Hold Until Relieved

Richard i love your work. Loads of candy for the eyes. Very well done you should be proud.

Bodge

Richard i love your work. Loads of candy for the eyes. Very well done you should be proud.

Thanks Bodge for those nice words. Glad you liked the Dio. It took the longest time of all my dio builds with most of the time to research and gather all the items to modify the figures and jeeps to WW2 British Paras.

Cheers,

Richard

It looks exelent. I think I may try to do something simaler one day. I don't think I would be able to scratchbuild a bridge like that, but I may be able to build a wooden one. That's worth thinking about. I really enjoyed looking at the diorama. Thanks for sharing it.

Railfan 233

It looks exelent. I think I may try to do something simaler one day. I don't think I would be able to scratchbuild a bridge like that, but I may be able to build a wooden one. That's worth thinking about. I really enjoyed looking at the diorama. Thanks for sharing it.

Thanks Raifan,

I'm sure you'll be able to scratch build a bridge. Funny you mentioned a wooden bridge as I have one still in WIP and gathering dust. Perhaps these pictures will be of help to you.

I've since shored the sides and painted it black but I think my interest it it fizzled out so it's put aside till I get fired up to continue. Hope to see your build too.

Cheers,

Richard

Richard~I like that bridge-base very much! it deserves finishing. (That masking tape is getting really old around the edge (--yuck!) If you'd like to send it to me , I'd love to build something on it    Actually, I've made a start on my next Dio---in the Figure Forum---as I don't recall ever seeing you over there, I thought I'd drop you a LINK if you'd like to take a look.

Now, that's a good rural bridge! I don't know the scale of it (I assume 1/35) but I can use the principals of it's construction for my build.

It looks like the street is paved with gravel or stones. I take it that the diorama will be somewhere in Europe?

Thanks Guys,

Indy - I don't know if it'll survive the trip through the post and yes it deserves to be finished. I dropped by the figure forum and liked what you did with your figures. Makes me wanna continue with this other Dio I have of the 101st but will have to try to complete R&R first. I'm working on the figures for that and will draw inspiration from your progress.

Railfan - You got the scale right but the rest wrong. I think all the dust collected on the dio obscured the picture a little. The cobble stone effect you thought is actually dirt stuck in the polysterene texture.

The initial scene planned was set during the "Emergency Period of the local war against the communist insurgencies" with tropical grass land  and a booby trapped road bridge. An open topped Dodge truck would stop just ahead of the bridge with its occupants (mixture of Sikh and Gurkha troops) at the ready while an officer inspects a clump of leaves just beyond the bridge.

Thanks again for looking at this old bridge, I might just revive it.

Cheers,

Richard

how did you make the cobblestone road?

Hi Col Hogan,

Don't know which cobble stone you're refering to but if it's for "Hold until relieved" then it's explained on page 1 of this post. I've attached it here:

This is the only aftermarket product I used here called Faller. Specifically for Railroad dios, it's compressed foam textured to fabricate walls in HO/OO scale. I sliced off sections with a hobby knife and glued them with white glue(Elmers) onto the styrofoam base. Here's a cut example of what it looks like:

Incidently the whole bridge structure including the bottom masonry can be detached. I did this to facilitate painting in sub-assemblies.

If it's about the unfinished road with the wooden bridge dio then it's just the texture of the polysterene foam board. Normally this would be covered with spackle or some form of filler. On it's own thinners would attack and dissolve it. I only use polysterene foam to build up shapes.

Hope that explains what you want to know Hogan.

Cheers,

Richard