WW II dio GB

im just inchin along.....doin small things on my 251..none really on my base....i cant decide how much to destroy the building...to mkae it fairly intact or battered..

been kinda busy l8ly on HW and such

-DJ

Didn't know whether this was still going. With the forum move, most people seem to have never come back. Oh well. I'll be starting work for my dio after this weekend. It'll be an allied pit stop somewhere in Normandy. Kits used are the AFV M-18 Hellcat and the Tamiya 2 1/2 ton truck, with several Tamiya (from the Dragon Wagon kit), Verlinden, Italeri, and DML figures.

Wow everyone's dios look great. Reb I love that stug!

I'm finally finished with my small dio. It's the Italeri medjeep with some scratched stuff, the italeri command center, with DML and Tamiya figs. The snow is baking soda(hey it's cheap) and everything was painted with tamiya paint. This is my first complete dio and also my first group build. Any comments are welcomed good or bad!    Heres the pics:

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This last one didn't come out to well but I thought it was cool

ok, here are some pics.

This is a basic layout of the dio. The red box and wooden thing are representations of the 2 buildings I will have. One will be made from scratch. Sorry for the lack of detail in the pics. On the left side are piles of rubble and there is now a shell hole in the upper right.

Some progress on the StuG, Stowage is all done. Its not glued in place yet, I want to paint them off the tank. She is going to get some primer on tomorrow as well as some red oxide paint. The over all paint scheme will be dark yellow with a a good deal of weathering. Remember she's one of the few tanks in Berlin.

Here is my empty jerrycan. Its not 100% accurate but its about 85% there. There is a small tube thing that should be in the hole. I made the can open and empty to show the conditions of fuel supply in Berlin's final days, desprate.

 

comments welcome!

Ok, tonight I got the balsa sides done. It took alot longer than I thought. I also did some more precise measurements and planning. I got some pics that i will upload  a little later.

WOW!! that looks soo cool!! the flesh and the uniforms are OUTSTANDING!!! very nice work on the tank too!

-DJ

Geez those look great! How did you paint the flesh? It looks reall really good. Every thing looks great, I cant wait to see the base and the Opel.

I've finished 14 from the 19 figs that I intend to put in my dio these are the last 3 that I finished during the weekend. My Tiger I is nearly 99% completed ,but i didn't start the base..also I have to start the Opel "Blitz" and the PAK40


have fun

WOW!!! i got SOOOO far in my dio these past two days!! after a month or so of neglect i finnaly got to work and...i cut the windows in all the stores in the bottom floor of the facade, put panes in hlaf of them, put tiles on the floor of the barber shop in there, fixed up some things in the 251, cut the corner facade, and all the windows on it, built the ENTIRE sidewalk, painted it, cut the stones in it, and weathered it, and put more damage on the facade...

THATS A LOT!!!! WOW!!

-DJ

ok, I've got the week off so I hope to get a lot of progress done. I'll make a trip to the art store and get a new brush. I have already started the day productive. The stug is awaiting some final touch ups on the road wheels and then to the paint shop she goes. I hope to have some progress pics soon.

if your going as fast as a snail and a turtle then i think im going backwards...

i think its been a month since i even touched my dio, except to only move it out of the way...counter productive-DJ.

I finally recieved my custom dioramics building. Still finishing up my stug though. Moving slower than a turtle and a snail combined!

Bump. this is actually more of hitting this topic with a car, but oh well. I finally was able to connect the two halves of my tank and am now beggining on detail work

Wow a lot of you are rolling right along on this one. It'll be a while before I can even start mine.

Wow, im already feeling ashamed of my tank and its nowhere near finished? My schedules been really full lately, but i should have more time next weekend... football season ends.

Dragon is comming out with a new kit called "Germania France 1940" It's one of their new Gen-2 kits, so a thousand pieces for six or so guys... I think you're right about the commander's cammo,

PROGRESS PICS!- i finnished the cobblestones FINNALY!!! need to paint them, fix up some uneveness, and ill be done with that chapter!
cobble stones (sry for the bad camera)
dio mock up polaks view
side view mock up
germans pov
entire dio mock up
251 interior (scratchbuilt)
(with the top off)
-DJ

looks pretty good! Looks like you did a very nice job painting the figures. On the tank commander though, Im not sure the germans ever issued caom like that. Have you thought about adding the pea pattern on it? Overall though, looking quite good. What figs are you waiting for dagon to come out with?

