"Welcome G.I.'s" vignette

sawdeanz

Member since
October 2005
From: St. Petersburg, FL

Posted by sawdeanz on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 9:01 PM

I'm very impressed with the figures, the faces are very clean and convincing. As I am just starting out in this scale with a dio underway, I really admire the figures and use your wonderful dio as a benchmark of mastery that I hope to achieve someday.

---Sawyer

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panzerguy

Member since
October 2007
From: N.H.

Posted by panzerguy on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 7:29 PM

senojrn wrote:

Excellent work! A nice change to most "death and destruction" scenes associated with war. Well done!
You said you made some bottles out of sprue--did you carve it or do you use a lathe? How did you shape them?

I heated up the sprue, stretched it,cut it to size leaving the neck a little long.Heated the top a little pushed down with my finger tip to form the rim. Drilled it out then put a piece of stretched sprue in for the cork and whalla...I had myself a bottle.

"Happiness is a belt fed weapon"

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panzerguy

Member since
October 2007
From: N.H.

Posted by panzerguy on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 7:06 PM

Boomerang wrote:

If my guess is right, just stretching the sprue would give you 'bottles'. You should get two bottles for every piece of sprue stretched???...
Think about it....
Boomer...

You'r guess is right.

"Happiness is a belt fed weapon"

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Boomerang

Member since
February 2007

Posted by Boomerang on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 3:25 PM

If my guess is right, just stretching the sprue would give you 'bottles'. You should get two bottles for every piece of sprue stretched???...

Think about it....

Boomer...

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Dougums

Member since
June 2007
From: Kansas City MO

Posted by Dougums on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 10:31 AM

I was wondering the same thing, Very nice work!

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senojrn

Member since
February 2003
From: USA

Posted by senojrn on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 9:30 AM

Excellent work! A nice change to most "death and destruction" scenes associated with war. Well done!

You said you made some bottles out of sprue--did you carve it or do you use a lathe? How did you shape them?

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Boomerang

Member since
February 2007

Posted by Boomerang on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 6:44 PM

I am loving your small dios. They are a treat to the eye. They are simple, well detailed and tell a story. They are my favourite type of diorama. When my life sorts itself out and gets back into routine i hope to start making some of my own. I will be using your work as inspiration. Your works may be small, but they have a huge wow factor.....

A toast to your excellent work....

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, January 6, 2008 9:49 PM

As a big fan of vignettes and small dios...OUTSTANDING! You are a first-rate figure painter...two thumbs in the affirmative!!!

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Jester75

Member since
December 2006
From: N. Georgia

Posted by Jester75 on Sunday, January 6, 2008 9:43 PM

Very nice!!! I like these little "vignettes" almost better than I do a full scale dio. There seems to be alot more story in a tiny little package! You can really get a sense of relief in the scene.

Eric

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SteveA

Member since
December 2006

Posted by SteveA on Sunday, January 6, 2008 9:40 PM

Well done Panzerguy! There's a real story here. Someone mentioned something about the pigeon... well if the birds in Europe are anything like the rabbits, very believable. As for the mess sgt passing this off as chicken... plump looking bird.. bet many wanted seconds

My eyes are not what they used to be.. looks like your choice was 1st ID, if so, extra kudos are in order

Regards,

Steve

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bondoman

Member since
March 2007
From: Carmel, CA

Posted by bondoman on Saturday, January 5, 2008 12:07 PM

Thats really great, and among countless little things I really like how his pistol shows through his coat pocket. Unabashed attaboy!

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jadgpanther302

Member since
November 2006
From: Massachusetts

Posted by jadgpanther302 on Saturday, January 5, 2008 11:56 AM

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panzerguy

Member since
October 2007
From: N.H.

Posted by panzerguy on Saturday, January 5, 2008 10:09 AM

BigDuke634 wrote:

Wow thats a big pigeon! Great job though!

Yeah and later the mess sgt. passed it as chicken.

"Happiness is a belt fed weapon"

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panzerguy

Member since
October 2007
From: N.H.

Posted by panzerguy on Saturday, January 5, 2008 10:06 AM

ps1scw wrote:
I love it, I have a question. Should your "Tricolor" have verticle stripes vice the horizontal ones you have here?

Thank's ps1scw. The idea for this came to me from a painting of u.s. troop's entering a french town,the banner,s hung from the window's and over the street had horizontal stripe's.

"Happiness is a belt fed weapon"

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ps1scw

Member since
June 2006
From: Michigan

Posted by ps1scw on Saturday, January 5, 2008 8:49 AM

I love it, I have a question. Should your "Tricolor" have verticle stripes vice the horizontal ones you have here?

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Longbow

Member since
December 2007
From: Middle England

Posted by Longbow on Saturday, January 5, 2008 4:36 AM

Excellent story.............. and very well told.

Great visuals and great building. Well done.

Longbow.

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Wirraway

Member since
January 2006
From: Pineapple Country, Queensland, Australia

Posted by Wirraway on Saturday, January 5, 2008 3:31 AM

Really beautiful work !.......keep 'em coming !

"Growing old is inevitable; growing up is optional"

" A hobby should pass the time - not fill it" -Norman Bates

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the doog

Member since
January 2007

Posted by the doog on Saturday, January 5, 2008 12:10 AM

Panzerguy, you are a true master of the vignette.

Your modeling and painting skills are first-class. I'm very impressed all around!

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m1garand

Member since
November 2005
From: Somewhere over the rainbow

Posted by m1garand on Friday, January 4, 2008 11:27 PM

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BigDuke634

Member since
April 2004

Posted by BigDuke634 on Friday, January 4, 2008 10:59 PM

Wow thats a big pigeon! Great job though!

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vespa boy

Member since
April 2004
From: Boston MA

Posted by vespa boy on Friday, January 4, 2008 10:57 PM

you have a real gift for these vignettes. I like the way you include the urban environment as part of the whole and it is nicely and closely observed.

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This ain't no Mudd Club, or C.B.G.B.,
I ain't got time for that now

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madmike

Member since
July 2003
From: Perth, Western Australia

Posted by madmike on Friday, January 4, 2008 10:35 PM

Superb!

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

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panzerguy

Member since
October 2007
From: N.H.

"Welcome G.I.'s" vignette

Posted by panzerguy on Friday, January 4, 2008 10:00 PM

Here's some pic's of my french liberation vignette.No death or destruction just three guy's happy to be alive.The fig's are from Verlinden,the bike is Tamiya and the lamp post is from Mini-Art.some of the wine bottle's are Verlinden other's I made from stretched sprue.The park bench,pigeon's,brick and hitching post were made from scratch.All question's and comment's welcome.