Hi to all, it´s my again!

Long time ago I read a W40K novel, "Warriors of Ultramar" (Graham McNeill). The Ultramarines fight against tyranids in Tarsis Ultra planet. A lot of tyranids were defeated by the power of the Ultamarines... and I need to put it into a diorama.

In that book the battle was in a snow field, but I decided to represent it into an urban environment. An ultramarine rhino was surrounded by hordes of tyranids while an epic ultramarine captain, Uriel Ventris, defend the vehicle with his life.

I couldn't wait anymore and I paint the RHINO, the main character of the diorama.

I have realized such important damages in the small tank: breaks in the lateral doors and back and, in addition, I have added it a few small details, as a kit of spades (extracted of a tank on 1:35 scale) and a series of antennas and cables that I have had to remove for the process of painted.

I have used a method of painting based in applying the paints in blows of paintbrush to give it an effect of real spoiled metal, with spots of color.

The "recipe" for the Rhino's blue is the following one (all the paints are from Vallejo, Model Color, with spanish names):

- Azul Prusia (ref 70965, Vallejo): applied to airbrush,
- Azul Oxford (ref 807, Vallejo): strong wash,
- Azul Americano (ref 903, Vallejo): first blows of paintbrush marking the first lights,
- Blanco Calcio (ref 73006, Train Color, Vallejo): mixed with the color base and the colors of the first lights,
- Turquesa (ref 966, Vallejo): blows of paintbrush to give variety to the sheet,
- Pátina Verdín (ref 832, Vallejo): blows of paintbrush to give texture to the sheet,

I added Oxide (ref 73001, Train Color, Vallejo) to made rusted areas but it isn't finished yet.



FIRST STEP

I want to do a very real scene, as a IIWW diorama. That's why I do a street with buildings of brick walls, not as the usual metal buildings.
I made the walls and the floor with a modelling material that is made with paper (in Spain was called DAS putty). All the bricks were handmade (about 3000!).



SECOND STEP

The fachade of the building was finished, and I began with the indoor area. I used many accesories extracted of a 1:35 scale kit; you can see a lot of tools, boxes...
It was time to put some rubbles in the street, like the building was falled down and I added a little area with grass too.





Here you can see my own idea of the scene... (the Imperial Fist marine isn't the marine of the scene).

Looks great to me and seeing what you did with that tank I know that the rest of the painting will be just as good.

THIRD STEP

I began with the paint work; I tried to do a real brick scheme on the wall, and it was very difficult!
I painted indoor area and the street too, always trying to make it so real.



FOURTH STEP

In that moment I paited some details and tried rust effects, like the imperial eagle on the wall, the street lines... and I put any tools: cans, wires...



FIFTH STEP

I decided to added a new building in the diorama, because it needed urbanity. I made another building as you can see... with modelling putty again.



DIORAMA TODAY...

Well... I paint the "new" building and I take some pictures to the terrain (with the rhino).

I hope you like it!

This is absolutely incredible. How long has this taken you?

Thanks for your comments!

Rryann, the work is still in progress and I don't know exactly time... but I think it takes me about one month and a half.

Regards!

Great weathering and damage on that Rhino.

The only thing I'm not too sure on is the buildings. They are a bit too antiquated for a 40K universe maybe?

They are fantastically made and painted for sure, but the seem a little too 20th Century?

That said you could always use the isolated planet low tech arguement.

That's fantastic. Will it be making an appearance at golden deamon?

This is amazing, i wish my terrain was nearly as good

I really like the real world subtlely 41st millenium look to the building. I looked at it and could almost swear blind I'd seen that building. Can't wait to see the nids and the ultramarines on the diorama. How many of each are you planning to use?

Excellent work. Nice masonary skills on the buildings.

The space marine on the rhino is screwed. I was wondering earlier in post what all that damage on rhino was about til I saw bugs enter picture. Very scenic. Brings a whole new meaning to "And They shall know no Fear".

I like it how are you going to make Uriel?

More great rust? wow.

I love those ruins, I wish I could make terrain with that level of detail. I like your choice of minatures too, complete with guardsman going through the "I am not a space marine" phase. When can we expect to see more?

WOW<WOW><WOW><WOW>

Lookin good I cant wait to see this finished. I dont play Ultramarines but I have read the books and I always look forward to seeing custom Ventris models.

Really beautiful so far, keep up the good work.

