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~ ! Clash in Tunisia ! ~ { Final Photos on page 37 }

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Posted by *INDY on Monday, April 26, 2010 7:52 AM
~While I reserve the right to re-touch the Axis forces.....I'm setting them aside as essentially finished and returning to work on the attacking British unit.
 


Because it's difficult to shade those light-colored uniforms, and I need to make the most of the subtle folds I went to a Floquil wash thinned with white spirits, as these flow profusely within a confined, controled area, just right to fill the shallow folds, but far quicker drying than oils. Colors varried to suit the base shades, but lean towards dirty greys.
 


I've tried to make sure everything has a consistaint quality but the shading has to be subtle on these uniforms. Note how I have yet to complete socks, putties & boots on any of these figures, but the time is close

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 ~Some of the features of the Dragon figures come out quite well with several careful layers applied.       I'm looking at the torso here, by the way  Sad  You?  Surprise

 


I also tried to get the uniforms to look completed without looking too 'painted', if you know what I mean. This was by way of thin blended layers, going around and around, over & over.
 


~~While some of the Dragon details are kind of obscure, I've worked to 'draw-in' the pockets & seams of this Tommies shirt. (Above) Maybe it would be a good idea to spend more time carving out thse features at the start.
 
 


I also tried to get the uniforms to look completed without looking too 'painted', if you know what I mean. This was by way of thin blended layers, going around and around, over & over.
 


I hit a few details too, like missing wood parts, but have more to do along those lines.
 


Pretty soon I'll get the equipment attached and then I can finalize the belts and harness--that way they have a better chance of looking like they belong together.
 
 
There's the whole lot of them as they stand--they are as anxious as the rest of us to be down off of blocks and on the road.
 
~~Please keep tuning in-----we're closer still! ,...........................

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Posted by rtfoe on Monday, April 26, 2010 8:57 AM

Awesome build and post Indy,

I really am going to take time to go through the whole post, probably jump from one page to another to view the progress and what it was before it became these masterpieces.

A lot of people don't understand the length of time taken to complete a diorama with this many figures. In the last 6 months you've achieved a lot and although nearing completion, please do take your time with the base. These figures, Opel Blitz, Pak 40 and Kubel wagon deserve it.

Looking forward to more progress.

Cheers,

Richard

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Posted by *INDY on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 12:53 AM

rtfoe

Awesome build and post Indy,

I really am going to take time to go through the whole post, probably jump from one page to another to view the progress and what it was before it became these masterpieces.

A lot of people don't understand the length of time taken to complete a diorama with this many figures. In the last 6 months you've achieved a lot and although nearing completion, please do take your time with the base. These figures, Opel Blitz, Pak 40 and Kubel wagon deserve it.

Looking forward to more progress.

Cheers,

Richard

~Richard~ I thank you whole-heartedly for that post (And your use of the word "masterpieces")   ....and taking the time to look through the blog--I know it's gotten very long and unweildy--by time I'm done,  I'll arrange a contents page with hotlinks to help people move around the thread in case they are researching a specific kit or such.

It's really taken about the right amount of time for what it is I guess---would have went a whole lot faster if I wasn't working for a living  Stick out tongue most of us can relate to that I think. I have prepared a good base for this build, I think. The base construction is likely my favorite part of the entire process.....I may start the next build with that part !

Base started on page 20

Base completed on page 24

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 Indy

 

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Posted by rtfoe on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 10:31 AM

Niiiccee!

The liquid mask on the rocks was a neat idea. Cool!...the row of top shot progress felt like I was a CIA operative viewing satelite images on a monitor.Big Smile

Also like the comparison shots in B/W. What will you be using to secure the figures onto the base?

Cheers,

Richard

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Posted by *INDY on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 10:49 PM

~Richard~ Thanks so much for that. I think the rocks work great-I've never tried anything like that before, and rocks(real ones) have never been one of my interests--you gotta draw the line somewhere!  Wink

I've seen those overhead progress shots before in professional articles, a sort of time-lapse-photography....I had just made sure to shoot essentially the same shot all along and hey. it works.

