Eastern front dio WIP/ Up dated 1/29/08

panzerguy,

The guy coming-up out of the sewer is a great idea!  I'd make sure the focus of the viewer leads to him.  I think the name has to be a pun on sewer filth...toilet humor...something like that.  Is that arm of the Russian in the window holding the pistol from the figures in the old Tamiya T34/76 kit?, it looks familiar.

SMJmodeler wrote:

panzerguy, The guy coming-up out of the sewer is a great idea!  I'd make sure the focus of the viewer leads to him.  I think the name has to be a pun on sewer filth...toilet humor...something like that.  Is that arm of the Russian in the window holding the pistol from the figures in the old Tamiya T34/76 kit?, it looks familiar.

Howabout "Sew-prise Attack"?

Looking forward to watch this one progress.

Steve

SteveM wrote:

Howabout "Sew-prise Attack"? Looking forward to watch this one progress. SteveM

dostacos wrote:

sounds interesting, what material did you use for the building and road?

Here's some more pic's of some more work I got done on my dio "Sew-prise Attack"(thank's SteveM).I'm hopeing to have it done in time for Vally-Con in March, give's me just over two month's.I actually have my own workshop and some free time now, so just maybe.Any question's just ask.

panzerguy,

"Sew-prise", I love it, I told you a sewer pun would be perfect...

OK, you're kinda' tickin' me off here...man that's GOOD!  Wish I could say I did it...dang-it!!!...You sure are a "master with plaster"  I know how hard this kind of stuff is to do, especially the bricks protruding from the plaster...they look great!  "Lace me up" with some info on how you did that.  I want to do a bridge made of bricks in a future dio' and I know the pre-fab styrene sheet brick will suck...

Looks an awesome Dio. Heres another idea for a title. What about

Stench warfare!!

...Guy

SMJmodeler wrote:

panzerguy, "Sew-prise", I love it, I told you a sewer pun would be perfect... OK, you're kinda' tickin' me off here...man that's GOOD!  Wish I could say I did it...dang-it!!!...You sure are a "master with plaster"  I know how hard this kind of stuff is to do, especially the bricks protruding from the plaster...they look great!  "Lace me up" with some info on how you did that.  I want to do a bridge made of bricks in a future dio' and I know the pre-fab styrene sheet brick will suck...

I used self hardening clay for the brick's. Start by flatting the clay with a roller till it's about 1/8" thick and look's like a pie crust.Take a steel ruler  and cut strip's 1/8" wide.Then cut these into your brick's.The clay I use shrink's a little when it dries so I make them a little bigger to compensate for it.After they've dried  drag each brick across a piece of 180 grit sand paper to get the side's nice and flat,take's me around half an hour to do a hundred of e'm and my nail's look great after LOL.

Now start breaking some of your brick's in half,but not all.I took some patching plaster smeared it on and stuck the brick's into it.I left some of the brick's whole,I think it look's better when some of them look undamaged.Now take some elmer's glue and thin it about 50/50 and "paint" the brick's this will help them stay together when it dries and help's the plaster get in between the brick's.

 These are my "rubble" brick's, for a wall I would just scribe them right into the plaster.

Now maybe you can help me. I want to start putting caption's under my pic's can ya help a computer dunce like me.

Panzerguy,

Thanks for the brick info, sounds labor intense, but the results speak for themself.  That slurry is your "mortar" right?  Sounds like I'll need to become a mason and shrink myself to 1/35 scale and build a brick bridge.  Somewhat serious here...the mason part anyway.  I could use foam and "sculpt" the bridge to get the look I want, in my case, an arch over a small stream, and then veneer the the whole d..n thing.  By implementing your technique to fabricate the bricks and facing the bridge like I said, I bet the result would be FABULOUS!  If you wouldn't mind I'd appreciate that you write, in detail, how you paint and weather them too.  I bet there would be a lot of forum memebers who would benefit too.  Thanks in advance...I'll be following this one closely

As far as the captions are concerned...you can post pics' so you've already won half the battle.  All you need to do is this, pretend this is your thread...

Intro....blah, blah, blah...

(insert, only ONE, picture here) press enter.

This gets you to the next line below the picture...write what you want...yada, yada, yada. press enter.

(insert next picture) press enter.

more text...repeat.

Make sense?!

Happy masoning!!!

SMJmodeler

SNJ

Another way to make bricks is to make about 50 masters from cutting up square/oblong plastic rod and then casting them in silicone rubber. You can then cast thousands of bricks in plaster or whatever material you desire.