Love the ww2 feeling on the building and adding tank details to the rhino.

This looks just as amazing as all your other stuff. I only see one thing wrong we need updates.

Really great work with this scenery. Keep up the good work.

More, more, more...... We need more.

Thank you very much about your comments and sorry about my absence (I've got internet problems!!)

Gundam-Mecha, you are right about the 20th century appareance, but I want to do a mix between historical and fantasy dioramas. GW says that in the W40K you can find techpalnets or prehistoric planets. This is fantasy! But you're right,

Covenant84, maybe, but I don't know when! I want to go to a Golden Demon contest,

Dfanny, thanks a lot!

Llamahead, you've ot the blind in the new building! I'll use about one ultramarine (Captin Uriel Ventris) anda about... 50 tyranids!!

Old Man Ultramarine, you're right! That´s it!

Model collector... I don't know how I'll do Uriel conversion yet...

Paul Atreides... thanks! And you've got new updates!

Captain Shrike, Goon3423, Grimvaril, Ghost in the Darkness, Defcon56... thanks!

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Yes, I have a lot of work with the tyranids and the other stuff, but I'm in the right way I think.
Today I show you my latest news:

1.- I do another window glasses, because I want a realistic effect, broken by a bomb impact. I used plastic painted with the airbrush. It seems better aren´t it?



2.- I continue with the new building details. I do the floor and the windows with wood (it's fantasy, all you want to do becomes real!) and added new details, like the blind. I'm working a lot on this small house!

I hope you like it!

This is jaw droppingly insane.
Hurry up and finish it please!

Alex Kolodotschko wrote:Hurry up and finish it please!

No please take your time and give us a lot more of these excellent updates

Ooo... Unbelievably good modeling and painting! Do you just build dioramas or is your gaming terrain as detailed too? Great work so far! I am impressed.

Wow. I am subscribed to this thread.

Hey Connann, its really coming along well.

Actually it looks like something right out of Xtreme Modelling magazine, has a real high quality Scale Modeling quality to it. I was expecting to see a Tiger 1 or a KV-2 next to those ruins!

At first I hadn't realsied that the buildings were a scratch build. I'd assumed it was a set. Astonising work I must say, and the windows are also fantastic work.

If you ever want ideas for dioramas I'd reccommend Xtreme Modelling, it has some fantastic work in it. It is also a Spanish mag. Actually on that note there is some amazing modelling talent in Spain, as your work rightly proves!

Would love to see some of your historical models also!

A truely inspiring Plog. Very well executed on all fronts. I can't wait to see the models added to this.

Brilliant work good sir!! Anyone who hand makes 3000 bricks for his project deserves a special reward of some sort!!

Thanks for sharing this and I'm very eager to see more of your projects.

gobsmaked lol good work
and thats not a bad book either

That looks like you went 38,000 years into the future and took a photo, very realistic!

really excellent work m8 , nicely done

Excellent work, this is one to follow!

Connann wish I had half your skill in painting and converting.I really like your work,now more much,much more so work harder before those nids eat you!!!

That is completely amazing. Excellent work!

Yeah!! I'm here again!!

Thanks a lot for your C&C!!

Alex Kolodotchsko, Metsuri, I'll be updating my news of course!

Col Hammer, it will be a diorama. Too many work for a wargame terrain! Jajajaja!

SJMcCartney, thanks!

Gundam-Mecha, thank you very much! Yes, I know XM Magazine, of course. It`s a scratch, a really hard work. Finally I'll put a fantasy figures on it, but I'm inspired in the IIWW scenes! Thanks again for your polite comments,

Grey-Death, thanks!

Migsula, thank you very much. My reward are your comments!

Jammy, thanx! Not bad book, you're right!

P4NC4K3, Yes, my real name is Marty McFly!! jajajaja!

Leone, Kagar, thanks a lot!

Deff Dread red Edition, thanks! I'll be alert with the xenomorphs!! Jajajaja!

The Dreadnote, thank you very much!!

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As you can see, I painted the base of the new building and I continue detailing all the floors.
I used a Tamiya model kit to decorate the ground and I think it is a good choice.

I put a fence in the alley. I'll put a tyranid jumping it, of course!!

I hope you like it!

Regards!

WoW Esta bien chevere amigo. <sry for not accents> LoL
Poor tyrinds only one meal for all of them.
I must agree with everyone else and ask you to finish this please!

