A Problem on the Ponte Rivetto Contatore...Fusilli, Italy 1944

[spanner570]

Thanks for the enlightenment Jim.
Now I know who it is. To be honest, if it wasn't for Richard's post, I would have struggled to tell which sex though!

Richard. Know it? I wrote it, and me and the wife Line Dance to it!

Thanks for your positive post too, Bob.

Ron

[GerryW]

Great work there - knowing it's under there if needed is a whole lot easier than trying to put it in when you suddenly realise that you've got a smooth bit when it should be textured!

[spanner570]

Thanks for the input, boys. :thumb2:

I fully appreciate we all have different ways and interpretations when modelling damage to buildings, but sometimes folks seem somehow to be a bit wary when adding debris and rubble to their dio's. and start to fiddle and push stuff around. Because of this sometimes cautious approach, there is rarely enough of the stuff anyway and the groundwork looks a bit 'Naked Nude'!
Try and imagine you are the explosion. You don't take prisoners and are not fussy where stuff lands - or how! In other words....Don't faff about!
Also, make sure you model enough debris. That is why I try and make the thing first before blowing it up.....

Here's a second application of some rubble.
I slurried some diluted pva over the area, not being fussy where....
Then I literally sprinkled and threw (Yes, threw!) the rubble mixture over it. Then left it alone! Where it all fell, that is where it stayed.








Next I will damage the walkway walls and add more debris etc.
I hope you approve of the 'trashing' thus far and thanks for looking.....

Cheers,
Ron

[adt70hk]

Lovely jubbly!!!

[Jim R]

Hi Ron
Looking very realistic. In your younger days were you one of those hooligans who enjoyed wrecking things? You know the type. Down to Brighton on your scooter for a good punch up and smashed up a pub and a couple of bus shelters on the way home. I ask because you clearly have an eye for mayhem :tongue-out3:
Jim

[spanner570]

Thanks Andrew and Jim.

Jim. I must confess to being a 'Mod'. in the '60's.
Simply because being a lowly Apprentice, I couldn't afford a scooter and hated motorbikes (still do, at least some of the born again idiots riding them!) My 'Battle Ground' was N. Wales at Rhyl Beach. I hitch hiked there with my sleeping bag over my shoulder. The Mods and Rockers there were quite content to just chase each other up and down the beach, goad the Police and aim a few half hearted kicks about and hurl ice cream (With a chocolate flake, of course) at either leather gear or combat jackets, whichever camp you were in. There was never the nasty violence that happened 'Dahn Sarf'

My abiding memory was trying to find somewhere reasonably safe to kip. About 50 of us Mods. ended up in Rhyl railway sidings sleeping in empty carriages.
Around 5 am we awoke to loud bangings. Not the Rockers on an early morning raid, but a railway worker.

"Get off the train, you scruffy, smelly ba****ds, this train is bound for Chester!"

Sure enough, after but a few minutes, we heard and felt a heavy 'Clunk' as the engine coupled up, then the carriages began to move. All hell broke loose as hung over lads hurled sleeping bags out onto the track.

Happy, carefree days when folks just relied on common sense and had fun. The likes of which I doubt we will ever return to. Now we have this P.C., Health and Safety, superior beings in yellow jackets with clipboards society we have to endure. I'm so glad I had the best times to grow up in. No question.

I feel much better for that!

Love and peace, man.

Bob Dylan

[spanner570]

Lousy weather, so I'm forced indoors....Such a shame!
Whilst I wait for the pva to dry properly before I continue with the next part of the destruction, I've turned to the first element of metal.

A 1/72 Tiger. It was part of that frozen river dio. I did a while back. Which has since sadly gone to the great diorama scrapyard in the sky.


I wasn't going to spend valuable beer tokens on a new kit, just to wreck it, so.....

Here is the same tank in the three colour camouflage ready for this diorama. I 'wet on wet' brushed painted it this afternoon using Vallejo 'Air' acrylics.

If this Tiger variant wasn't in Italy not to worry, eh? It'll do for me.



Cheers all,
Ron

[GerryW]

Forgot that this was a 1/72 (thought that it was 1/35 from the paving and walls!) - great detail work, hat is well and truly doffed!

[spanner570]

Thanks Gerry. I forget my way home sometimes!

With 1/72, apart from getting a fair bit of stuff into a smaller area than 1/35, I can get away with murder regarding detail.

Using 1/35, every last bit of detail on buildings, pavements, roads, walls etc. has to be modelled or the diorama doesn't look finished.

Anything for an easy life......

[GerryW]

I'm going to have to have a re-read (especially regarding the buildings), as the next one that I'll be doing is 1/72, though not having such a wrecked house in it, just going to have 'the moment of impact' as a planes wing hits the corner, and the bricks are bulging ready to fly (at least, that's what's in my mind at the moment - might all change when I start on it! :upside: )

[The Smythe Meister]

Been watching from the cheap seats Ron,
Cracking work and entertaining blog too .
I'm enjoying following this as much as you're enjoying building it I reckon :smiling3:
Very sensible idea to recycle that Tiger..... As for whether it would have been in situ at that time....
... WHO CARES!!!! It's a superb scene mate!
Andy

[spanner570]

Gerry, I've just read your latest post, what an amazing coincidence. (Sort of)

Thanks Andy. Yes, I must confess to enjoying it too. With dioramas, I find I never know just what is around the corner. I always start off with the vaguest of ideas and hope summat comes along that I can incorporate into the model..... That is the fun.

Here's the start of the damage on t'other side of the river. Far less destruction.




Cheers,
Ron

[GerryW]

Gerry, I've just read your latest post, what an amazing coincidence. (Sort of)
..........
With dioramas, I find I never know just what is around the corner. I always start off with the vaguest of ideas and hope summat comes along that I can incorporate into the model..... That is the fun.
....
Cheers,
Ron

The one that I'm planning on, has been simmering away for years, it's relating a incident that happened to the house we're living in (January 1940) - did think of doing it in 1/24, but scaled back to reality now!

[adt70hk]

I've said it by once and saying it again doesn't make it any less true......

GENIUS!!!!

[JR]

570, can't beat a bit of damage and debri. The hurling technique is indeed the way to go.
Yours.
453.