Worms dio "Finished"!!!

Hey Stephen,

Very nice work! I really like how the figures are laid out. A well conveyed sense of trepidation when approaching that corner. I'd personally like to see more of the the building's interior... lot of space back there and I'm curious.

I agree about having a backdrop for the shots. The bottles of Epoxy kinda take me out of "the moment". Another thing I might suggest is to get that darker brick red tone, from the building, into the rubble, to better tie the two together. I know it's there to some degree, but I think more wouln't hurt.

Great detailiing and painting overall. A piece worthy of competing. Are you taking this to a show in the future?

Steve

Thanks everyone for looking!! There were a few firsts in this dio. First time using oils (just on the faces), first resin figures(two of them), first building, first rubble and first home made cobblestone street.

Doog and Manstein-You  both have a good eye for the small details. If you could let me know what you see wrong so that I may correct it on future models that would be great. Some things are obvious like broken parts and some seams.

Buddho- Thanks for the kind comments, still have some improvements to make with modeling skills.

SteveM- I thought that there should have been more red to the rubble. I also think I need to flat coat the troops again. I was planning on entering the Austin Scale Modelers show in Sept., are you planning on attending.

Agentg- I love the caption! Epoxy is Germany's new secret weapon, stops the enemy in there tracks!

  Steve For all your "first's" you've done a really fine job here .

   I've been checking out your progress on this one and didnt add my worth only because imo there was nothing I could add to the great feedback and suggestion you were getting.

   Like doog I too like the implied look of the dio. The pose of the figs gives a very tense feel to it, like just second's before that MG was spraying rounds down that street.

   Looking foward to seeing your next one .

Stephen- I will be there! Looking forward to seeing this dio in person. I'll be entering the dio I've got goin' in the WIP thread.

Steve

Panzerguy- Thanks for taking a look, I'm happy with anyone's as long as it will help me improve.

SteveM- I took a look at your WIP French POW, and that is some amazing work you've got going on over there. I'd like to see that one in person.

Chiming in kind of late. The overall looks quite good.

Couple things for future reference,

The sandbag wall is ioce in that it is scratchbuilt and not the stiff Tamiya ones. I'd have built more of a base to give it stability. Something that tall with no supports would be very unstable.

Looks like you used a single commercial "flesh" for your skin tones. There isn't, in my experience, any commercial flesh that looks natural. Experiment with a variety of paints and colors to get a more natural looking mix. I've succesffully used burnt sienna abd titanium white oils to get a good flesh tone and varied the mixture for highlights and shadows. Currently, I use Vallejo beige red as a base caucasian flesh with their games dark fleshtone added for shadows and pale flesh added for highlights. I might adjust with a couple other flesh tones for variations, but as a basic mix, those three colors work.

Ajlafleche- Thanks for taking the time to look and the input! I agree with the sandbags, didn't think of it like that at the time.

The flesh on the faces was my first time using artist oils. I used titanium white mixed with burnt umber for the tones(or tone). I mixed one batch then painted all the faces, next time i'll vary the tones more.

-Stephen

Hey, Stephen. I saw this at the Austin show today, looks great in person. I looked around to see if I might be able to find you. Alas, 6 hours on my feet, ans too-many-hunders dollars later, I needed to get out of ther.

I'm curious to know how this fared.

Steve

Steve,

       Sorry I missed you, too many guys in baseball caps and glasses ( including myself). Unfortunately this gained no hardware, which I could understand seeing the other dio's there. (Although my wife, great supporter that she is, feels I was cheated) But no worries as this was my second attempt at a real dio and I learned a lot from it. I did however earn a third place for my Porsche 911 GTR, which surprised me as I'm not a big car builder. Spent a lot of time and money in the vendor area and came away with 11 new kits.

Nick- Thanks for looking in and I appreciate the tips!! These are things I can use for my next attempt.

-Stephen