nice, another bit of great quick free handwork!
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I'm finally happy with the bunker roof. I'm leaving it 'cos I started to mess with it...and I was breaking my no.1 rule...DON'T FIDDLE! I'll have a fresh look when the diorama is nearly done, just in case...
I have also started having a go at the barbed wire. I am trying to get the look of the stuff as I think it would appear after a couple of years getting battered by salt and bits of things getting caught up on it. Nearly there I think.
For some idea of scale, the wire is thin domestic stuff and the posts are cocktail sticks, broken in two so the points are easy to shove in.
Cheers,
Ron
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Great stuff Ron. How have you done the barbs on the wire?
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Last night I started work on the foliage and a bit of painting on the bunker where I wasn't happy with it.
Usual stuff from out of the garden for the greenery.
I have also done a bit of extra work on the side of the bunker, I want to try and make this look like the side of a cliff face, so I have built out the 'Concrete' to try and form a lip where the bunker wall base joins the cliff face. I will see what it looks like when it dries properly. I also added a bit of green climbing stuff!
I'm starting to get a feel of the model now, so who knows what mods. will come into my nut as I progress, all good fun! lol
I hope you approve thus far and any suggestions or thoughts on what has been done up to now are more than welcome...
Cheers,
Ron
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Looking excellent now ron mate, only 1 thing that i thought maybe needed tinkering with- the slit in the bunker wall has a rough edge ,id have expected something like this to be flat as it would have been shuttered before the concrete was poured , leaving a flat smooth surface after the shuttering has been removed. Only a thought , and i know youll not get the hump and never speak to me again (although you might just slip something in my coffee at cosford in april!!!!) cheers tonyComment
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Good observation my mate. I will attend to that toot sweet, although the slit would have received some attention from my boys coming off the beach (see the bullet holes on the left) and also the bunker roof itself has had a reasonable sized calibre direct hit, perhaps slinging concrete through the wall slit breaking the edge up a bit?
Sounds like I am trying to talk my way out of it doesn't it?lol
The only thing I will slip into your coffee are millions of those little stick stirrer thingys (As if!) We don't approve of that sort of thing....
Cheers for the input Tony,
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Amazing to see the magic being worked again Ron, it really is starting to come to life now. The reinforcing bars are really well represented in the damaged bunker. I don't know why I have a mental block with these things, I just cannot seem to get started!!! most frustrating especially when you have done so many well demonstrated dioramas on here, better than any book I could buy on the subject yet I still cannot get out the starting blocks. Deep breath and dive in will be the only way, trouble is... I cannot swim either lol.
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Looking good Ron. I do like the way the reinforcements come out of the concrete, it really makes it that bit more beleivable.
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Thanks for the very flattering comments Graham, I appreciate them. But masterpieces? They are far from that, but if they provide inspiration and help to anyone who would like to do a first time diorama, then that alone makes doing them worth while..
Regarding your 'dilema' you say "Deep breath and dive in."
Trouble is with that, you don't know what is under the surface, might be a Tesco Trolley and you could get hurt. The lads have got it spot on. Start with summat simple. Trying to be too ambitious only leads to annoyance and frustration, culminating in a lack of confidence in your own ability to do even the most basic diorama....Finally comes the block!
So I say this, shoes and socks off, roll up the trousers and just wade in slowly. You'll be swimming the Channel before you can say Diorama!
Here endeth today's lesson, please put money in the tray as you leave, thank you.
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Thanks for the positive comments Richard. You make a very valid point and to be honest I didn't realise the balls were so prominent until I revued the pictures prior to posting. It was too late then!Originally posted by \
I will add some more 'concrete' and thanks for pointing it out.
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Cheers for the tips Rev Ron.... 50p attached to a length of elastic dropped in tray..... It does make sense what you say and I think I have the plan just about together now, just need a few things which I will be sorting out next week.Comment
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Thanks to the excellent observations and suggestions of both Tony and Richard, I have fettled the bunker wall slit and hidden the wayward polystyrene pellets behind more luuurvely concrete!
I have noticed the Germans used a lot of vertical boarding for their shuttering work so I have scratched a few marks on the concrete to try and simulate a bit of the effect once the shuttering was removed.
I have also removed some more of the cliff face from underneath the structure to give a look of a bit of erosion. The cliffs around Omaha are a yellowy colour so I've done a bit of painting of that too...
I hope you approve of my mods. chaps and thanks again for spotting the faulty concreting.
Ron
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Now thats looking stunning Ron, a real feel of beaten concrete, beautiful.Comment
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Top work ron, loving the eroded cliff and the vegetation and the bunker is excellent. Im sure i dont know what you mean about wooden stirring sticks, i never touch them ( i get people to get them for me, like my son ,every time he goes in subway and my missus at mcdonalds!! Im a bit like the fagin of the coffee stirrer world!! Graham, as ron has said just jump in with something simple for your first dio to go with the dingo, you did a superb job on the base for the fw190 , its only the same type of thing, cheers tonyComment
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That bunker looks stunning,I can almost smell it.
Cheers
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