"Eeyore's Dilemma"

I bet that looks nice alonside your giant German Armor and that snazzy new hetzer we're hearing about! Donkeykampfwagen III ausf. E.  Looks great to me, I love these and the horses you post here, always a nize break from broken city streets and bombed out farm building.  The grass as well is great, andcI love the "Keep Owt" Sign.  Great work, I'm sure she's happy!

EDIT: Jus re-read and saw that the clock is scratchuiblt.  Great work! The face looks great for a picure!

Holy crap Doog! First a Zombies attack Nazis dio now Winnie the Pooh dios! Wonderful job you did there. You must have a 55 gallon drum of creativity in your workshop!

I love it.

SST

Hey, thanks again guys!

It's fun to take a break from the tracks and turrets and weathering and whatnot and totally re-direct my energies into something completely different like this and the other horse-themed models I do for Jenn, my girlfriend.

I'm happy to see that they're appreciated outside of our home as well! Thanks for the kind compliments!

IYAAYAS wrote:

What a neat dio...very original.  The clock is WAY outta scale, but it makes for a cool scene!

HEY MAN! DIDN"T YOU EVER WATCH "WINNIE THE POOH"???

I realize that maybe the "Pooh" series and characters are unknown in some parts; I once had a Dutch girlfriend who didn't know "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas"--and then fell in love with the cartoon when she saw it at my place for the first time! 

Thanks for the comment IYAYAAS! (Hope you know Pooh!)

I'm also in awe of your creativity., doog!

So here I am, struggling to put together a kit or two, OOB except where AM stuff can make it easier, and look what you're doing. Not only do we find here that you've done probably the best Hetzer I've ever seen (and I'm not exaggerating), but now scenes from Winnie the Pooh too! Yer killin me!

In all seriousness, this is a very cool little dio. For one thing, a lot of people don't realize, but blue is a difficult color to work with (at least, it is for me). Another cool thing is all the grass. When I did a grassy field dio base once, it came out all clumps, and didn't look like evenly-growing grass at all. So it's not as easy as it looks.

The composition is good, the build is good, and the idea is very good. Instead of letting a dollhouse clock inspire me to scratchbuild one, I would've just used the dollhouse clock in the dio - and it wouldn't have turned out as well as yours.

Thanks, FingersEddie and jthurston!

jthurston, I have to be honest; I did this a couple months age, before I even started my Hetzer--I posted it here just to offer something different to the forum...I appreciate your comments though!

The grass is individually cut in bundles and then inserted into holes poked into the base with an awl. Time-consuming, but the only way I've discovered so far to look convincing. It's easily my LEAST FAVORITE part of doing dio's!

Thanks again for the compliment on the Hetzer! 

Unusual subject to say the least, but very nicely done .

Regards,  Rick

Where'd you find that? Very nice! I never knew tamiya made a donkey!

ben1227 wrote:

Where'd you find that? Very nice! I never knew tamiya made a donkey!

Did I type "Tamiya"?! 

I'm an idiot! I'm sorry, Ben, he's a DML donket, from their "Gebirgsjaeger" kit--you get two donkeys and two soldiers; one of the donkeys is carrying a big radio set...

I fixed it with an edit in the post; thanks for drawing my attention to that!

(THanks Rick and stikpusher!) 

I like it a lot, Doog.  Most especially the GF clock. Very nice scratch building. I, too, have made one for the little lady here; I guess that it brings her into my world .. why my room is stuffed with modeling and diorama-making gear

Real nice work. 

the doog wrote:

ben1227 wrote: Where'd you find that? Very nice! I never knew tamiya made a donkey! OH MAN! Did I type "Tamiya"?!  I'm an idiot! I'm sorry, Ben, he's a DML donket, from their "Gebirgsjaeger" kit--you get two donkeys and two soldiers; one of the donkeys is carrying a big radio set... I fixed it with an edit in the post; thanks for drawing my attention to that! (THanks Rick and stikpusher!)

Ohhh i got it! I was going to ask you that b/c I was looking at that Dragon gebrigsjaeger kit last night and i saw 4 soldiers and 1 donkey...but you say they give you two? The more the better! -I also noticed that the description for it said "Comes with four-legged Mobile Logistics Command System"   -a.k.a Donkey!

SteveM wrote:

I like it a lot, Doog.  Most especially the GF clock. Very nice scratch building. I, too, have made one for the little lady here; I guess that it brings her into my world .. why my room is stuffed with modeling and diorama-making gear Real nice work.

Thanks for the compliments--I'm actually very surprised at the traffic and comments that this quirky post has generated! Glad that y'all liked it! 

ben1227 wrote:

the doog wrote:  ben1227 wrote: Where'd you find that? Very nice! I never knew tamiya made a donkey! OH MAN! Did I type "Tamiya"?!  I'm an idiot! I'm sorry, Ben, he's a DML donket, from their "Gebirgsjaeger" kit--you get two donkeys and two soldiers; one of the donkeys is carrying a big radio set... I fixed it with an edit in the post; thanks for drawing my attention to that! (THanks Rick and stikpusher!)  Ohhh i got it! I was going to ask you that b/c I was looking at that Dragon gebrigsjaeger kit last night and i saw 4 soldiers and 1 donkey...but you say they give you two? The more the better! -I also noticed that the description for it said "Comes with four-legged Mobile Logistics Command System"   -a.k.a Donkey!

The correct kit is DML  #6077--"German Fallschirmjaeger w/Donkeys" !

I'm sincerely sorry if you ordered the wrong kit! I knew that the Gebirgsjaeger kit also had a donkey, and I mixed the two of them up! Color me STUPID!!!

Wait...there are two DML kits with donkeys? And no Tamiya ones?

jthurston wrote:

Wait...there are two DML kits with donkeys? And no Tamiya ones?

Man, those crafty buggers! The easiest way to make the best 1/35th scale donkey is to be the only one making one. And you know what Edison said...Make the best 1/35th scale donkey and the world will beat a path to your door...

Okay, sorry...

Doog

Love the "armored" donkey. There is no zimm on that donkey is there? He must be an early model!!

With the way you are going I would expect to find out the clock really works! I hope you girl enjoys it half as much as we all did. You are truly a creative guy!

Rounds Complete!

redleg12 wrote:

Doog Love the "armored" donkey. There is no zimm on that donkey is there? He must be an early model!! With the way you are going I would expect to find out the clock really works! I hope you girl enjoys it half as much as we all did. You are truly a creative guy! Rounds Complete!

 

I'm shocked at all the love that Eeyore's getting here in the forum! He's probably saying "Thaaaaaaaanks fer noticin' me!"...

Yeah my girl was teary-eyed when I gave it to her--she had no idea, and couldn't believe the clock either! She's my inspiration for raising the bar on my creativity!