WW II dio GB

progress: the stowage bin things behind the seats are finnished, just cushions, stowage, weathering and some putty and itll all be DUN!! well at least the interior.

-DJ

well, this is counter productive, i build a fig, once it was done, it fell and broke. down to 0
i really dont feel like doing any more bricks, even though im done with covering the base like 75% im growing bored with it, maybe something will get me to work on it more. the 251, is well, not anymore finnished, i made all the seats just need to mount them, and give em backs.

Wow, that does look a..a..a..aw...ful..l.y c..c..c..cold!, I like it too.
Uhh.. not trying to be overly picky but.... "What did you do with my Steering wheel"?[:0], just kidding, I know you are workin' on it.

Be good & have FUN,
Bill

don be sorry, its perfectly fine.

still waiting on my building to arrive.....

Thanks reb. I didn't know they were OD. sry

man that looks freezing! A couple of tips, take the snow off the seats and areas where the driver would have been. Also, US stretchers were Olive drab, not brown.

after that it looks really cold.

Progress is slow as like everybuddy elses put here are some pics of my medical jeep. I've one got one fig built up and thats the one in the pic. I have to do some more work with painting some small details and the fig, but heres the pics:

My Tamiya Steyr Commander wagon is progressing slowly but surely. It's a nice model that fits together very well. I was working on it until the wee hours last night. I've also been studying pics of knocked out and burned out vehicles in order to figure out the right 'look' I want to give this soon to be doomed car.

I also got an e-mail from rollmodels and greatmodels.com alerting me that my bikes and bicycle detail kits I'm including are on the way...plodding along...slow but sure with this, my first dio.

Edited to say: I did get a chance to break out my Grabhandler tool and make a couple of nice looking handles out of brass wire to replace the plastic ones on the seat backs.

Cheers!
Eric

Thanks Hernando, i'm getting going now!

Be good & have FUN,
Bill

I've totally switched around my dio. I've got the Italeri Med jeep and the med center building so I'm going to do a winter scene of a front line aid station. Think It'll be good.

what have i gotten myself into...... half done with my bricks comin out very nicely (but slowly) added a sewer cover, and i am gonna do (on the bottom of my building) a barber shop and a apotecary store, then im gonna block off the second floor, put a plaque on it, then on the top floor, gonna have some snipers and insurgents with maltov cocktails, exactly how am i gonna make the guys hold cocktails i dont know...
too much work....

QUOTE: Originally posted by hernando Actually, Russia is in Europe ( Urals are in Russia, right?)

Hernando, I'm glad to have everyone and anyone on board! However, Kursk is on the eastern border of Asia

Cheers!
Eric

QUOTE: Originally posted by Abdiel Hey reb, that stug's looking great and as mentioned, the scratch-built sandbags really came out nice...well done! What kind of fabric or material did you use to get the 'woven' pattern into them? I was planning on using some porch screening material on mine, but whatever you used came out really well. I'm also using a propoganda poster along with a painted graffiti slogan declaring, "victory or slavery," on my park wall (gotta get my german speaking neighbors to translate that for me.) I got that little detail out of the Cornelius Ryan book I just finished. I finished building the BMW R75 I'm using and primered it this past weekend. I brought it out to show a couple of friends and they freaked out over the detail. I did go a bit crazy and besides the PE kit I added to the model, I also threw in the brake, clutch and electrical cables coming off the handlebars. Also, all my figures are now sanded, primered and ready to be painted...gotta get some pics and post up! Hernando, shtepsela wants to play...you're gonna have to tell him he's on the wrong continent Cheers! Eric

Actually, Russia is in Europe ( Urals are in Russia, right?) Havent gotten much else done on my stuff, been staying late with football, then i have Algebra II , Chemistry and world history homework. sonic_boom, glad to have you aboard!!

EDIT: Sorry shtepsela!! I already added you to the list, so your cool!

QUOTE: Originally posted by Abdiel QUOTE: Originally posted by rebelreenactor When I did my BMW R75 I took a whack at doing the brake and other cables, Lets just say I had a frustrating time. For some reaseon It didnt go easily for me. I still got paint that thing...... I can understand the 'frustration'...after finishing with the cables I considered the fact that I may have missed my calling as a surgeon

dont you just hate it when that happens!

QUOTE: Originally posted by rebelreenactor When I did my BMW R75 I took a whack at doing the brake and other cables, Lets just say I had a frustrating time. For some reaseon It didnt go easily for me. I still got paint that thing......

I can understand the 'frustration'...after finishing with the cables I considered the fact that I may have missed my calling as a surgeon

Anyway, last night I managed to get an hour in on the new Steyr comander wagon that recently arrived. Ican't believe the size of it! I found out that it was actually built on a truck chassis! I'm going to have to re-think the entire composition of my dio now.