Im planning on doing a dio with the 101ss pz abt, in their more fortunate days, like right around whittmans infamous attack.

Progress on my dio. I finished up all of the figs last night. Well glueing. They have all the accessories on them etc. I think a few need some putty, and a couple need gun straps. Still waiting for my building to arrive. Its been like 2 months!

I will be adding the balsa sides to the base today, glue the drywall down and smaybe even start groundwork. I also want to get the figs primed.

alright I'm almost done with my dio, just need the new fig set that's commin out by Dragan, yep a Gen-2 set due out in November, it's almost like they can see my dio and knew exactly what to make just for MEEEEE LOL. But on a serious note, the pics aren't the greatest, but here goes!









alright so there ya go. This is the command tank for the SS 101 Panzer Reg. The setting is the last offensive in Normandy before all Tigers were destroyed! Yep, it wasn't just Witmann's tank that ate it! The commander of the tank is telling the Infantry where to go, while the AT gun (7.5cm PAK 40) crew sets up. They still need to be painted. The Tiger is Dragon, the figs are Verlinden, the road is Dry Wall, and the groundwork is Celluclay covered in various shades of Verlinden's grass. The Park wall is by Verlinden aswell, and the trees are woodland scenics

bump, well more like a shove....6th page?? come on guys!!!
pics comin soon!-DJ

hehehehe cross eyed he kinda looks like colonol klink...

-DJ

The fig looks crosseyed ...becouse it is...I have to fix that rigth away 'couse it looks freacky. I am begining to think that the only way to see the mistakes is via the eyes of the other members of the forum.Thanks and have fun

shtepsela- nice figs!! number four in the 2 set looks kinda crosseyed. but other than that it looks Awesome!
no progress here, startin anouther build that i kinda neglected.
-DJ

I already finished (nearly) 9 figs from the 19 I intend to put in my dio . The Tiger I that I'm working on is making progres (German Armour GB). My dio will include also an Opel "Blitz" with PAK 40AT. I'm not in the list but Hernando said that I'm in so here I am .Have fun

Hi Everyone!

I've just been surfing through all the threads here and started to feel a tad left behind!
My plan is to build the Tamiya M4A3 Sherman in winter camo trudging through a forest with a few troops using the sherman for cover as they advance. I have the kit,figures and have just started the base. I have also bought my trees and scenic snow. First time I'll be using this stuff, so this will be a learning experience for me. As and when I start to make some interesting progress, I'll start posting pictures.

See you later,

Darren.

looks pretty cool on....wood
i have the same thing.....for about 2 months now, i drew on the street, all the sewers, and the inside of a barbers shop and an apothecary, cut down a story on my building, and the bricks are still.....unfinished. i really need to get inspired.
-DJ

Alright fine, since everyone's been sharing it, no point in keeping mine to myself. I drafted some of my ideas on the base for the dio already. Got the Kubelwagen and some verlinden PE and resin updates. I think I will convert Tamiya's driver figure since I am short on seated figures, and the half track figures from the Dragon kit seems to be sitting too high to fit in a kubelwagen. Might rob the half track driver's arms for the downshift motion.



Name will be settled at either "Drift King" or "First Day in a Car?". Haven't really thought about it. The kubelwagen is in the back sliding motion through a muddy road's corner shortly after a rain (turned front wheels and redone suspension height). So there are fresh puddles of water away from the car and muddy ones in its wake, plus deeply carved track marks into the mud (cars like kubel won't really drift unless it skids out of the way, duh...). Been trying to get more tips on making that little splash from the back wheel using clear resin, still looking into it. Thinking of making the action a bit more animated by having a guy in the backseat reaching out to grab one of the bag that got thrown out from the car.

Well that's it for now, I might end up compromising a lot during the build. The Kubel itself will be built for the the Crazy Kubel GB at the end of october.

question question marineman, what did you use for the snow. it looks so real as if it just got out of my old fridge's freezer!! (that thing frosts a lot)

I'm still working on my tiger, it can be seen in the "German Armour GB" in the Armour forum. I just got the base and the gate for my dio from verlinden!

Im making very, very little progress. Even when i have time, i spend half of my time on tracks, and none of the shops up here carry gun metal or, suprisingly, flat brown. will post pics in a couple of minutes.