Beautiful work! an excellent tribute to those troops!

Simply stunning! Great detail and superb figures. I love every bit of it.

Finnaly!

Beautiful piece of work Steve! Congradulations on it's completion. You are a difficult man to please and I just hope you are happy with it---looks great from here.

Top-Stuff 

Thanks, guys. I appreciate you's checkin' it out.

That is some top notch work right there!!

Absoloutly brilliant.

What scale is this?

It's fantastic!

Amazing job! Great job on the figures and the composition of the scene! Like it, like it a lot!

Very cool.. ! good Job on the figures..!!

Yeah! Beautiful! I especially like the faces of the figures... Just cool... So what's your next project Steve? Keep them jewels comin', have a nice day

Paweł

Thank you for your compliments, gentlemen. I'm glad your diggin' it.

Suggestions for improvement and critical feedback = welcome with me as well  It's good to have a hundred set of eyes on projects, as I tend to focus on key elements and completely miss others. Always looking for new ideas, tips, and ways to improve, so let me have it!. I encourage you to be harsh, and just know that I'll defend your right to be.

TT4438- this is 1/35th scale.

Pawel- next project = undecided. I'd like to knock something out quick. Something smaller, 2 or 3 figures. Maybe Italians… I ain't done Italians yet.

Mic

Thank you for your compliments, gentlemen. I'm glad your diggin' it.

Suggestions for improvement and critical feedback = welcome with me as well  It's good to have a hundred set of eyes on projects, as I tend to focus on key elements and completely miss others. Always looking for new ideas, tips, and ways to improve, so let me have it!. I encourage you to be harsh, and just know that I'll defend your right to be.

TT4438- this is 1/35th scale.

Pawel- next project = undecided. I'd like to knock something out quick. Something smaller, 2 or 3 figures. Maybe Italians… I ain't done Italians yet.

Well, I would like a better view of what the figure in the ruin is doing. It is pretty much obscured in the photos.

Thanks, Lee. Obscured, to say the least. I've regretted his placement since the super glue dried

Here are some shots that, hopefully, give you an idea of what he's up to:

WOW, Im speechless great work

Gosh, you really want a harsh feedback from us.  All right here it is... I am SO P*SSED OFF that I will never be able to build something as good as yours!   Are you happy now?  Outstanding work!  It deserves a spot in FSM especially that I haven't seen anybody doing American-Japanese figures in last two years! 

Wouldn't change a thing about the figure placement.  Making people "hunt" for all the goodies in the dio just adds to the fun.  There's nothing wrong with making viewers work to realize all of the great details.  I love every delectible morsel of this scene.  Congrats on a stunning beauty! 

                                                                                               Pat.

Wow... Simply stunning work, the best I've ever seen in here...

Anectdotal to this piece, a German officer, surprised at being captured by what were obiviously Japanese troops, couldn't understand it... One of the Nisei NCOs told him, "Didn't you hear?  We surrendered and switched sides...".

Excellent work capturing the facial expressions & look of the Japanese soldiers.

Did you substitute the face sculpts on the American figures for Japanese ones or modify them?

A tutorial on your figure painting techniques would be greatly appreciated. Yours are some of the best I have viewed.

Thank you, Matt! Glad you like the scene.

Andy: thank you, too… you've been far too kind throughout the WIP. Also, I haven't forgotten about your taste for oldie-times pix, and I messed around with this for you :



Pat, a million thanks… I appreciate the encouragement regarding the figure placement. Agreed on the notion of a little detail hunting in projects. My initial idea was to have him kinda partially hidden inside the building. As the base progressed and the pile of rubble grew, he's become almost nonexistent. Oh well…

Thanks, Hans, very high praise. I became aware of the Nisei troops while watching Ken Burns' The War, and loved hearing guys like Daniel Inouye telling their stories. Seems that, despite being one of the most beaten up units ever, they never lost their humor.

Thank you, SuppressionFire! Very kind praise. I wish I could take more credit for the faces but, fortunately for us modelers, Hornet ROCKS. They are the Asian heads, and all I had to do was paint 'em. Hornet heads and hands are exquisite and, IMO, worth far above the MSRP, if you're into this kinda thing.

As for a painting tutorial from me; I'm afraid I ain't got much to say. I just paint until it don't look screwed up. I have been following guys like ajlafleche and (the sorely-missed) Fingers Eddie. I think I'm combining favored aspects of many painters. I appreciate your appreciation, tho

Thanks again for commenting, guys!

Well I hate to be just another 'great job' guy but geeze I love the figures, the poses, the wrecked building, the base, pretty much everything!

Great job and kudos to you sir!

Thanks a lot, Gamera! I appreciate that

I'm sold on using Hornet heads from now on... I mean, DAYUM...

Hi Mic, what a fantastic Dio.

I haven't been around the forum lately and what a surprize when I came back for a quick look around. I knew it was going to be shocker but I didn't see the ivy coming. That really gives the scene a difference rather than the usual concrete facing.

The re-posed figures are much better covering their buddies. The detail painting of the rubble and carnage is amazing. I like it very much and the 360 view is great. There's more to say but looks like everyones covered most of it.

Cheers,

Richard

That is positivley brilliant! it works so well on that round base! Very well done!

Steve a beautiful structure. The scene has enough rubble and broken beams and displaced interior to be entirely convincing, and it is very well composed. Well done.

Hans, at about 12 bucks a set, Hornet heads come in at less than $2.50 a head. Dunno about anyone else, but I'd go twice that.

Thank you, Richard, I'm glad you got a look… I truly value your eye for the details. The reposed figures, as well as the ivy, came as after thoughts- ie. sitting on my patio with an evening cigarette, thinking about something completely different, and it just dawning on me. The repositioned figures ain't nuthin to write home about, but I agree that there's been an improvement. The ivy actually looks better in pictures than in person, can't explain why, but I'm runnin' with it

Thank you, Grimmo! I'm definitely sold on round bases, as there's no need to worry about the "no right angles" theory!  I'm liking the swiveling, Lazy Susan aspect now, too. I don't want people to be afraid to rotate my scene around (if they're so inclined), view every angle, and a revolving base facilitates that.

Thanks for looking in Vespa! Praise from the Master, for sure.

LOL!  You got that damn right.  Always liked pictures taken in B&W.  Loved it... have to get one of those hornet heads one day.  Most of my figures are Verlinden and DML and they are pretty good... far better than most.  Thanks for posting this pic...

Hans, at about 12 bucks a set, Hornet heads come in at less than $2.50 a head. Dunno about anyone else, but I'd go twice that.

Well, ya sold me... BTW, what happened with your barn dio?