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coffee at desert
Posted by mc65 on Wednesday, August 22, 2012 2:30 AM

hi, here I try to post some images of one of my last work.. it's an ICM ford 3000, adapted to be a matford, the french version, being "englishized" in chad, then capturated and used to carry a dragon's flak 38 from the WL somewhere in the libyan desert. I added also four figures from MB and some objects here and there.

I started thinking from this picture...

and risked to loose myself with the PE on the flak..

then scratched the wooden post for it:

reproducing the "right" wheels was interesting..

I liked to cut and redo the rear to fit the flak, either if it was necessary to do a Mk I and a II of them..

having done the rear, I prepared some stuff to fill it in, under, and around..

and then moved to the base,

and the figures, adding something to the otherwise a little bit poor MB ones.

along the way I elected to add a windsocket, to "verticalize" the dio, to match the colours of the flag on the bonnet, and to swinging from the "all yellow" impact of the scene.

and that's it!

I hope you enjoy it, I had a lot of fun doing this project!

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  • From: back country of SO-CAL, at the birth place of Naval Aviation
Posted by DUSTER on Wednesday, August 22, 2012 8:43 AM

Very well done!

the figures make the diorama look very human. good job on the detail peices as well.

Steve

Building the perfect model---just not quite yet  Confused

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  • From: Poland
Posted by Pawel on Wednesday, August 22, 2012 9:31 AM

Yeah, really a nice one! One thing I'm not so sure about is that windsock, but it sure is catchy! Congratulations and thanks for sharing

Paweł

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  • From: San Francisco, CA
Posted by telsono on Wednesday, August 22, 2012 1:02 PM

Very unique and well done!

I've been thinking myself to do something similar. In thwe desert everybody was taking vehicles that ran and placing guns on them, or just using them as necessary. In one case, the Italians over ran a New Zealand base. The Italians thought they were approaching a friendly lager and the Kiwi's thought it was an Allied convoy. Fast reaction by the Italians ended with a coup de main. That Kiwi unit to this day will not acknowledge that the Ities captured them. Yes, many of the trucks were captured Allied vehicles, but as I mentioned above, that was a common practice.

Mike T.

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  • From: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Posted by StreetFightingMan on Wednesday, August 22, 2012 5:13 PM

Wow! As a person who struggles to make figures that look "real" I really can appreciate faces that have that level of detail and yet are refined as to not look overdone. They look excellent, and highlight a really well thought-out dio. I love the 3D aspect of it, definitely something that catches your eye!

-Mike

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Posted by mc65 on Thursday, August 23, 2012 8:49 AM

glad you like it, thank you all!

if you want to see more (a lot more, it's all the wip step by step) have a look here:

freeforumzone.leonardo.it/discussione.aspx

knowing that searching in over 30 pages it's hard, I'll try to post some other from my recent works reducing the number of pictures and writing, wich of course is originally in italian.

bye, p.

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  • From: back country of SO-CAL, at the birth place of Naval Aviation
Posted by DUSTER on Thursday, August 23, 2012 8:59 AM

mc65

glad you like it, thank you all!

if you want to see more (a lot more, it's all the wip step by step) have a look here:

freeforumzone.leonardo.it/discussione.aspx

knowing that searching in over 30 pages it's hard, I'll try to post some other from my recent works reducing the number of pictures and writing, wich of course is originally in italian.

bye, p.

Very Good Work

 thank you for the link.  as you said the words were in Italian but,  the pictures were in English!

 

Seriously: Well Done

Steve

Building the perfect model---just not quite yet  Confused

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  • From: Georgia
Posted by Rigidrider on Thursday, August 23, 2012 6:31 PM

Very Cool!  Well thought out and well detailed!

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