The B&W does look prett cool, huh? I can't wait to see if it works on the completed scene---around 2 weeks away now I think!!!

The figures and other large elements will be pinned-in with the same musicwire rods that are fitting them to the working blocks.---you can see some small pins poking out of the surface of the base, saving the placements until everything is ready..

Thanks for following..it's great fun having you here.

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Posted by *INDY on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 10:53 PM
~I have missed a day posting...but have been at work here and there,attaching some of the British troops' equipment, touching up and completing the leg-gear.
 

Here's the lot of them, before weathering thier Ammo Boots
 
 

And here I've used the pigment powder mix from the Dio base to make a wash, and carefully aplied it to the footwear, as I'd imagine they'd be pretty dusty, and the black just about invisable
 
 

Of course  at this section of the figure work, it's essential, particularly in the usual case of using figures sourced from different manufacturers, to ensure the equipment is consistent throughout. Not quite everything is attached to the figures yet above, but I wanted to show how I spread-out the equipment load among the team, and make sure to vary the load-out from one man to the next somewhat, to avoid the 'toy-soldier' look of matching packs.
 

Alot of equipment items can be easily placed, others will not look right without some grinding-away of the underside of the item, or the attachment point on the figure. You can usually use your fingtips to handle the parts, but I find if I loosely hold many items in tweezers, it's far easier to see the placement as you set it--without your 1:1 scale hand in the way.
 

These packs we're often stuffed-full, and fit high & tight. I placed the bayonet to be hanging according to gravity, but portrayed it swinging on the other, running, Enfield man.
 

I'm really happy with the results I've gotten using these Dragon figures Ken sent me,
(thanks again Ken!)  though it was a good deal of work getting them into shape, and some details are just inferior, like the boots, which I think are better covered in dust.
 

I noticed when modelling Commonweath troops before, that the large ammo pouches need to hang away slightly, as above, when the soldier is in certain positions.
 

I'm still working on getting the right look to the canteens, but there wasn't much point before placement because they we're very difficult to complete while stuck to the sticks. At this point I use a palette that's just a little of this and that...kind of a muddle really to fill in the blanks and solve and errors found when assembling everything. There's always touch-ups to do when attaching the painted gear items, but getting most of the painting done off the figures goes a long way towards completion when painting this many mini-men.
 
 

One of the things I'm personally most proud of of on this entire big build, this Tommie's  scratchmade Hobnails fitted to the soles of his Ammo Boots.
 
 
~~Thanks you guys, for sticking with me to the end...............................
 

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Posted by rtfoe on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:22 PM

*INDY
~I have missed a day posting...but have been at work here and there,attaching some of the British troops' equipment, touching up and completing the leg-gear.
 

Indy,

You can't be posting all the time...gotta make time for the build, you know what I mean.Stick out tongue

Wow! Figures are dressing up well. This is the best time as the minute detailing will really set the figures apart from the ordinary to perfection.

I like the way you're varying the equipment distribution amongst the figures...gives them individuality. Being battle hardened and on the field for quite a while, a typical Tommy will pack all his worldly possessions in his back pack.

Time for me to work on my build as well. Big Smile

Cheers,

Richard

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Posted by *INDY on Thursday, April 29, 2010 1:16 AM

rtfoe

Wow! Figures are dressing up well. This is the best time as the minute detailing will really set the figures apart from the ordinary to perfection.

I like the way you're varying the equipment distribution amongst the figures...gives them individuality. Being battle hardened and on the field for quite a while, a typical Tommy will pack all his worldly possessions in his back pack.

