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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!
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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: )
Talus appearing
Groundwork
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!
The sprue shots of the schwimmwagen - looks a fairly simple build (but fully realise that it can all go South!)
Some more colour 'playing' and it seems that I've sort of got it 'right', can hardly see the join
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