"Linking Up" Dio (Lots of Photos)

Anonymous

Member since
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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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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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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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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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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Anonymous

Member since
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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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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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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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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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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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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Anonymous

Member since
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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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]