ARNHEM: Major General R E URQUHART'S HIDE OUT HOUSE Zwarteweg 14

[Guest]

One of my favourite dios of 2014. I cant wait to see what happens to it in 2015.

[Guest]

Amazing work there Richi and those storage boxes look like the real thing too.

scott

[Snowman]

Like the weathering!!

[Richi72]

Hi all and thanks for all the compliments.

here's a small update on the Stug:

I gave it a heavy wash of dark brown after that was dry I did some drybrushing with some oils.

Here are the pictures

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Thanks

[Richi72]

Well the Stug is drying from the oil drybrushing so I started on some Camouflage made from trees that was a common practice in WWII

I cut some leaves with the plotter in different sizes 3 to 5 mm and glued them on some seamoos

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Thanks for watching

Cheers Richi

[monica]

wow to me they look great,

I real do like them,maybe just use some other greens with the odd brown,and will be fantastic,

[takeslousyphotos]

I am truly amazed by the workmanship, attention to detail and skill here ..........

Peter

[Richi72]

Hi Moni, and Peter thanks,

I was just playing around with it to see if its scale and how it will look, got some other colours too, like the suggested brown and some darker green. After the correct position I will do some drybrushing to vary the colours a little.

post some new pics later on.

Cheers Richi

[Guest]

Thanks Moni, those things are called insulators that i knew they came in a package with 3 poles and they are from Custom dioramics, had those laying around for a long time (13 years or so price is not even in euro's)so I am going to take a night shift and see if i get some work done on the Stug

Cheers Richi

From the small size of the insulators, they are for telephone wires. The wires should branch off one by one to the walls of buildings.

[Richi72]

Thanks Steve,

need to glue the poles into place and then I wanted t put a wire on it, and go to each house with 1 wire.

still experimenting what to use for a wire, got some thread dipt in pva some thin electric cable and fishing wire.

just need to figure out what has a nice bent if you know what i mean.

Cheers Richi

[Guest]

Hi Richi

This really is coming along a treat, the Stug looks amazing, really like the weathering and the stowage on the rear deck, those boxes are superb, and I`m looking forward to seeing more of the trees

[Guest]

Thanks Steve,need to glue the poles into place and then I wanted t put a wire on it, and go to each house with 1 wire.

still experimenting what to use for a wire, got some thread dipt in pva some thin electric cable and fishing wire.

just need to figure out what has a nice bent if you know what i mean.

Cheers Richi

Looking at the overhead phone wires in my area, they are all almost straight, very little sag.

[monica]

that is the same problem i had Richi,what to use for the wire,on the two zombie ones,

i did,I went to a craft shop and got like a think daring tread ,

but real was not that happy with it,so i will be interest in what you use

[Richi72]

Thanks Steve, I will keep that in mind.

Well Moni,

going with your experience i won't use daring tread

get back at you with, what I used.

Cheers Richi

[Guest]

I used "knitting-in elastic", available from haberdasher shops or on the Internet, for aeroplane aerials as on a Spitfire or Lancaster. It is very fine and stretches. You could fix one end with glue, then stretch the elastic slightly and glue the other end and cut off the surplus. Stretching it makes it go tight (which as I said seems to be what tel. lines do) and the pre-stretch prevents sagging with age. It can be painted black. I used acrylic (water-based) although enamel (White Spirit-based) might stick better.

http://www.knitwell.co.uk/acatalog/KNITTING_IN_ELASTIC.html

and elsewhere.