Excellent
Looking forward to achieve

This is truly mindblowing. Great job so far

Absolutely amazing. Keep at this. This looks like it could be your best yet.

Those Tamiya accessory sets are great, I use them myself a lot!

Maybe I will see you in XM sometime soon!

I love the wallpaper peeling off the walls. That is an incredible level of detail. Keep it up!

Thanks again for your C&C!!

Viney, thank you and I'll finish it... but... when? Jajajaja!

Cheapman, Flachsange, Captain.Gordino, thanx a lot!

Gundam-Mecha, jajajaa! I'll work hard to be in XM!! Yes, these Tamiya accesories are very useful!

SJMcCartney, thank you again!

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I'm here!!
Last week I showed you the paint work of the "new" building. Today I painted the "old" one, the brick factory.

I repainted the original rubbles scheme and I put a lot of minidetails, like gas cans, some papers (I put the front of the Marca (spanish sport newspaper), with the FCBarcelona design on it), some bricks, boxes and many other things. I think that these details brings realism to the scene.

On this building I tried to do some trial or weathering effects, with rust and other techniques. I want to represent a very old factory destroyed by the strenght of the war. I like very much this building, because the other one was cleaner.

I hope you like it!

this is fething insanity!
how is it possible to make something look soo realistic to this scale?
this is easily the best piece of terrain ive seen in my life, cant wait to see everything finished.

Are you entering this piece of yours in some contest?

Crom.

Edit: Excellent.

absolutely amazing.

The amount of detailing in your scenery is really impressive. I can't wait to see the painted models that are going to inhabit this diorama.

Yeah, I second that...

Wow.

Damn, that looks like a picture of a destroyed building from like WWII or something. Can't wait for painted models to go on it.

Oooohhh!! Thank you, my friends!!

JD21290... I've no words... thank you very much!

Paul Atreides, thanx. Yes, I'll enter it in contests, but not in which. First I must finished it! hahahaha!

Anti-Mag, ALIi B, Kagar, The Dreadnote, AdeptSister, Ghost in the Darkness... thank you very much!!!

Regards...

wow thats amazing

Thank you very much, Typhus!
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I take a break, because I was very tired with this terrain work. But today I work on it and I just finished it.

I can say that the brick building was finished, all the floors. I painted them with natural colors and detailed very much, with broken glasses, ammo boxes... The street has been finished too, but I'm waiting to paint all the miniatures (about 50 tyranids) to do the final details.

I hope you like it and remember... next update will be about the miniatures!

God I love this one, you've inspired me to do something similiar after I finish my blood ravens. My next project after super clean marines are some diorahams of some super weathered ones like yours!

I'm sure about that newspaper thingy tho, it sort of breaks the realism, maybe you could try printing out some newspaper like decals and applying them to the newspaper pages instead? ^^

This should ef be a golden daemon top 5.

As for people sayin it looks too modern, the Imperium stretches over worlds in all levels of technology. This could be a poor backwater world that is still closer to our level of technology in the 'peasant' regions of the planet, like an agrarian world the Imperium keeps at a lower tech level to prevent uprising etc, or a newly conquered world brought back to the imperium that was a lower tech lvl, etc.

Completely amazing Connann! The detail is just incredible, I cant wait to see the final result!

Good lord, that is pretty damn awesome.

this
is
amazing

This,
is,
AMAZING

sorry for double post, it wasn't for emphasis

Wondering where you been, this is still one of the nicest looking projects I've seen on these boards. Keep up the outstanding work, I can't wait to see the minis you create for this. You should be very proud of your work and this kind of stuff shows that this hobby can be an art.

I ask in advance forgiveness to all non-spanish forum members, but to say what I think of Conan work I have to do it in plain spanish....

so....

JODER CONAN!!! QUE PASADA DE CURRE TE HAS PEGADO y QUE NIVELAZO DE DIORAMA!!!

Mis más sinceras y emocionadas felicitaciones...

....returning to english...

anyway, you have to explain this little detail to all your fans... don't think they get the meaning without an explanation of what is the M of MARCA and FCB

FCB=Barcelona Football Club? Nice touch!

I love it. Looking forward to the miniatures.

Thanks to all!!!

Roleplayer, your explanation about GW40K Universe it's perfect! I totally agree with you. About the newspaper... you are ok too, but I prefer to paint it, to practice with my brushes. Thanx a lot for your polite words and I'm very happy to have inspired you!

