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  • scottie3158
    • Apr 2018
    • 14243
    • Paul
    • Holbeach

    #136
    Gerry,
    This is really coming together now the rocks look very good.

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    • GerryW
      • Feb 2021
      • 1757

      #137
      Originally posted by scottie3158
      Gerry,
      This is really coming together now the rocks look very good.
      Thanks - should have done the checks before painting the 'motorbike' area - got to do some rock cutting and lifting or adjusting height - the bike isn't quite high enough and the kneeling chappy needs a little more room for his feet. Still, all a learning experience!

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      • scottie3158
        • Apr 2018
        • 14243
        • Paul
        • Holbeach

        #138
        Originally posted by GerryW
        Thanks - should have done the checks before painting the 'motorbike' area - got to do some rock cutting and lifting or adjusting height - the bike isn't quite high enough and the kneeling chappy needs a little more room for his feet. Still, all a learning experience!
        Matching figures and vehicles to the ground so they sit naturally is very hard and hard to plan

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        • Mini Me
          • Jun 2018
          • 10711

          #139
          Nice progress Gerry.......I'm sure you have it well in hand. Could I ask you to please post an overall shot depicting how this all looks with the water etc. Thanks, Rick H.

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          • GerryW
            • Feb 2021
            • 1757

            #140
            Originally posted by scottie3158
            Matching figures and vehicles to the ground so they sit naturally is very hard and hard to plan
            Yes, at the moment got so that I'm 'building the landscape' to fit the vehicles/figures (lorry position has changed about 4 times so far from the original placement - think that this one will be the final position!)
            Originally posted by Mini Me
            Nice progress Gerry.......I'm sure you have it well in hand. Could I ask you to please post an overall shot depicting how this all looks with the water etc. Thanks, Rick H.
            Sure - I'll try and get one tomorrow in daylight, though not 'finalized' the water yet (as I'm not sure yet whether to do the pool with varnish, or to do it with silicone, so it's 'dry' at the moment)
            But to give you an idea of how it looks/will look
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            • GerryW
              • Feb 2021
              • 1757

              #141
              Though still not too sure about the half track being included (might see about a kubelwagon instead), got another figure to go in (when it's done) a 'billy no-mates' (well, the other 'lookout') sitting up on the hill (top right) with rifle across knees, and the bucket to go with the guy 'dipping' water, plus the rest of the landscape, fire (between the two kneeling guys, one of which is going to be putting another stick on it, plus all the odds and ends.

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              • Mini Me
                • Jun 2018
                • 10711

                #142
                That is a lot going on in a small space.......should hold ones interest very well. I might have to give that water thing a try one of these days. Thanks for the overhead shot.........I was having trouble visualizing the whole concept. Very Nice! :thumb2: Rick H.

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                • rtfoe
                  • Apr 2018
                  • 9114

                  #143
                  Nothing like a tight scene to focus attention on. Yes perhaps a Kubelwagen might be a good replacement or you'll get questions on how the vehicles got there in the first place. A dead end sign at the beginning of the track would have made life more easier. :smiling6:
                  Now with the overall shot I can see the scale of things as before without the vehicles and figures I thought the waterfall was Niagara :smiling2: Now I know why you were thinking of cello tape instead of cling wrap.
                  Looking good so far. It's more interesting to learn as you build and not afraid of mistakes. Not afraid of re-doing a mistake and taking your time is more enjoyable than trying to meet a deadline. If you want a deadline then return to working life I say.

                  Cheers,
                  Richard

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                  • GerryW
                    • Feb 2021
                    • 1757

                    #144
                    Originally posted by Mini Me
                    That is a lot going on in a small space.......should hold ones interest very well. I might have to give that water thing a try one of these days. Thanks for the overhead shot.........I was having trouble visualizing the whole concept. Very Nice! :thumb2: Rick H.
                    Originally posted by rtfoe
                    Nothing like a tight scene to focus attention on. Yes perhaps a Kubelwagen might be a good replacement or you'll get questions on how the vehicles got there in the first place. A dead end sign at the beginning of the track would have made life more easier. :smiling6:
                    Now with the overall shot I can see the scale of things as before without the vehicles and figures I thought the waterfall was Niagara :smiling2: Now I know why you were thinking of cello tape instead of cling wrap.
                    Looking good so far. It's more interesting to learn as you build and not afraid of mistakes. Not afraid of re-doing a mistake and taking your time is more enjoyable than trying to meet a deadline. If you want a deadline then return to working life I say.

                    Cheers,
                    Richard
                    I'd got the idea in my head for some time, but with different vehicles - been an education doing this, and TBH, if I was to re-do this, I'd stretch the right hand side of the photo even more, giving me a wider 'uphill' side (at the moment the lorry and/or the half-track just fit between the rock face and the wall - probably leave paint behind!), cut back the rockface and swing it round so that I've got more area in the middle, and less 'lost' to scenery/rocks, and drop the whole thing down, so that the 'downhill' side finished at the top of the base, rather than an inch higher - all that would have made it 'tighter' and given more space in the middle area but then, hindsight and experience are wonderful things! :thumb2:

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                    • GerryW
                      • Feb 2021
                      • 1757

                      #145
                      Ordered a schwimmwagen (kubelwagons out of stock) from John today for the 'gap' (along with a lorry for the future Russian dio) hopefully it'll look ok sat in there.

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                      • GerryW
                        • Feb 2021
                        • 1757

                        #146
                        Slow going, getting the walls done, talus at the bottoms of the rockfaces and the groundwork.
                        Stone cladding going on (at the moment, looking like a bad set of dentures! :tongue-out3: :smiling5: :thinking: )
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                        Talus appearing
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                        • GerryW
                          • Feb 2021
                          • 1757

                          #147
                          Now got to 'change head' back to vehicle modelling, as this has arrived to fit the gap where the h/t isn't going to be - doubt that the figures or the bicycle will be used in this one though!
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                          • GerryW
                            • Feb 2021
                            • 1757

                            #148
                            The sprue shots of the schwimmwagen - looks a fairly simple build (but fully realise that it can all go South!)
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                            Some more colour 'playing' and it seems that I've sort of got it 'right', can hardly see the join
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                            • Mini Me
                              • Jun 2018
                              • 10711

                              #149
                              That is amazing.........well done! Rick H.

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                              • CarolsHusband
                                • Feb 2021
                                • 474

                                #150
                                Looks good Gerry.

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