No Roads Left!

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Hi all,
well, this has got to be my smallest dio/vig ever, pretty much threw it together in time for our club’s contest in September. Tamiya’s Kettenkraftrad, just built out of the box, a leftover building section that I cast a couple of years ago, and a streetlamp. Enjoy! [:)]

[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/kzak/vsm-sept10-2005-41.jpg[img]

Thanks to Steve Bamford for the photos!

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Kelly-is that the 1/48 kit? Nice Dio -small is good-I’d call it a vignette-but my back hurts just thinking about driving over that rubble.

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Hi Trowlfazz, no it’s the 1/35 kit, this is a really old kit from the 70’s, the running gear and tracks are all one solid piece, a bit of a hassle getting rid of the seam lines!

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You know, I think these mini-dios are the most artistic in some ways. A very unusual vehicle, a very rough scene! Making a striking scene like this in small setting is awesome.

Thanks for sharing, Kelly!

And I love that bent lamp post!

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Nice little vig Kelly,doesnt take much to make something interesting! Whatever is in that trailer wont be of much use though once he gets to his destination,lol!

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You think he might have found a better route…
Good idea

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thanks guys, Russ, my thoughts exactly, the scene kind of represents what’s left of Berlin, and the desparate situation that the Germans are/were in…yah, a little mg ain’t gonna stop those JS tanks! Thanato, no better route to find, hence the name of the vig…LOL

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Has a nice look to it, good job

Thad

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Small, but very well done.

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Looks good. I just bought that kit, I think it was a couple years ago, it still had the running gear in one piece. Now I need to rebuild and repaint it and figure out what to do with it…

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i am doing something similar, the roads are a mess, please tell me how you painted your broken down brick and dust on the floor. Thank you
p.s- excellent dio.

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Hi Erad, here’s a thing I typed up over at Armorama…hope it helps!

All of my rubble as always, tends to look the same, but for me it works.
I have a list of “ingredients” that I use for my rubble:

-Smashed plaster (poured into sheets, and tinted with brick coloured acryllic paint, then put into ziploc bags)

-Brick coloured gravel, purchased at Michaels Craft Store, it’s from the xmas Village Collection

-Fine and Coarse Rail ballast

-Bits of broken flat toothpicks (I prepaint several hundred different colours and break them all apart, and bag 'em for later)

-Bits of bigger pieces of square balsa wood (for beams)

-Bricks (either hand made or purchased)

-Any other odds & ends, depending on the situation eg: shingles, etc

Now all I do is just add a little bit of each into a jar, shake it all up, and pour my rubble onto my base, adding stuff like jerry cans, crates, bigger beams, etc. Once I have it the way I like, I mist with water, to wet it, then start adding my white glue/water mix everywhere to glue it down. This usually takes a few applications. While still wet, I’ll add the really fine sand ballast for that gravelly rubble look. Once everything has dried, I add a wash of burnt umber/black artist oils, followed by some drybrushing and a topcoat of MIG Pigments Brick Dust.

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very nice… looks awesome!-DJ

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it looks great for a ood build! love the groundwork man! great piece. shows that good models dont have to be only 2% of the original plastic.

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My feelings exactly, I use little to no AM parts on my builds, I think it’s more fun to see what I can come up with when I do a vehicle [:D]