Shellfishguy! Thank you! Now I'm cleaning the tyranids... what a hard work!

UCPesmerga, ShockandHarrrr, thanx!

Goon3423, you're very polite! I hope you like it when I'll finish it!

Santanero, jajajaja! Gracias por tus palabras!! Me alegra ver que te gusta! Esa es una enorme recompensa para mí! Yeah, I'll explain again the newspaper details; you can see the front of a spanish sport newspaper called Marca (its symbol is a big red M) and in the front I painted the FCB (Futbol Club Barcelona) logo. maybe in the 40K millenium, they have got a Techno Messi soccer player, jajajaa!

P4NC4K3, you are right!

s.j.mccartney, I'll post it soon. I hope it...

Thanks again!

Regards...

Looking better and better Connan! Can't wait to see what you do with the figures!

This really is excellent. Very realistic looking and yet still in keeping with the 40k universe. The way you have painted the rhino is awesome, I like the way it is subtle and understated. Much better than the bright, vivid blues you usually see.

I can't find words to properly describe this. your attention to detail is bordering on insane. cannot wait to see this piece finished.

This is a museum quality recreation of Uriel Ventris's last stand? I cannot remember if he lived or died, its been a while since i read the book. I will assume though with the number of nids there is a no.

This is fantastic, the little details you've put in the buildings bring it to life. I am looking forward to see your take on Ventris

Thanks!!

Uriel Ventris is still alive... that's what Graham McNeill (the "ultramarine writer") says, jeje!

Your C&C are very useful and polite. Thanks again for your attention!

Here you are a concept picture about the tyranid attack. I'm going to put 65 tyranids (carnifex, genestealers, tyranid warriors...) but in this image you can see only 30...

Regards!

Oh me oh my.

That will be immense.

I look forward to the completion of this. It will be awesome to a very high degree.

This is absoultly fantastic! The amount of detail in this is amazing.
There is only one thing that I would suggest, and that's to make the Imperial Eagle stand out a little more on the building. I realise you can't higlight it too much because of the effect it has, but pick it out just a little. But that is a small thing in comparison to your work! I can't wait to see this finished, I love the book.

Thanks a lot, my friends!

Sicarius, thanks for your advice.

After the terrain work, I clean all the plastic miniatures. You are going to see just a "trial version" because I need to fix the composition mistakes.
THAT'S NOT THE FINAL SCENE.

Next step... the paint work, I hope!

Regards...

That is really quite amazing. How did you originally plan out the diorama? I'm interested in maybe making one.

Are you going to make Uriel Ventris truescale? I think you should give him a cape thats been torn up and ripped!

Thanks to all!

Unclehomefries... in this thread I tell my own way to make a diorama. There are a lot of ways, but that's just mine! I'll explain you better if you want.

S.j.mccartney, I'll use the original GW ultramarine... but I'll paint a weathering ultramarine, not a new one! jajaja!

Now I'm working on the tyranid color scheme... and I need a real one!
The terrain has a lot of natural colors, like the red (bricks) or grey (concrete); that's why I use these colors in my tyranids. I think it's a very good urban camouflage for these aliens.

I hope you like it!

That gaunt is beautiful, i love the colour scheme.


any chance of a tutorial for that colour scheme?

Thanks WSL!!
To get that colour scheme I used these paints:

base: Black Chaos (GW) + Burnt Umber (Model Air, Vallejo),
tyranid armour: Terracota (GW) + Sand (ref. 075, Model Air, Vallejo),
shadows: Charadon Granite (GW, Foundation),
tyranid skin: Sand + Light Sand (Tamiya),
details (eyes, tongue...): Iyanden Darksun (GW Foundation), Warlord Purple (ref. 14, Game Color, Vallejo)

A new tyranid image... yeah! I painted 5 of them!

Regards...

good sir...

your work is... AMAZING...

all I can say is that if this diorama didnt have so much ass kickery packed into one small space...

that I wouldnt be gushing like this...

So I say continue on with your amazing ability sir... I only strive in the thought that some day I may have a fraction of your talent...

Bravo... Five stars... the whole lot...

you get the picture...

keep up the amazing work...