Cheers,

Richard

~~Thanks for the appreciation Richard. Yeah, this is one of the most fun parts but in a way the most difficult, getting all the little accoutrements to hangaturally in an authentic way.   I'm of the camp of trying to add every extra detail that I can justify, but not one single bit more---like never trying to include everthing that comes in a Verlinden set...or it can get too contrived looking---which is a tricky balance because of course every Diorama is a contrivance.  On the other hand, I think omited details can work fine  sometimes too---Like I'm sure what you say is true, that every veteran fighter has all his belongings in that little packpack--but  I'd say in the event of an attack might leave that pack at camp, or a closer rally point, if it doesn't contain what's needed for that mission--and not every trooper would, after a while in the field, have every item of gear he started out issued.

The man on right has no entrenching tool--one man had bayo mounted, another--not, hard to tell if they all have packs on.

 

These Gents didn't feel the need to pack in much gear  at all  for this   job. What'a you think?

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Posted by cml on Thursday, April 29, 2010 11:56 PM

Howdy Indy,

Just wanted to let you know i've been watching this post for ages and think your work and WIP updates are terrific.  I notice you started back in October last year - i can't believe how fast you build!!!

I'm an exceptionally slow builder, normally taking 3-4 months to finish one model (and with nowhere near your amount of detail or quality as yours), so i'm just blown away by this diorama!

Thanks for taking the time to share with us, i've really picked up a lot of great tips.  Hopefully I'll be hosting one of these WIPS one day Wink

Chris

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Posted by *INDY on Saturday, May 1, 2010 1:32 AM

~Chris~ Thank you greatly for that post--I'm really happy you are liking this project like that---Please stick around...it's all about to come together.

~And hey man..I'll look forward to seeing a cool WIP from you--that's awsome that you're inspired!

 

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Posted by Macktheknife on Saturday, May 1, 2010 2:40 AM

I believe that the black shells are PzGr39 APCBC and the green is SprGr 38, so yes. AP and HE :)

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Posted by *INDY on Saturday, May 1, 2010 3:00 AM

Mac~ Sounds good--thank you!

 
 
 
 
~~I'm still at the careful detail work on the collection of figures, but have had a small but importaint sideline project going with the fieldgun ammo...
 


The Dragon Pak40 kit comes with several 7.5 cm rounds and few empty shells. I need to model only a few live rounds, but want a small pile of spent shells, so  I  cut    off the warheads of most of them and mounted them all to pins to make life easy.
 
 


I primed with  a handy spray of Tamiya TS-46 Light Sand
 


And put the brass on with Floquil Brass Enamel
 


I dinged them up with a Gunmetal wash of Floquil and paint thinner &  airbrushed the black soot on the business ends with some Tamiya  XF-1 Flat Black--(maybe over-did-it a little)
 
 
 
I mounted-up the storage tubes similarly.....
 
 
 
and the Light Sand was about the right colour for them...
 


Afterwards a wash was used with Floquil Earth,Van *** Brown Oil, and white spirit.
 
 

The warheads we're brush  painted with Tamiya mixes, as I wanted their flat look on the shiny brass (though I dinged them up  some with a minimal filter) One type I have to guess is a H.E. round and the other an armour piercing--don't ask me which is which.  Surprise [edit] as Mac states above-
 
My 1st go at scale ordnance modelling--already I have great appreciation for those airplane guys and thier work on all those tiny missles & bombs!
 

 ~I'll be back soon with more.............................

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Posted by *INDY on Sunday, May 2, 2010 2:40 AM

 

 Indy's still charging ahead people--guns blazing!!

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Posted by jetmodeler on Sunday, May 2, 2010 4:32 PM

Every thing is looking amazing so far.Toast You've done a lot since I last posted on this post.

