'Close Contact' - WIP

[tiking]

Added a lamp above the yellow door way. Just something I put together using pieces of styrene. Added a poster board or advertising sign brace at the corner of the facade using styrene pieces. done more weathering on the streets and sidewalks. Added rubbish( small pieces of paper spread out. You can see that I had already started on the pickup. The pickup is from MENG. I love this company and their models. Their latest one is crisp laser cut pieces.Again, sorry for the quality of the pics. I am using my phone, which has a broken glass and a smudged lens. It cannot be cleaned. So I am waiting to get a new phone instead. The placing of things are still experimental. I have added and taken away certain accessories. So we will see how the end results will look like.

[flyjoe180]

Amazing work Charles. So much detail, right down to the damp going into the drain and around the manhole cover. Super work so far, looking forward to more of this amazing build soon.

[Guest]

Mind blowing stuff.

Where do you get the pink foam from that you've used? Google has failed me (again - twice in one night!), so thought I'd just come out & ask!

[Richi72]

wow well done so far, love the details on the ground and the walls. very realistic.

Cheers Richi

[tiking]

Mind blowing stuff.Where do you get the pink foam from that you've used? Google has failed me (again - twice in one night!), so thought I'd just come out & ask!

I got the pink form from a table gamers store. The were already cut to size. But you can get them at any hardware store that sells insulation matetial. Thats what they are used for in buildings. There is a blue form which is pretty much the same but a little denser but they are harder to come by. I can only get the pink ones here in sweden, as far as I know.

[tiking]

Thanks guys. Richi, I was told did something similiar before.

[monica]

great work in deed the detail is just so good, other than wow what else can i say ,

I know what you mean about horrabay Alasdair , someone found wheels for me on the Aust one think i could noooooo

the reason behind etching was maybe a quicker way off doing brick work use a 000 / 0000 brush with a thinners or solvent

to do bricks as it would or should only eat in about the same as using a knife just thinking maybe ?

[tiking]

Ahaaa! Ok. Got it. Well that method seems like unhealthy way of doing it. Also tedious.

[monica]

yes , you are right , much the same as gluing them down , did an hour hear and there on them with the window open , but it still got to me,

using UHU Por,was just trying to think off ,a not so much tedious way around it,

[Richi72]

I use a old 0,5mm permanent marker that I filed with acetone and after cutting the structure with a knife I draw over it with this acetone filed marker. This way I have a rougher stone appearance.

Cheers Richi

[monica]

ahh ta Richi , thats a good way around it know there had to be away, thank you so much

[tiking]

Did my first try at scratch building a satellite Dish. Nothing fancy or over complicated. I decided that I want the roof to be removable. So I added tooth-picks at the top of the lower wall. Then I will be able to push the roof directly on top of the lower piece, thus holding it in place without the need for gluing. Scratch built bracket supports for signs and what-nots, signs, air-conditioner...Detailed the broken tile on the sidewalk. Iraqi sign.Some weathering done to the inside cab of the driver side of the pickup. Added some wiring to give the impression that the air-conditioner is functional, so to speak.

Overall look so far:

[monica]

excellent work , dose look real good and you AC , and sat-dish look spot on

oval all looks like the real thing, look forwarded to next update

[tiking]

Thanks Monica for tuning in.

[Guest]

Amazing work, I would not have thought to use expanded foam as a diorama material