WW II dio GB

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.

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

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

-DJ

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!

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

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

tango- looks really cool so far! are you gonna put some figures in it? keep up the good work

well, i have time off from school, so im starting some work on my 251, i really dont feel like doing much, so im just divin in and out of it right now...hopefully some progress will come out of this.

-DJ

Looking good tango. Only ting I want to say is about the trees. They still have their leaves on and they dont look like pine trees. I suggest either replacing them with some pine trees or some twigs from the yard to simulate leafless trees.

If you do decide to keep these trees, be sure to cover up the seam mark where the tree connects to the stump.

tango- well you couold always say that a pillow factory blew up in the area of this action.....

not much progress here, but none the less, its progress.....i built the stowage bins (for good now) using balsa, i will put putty on it so it doesnt look like wood but metal, and then i could finnally get out of the interior!! now that i found alittle more refrence on the interior, (and becuz i couldnt find any kits for the  hanomag interior)  i was planning on doing the putty today, but i felt lazy, so i just watched black hawk down and drew portraits of larry and shemp (from the three stooges( yea i know random))

-merry x-mas everyone, hope santas good to you! (i still believe)- DJ

tango- well you couold always say that a pillow factory blew up in the area of this action.....

not much progress here, but none the less, its progress.....i built the stowage bins (for good now) using balsa, i will put putty on it so it doesnt look like wood but metal, and then i could finnally get out of the interior!! now that i found alittle more refrence on the interior, (and becuz i couldnt find any kits for the  hanomag interior)  i was planning on doing the putty today, but i felt lazy, so i just watched black hawk down and drew portraits of larry and shemp (from the three stooges( yea i know random))

-merry x-mas everyone, hope santas good to you! (i still believe)- DJ

Progress- went to my local barber shop to do some "research" and a haircut (cuz im making one of the shops on the bottom floor of the building into a barber shop) found out exactly how a barber shop seat looks along with other things i could put into a barber shop... so i built a chair (when you really look at it, you see its a really complicated chair) finnished another chair, along with a newspaper stand, and some other furniture...so thats done...looks really cool, kinda feel bad now that i have to put rubble on top of it (cuz its right under a big hole in the building where a bomb hit)

thats all for now (and probably for awhile because of skool startin tommorrow) -DJ