-SINISM

Well i hope this is going to a Golden deamon competition because it should win hands down ! So please, enter it !

looking really good mate, it looks exactly like i pictured an SM standing ontop of a rhino with a load of nids about to swarm him like

Thanks a lot!

Sinism, your C&C are very polite! Thank you very much!

Wolf, thanks again. I'll enter with it in some contests... GD?... Who knows?

I continue painting tyranids,,,

Regards!

As always, your painting skills are breath taking, My only gripe is that you seem to be using a standard marine and not a truescale. He's the center of the diorama after all so he should recieve extra attention and modelling work.

Thanks, thekingofdinner! I'll use the original marine scale, not a converted miniature, because the rhino's scale is according with the original miniature. If I change the scale, I'll have problems with the rhino and the buildings, made with the 28 mm. scale. But your idea is very good!

I'm working very hard at this moment, because the end is close... but I'm very tired, that's true.
I post you my latest update, the paint of 12 tyranids. The color scheme and the style are very personal, I know it, but I tried to adecuate it with the terrain, like a real environment camouflage.

These pictures shows you the update, but there aren't the final pose of the minis. It just an example.

Regards!

wow...

I played nids yesterday...

and all I could think was this diorama...

I love the urban wreckage bio-flage you gave to the nids... shows their adaptation to an invasion environment...

I commend your efforts sir and also wanted to know what you're going to do to make your marine distinguishable as a certain character?

keep up the awesome work sir!

SINISM

Yes, it looks great. Keep going and reward yourself with chocolate!! That's what gives me motivation!!

Really great thread this, thank you for sharing the entire process from start to finish with this, it's really good to see how such great works of art take shape.

Keep up the good work!

Cheers,

Dante

Whoa whoa whoa, it's magic!! I'll never believe it's not so!!

I'm sorry but you have to make the ultramarine true-scale, at the moment the stand in looks like he'll just be squished instantly.

Superb work, absolutely superb.

I must agree with Goliath, a true scale marine is a really neededfor this, thatwill really show how he could stand up to so much. At the moment he looks puny and pathetic

get the true scale , marine in there and you have yourself an amazing diorama worthy of Golden deamon i think !

Oh my... this is wonderful!

I'm not sure you need a bigger marine. The smaller he is the scarier the tyranids will look.

That is absolutely spectacular!

Thanks for all, guys!

Sinism, thank you very much, your words are a real prize for me! I'll model the hair and maybe the face of one space wolf marine to get my own Uriel Ventris character,

Sjmccartney, jajajaja! Your advice is very good! Thanx!

CMDante, it's a pleasure for me! Thank you!

Captain Gordino, Dodgex1, thanx!

Goliath, Wolf, thanks for your C&C! I'm agree with you, but I must say that the scale of the diorama (all of its elements) is according with the 28mm. GW scale. I can't modify it, because the rhino, and the tyranids will be out of scale. I believe the same thing that Mellon (thanx again!), "The smaller is the ultramarine, the scarier the tyranids will look",

Sicarious85, you are welcome!

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Today I finished another 4 miniatures... and the big carnifex continues waiting me...

Regards...

I know how tough it is keeping your nid paint scheme consistent for the over all aesthetic that you're going for...

and I have to say sir that you're doing a damn good job of it...

bravo!

any sketches or anything of your uriel that we the peanut gallery can see? or is it a sculpt as you feel on the fly sort of thing?

Keep it up!

-SINISM

This is continuing to be ridiculously bad ass I cannot wait to see it complete

Thanks again!

Sinism, I worked very hard to get the tyranid scheme. I'm very happy now! About Uriel's miniature... I'll do it when I finish the paint of the other minis, because he'll be the main character of the diorama. I'll show you, of course!

Lanman, I cannot wait to see it complete, too!

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I have painted... the tyranid carnifex, the leader of the horde. I used the same color scheme in this mini that I used in the other tyranids, to get a realistic and uniform color . I added little details, like slobbers, as you can see in "Alien" films.

I show you another pictures with the minis that I painted, 3 new jumping tyranids. The end is close... hahahaha!

Greetings and I hope you like it!

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I REALLY cant wait to see this finished now...

I'm very very pleased with your level of detail sir...

Keep it up!

I just hope you keep the emotion of the grim battle as soon as you drop in uriel...

Bravo!

-Sinism

Your attention to detail is amazing! Really enjoying watching it all come together. I'm a little bit concerned that the stock marine model will not be engaging enough to form the center piece of the diorama though /:

Fantastic work Connan really coming along well!