 

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Posted by *INDY on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 1:35 AM

~Jet~ Thanks Buddy-good to see ya!


~~~OK my friends.....I've spent a few more days on very tiny little additions and refinements and now I'll  show  some of those, and  VERY soon.......
...(drumroll.......) onto....   Final Assembly ~ !!
 

I added some of the microscopic decals from the PAK 40 kit to the ammo, and labels to the crates and weathered them up a little. Note I also made one nice improvement to the kit ammo crates by just scribing-out the finger-slot of the handles, that are moulded solid. Below the pre-weathered crate shows a stock 'handle' on right, and a slotted one on left(I also bent it out a little to make it more visable here)
 

The decals are oversized, but I thought better than nothing.
 

That is appearently what they should look like. I actually found this great picture :
 
Not so easy to find, but I  pass on the source :  http://wehrmachts.kisten.free.fr/categories.htm
It is a French site that contains nothing but the most complete info on Earth for nothing but every German crate and ammo box!  Here's a shot of the ammo tubes as well :
 

Now, finding  photos of the rounds themselves was the most difficult, and each example I found looked different. I did find one round that a gentleman was trying to appraise on a history forum.  Members of that forum we're in agreement that this was indeed a rare PAK40  round.
http://warrelics.eu/forum/military_photos/ordinance-ammo/80258d1264696107t-88mm-8-8cm-pzgr.jpg
 
 
Some other little details I saw to included some weathering of the shovels
 
 
 
I also painted up the C.D. brand clay jug (sorry , I see this photo is a bit over-exposed)

 
 
I got a pretty realistic effect easily by wetting just the shovel tips and dipping into my pigment mixture. The pickaxe is from the Tamiya truck kit and was a project in itself removing the complex 'Z' shaped moulded-on bracket(another teeny-tiny hurtle !)
 

~~More to follow~~~~~~~~~                    

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Posted by rtfoe on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 9:45 PM

Hi Adam,

Good stuff. Particularly like what you did with the crate handles. Appreciate the reference also, now I can paint my German items right. Weathering on the spades look awesome.

Tally-Ho and keep them coming.

Cheers,

Richard

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Posted by *INDY on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 1:26 AM

~Richard~  Thanks for that. yeah, nice when a little change to a kit part does the trick an it can easily be passed on---I nearly thought I'd have to scratchbuild new handles instead--not a big deal, but I'd already painted them! Obviously better to think of it ahead of time.

Here's a bit more~~~

The British Forces Move In~~~~
 
~~So last details to the figures~~
 

a couple of them still needed to be armed...
 

and a few small accoutrements, but (not too many!)
 

Oh, a boy and his 1st mission!  So innocent. 
 

Equipped as a fast-attack force.
 

I decided to have the Bren gun man carrying his spare barrel case, though usually carried by his spotter, along with x-tra magazines, my Brengunner is a bit of a big guy and looks like he can handle it and needed a little something more. I made a foil carry strap painted khaki.
 

~The Tommygunner got a .38 holster and just some smoothing out in general.
 

His lower end came out pretty well with the kind of dust and grime I wanted, and shows how much better some of the new Dragon figures can paint up--even the boots-which are often lacking in both size and detail are pretty good here I think.
 

This Dragon figure with Hornet head came a long way I think towards looking the part.
 

I did go back and put some fine rainmarks to the fallshrimjagers' jump smock using some enamel. It's not too obvious here, as I found anytime I really painted it as really visable it was way out of scale.I worked slowly and applied very light small marks.
 

Here's all the figures for Clash again, one last "class picture" before they're set against eachother 
 

In fact .....Here's every single thing going into the Dio, sitting around like props on a movie backlot , until I have time to properly assemble the thing and find out if the elements fit my vision.         
             ~~Not long at all now......................................

 

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Posted by 101stAirborne on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 7:08 AM

Now I see why there are so many comments! Everything looks great. I can't wait to see the finished products.Yes

Models on the bench:

Too many to count!

  

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Posted by M1Carbine on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 11:29 AM

Adam, there are so many parts there...OMG!  the end result will be stunning and cannot wait to see it completed.

 

