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Quick Pond Diorama
Posted by IanIsBored2000 on Monday, June 11, 2007 6:28 PM

I havent had much time for modelling recently, but I did have an interesting school project.  Well, for some reason I had to make a diorama of a duck pond for Spanish II (yeah your guess is as good as mine)  Anyways, I decided to have some fun with it, so I started with a thick cardboard base, made basic shapes of clay and driveway stones, filling in cracks with watery clay.  Then I painted everything brown, and drybrushed in lighter and lighter shades.  Next, I painted rocks grey and drybrushed lighter grey on them.  Then some watered down carpenters glue and static grass.  I mixed up some resin and poured it in, and as it dried I stuck in little pieces of plants and sticks from outside to make it look real.  I added some clay ducks, but they arent in the picture.  All in all, I thought it came out pretty well for 45 minutes worth of work and $0 spent on my part.  Just thoguht Id post it to see what you guys thought.

 

 

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Posted by SteveM on Monday, June 11, 2007 6:56 PM

Fantastic. Very nice! Great to hear from ya!

Steve 

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Posted by the doog on Monday, June 11, 2007 9:44 PM
Yeah very cool!
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Posted by m1garand on Monday, June 11, 2007 11:11 PM
Welcome back Ian!
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Posted by Wirraway on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 1:18 AM
Madre di dios !  Muy bueno !

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Posted by IanIsBored2000 on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:08 AM
thanks for the comments! I hope Ill get back in to modelling this summer, I kind of go in and out of interest sometimes.
"Scanlon: work your knobby hands on the table in front of you, constructing a make-beleive bomb to blow up a make-beleive world."
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Posted by SteveM on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 4:23 PM

Well, we're still waiting for pictures from Omaha beach, so you BETTER get interested!Laugh [(-D]

Steve 

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Posted by IanIsBored2000 on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:21 PM
Shouldnt be any problem ther Steve, today was my last day of school (exams actually Dead [xx(] remind me again WHY I need to know how to divide the square root of 147.6 by the square root of 54.8 again?!) any ways, Im already bored! Shouldn't be more than a week before I start living at my modelling bench again, besides its about 20 degrees cooloer down there.  I dunno how you stand it in Texas, I almost passed out playing paintball yesterday, and it was only about 85 degrees!
"Scanlon: work your knobby hands on the table in front of you, constructing a make-beleive bomb to blow up a make-beleive world."
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Posted by SteveM on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:56 AM

 IanIsBored2000 wrote:
remind me again WHY I need to know how to divide the square root of 147.6 by the square root of 54.8 again?!

To better your building of dioramas, naturally. Pouring plaster, mold compound, fashioning floors and walls... pay attention so I can ask you later! And also to calculate whether or not you should venture outside in Texas summer:

I mowed the lawn on Saturday and with 92 degrees + 80% humidity X square feet of lawn divided by years of age (38) = near certain death from heat exhaustion.

And it's only June.

Steve 

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On the workbench: ginormous Kharkov dio

 

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Posted by IanIsBored2000 on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 11:09 AM
Big Smile [:D]  that made my morning!  You see, I'd pay attention more if thats how the questions were posed.  They kind of bribe us to do well.  The local ski mountain gives seasons passes to any kid who gets all A's all year.  Thats what I call incentive.
"Scanlon: work your knobby hands on the table in front of you, constructing a make-beleive bomb to blow up a make-beleive world."
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Posted by Daywalker on Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:23 PM

Ian-

Love that photo in your signature!

"Kann nicht das beruhen!"

Frank 

 

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Posted by IanIsBored2000 on Saturday, June 16, 2007 1:09 PM
I know!!  Both that picture and my avatar were shamelessly copied from pictures I found on a different forum.  The picture itself was funny, but the MC Hammer reference just made it that much better!
"Scanlon: work your knobby hands on the table in front of you, constructing a make-beleive bomb to blow up a make-beleive world."
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Posted by Daywalker on Saturday, June 16, 2007 4:18 PM
Did you look up to see what "Kann nicht das beruhen!" means?

Frank 

 

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Posted by IanIsBored2000 on Saturday, June 16, 2007 4:36 PM
I tried, but those translation sites never work with direct translations.  It came out to something look no time for rest, or no resting!, right?
"Scanlon: work your knobby hands on the table in front of you, constructing a make-beleive bomb to blow up a make-beleive world."
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Posted by Daywalker on Saturday, June 16, 2007 4:45 PM
According to my translator, it means "Can't touch this" Big Smile [:D]

Frank 

 

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Posted by Jafo on Saturday, June 16, 2007 10:00 PM
looks really good
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Posted by IanIsBored2000 on Saturday, June 16, 2007 10:41 PM

 Daywalker wrote:
According to my translator, it means "Can't touch this" Big Smile [:D]

 

I love it! wonder how you say "2 legit, 2 legit to QUIT!"

"Scanlon: work your knobby hands on the table in front of you, constructing a make-beleive bomb to blow up a make-beleive world."
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Posted by Daywalker on Saturday, June 16, 2007 11:27 PM
LOL

Frank 

 

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