Cheers!
Eric

thanks eric. I used some really fine cheescloth. The screen door type of stuff is just about the exact same size so I bet it would work just as good.

I want to add a German slogan too. I want to do Victory or siberia, I think its Sieg oder Siberian, Not 100% sure though.

When I did my BMW R75 I took a whack at doing the brake and other cables, Lets just say I had a frustrating time. For some reaseon It didnt go easily for me. I still got paint that thing......

Hey reb, that stug's looking great and as mentioned, the scratch-built sandbags really came out nice...well done! What kind of fabric or material did you use to get the 'woven' pattern into them? I was planning on using some porch screening material on mine, but whatever you used came out really well.

I'm also using a propoganda poster along with a painted graffiti slogan declaring, "victory or slavery," on my park wall (gotta get my german speaking neighbors to translate that for me.) I got that little detail out of the Cornelius Ryan book I just finished.

I finished building the BMW R75 I'm using and primered it this past weekend. I brought it out to show a couple of friends and they freaked out over the detail. I did go a bit crazy and besides the PE kit I added to the model, I also threw in the brake, clutch and electrical cables coming off the handlebars. Also, all my figures are now sanded, primered and ready to be painted...gotta get some pics and post up!

Hernando, shtepsela wants to play...you're gonna have to tell him he's on the wrong continent

Cheers!
Eric

Hey Hernando, I will join in, the finish date is somethig I can deal with. Always wanted to build a diorama, gonna try to do most from scratch.

Ok, Well after a hard decision I am going with the bottom pic. I just like the look of it. I plan on building many more dios so I can use the others sometime later on.

so heres what I have.

A couple of figs from this set


A few from this one


this building


some rubble


some benches and tables


and some propaganda posters


This all for around 60$!!!!!!! I will probably remove the posters and possibley the benches to make things abit cheaper.

Double D that sucks man. All those little bricks!!
Reb ur stug looks great, like the sandbags a lot. I like the 1st building but they all look good, hard choice.

im building my own buildings like that.... i bet if you painted the last one darker it would be just as gloomy

now that i got the base and need to make all the bricks outta putty i estimated that it will take me 12.7 hours to finnish all the bricks...yikes

I think the first one is better because it seems more gloomy.

Well I have made lots of progress on my stug.



I will add the wheels and tracks and hopefully get some paint on him by next weekend.

Now I am just having trouble finguring out what building I should use



or


or


I like them all. I think it will be the last on or the first one, ut heck, I like them all!

"""I'm making my first dio it's in 1/35 scale - "Building the Citadel" reprezenting the preparations for the Kursk battle .So , can i join ..I mean is it a problem that the scene is at the oposite side of "Ural" mountain?""" So my question was...can I join??Hernando you didn't said anything...

QUOTE: Originally posted by blackcat okey if you are in WWII Japanese aircraft do like an aircraft carrier w/ a bunch of japanese aircraft (or me) Blackcat

srry what i put was for pacific theatere..... lets see here............... maybe a sean with Junkers aircraft with Adolf Hitler standing by them.

Blackcat

right on marineman!
Oh, and as soon as i find my camera, ill send you some progress pics, ive got the tracks about 1/8 done, some of the infantry are done(minus paint) and ive done most of the upper half of the tank.

Hey this DIO GB sounds great. I'll do something American maybe a sherman and some guys. Maybe I'll wait a few months and get the new M4A3E8 when Dragon comes out with it. Just put me down for a sherman now.Thanks

okey if you are in WWII Japanese aircraft do like an aircraft carrier w/ a bunch of japanese aircraft (or me)

Blackcat

Can I be put down as a maybe please?It all depends if my mom lets me order any kits

sweet!

Well, I did some researching on stugs and found out that my version would not have been in normandy so early. So I am going from a Band of Brothers dio straight to a Berlin dio. Im pretty excited as I have yet to try urban stuff. The dio will be somewhere in between the Spree and Landwehr Canals in south eastern Berlin. Vehicle is going to be from the SS pz Abt 11 Stug abt. 11 which was attached to the 11 ss panzer grenediers. Everything I read says that most of the vehicles they had were stugs and assault guns. I even got their general location per day. Sweet, I love dios with the most amount of accuracy possible, I think I have most of it down. Now I searching through pics of the buildings and streets.

These guys were the only ones to really hold out, they kept the Russians about 1000
yds away from the reichstag at all times until their friendly units behind them were pushed into them and they were forced to surrender.

I cant wait to start on the groundwork.