"Linking Up" Dio (Lots of Photos)

Kelly_Zak

Member since
April 2003
From: CANADA

"Linking Up" Dio (Lots of Photos)

Posted by Kelly_Zak on Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:24 AM

Ok, after starting this thing at the beginning of Nov. it's finally done. Somewhere in Holland, two units meet up and discuss the next plan of attack. The house is built completely from scratch, which is plaster, balsa wood, overhead projector foils for glass, scrapbook paper for wallpaper. The StuG is Tamiya, as is the Krupp Protze. All figures are from Dragon. Light standards are the Lemax Christmas village goodies. Thanks big time to Bugsy for taking some really great shots, and he took a ton of them, I had to pick out the best ones to use, and even still, there's just so much to show, I have no choice but to put up alot of pics.... Big Smile [:D]

Comments welcome as always... Smile [:)]

"There you go with those negative waves again!"

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:26 AM

holy crap, that looks amazing..i wish i could do dioramas like that..how long did it take you? looks amazing.

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rjkplasticmod

Member since
February 2003
From: A Spartan in the Wolverine State

Posted by rjkplasticmod on Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:52 AM

Excellent work. Outstanding Diorama.

Regards, Rick

RICK

At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...

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yw18mc

Member since
April 2004
From: sunny imperial beach

Posted by yw18mc on Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:12 AM

Outstanding Kelly! There must be something in the water you guys drink up there in the land of the "Maple Leaf", that is one cool looking dio. Semper Fi, mike

mike

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gringe88

Member since
July 2004
From: ...Ask the other guy, he's got me zeroed-in...

Posted by gringe88 on Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:56 AM

awesomepiece kelly. excellent work. i like the loads of debris too, very realistic

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-Matt

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KINGTHAD

Member since
May 2004
From: Dallas

Posted by KINGTHAD on Thursday, March 31, 2005 12:11 PM

Nice dio you got there.

Thad

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Kelly_Zak

Member since
April 2003
From: CANADA

Posted by Kelly_Zak on Thursday, March 31, 2005 12:32 PM

Thanks gang, for the comments! I.B., the dio took roughly 5 months to do, roughly Nov 1 til last wed. About 2 of those months were dedicated to doing the house. Once the rubble was down, it started to go pretty quickly. The Stug was built first, then I started on the house. The Krupp was also constructed during this time. Also forgot to mention that the roadway is from Kancali, filled with tile grout to build up the spaces in between the cobbles. Kind of burnt me out, this project...LOL

"There you go with those negative waves again!"

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, March 31, 2005 2:13 PM

Marvelous job, this is the kind of dio i consider #1
-ERAD

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DanCooper

Member since
March 2004
From: Belgium

Posted by DanCooper on Thursday, March 31, 2005 3:16 PM

Amazing job you did, really great work.

One question though... are you absolutely sure this is in Holland ? The reason I ask, if this is based on photographs, is that the house doesn't look like the houses in Holland.

On the bench : Revell's 1/125 RV Calypso

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biffa

Member since
January 2005
From: in the tank factory in my basement

Posted by biffa on Thursday, March 31, 2005 3:39 PM

this is a beautiful piece zak that house is outstanding in fact everything is outstanding, but that house just blows me away, im keeping one of these pics for when i try one as a reference, amazing work.

Ron g.

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Kelly_Zak

Member since
April 2003
From: CANADA

Posted by Kelly_Zak on Thursday, March 31, 2005 4:09 PM

Hi Dan, I just kinda figured I may as well use Holland I wrote a slogan on the wall, I just figured Tudor style houses were commonplace throughout Europe..Oh well. LOL

"There you go with those negative waves again!"

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sasd

Member since
November 2004
From: Canada

Posted by sasd on Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:14 PM

An outstanding piece of work Kelly,the building just blows me away and the streetlamps work very nicely,most excellent work! When I lived in central Germany in a
small town the local gashaus was a tudor style building.

"Battleing Bastards of Bastogne"

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:07 PM

A LOTTA PICS= GOOD!!!!!! so much detail!!! the rubble is amazing!!! great work!

