Dog Green. Omaha Beach, 6th June 1944

[JayCee]

Ron, which movie is that still from? Most excellent work.
John.

[minitnkr]

Amazing.

[spanner570]

Andrea, John and Paul.
Thanks for taking the time to post such nice comments about my model. :thumb2:

Cheers.
Ron

[stillp]

Andrea, John and Paul.
Thanks for taking the time to post such nice comments about my model. :thumb2:

Cheers.
Ron

And thank you for making a nice dio!
Pete

[Lee Drennen]

Nice Ron catching up too

[spanner570]

Thanks Pete. It's good, no pressure, no worrying fun.

Lee. I've almost given up trying to catch up with all my fellow modeller's builds. With so much flying through the pages, I'm now finding it almost impossible to do so, and as such I'm probably missing so much good stuff. They're away off the first few pages before you know it.....

Update....
I've decided to try and add a bit of action to the scene, so I've started work on wrecking the L.C. I'm using cushion stuffing left over from my Bismarck sinking dio. for the smoke resulting from a direct hit. This serves another purpose. I didn't have any L.C. crew figures, so the smoke now hides the fact!

I'm also working on a shell splash near the vessel. I'm hoping to 'Sculpt' this from a heap of clear silicone. Once dry I can build it some more and then paint the resulting pile.












Early days, but slowly getting there.....

Cheers.
Ron

[outrunner]

This gets better and betterer.

Andy.

[Mini Me]

Really like the B/W pics. 570..looks the Bees Knees!! :thumb2: :thumb2:

[spanner570]

Andy and Rick. Thanks for your input chaps! I'm chuffed you approve of the steady progress.

...a bit more done.

I thought I'd take a couple of colour snaps to prove I'm painting the thing.

I've added some more black paint to the smoke and skwose the cushion fibres together to try and eliminate the wayward strands.







Also, I've done me a bit more sculpting to the shell splash. I figured a lot of the round's energy would have been dissipated by impacting the sand, so I'm trying to lessen the actual spread of the explosion. It has torred up a bit of the wooden defences, so I reckon that will do for any damage. We'll see....I've also added some red sand coloured paint to the silicone to make the base of the bang look like churned up sand. Providing the paint is put on 'Straight from the bottle', it sticks just fine. Don't let anyone tell you different.





Cheers all and thanks for looking in.

Ron

[Ian M]

It is ALWAYS most interesting watching you create a scene. If there is water involved all the better.
Most excellent Sir.

[Airborne01]

Looking very good mate. I'm more than intrigued by your approach to creating in 3D what's in your imagination - - I love it, and thanks for making me think laterally in my model constructions!
Steve

[Waspie]

Looking very good mate. I'm more than intrigued by your approach to creating in 3D what's in your imagination - - I love it, and thanks for making me think laterally in my model constructions!
Steve

It'll be a while before I stat thinking in 3 dimensions!! Struggling in two right now!!

[Gern]

I think I've seen all of your dio builds young Ron, and with all of them, about halfway through, I think "It can't get any better than this" - and then it does! The stories you create and the details you add are just wonderful.

[Mini Me]

Certifiably impressed 570, the latest round of improvements are the Dog's whiskers and the Cat's danglies!

[Neil Merryweather]

Awesome already Ron!