Good results are almost always labour intesive. Its just a matter of how far you want to go.

panzerguy wrote:

SMJ thank's,I thought that was a great title also, gotta give the credit to SteveM for that(thank's again SM)

My pleasure I'm enjoying the build! 

Steve

Bodge The Builder wrote:

looks great ill watch with great interest.

 Bodge thank's,nice to see your still with us.

panzerguy,

Sorry , yours was the first post that was handy:

I tried to do this in test forum but it wouldn't work:  How do you grab the text from someone's post, drop it into a response, and then when it's added to the thread it has the person's ID with what they said in a white box with dashed line box around it?

  Got some more work one on my dio,"Sew-prise Attack".Here's some pic's of the building,it's pretty much done on the outside going to start on the inside tonight.

   The door and window molding are piece's of plaster that I cut into strip's and then glued along the edge's.Afterwards I "painted" them with patching plaster that I thinned with water.I did the same for the corner stone and the ledge.

  I've also started the cobble stone, I only do a little at a time because if I try to do it all at once I've noticed that the stone's start to get bigger and then I have to do them over .

  The roof frame work is balsa strip's that I roughed up to make look like it was cut with hand tool's and did'nt just come from the local home-depot.

   I know some of this seem's pretty labor intensive but to me that's what m







ake's it the must enjoyable.

   Well that's it for now,any question's or comment's feel free,later Panz.

panzerguy,

Truly impressive!!!  Are you working from a photo, experience, what?  I would have to assume you are a carpenter or mason or involved in the building industry in some fashion...I'll test this assumption...what are those big square "masonry" blocks at the corner of the building called? 

I am really enjoying these progress pics', keep 'em coming!!!

SMJmodeler wrote:

panzerguy, Truly impressive!!!  Are you working from a photo, experience, what?  I would have to assume you are a carpenter or mason or involved in the building industry in some fashion...I'll test this assumption...what are those big square "masonry" blocks at the corner of the building called?  I am really enjoying these progress pics', keep 'em coming!!!

   No never had any masonry experience but I did do some framing for about a year after I got out of high school,hated it,swinging a hammer just did'nt cut it for me.

   As far as those block's on the corner,I just call them corner stone's. 

panzerguy,

Wrong on my assumption, oh well, really superb regarless. It's obvious how much you enjoy your "work" making the buildings.  I'd like to see you do a tutorial on this subject.  I don't like those "cookie cutter" types that Verlinden offers (no offense to those who do), not for the sake of realism, but for the sake of the fun of doing it yourself. 

Just an FYI, those "cornerstones" are called "quoins", pronounced the same as "coins".  Hey, when your as good as you are, you gotta' get the lingo down too!!!

P.S.  Do you have some pic's you can post of a finished building you've done???

Wow Panz!

Very interesting WIP! Great storyline too. I learn so much from you Dio Guys!

Nam 

Hi Panzerguy,

I am attempting my first armour dio using an Eastern Front Theme. I am building 2 - Tamiya 1/48 Stug III's and 1 - Sd. Kfz. 251. The time of season is late winter on a foothill over looking a valley.

My question is how long does it you or anyone out there take to build 3 kits, and the diorama. I have been working on the 3 kits for over a month and haven't even started the dio base. I feel like sometimes I am not making progress when I see all the fantastic photo's on FSM I ask myself how I am doing time wise?

Thanks,

Marc

IBuild148 wrote:

Hi Panzerguy, I am attempting my first armour dio using an Eastern Front Theme. I am building 2 - Tamiya 1/48 Stug III's and 1 - Sd. Kfz. 251. The time of season is late winter on a foothill over looking a valley. My question is how long does it you or anyone out there take to build 3 kits, and the diorama. I have been working on the 3 kits for over a month and haven't even started the dio base. I feel like sometimes I am not making progress when I see all the fantastic photo's on FSM I ask myself how I am doing time wise? Thanks, Marc

                     Later, Panz 

great so far

btw toilet humor   yes they are trying to FLUSH out the enemy

anyway   SEW you later

joe

   Here's some pic's of my progress on "Sew-Prise Attack".

      Finished my street and sidewalk and both have been givin a coat of paint to seal the plaster.

      The street lamp was made using parts from the tamiya road sign set and a mini art street lamp. I want to hang street sign's on it so if anyone know's how to spell main st. or something like that in russian it would be a big help.

      I made the push cart for my bridge dio but never ended up using it. I'm going to add a little more detail to it and give it a home here.

      Well that's it for now more updates soon(I hope). Panz