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 1, 2005 8:46 AM

Well, I suppose it's OK Big Smile [:D]

Seriously Kelly, I looked at those pics and especially the house and just thought, it does'nt really get much better than this does it.
Some of the small details I loved are the framed pictures in the house, the bucket on the Stug and also the dried wood stuff on the front of the Stug.
I think you should take a rest now and do something really bad, then we can all feel better Big Smile [:D]

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Kelly_Zak

Member since
April 2003
From: CANADA

Posted by Kelly_Zak on Friday, April 1, 2005 9:51 AM

LOL MC! Actually right now I'm doing a fun piece, with complete artistic licensing involved, and after that, I'm getting into the next "project"...*sigh*.....haha

"There you go with those negative waves again!"

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J-Hulk

Member since
February 2003
From: Tochigi, Japan

Posted by J-Hulk on Friday, April 1, 2005 12:19 PM

Superb work!
Great job on the scratched house.

~Brian

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vonryan

Member since
December 2004
From: ohio

Posted by vonryan on Saturday, April 2, 2005 9:29 AM

OUTSTANDING!!!!! Bow [bow]

JUST OUTSTANDING!!

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 3, 2005 11:16 AM

Maybe you should do a step-by-step photoshoot next time and publish a how-to book. Geez, I know I'd buy it! Amazing figure posing, by the way - nothing artificial-looking. Thanks for the pics!

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DanCooper

Member since
March 2004
From: Belgium

Posted by DanCooper on Sunday, April 3, 2005 2:15 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by sasd

When I lived in central Germany in a
small town the local gashaus was a tudor style building.

Yes, that's what I was thinking ; the house is typical German/Austrian but there they aren't called Tudor-style of course ; translated they would be called "craftwork houses", you really won't find many of them in Holland though.

Still it's a great dio.

On the bench : Revell's 1/125 RV Calypso

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 3, 2005 3:14 PM

Amazing Kelly!
When I went to Germany, there were pretty many Tudor (or craftwork) houses, more of in the South, not really in Middle or North Germany.

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Kelly_Zak

Member since
April 2003
From: CANADA

Posted by Kelly_Zak on Sunday, April 3, 2005 11:10 PM

Ok, I'll just change it to a non-Holland area, LOL Can't win 'em all I guess.
I did take a couple of photos with my 35mm camera of initial construction of the house, and somewhere in an old thread here is some in progress shots of the house. One of these years I'll get a digi camera and start documenting these builds a little more! :)
Write a book, hmmm...I don't know, I'm no expert in that field, although I used to do some writing for another website a long time ago. And it may be obvious, and this may get people cringing, but when I set out to do a scene, I practically don't do any research (ie where units were, what should be on a vehicle, etc) I do look at occasional pics to get some ideas, but most come from my crainium, and when something pops up, I just run with it. I'd much rather build than do months of pre-planning. I come out with both guns blazing, LOL

"There you go with those negative waves again!"

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 4, 2005 10:44 AM

You've done a super job on the Dio, thanks for all the pics....

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 4, 2005 1:13 PM

Superb job, it's like taking a look back in time. Bow [bow]

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 3:24 PM

World Class my friend, Belongs in a book telling us newbies how to do it. Very, very impressive.

Ted

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jinithith2

Member since
January 2005
From: returning to the FSM forum after a hiatus

Posted by jinithith2 on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 7:02 PM

I was thinking abotu praises and then there were so many so my brain overloaded and then popped

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Kelly_Zak

Member since
April 2003
From: CANADA

Posted by Kelly_Zak on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 10:36 PM

LOL, Jinithith2! I should sit down and do a write up for this beast, I'm sure it would be a few pages long! I changed my plan for the project I'm working on now, it initially was going to be a jagpanther hiding amonst a ruined building, but now I'm gonna do it sitting on the side of the road broken down, and I'll probably have a Firefly driving past it.

Thanks for the comments everyone!

"There you go with those negative waves again!"

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 6, 2005 1:37 AM

You read it here first !! Kelly has claimed he will build a gasp Shock [:O]

Sherman. Can't wait to see this one.

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Kelly_Zak

Member since
April 2003
From: CANADA

Posted by Kelly_Zak on Wednesday, April 6, 2005 9:13 AM

I was wondering when I would hear from the peanut gallery Bugsy....LOL Yes folks, it's known in my part of the woods that I do not build Allied, but I have a couple kits hiding amonst all my German stuff, it's time to change scenery a bit. BUT, there will still be a German piece in the next dio...hahahha

"There you go with those negative waves again!"