together when it dries and help’s the plaster get in between the brick’s.
These are my “rubble” brick’s, for a wall I would just scribe them right into the plaster.
Now maybe you can help me. I want to start putting caption’s under my pic’s can ya help a computer dunce like me.[D)]
Panzerguy,
Thanks for the brick info, sounds labor intense, but the results speak for themself. That slurry is your “mortar” right? Sounds like I’ll need to become a mason and shrink myself to 1/35 scale and build a brick bridge[banghead]. Somewhat serious here…the mason part anyway[;)]. I could use foam and “sculpt” the bridge to get the look I want, in my case, an arch over a small stream, and then veneer the the whole d.[censored].n thing. By implementing your technique[tup] to fabricate the bricks and facing the bridge like I said, I bet the result would be FABULOUS! If you wouldn’t mind I’d appreciate that you write, in detail, how you paint and weather them too. I bet there would be a lot of forum memebers who would benefit too. Thanks in advance…I’ll be following this one closely
As far as the captions are concerned…you can post pics’ so you’ve already won half the battle. All you need to do is this, pretend this is your thread…
Intro…blah, blah, blah…
(insert, only ONE, picture here) press enter.
This gets you to the next line below the picture…write what you want…yada, yada, yada. press enter.
(insert next picture) press enter.
more text…repeat.
Make sense?!
Happy masoning!!!
SMJmodeler
SNJ
Another way to make bricks is to make about 50 masters from cutting up square/oblong plastic rod and then casting them in silicone rubber. You can then cast thousands of bricks in plaster or whatever material you desire.
Good results are almost always labour intesive. Its just a matter of how far you want to go.
My pleasure [:)] I’m enjoying the build!
Steve
looks great ill watch with great interest.
Bodge thank’s,nice to see your still with us.
panzerguy,
Sorry [#offtopic], yours was the first post that was handy:
I tried to do this in test forum but it wouldn’t work: How do you grab the text from someone’s post, drop it into a response, and then when it’s added to the thread it has the person’s ID with what they said in a white box with dashed line box around it?
Excellent work! Great idea!! Can’t wait to see more!!! [8-]