Bob

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Posted by rtfoe on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 11:04 PM

Kind of reminds me of ingredients in a recipe list like add four of this , six of that , a couple those , a pinch of this , mix them well in a pot and let it simmer for twenty minutes.Big Smile I think Rob will comprehend this being a Chef an all.

Yup! looks like all the components are ready. Looking forward to the assembly.

Cheers,

Richard

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Posted by deafpanzer on Thursday, May 6, 2010 9:54 AM

Indy, you are almost there... your prize (the Lost Ark) is awaiting!

Andy

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Posted by bbrowniii on Thursday, May 6, 2010 3:32 PM

Indy

I'm speechless.... AGAIN!  Can't wait to see the final product!

'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing' - Edmund Burke (1770 ??)

 

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Posted by *INDY on Friday, May 7, 2010 3:56 AM

M1Carbine

Adam, there are so many parts there...OMG!  the end result will be stunning and cannot wait to see it completed.

 

Bob

BoB~ (Hopefully) Just the right amount of elements! & thanks for your excellent support the whole way!

~101st ~ A lot of people have had a look---time to give them something--I 'm sure most will enjoy.

~~Guys I'll be getting this finished pretty fast now!

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Posted by *INDY on Friday, May 7, 2010 3:59 AM

rtfoe

Kind of reminds me of ingredients in a recipe list like add four of this , six of that , a couple those , a pinch of this , mix them well in a pot and let it simmer for twenty minutes.Big Smile I think Rob will comprehend this being a Chef an all.

Yup! looks like all the components are ready. Looking forward to the assembly.

Cheers,

Richard

 Yeah- exactly Richard---kindof like Stirfry I think---takes forever to cut everything up into tiny little pieces and a minute or two in the hot oil and Bam! it's ready!!Stick out tongue

Here's it comes............soup's on!

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Posted by *INDY on Friday, May 7, 2010 4:02 AM

deafpanzer

Indy, you are almost there... your prize (the Lost Ark) is awaiting!

~Andy~

Yeah really Buddy ~ Soon as I take out all those brownshirts it's mine!

~Boyyd~ 

 Right on man ----thanks & here goes!

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Posted by *INDY on Friday, May 7, 2010 4:08 AM
~~Final Assembly~~
 

~I have begun final assembly with the gun emplacement. I know it's not very much the norm, even on detailed builds,  to  show this chapter in much detail.      It's a bit anti-climactic to see everthing without the complete scene to reference everything by, but as this has already been an unusaully complete and thorough blog--I intend to show some of the Dio in parts as it comes together....ahead of showing the completed scene. I think this will let the modelers following this build in to my process (one possible way of doing things) at a really pivital yet enjoyable part of the build.


~~Working back to front, I began assembling the Diorama by installing the fieldgun in it's position on it's desert parapet. Oversized holes had been left in the groundwork for the trailing arm spades to dig in, but they needed some filling in after placement, using the same Elmer's Woodfiller used in the base construction. This both filled the excess space in the holes and cemented in the spades. Small dollops of Locktight Gel Superglue we're used under each wheel to permenantly attach the Pak40 . Some colouring was done to the areas near the spades using pigment powders, to simulate the colours of  the surrounding rocks, not the sand scattered around by the wind .  A small bit of discarded earth was portayed the same way.

The gunner figure (nearly) went right into place, but  the the gun sat slightly lower in the dirt  than I'd calculated on the bench. To get him seated right on the trailing arm I straighted out his right leg, by cutting under his knee with a micro-saw, and warming the styrene with my butane soldering iron, that also acts as a heat blower. Obviously some care is needed, particularly on a finished figure! I got success and needed  the smallest touch-up, and ended up with a far more natural position of his leg than I had!

 

 


~~My loader finally "takes a knee" (forever) in my scene. This was just a matter of pulling the pin(saving his spot in the earth), testfitting, removing, adding some C/A along the length of his already attached fit-pin, and seating the figure home.

~Well, here it is--a start! (a finish?) either way--it's been a long time coming to put together, and soon these two will have the command and logistics structure they require in place  These two figures represent the most involved of the figure conversions on the build, and I think they're pretty effective in thier roles, but certainly need the others to complete even this part of the Diorama.

 
