first big dio about to start and some questions

figure freak

Member since
June 2009
From: Joplin, Mo

first big dio about to start and some questions

Posted by figure freak on Monday, November 9, 2009 7:53 PM

Hi guys, im planning a 1945 dio in germany and am going to make my own structures, a dragon figure set, and the tamiya halftrack . My questions for right now (probably a million more to ask) is would it work to use dry wall grout for casting my buildings because my parents are remodeling the kitchen and have quite a lot left over. Also, for rubble can i just use crushed bits of leftover grout from the window cutouts? Finally, what did the roofs on german houses in the city look like because i plan to add a blown out section of it in my dio not the whole roof so i can display my figures.

Thanks, Brian

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camo junkie

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January 2009
From: clinton twp, michigan

Posted by camo junkie on Monday, November 9, 2009 8:22 PM

well, first, i cant speak for ww2 but germany is germany and when i lived there the majority of their roofs had those 1/2 pipe looking things. ummm, if you look at scotts (modelchasm's) battle of mog. dio, he has one part of a roof with those type of "tiles" on them. secondly, yeah you can use crushed bits of grout should work fine. 3rd, not sure of the grout for "casting" your buildings. i myself use hydrocal (available at most art and hobby stores by the m.m. stuff).

"An idea is only as good as the person who thought of it...and only as brilliant as the person who makes it!!"

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Hans von Hammer

Member since
June 2008
From: Iowa

Posted by Hans von Hammer on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:29 AM

If you mean sheetrock mud by drywall grout, it'll take forever to dry in the mold, shrink, and crack if it's any thicker than an 1/8th inch or so... It's just not a good mold material... You'd be better off using sheetrock scraps...

The roof material that CJ's talking about are curved "Terra Cotta" tiles... I've always made them by using corrigated cardboard strips...

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camo junkie

Member since
January 2009
From: clinton twp, michigan

Posted by camo junkie on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:35 AM

thank you hans...i just couldnt remember the name at the moment! what's new in my case!

"An idea is only as good as the person who thought of it...and only as brilliant as the person who makes it!!"

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figure freak

Member since
June 2009
From: Joplin, Mo

Posted by figure freak on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:57 AM

thanks guys, i got my dad to buy me a box of plaster so i wont have to worry about the grout shrinking, camo thanks for the advice and nice job on the building in the pick, hans thanks for the pick of the roof, my figures will be here tommorow and i plan on starting, one more thing, what should i use for the streets, foam board? calk? or... what do you guys use for the brick looking streets

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camo junkie

Member since
January 2009
From: clinton twp, michigan

Posted by camo junkie on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:28 AM

thanks f.f. the building is for a contest vignette im working on for another site. anyway, there are a number of things you can use...one of the easiest i use is styrene covered in spackling compound with the sidewalk detail drawn with a pencil then scribed with my exacto or something similiar. however, there's always modeling clay, foam as you've stated, wood, and on and on.