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Small Sci-Fi Trench Diorama

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Small Sci-Fi Trench Diorama
Posted by IanIsBored2000 on Thursday, October 25, 2007 4:32 PM

I'm not big on Sci-Fi, but this guy just looks so tough and badCensored [censored], I couldn't resist.  He's a Terran Marine from the game Starcraft.  The kit is 1/30 by Academy.  The decals are just random things left over from 1/35 AFV's.  The trench boards were made from popsicle sticks, corrugated metal is lead foil, and such.  I poured a little resin for water in the trench to make a stagnant muddy puddle too.

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Posted by SteveM on Thursday, October 25, 2007 5:57 PM

Nice one, Ian. Creative use of leftover decals.

Steve 

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Posted by bondoman on Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:52 PM

Really nice. I keep trying to give my insights to others abt what makes dios fail, but this sez how to do it right better than words. Really creative, straightforward, entirely plausible (oh, why not!!), and lets you use your imagination to fill in the rest.

I guess my only comment would be that along the lines of the bottom of the trench, what if you did the retaining wall with some tech looking stuff like, oh I don't know, computer fan mesh or steel wool, or Future sprayed from that thing on his wrist, or ...

Very well done!

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Posted by the doog on Friday, October 26, 2007 5:21 PM
COOL, IAN! --but what were you thinking?!?!---Put a German balkenkreuz on each of his shoulders!Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by Deputy_Brad on Friday, October 26, 2007 5:38 PM

That is pretty sweet. My friends are into warhammer and stuff. I like sci-fi things in general too.

Good job. I like the barbed wire.

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Posted by IanIsBored2000 on Friday, October 26, 2007 6:16 PM
hanks guys, and Doog, not a bad idea! I bet if I threw a balkenkreuz on each arm and put Sd.kfz in front of his name I'd get about 15 replies! Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by Buddho on Friday, October 26, 2007 6:44 PM
Very cool Ian

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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Friday, October 26, 2007 7:59 PM

Sweet Ian.  Nicely done Thumbs Up [tup].

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Posted by m1garand on Saturday, October 27, 2007 4:52 PM

Ian,

Dude, your workmanship is just keeps on getting better and better. 

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Posted by HeavyArty on Saturday, October 27, 2007 8:22 PM
Looks pretty good.  The groundwork and trench came out really nice.  Good use of those decals too.  The only thing I would change is the blood stain(?).  If it is supposed to be blood, it is too bright.  Blood starts turning very dark, almost black once it is outside the body.  If it is supposed to be something else, it looks too much like and attempt as blood.  A more pink color representing "cherry juice" (hydraulic fluid) would be good too, with maybe some running down the leg of the Mech.  Good job on the rest of it though.

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Posted by bondoman on Sunday, October 28, 2007 2:29 PM
Or maybe since it's sci-fi, a little green antifreeze mixed with Future?
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Posted by IanIsBored2000 on Sunday, October 28, 2007 5:48 PM
Thanks, and good ideas.  About the blood- I can't really fix it now, since I mixed the red paint into the muddy puddle of epoxy resin in the bottom as it dried, which made a cool effect of the blood kind of like mixing with the water and leaving little wispy trails through it--but the camera didn't really show it. But the best part about modelling this sci fi thing is--it can be whatever.  Maybe it's alien blood.  Maybe he's on steroids that make his blood neon red.  Who knows. 
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 29, 2007 12:51 PM
...very creative vignette...
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Posted by Deputy_Brad on Monday, October 29, 2007 5:56 PM
Well considering its still wet I think it's totally believeable that the blood is that colour. It hasnt dried out yet and gone brown. Like blood on snow stays red for a long time.
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