~~Back soon with more as it happens Gents,, thanks for your patience !.......


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Posted by Stern0 on Friday, May 7, 2010 8:37 PM

Good stuff INDY! Fantastic work as usual.....just threw mine in the trash!Wink

BTW..watched Jose kick some red leg butt last night!! one of my favorites!Big Smile

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Posted by *INDY on Friday, May 7, 2010 11:04 PM

~SternO~  Thank you for that buddy---I always enjoy your work too.

~~As for the outlaw Josey Wales......Yeah , one of my all time favorites---

So many great scenes, but likely  the most gripping and meaningful :

Josey: You be Ten Bears?
Ten Bears: I am Ten Bears.
Josey: (spits tobacco) I'm Josey Wales.
Ten Bears: I have heard. You're the Gray Rider. You would not make peace with the Blue Coats. You may go in peace. Josey: I reckon not. Got nowhere to go.
Ten Bears: Then you will die.
Josey: I came here to die with you. Or live with you. Dying ain't so hard for men like you and me, it's living that's hard; when all you ever cared about has been butchered or raped. Governments don't live together, people live together. With governments you don't always get a fair word or a fair fight. Well I've come here to give you either one, or get either one from you. I came here like this so you'll know my word of death is true. And that my word of life is then true. The bear lives here, the wolf, the antelope, the Comanche. And so will we. Now, we'll only hunt what we need to live on, same as the Comanche does. And every spring when the grass turns green and the Comanche moves north, he can rest here in peace, butcher some of our cattle and jerk beef for the journey. The sign of the Comanche, that will be on our lodge. That's my word of life.
Ten Bears: And your word of death?
Josey: It's here in my pistols, there in your rifles. I'm here for either one.
Ten Bears: These things you say we will have, we already have.
Josey: That's true. I ain't promising you nothing extra. I'm just giving you life and you're giving me life. And I'm saying that men can live together without butchering one another.
Ten Bears: It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double-tongues. There is iron in your word of death for all Comanche to see. And so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron, it must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... or death. It shall be life. (he takes his knife and cuts his hand. Josey does the same and they grasp each others hand.) So shall it be.

 

"Well...you gunna pull them pistols, or just whistle Dixie?"

  • Member since
    April 2008
  • From: Ventura (at the beach) in California
Posted by *INDY on Sunday, May 9, 2010 4:11 AM

~Anti-Tank Gun Emplacement Complete!

 


~~I have finalized placement and installed the guncrew and gear using musicwire pins & C/A
I may add an x-tra personal weapon or other item yet, but this is basically it for this area of the scene.
 

The commander, who will be played by Ron Pearlman in the film (it's now confirmed)  has recieved his Afrika Corp issue binocs (Swinging ont he foil strap) and Luger on his right hip (just his style---maybe he likes American Westerns?)
 

Most of the gear is fixed with the Gel C/A, as it stays put where I want it and doesn't run into visable spots--but also bulks up to fill areas in uneven surfaces really well and bond.(In the old days, old school 'contact cement' would have done the job, but was a bit more messy and sometimes unreliable used in small amounts.
 

I have used pins on some items you may not expect, because sometimes it's difficult to get a positive 'seat' and be sure not to have visable glue. The ammo stowage tubes  above we're already pinned anyways, from painting,  and here I'm showing how I arrive at proper orientation by turning the part 180 degrees and using the pin itself to guide my micro-drill to the desired pin travel path.
 
 
Other items just had to be glued carefully. Several items I'd prepared we're not used, but I like to have them on hand so i can decide at the last minute just how many little details need to be lying around--the rest go into my "painted spares" collection (although I may still add a few things to the Opel's stowage)
 

~~Plenty left to fit into place!  Next up is the 'motorpool', and then the rest of the mini-men.

With good fortune I'll return here again tommarrow...thanks for hanging with!....

"Well...you gunna pull them pistols, or just whistle Dixie?"

  • Member since
    December 2008
  • From: Goffstown, NH
Posted by New Hampshire on Sunday, May 9, 2010 4:28 AM

Hey Indy, as I posted over in the forum thread you are really putting maximum effort into this build anf it is showing in spades buddy!  Can't wait to see it all together!

Brian

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