Here’s the start of my new dio, its further along than these photos so i need to take some more pics. The Dragon Brummbar is just amazing, great detail. The miniart building needs some TLC as you can see, but it too has nice detail.
looking good so far…looking forward to more…good luck![:D]
Almost a dead-ringer for the Grizzly I’m doing, lol… I’ll get a pic up of it later…
Thats too funny Hans, i’d like to see yours, are you using the same kits too?
LT, How much does the miniart kit cost?..seems to be alot in them…
Nah, the old Tamiya Brummbar and scratchbuilt house… I’d never part with the kind of money those new kits cost, man, lol… I’m kinda rippin’ off Shep Paine’s dio of the Bear, cuz I wanted a reason for a balcony. I wanted to do a pair of Italian Front scenes, separate, but with connecting storylines. In the first dio, the Brummbar is supporting some Heer Infantry against an approaching American unit from the 34th “Red Bull” ID, the second is a Sherman and some US Infantry from the 34th that are just down the same street a few blocks, and around a corner from the Grizzly. Neither unit is quite aware of the other’s presence, yet… The Sherman has just punched through the wall of an Italian china shop, BTW… Since the 34th ID’s patch is a red bull’s skull, I’m calling that one, “Red Bull in a China Shop”…
Thought I’d uploaded some more, but this’s the only one in my account right now… I shoot some more later… It’s way back on the back-burner right now…
Very nice…I think thast ever since Shep Paine made that dio for Monogram with the Grizzly crashing through a building it has been the iconic image of the Brummbar…
True 'dat… Don’t think I’d ever seen a Brummbar before that dio…
Looking very sweet Hans, you also look like a pro at doing buildings, i’m not as good with scratch building buildings. The Miniart kit i bought was $50…but it came with: SU 76 tank, Russian troops, Dragon german figs, Dragon catalog, Hasegawa catalog. So not bad imo, they do have less expensive ones as well.
That particular building is nothing more than plaster walls, cast in sections in a mold-box I made… I pour the plaster, let it set, then cut windows and doors wherever with a saw… Each section will mate up with th’ previous one and I can make it big as I want, with as many stories as I need. For the wall that the Brummbar is crashing through, I scored the back of it, then gave it a whack with a hammer, then nipper off smaller pieces here & there with a wire-cutter…
An update on the project, the figs are almost done, and so is the tank.
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sweet, looking great!!
Well its all done, the buiding turned out ok i think, a best for me anyway. I spent way too much
time on that building compared to the models. There’s more pics on my site if you wish
http://www.lufttiger.com/Lufttiger_new_website/Hetzer__Panzers.html
Hope you guys like!
That one’s a keeper, pard… Well done… If I had to point out one thing, it’d be that a bit more ground color could be added with pastels to the tracks and the troop’s boots, but that’s strictly my own preference…
Although they look fairly relaxed right now, I’m imagining that they’re about to hear some Detroit motors in the distance soon…[;)]
Very nice…great scene!!!..you really know how to tame those very difficult to deal with Miniart buildings!!! What do you use as a “rubble filler”?—the white stuff in your WIP shots…
Very nice Lufttiger.
I like the Miniart Buildings, they are a lot of work but IMHO they are worth it.
Mark
Thanks Hans & mmc, i’m glad you guys liked it, it was alot of work but it makes it worth while
when i get nice comments from you guys.
Yeah Manstein, that Building did need some TLC, i used putty for the seams, but wasn’t
real happy with it, so i added that white stuff - 40min drying time mud - then dabed it with
a wet sponge to get that rough look.
A great piece of work , love it.[tup]
Thanks Bodge!
Lufttiger, an excellent piece of work[bow].
The only thing I could suggest would be to add some more dust to the Brummbar. This bruin would pick up a lot of the stuff crashing through buildings all day long.
I’ve never tried one of the mini art buildings. But in the right hands they sure do build up nice[;)].