Flak 36 Completed! Entry to Towed Gun GB (Warning: Lots of Pics.)

Very nice!!

WOW!!! Those are some of the best figures I've seen before! Gotta get that 88 kit, or maybe it just looks so good that it makes we want to get it right away! I like the church, it looks awsome! All around good job!!!! Yeah, Shep Paine made an 88/church dio too, but it got disqualified at the Nueremburg toy fair because the jugdes thought it wasn't tasteful or something like that... But Nice job, glad you had so many pics of high quality of a high quality dio! Great job!!!!

rebelreenactor: Thanks.

Armor Master: Thanks for the nice words. The figures are actually not so great and looked funny. It's a very old kit and the figures are not at par with say Dragon's current ones but overall I think that it went well together. Just lots of tiny pieces though.

Amazing dio Dwight. Right up there with all your other quality builds. I really like the church and your attention to detail is incredible.

The flak gun looks great, good work!!! The base is really well done too.

dwight im speechless. looks fantastic.

joe

Tigerman: Thank you for the compliments. I am glad I was able to do a good job on this one, too.

Edog: Thanks, too. Happy to hear that you find the Flak Gun OK.

Joe: You are being too kind. Do I need to give you some lozenges or strepsils to bring your voice back?.

gotta love that artillery peice =) nice work

Jordan: Thanks. The 88 is one cool piece of arty.

Well, I know the figures are awful (the molding-we have crisper and well-molded figs now) but I liked the paint job and shading/highlights. Overall good.
BTW: it's Armormaster, but it's ok-happens alot...

Sorry Ryan, I did miss that one. There, I corrected it already.

Anyway, I used Tamiya Field Grey Acrylic (darkened with a little Flat Black) as basecoat and drybrushed it with Artist's Acrylic (in tubes). This is the first time I used artist's acrylics for drybrushing because I thought that they were too thick. But I guess there is always a first for everything. Thanks.

wow!!! great job on the build, dwight!!!

Lord have mercy I am in love .That is GREAT Dwight!!!!! Love your work.What else can I say GREAT job.

I have been looking forward to seeing this Dwight, and it looks fantastic.
Great work mate, inspiring stuff.

Matt

WoW ! Great job, Dwight !

Excellent dio ! Great weathering on everything - the trailer, the church, the figs, etc....Great photos too - lots of light so you can see every detail.


Great job !

Dwight,
very nice work!
but what took you so long?
normally you would have knocked this out in a week!
were you building a sailing ship for the Mrs ?

thanks for posting.
i have that kit on the shelf. makes me want to get it down.
but i have other projects to finish first.

I think it needs more detail.
WOW!
It's absolutely beautiful! Thanks for sharing this.

Great job dwight
Thanks for the pix well done

Dwight,

AWSOME... I love the look of the 88s You have done wonderful with this old kit. It just goes to show that even an out of the box kit can look great. I like it all the weathering, the dio all of it... A+

You say the sidewalk is out of foam? Is that the dense carving foam? I have a bunch of that but have yet to try it out.

Again great work...

WOW, That is incredible. Great Job.

As per the GB, very nice job.
WHen you say foamboard for the cobblestone walk, can you elaborate on that a little. Not too sure what you mean by 'foamboard'. Is it the pink insulation foam or something totally different?

Excellent work Dwight!! It looks great!

Eric

Very nice diorama, Dwight. You are really getting good at this scale modeling stuff..! I'm very impressed by the church ruins, as I really like seeing something else that the usual Verlinden stuff..! I do hope you just did not break your wife's flower pot for this base, though..! LOL I'd never do that!

The 88 and the trailer and the figures are superb.

Looks great Dwight!
Like the planks under the rear legs of the mount, was the crew looking for a little extra depression on the gun?

Terrific job, Dwight!

You don't need to build a big diorama with lots of figures to be involved in the group build, by the way. Just a gun! Any scale. All are still welcome, and will be until the group build closes on July 1.

Dwight, yet another masterpiece comes from your bench to be proud of.

AMAZING Dwight!

M1: I am glad you like it. Thanks.

Thundergod: You are way too kind but thanks anyway.

Phroosh: Believe me I have been looking forward to seeing this finished for the last two months! Thanks. I am glad that I finally got the time and urge to finish it.

Build: Thanks. The first time I took pictures outside at the terrace and I got good light. Expect more pictures from the terrace from now on.

Wildwilliam: Ssssshhhhhh. Don't mention about the ship for the Mrs. (It's still not done yet.) Although she has asked me already why I was able to finish this one first when I am just sneaking it between the work on the ship. Well...I just shook my head and said..."the truth is out there..." He-he-he.

jimq: Thanks, too. Well, my cheap camera still gets the job done.

Kennethc/Zokissima: Thanks. The foamboard I was referring to is basically foam compressed with two sheets of thin but stiff paper on both sides. Outside it looks like an ordinary board like illustration board but if you look at the sides you can see the foam. It is light and soft to cut unlike illustration board. It comes in different thickness like 3mm, 6mm etc. It is commonly used for architectural models. It comes in black or white (as far as I know)

Abastyr: Thanks for the compliments.

Erush: Thanks, bro. How's the Long Tom coming?

DJ: No way. The dog knocked the flower pot down. From that point on the pot is of no use so I powdered it. Strange though, we don't have a dog. Thanks.

Claymore: Thanks. You are right. The gun is quite loose on the vertical plane. It keeps drooping down. Anyway I don't want to glue it place so I just let it be as of the time being.

Larry: Sorry about all the distractions. He-he-he. I was really expecting somebody to say "get that gun off the base". LOL. Well, anyway thanks for the motivation. If you haven't started the Towed Gun GB, I wouldn't have the interest of doing it. Thanks again for the support.

LQ2: You said. Actually I am just glad I was able to get it off the workbench after starting it 2 months ago. (A record of sorts for me...please insert claps here).. Remember last week when we were talking and I was saying that I need to get the dio base done. Thanks.

ShermanFirefly: Thanks. Not exactly the best thing that could happen to a sherman but hey, the allies did have the 17pdr.


Thanks all. I really appreciate you giving a piece of your mind on my work.

Beautiful Job, Dwight!

Regards, Dan