Ok, after starting this thing at the beginning of Nov. it’s finally done. Somewhere in Holland, two units meet up and discuss the next plan of attack. The house is built completely from scratch, which is plaster, balsa wood, overhead projector foils for glass, scrapbook paper for wallpaper. The StuG is Tamiya, as is the Krupp Protze. All figures are from Dragon. Light standards are the Lemax Christmas village goodies. Thanks big time to Bugsy for taking some really great shots, and he took a ton of them, I had to pick out the best ones to use, and even still, there’s just so much to show, I have no choice but to put up alot of pics…[:D]
Outstanding Kelly! There must be something in the water you guys drink up there in the land of the “Maple Leaf”, that is one cool looking dio. Semper Fi, mike
Thanks gang, for the comments! I.B., the dio took roughly 5 months to do, roughly Nov 1 til last wed. About 2 of those months were dedicated to doing the house. Once the rubble was down, it started to go pretty quickly. The Stug was built first, then I started on the house. The Krupp was also constructed during this time. Also forgot to mention that the roadway is from Kancali, filled with tile grout to build up the spaces in between the cobbles. Kind of burnt me out, this project…LOL
One question though… are you absolutely sure this is in Holland ? The reason I ask, if this is based on photographs, is that the house doesn’t look like the houses in Holland.
this is a beautiful piece zak that house is outstanding in fact everything is outstanding, but that house just blows me away, im keeping one of these pics for when i try one as a reference, amazing work.
Hi Dan, I just kinda figured I may as well use Holland I wrote a slogan on the wall, I just figured Tudor style houses were commonplace throughout Europe…Oh well. LOL
An outstanding piece of work Kelly,the building just blows me away and the streetlamps work very nicely,most excellent work! When I lived in central Germany in a
small town the local gashaus was a tudor style building.
Well, I suppose it’s OK[:D]
Seriously Kelly, I looked at those pics and especially the house and just thought, it does’nt really get much better than this does it.
Some of the small details I loved are the framed pictures in the house, the bucket on the Stug and also the dried wood stuff on the front of the Stug.
I think you should take a rest now and do something really bad, then we can all feel better[:D]
LOL MC! Actually right now I’m doing a fun piece, with complete artistic licensing involved, and after that, I’m getting into the next “project”…sigh…haha
Maybe you should do a step-by-step photoshoot next time and publish a how-to book. Geez, I know I’d buy it! Amazing figure posing, by the way - nothing artificial-looking. Thanks for the pics!
Yes, that’s what I was thinking ; the house is typical German/Austrian but there they aren’t called Tudor-style of course ; translated they would be called “craftwork houses”, you really won’t find many of them in Holland though.
Amazing Kelly!
When I went to Germany, there were pretty many Tudor (or craftwork) houses, more of in the South, not really in Middle or North Germany.
