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No Roads Left!
Posted by Kelly_Zak on Tuesday, October 18, 2005 9:22 AM
Hi all,
well, this has got to be my smallest dio/vig ever, pretty much threw it together in time for our club's contest in September. Tamiya's Kettenkraftrad, just built out of the box, a leftover building section that I cast a couple of years ago, and a streetlamp. Enjoy! Smile [:)]

















Thanks to Steve Bamford for the photos!
"There you go with those negative waves again!"
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 18, 2005 11:44 AM
Kelly-is that the 1/48 kit? Nice Dio -small is good-I'd call it a vignette-but my back hurts just thinking about driving over that rubble.
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Posted by Kelly_Zak on Tuesday, October 18, 2005 12:28 PM
Hi Trowlfazz, no it's the 1/35 kit, this is a really old kit from the 70's, the running gear and tracks are all one solid piece, a bit of a hassle getting rid of the seam lines!
"There you go with those negative waves again!"
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Posted by Fish-Head Aric on Tuesday, October 18, 2005 9:54 PM
You know, I think these mini-dios are the most artistic in some ways. A very unusual vehicle, a very rough scene! Making a striking scene like this in small setting is awesome.

Thanks for sharing, Kelly!

And I love that bent lamp post!
~Aric Fisher aric_001@hotmail.com
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Posted by sasd on Wednesday, October 19, 2005 7:42 AM
Nice little vig Kelly,doesn`t take much to make something interesting! Whatever is in that trailer won`t be of much use though once he gets to his destination,lol!
"Battleing Bastards of Bastogne"
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:20 AM
You think he might have found a better route...
Good idea
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Posted by Kelly_Zak on Wednesday, October 19, 2005 9:20 AM
thanks guys, Russ, my thoughts exactly, the scene kind of represents what's left of Berlin, and the desparate situation that the Germans are/were in...yah, a little mg ain't gonna stop those JS tanks! Thanato, no better route to find, hence the name of the vig...LOL
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Posted by KINGTHAD on Wednesday, October 19, 2005 12:39 PM
Has a nice look to it, good job

Thad
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Posted by zokissima on Wednesday, October 19, 2005 2:23 PM
Small, but very well done.
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Posted by Kevleerey on Wednesday, October 19, 2005 3:11 PM
Looks good. I just bought that kit, I think it was a couple years ago, it still had the running gear in one piece. Now I need to rebuild and repaint it and figure out what to do with it...
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 19, 2005 4:59 PM
i am doing something similar, the roads are a mess, please tell me how you painted your broken down brick and dust on the floor. Thank you
p.s- excellent dio.
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Posted by Kelly_Zak on Wednesday, October 19, 2005 5:53 PM
Hi Erad, here's a thing I typed up over at Armorama...hope it helps!

All of my rubble as always, tends to look the same, but for me it works.
I have a list of "ingredients" that I use for my rubble:

-Smashed plaster (poured into sheets, and tinted with brick coloured acryllic paint, then put into ziploc bags)

-Brick coloured gravel, purchased at Michaels Craft Store, it's from the xmas Village Collection

-Fine and Coarse Rail ballast

-Bits of broken flat toothpicks (I prepaint several hundred different colours and break them all apart, and bag 'em for later)

-Bits of bigger pieces of square balsa wood (for beams)

-Bricks (either hand made or purchased)

-Any other odds & ends, depending on the situation eg: shingles, etc

Now all I do is just add a little bit of each into a jar, shake it all up, and pour my rubble onto my base, adding stuff like jerry cans, crates, bigger beams, etc. Once I have it the way I like, I mist with water, to wet it, then start adding my white glue/water mix everywhere to glue it down. This usually takes a few applications. While still wet, I'll add the really fine sand ballast for that gravelly rubble look. Once everything has dried, I add a wash of burnt umber/black artist oils, followed by some drybrushing and a topcoat of MIG Pigments Brick Dust.
"There you go with those negative waves again!"
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:27 PM
very nice.... looks awesome!-DJ
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Posted by gringe88 on Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:38 PM
it looks great for a ood build! love the groundwork man! great piece. shows that good models dont have to be only 2% of the original plastic.
====================================== -Matt
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Posted by Kelly_Zak on Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:17 AM
QUOTE: shows that good models dont have to be only 2% of the original plastic.


My feelings exactly, I use little to no AM parts on my builds, I think it's more fun to see what I can come up with when I do a vehicle Big Smile [:D]
"There you go with those negative waves again!"
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