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Ardennes Dio Progress pics

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Ardennes Dio Progress pics
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 25, 2005 6:59 AM
Hi Everyone this is my first post of my work on this forum. This is a work in progress. The setting is a roadside where a sherman had previously thru a track during a hasty retreat, the allies took everything they could from the sherman thinking they would be coming back to collect it at a later time. In the meantime a german patrol came across the hetzer and are robbing it of its petrol. Ther will be about 16 figs to go along with this dio. All feedback and comments are welcome. here are the pics






Thanks for having a lookSmile [:)]Cheers Kevin
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Posted by sasd on Friday, March 25, 2005 8:48 AM
Very nicely laid out,the trees and groundcover are superb,excellent work!
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Posted by vonryan on Friday, March 25, 2005 9:09 AM
great job jackhammer81. the pine branchs are they HUDSON& ALLEN products?:
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Posted by rudedog on Friday, March 25, 2005 9:47 AM
Jackhammer,did you make or buy those excellant trees ? Semper fi

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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Friday, March 25, 2005 9:47 AM
Looks great so far. What scale is it ?

Regards, Rick
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 25, 2005 12:10 PM
First off, thanks for the comments and kind words. Rick, its 1/35th scale. Rudedog and vonryan the trees are scratch built. The branches are a product from Bragdon Enterprises. Cheers Kevin
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Posted by biffa on Friday, March 25, 2005 12:35 PM
wow looking great this far, this is goin to be a busy dio with all those figures added, lots of work there, keeps the progress pics coming im looking forward to seein this one.
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Posted by gringe88 on Friday, March 25, 2005 6:28 PM
awesome lookin dio jackhammer!! well laid out, can't wait to see it finished
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, March 26, 2005 12:51 AM
First off, Welcome!!!
Second, your ground work looks outstanding, I have to agree with the others your trees are great. Not to mention I love the story, cant wait to see you GIT ER DONE.
Thanks for the show.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, March 26, 2005 10:08 AM
Looks really good so far. You got the scale of the road to the trees very well. Added lots of details in the land that really will bring it out when its done.
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Posted by saltydog on Saturday, March 26, 2005 11:41 AM
its comin' together nicely friend!! keep us posted. later.
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Posted by jaysun on Saturday, March 26, 2005 1:44 PM
Looking great so far. That is gonna be a pretty big dio. Jaysun out.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, March 26, 2005 2:59 PM
Hi Everyone. I thought I would put up a couple earlier pics showing the possible figure locations. Please let me know what you think. Cheers Kevin







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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, March 26, 2005 8:05 PM
Thats really good. Great job on your figures too.Sign - Welcome [#welcome]Thumbs Up [tup]
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Posted by Bwog on Sunday, March 27, 2005 1:35 PM
Tongue [:P]Jackhammer that's incredable!
Could you share some of your techniques on the ground work? The figures look awsome too.

BW
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 28, 2005 7:34 AM
as already indicated by oyhers
Hell of a nice groundwork dude!!
wanne make a "forrest" for me?
Approve [^]Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:12 AM
Hi Bwog, If you could let me know which part of the ground work you are referring too I would be happy to fill you in. Cheers Kevin
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Posted by duckman on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:04 PM
exellent if there was a background behind those trees i would think you just took a picture of the forest!
freat job on the tanks to!

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Posted by Bwog on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 5:13 PM
Jackhammer,
The grass and ground foliage. The underbrush is very conviencing. How did you build it up and layer it. What products did you use for the field grass and underbrush? Also what were the components of the soil over the foam?

Thanks, again great work!
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:35 PM
What are you using for pine trees and were can I get them? Thanks. This is one great dio. I really need to know how to make great pine trees.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 11:43 PM
Bwog, the ground is built up of celluclay, this is lightly covered with some sand and cat litter which is pressed in to the celluclay while still wet. then this is painted in acrylic paints to get the earth tones I am after.
The ground cover under the trees is just woodland scenics field grass(straw color) sprinkled over patches of WS coarse turf and fine turf. This is then washed with oils to get the reddish orange hues of fallen pine needles. I then lay down WS static grass mix of burnt grass and honey color and over this is placed heki wild grass that I have painted straw tan colors. The bramble patch is created using first read dead plants ground up to make a scatter then over this is placed rubberised horse hair. I hope this answers your questions. If you have any others feel free to askSmile [:)]
Cheers Kevin
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 11:47 PM
T-34 , the trees are made by tapering dowels and painting them to look like pine tree trunks then applying bragdon enterprises branches to fill out the tree to give it the pine appearance. To add them you drill small holes and spiral them up the trunks.
The link I believe is www.bragdonent.com Look for finescale forest. Cheers Kevin
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Posted by yw18mc on Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:25 AM
Wow! The trees are some of the best I've seen. The ground work, and the planned composition of the figures layout with the armor, all add up to a very convincing Ardenne diorama. Thanks for sharing with us. Semper Fi, mike
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Posted by 9x19mm on Friday, April 1, 2005 1:49 AM
Thx for the pics great job.
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Posted by Bwog on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 8:06 AM
Thanks Kevin for tacking the time to convey that. Again looks great and I'll be looking forward to some future postings of your work.
BWog
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Posted by Kelly_Zak on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 9:09 AM
Man, I love those figures! Love the guy lighting up, he really stands out. The dio is going to looks sweet when done, it's coming along very nicely, I really wanna see this once it's done!
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