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"Linking Up" Dio (Lots of Photos)

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  • From: Canada
Posted by sasd on Monday, April 18, 2005 2:19 PM
No,no mgs on a firefly,space was needed for ammo and the radio had to be stuffed into that extra large bustle.The turret mg was a hinderance as far as the Canadians were concerned,one vet told me they used to trade em to the Americans for stuff. I don`t know about the Brits though.
"Battleing Bastards of Bastogne"
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Posted by Kelly_Zak on Monday, April 18, 2005 1:37 PM
Thanks again guys, my sentiments exactly Bauer, I get an idea and I run with it....LOL Russ, I was lucky, I got the wheels backwards on the running gear for one side, I haven't attached them to the hull yet, just had to pry apart the wheels and reverse them.
Hey, I noticed there's no machine gun for the front of the hull, and none for the top of the turret...isn't there suppoesed to be some?
"There you go with those negative waves again!"
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  • From: Pominville, NY
Posted by BlackWolf3945 on Monday, April 18, 2005 1:51 AM
I don't come in to the diorama forum very often but this thread made it worthwhile this time 'round. Super groovy guy! Nice stuff...


Fade to Black...
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 18, 2005 12:30 AM
Smokin' awesome, Kelly. I"m going to be tackling a dio soon. It's going to be a british manor or something of the like. I have some luxury cars from the '30s I want to display in it. Yours is great inspiration......Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 17, 2005 10:51 PM
Great Dio ! Just wanted to say that type of house could be in holland or could have been especially further inland and also you have incorporated artistic licence good on you !!!
Why are so many modellers hell bent on everything having to be accurate to the last measurement of a belt buckle?!!
Keep up your good work !
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Posted by sasd on Sunday, April 17, 2005 7:12 PM
How the hell can you screw up the running gear,wait I know,you put them on the wrong sides roit!?! hahahaha! Thought this might be fun,hahahaha!!
"Battleing Bastards of Bastogne"
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Posted by Kelly_Zak on Sunday, April 17, 2005 2:37 PM
You want funny? Already screwed the running gear up on the firefly, which needed major reconstructive surgery to fix, hey and it's only step 1!...stupid Allied vehicles...see? this is why I don't do Allied!
"There you go with those negative waves again!"
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Posted by sasd on Sunday, April 17, 2005 6:36 AM
Hoohaa,this should be fun!!
"Battleing Bastards of Bastogne"
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Posted by Kelly_Zak on Sunday, April 17, 2005 1:35 AM
Thanks very much for the compliments Dan, when I finished this one, for a few days I didn't want anything to do with plastic, or plaster for that matter! LOL But now I'm back in the groove, got my Jagpanther done and the first coat of paint on it, and started some light construction on the Firefly, I'm hoping this next piece isn't going to be as elaborate....hahaha
"There you go with those negative waves again!"
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  • From: Newport News VA
Posted by Buddho on Saturday, April 16, 2005 5:39 AM
Fantastic work on your diorama, Kelly. That is one of the best I have seen on here... well done.

Regards, Dan

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  • From: Alberta, Canada
Posted by stukabomb88 on Friday, April 15, 2005 11:10 AM
Man that dio is good! The rubble looks great! I want to do a street fighting dio some time, I've got but so much to do, so little timeSigh [sigh].
"If you live for personal gain, you have lived in vain." -Devon OpdenDries
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  • From: CANADA
Posted by Kelly_Zak on Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:14 AM
Thanks Tigerman!
Well was at the club meeting last night, and discovered that I have a casulty. The guy carrying the MG on his shoulder and standing near the stug, somehow the leg rests for the mg broke off, and it looks like the mg is now floating in air. CURSES!!! So now I have to go back and fix that up.....GRRRR haha
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  • From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA
Posted by tigerman on Wednesday, April 6, 2005 7:19 PM
Never tire of your fantastic work. Models, groundwork, etc are just superb.

   http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y269/wing_nut_5o/PANZERJAGERGB.jpg

 Eric 

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  • From: Portugal
Posted by madspaniard on Wednesday, April 6, 2005 1:43 PM
Great work,congratulations

Pedro
Fw 190 A-3 Richtofen JG
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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!"
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 6, 2005 1:37 AM
You read it here first !! Kelly has claimed he will build a gaspShock [:O] Sherman. Can't wait to see this one.
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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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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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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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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 4, 2005 1:13 PM
Superb job, it's like taking a look back in time. Bow [bow]Thumbs Up [tup]
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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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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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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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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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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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Posted by vonryan on Saturday, April 2, 2005 9:29 AM
OUTSTANDING!!!!! Bow [bow]Bow [bow] JUST OUTSTANDING!!
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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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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
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 1, 2005 8:46 AM
Well, I suppose it's OKBig 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 betterBig Smile [:D]
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