It's brilliant to see great Dioramas here on Dakka, I hope blogs like this will encourage others to give Dios a try.

Thanks again for your C&C!!

Just a little! These are my favourites words in this moment!

After 4 months of hard work, I'm here again with the "Warriors of Ultramar" diorama. It's about 95% of progress, and I'm very happy with it.

First of all I'll show you my own Uriel Ventris version. I tried to do an heroic marine against the tyranid hordes.

I painted it with the colors of the Ultramarine Chapter, very similar with the rhino, but not so spoiled. I'm very happy with him, because it seems like a classic god, with his short hair and furious face.



The main scene in the diorama is the battle between the ultramarine and the tyranids, but I decided to put another little scene in the top of the brick building. An Imperial Guard talking with his walkie talkie. A real human action, in the middle of the battle.



And finally, the diorama!
It needs a few details, like paint with dark tones the terrain posters' and fix the mistakes.

As I said along all the project, I tried to do the attack of the tyranids against an ultramarine rhino, and in the top of it, the battle with Uriel.

I put 2 main tyranid groups: one in the left and the other in the right, as 2 strong walls that are closing. And in the middle of them I put a few tyranids, because I needed a union between the two main forces.

The composition is like a pyramid; in the ground we find the little tyranids, and in the middle an upper areas, we find the bigger and lethal tyranids.

As you can see, the main action is the shot of Uriel to the tyranid.

I hope you like it!

Great work Connan this is really coming along. Looking brilliant.

If I had any crit it would only be two small points regarding the human figures.

The Guardsman in the window on the top floor of the building is a great idea, but right now he is hiding behind the wall and not looking. He feels isolated from the action and withdrawn. To my mind he would look much better if he was interacting with the scene. Leaning over the window edge and looking at the marine in awe as he battles the aliens.

The Space Marine while really well painted... the pose seems to lack something. Its a bit of a crude pose and lets the figure down a little I think. It would be lovely if his chain sword arm had a little more motion or dynamic posing. Like he had just used it, cleaving a tyranid in half or blocking a blow.

What do you think?

dananananaaaaaa I'm Lovin' It

I do have to say that I agree with gundam here, have him cleave a nid right down the middle (diagonal from one shoulder downwards the opposite leg) and spray blood ^^,

*looks at diorama,looks at own minis and throws it in the garbage*

LOL,very nice work.I would agree though that him bringing his chainsword down in a wide and bloody are an smashing up a nid would look more awesome.

That's goddamn fantastic.

The Dreadnote wrote:That's goddamn fantastic.

What he said

That is fething beautiful, man. Been watching this for a while, and it's some amazing work. I love the realistic look of the 'nids and the buildings.

The only thing I didn't like was the feeling I got when I realised I would never see this thing in person.

Its freaking amazing

lanman wrote:
Its freaking amazing

Good Shout

wow the way you done the bullet hitting the nid in the last pic is amazing could you do a tut on things like that?
but my only crit is make the gaurdsman more intigrated.

Gotta say I love the guardsmen the way it is, once you notice him you can imagine him saying "holy feth colonel, were fethed and I mean really fethed,"

Thanks, Dakka Dakka friends!!

I was very tired and I take a little rest!

Maybe next week I will show you the final pictures, because the diorama is now finished. Wow, I can't believe it!

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Gundam, thanks again for your polite and very good comments.

I decided to put the IG in the top of the building, because I don't want to show him like an important character inside the action; people must find the IG while they analize the diorama,

Finally I decided to put the ultramarine in that pose, because I want to represent the moment when Ventris kills the first tyranid and rotate to kill the other one (with his bolter gun). I represented a dramatic pose in other of my works, that's why I put this "relaxed" pose on my ultramarine. It's the beginning of the (bloody) storm...

Müller, thank you! As I said, I represented that action in one of my latest works, and I tried another effects this time...

Deff, thanx! I don't want a gore action. A lot of blood maybe will spoil the terrain work...

Dreadnote, IAmTheWalrus, Sarrazon, Disjointed, thank you very much! You're very polite!

Lanman... it's a pity, yes... I hope you can see it anyday...

Big mek, thanks again! To get the impact in the nid, I used plastic; previously I warmed a little needle with a lighter, and after that, I put it in the correct wounded area. The needle must be really hot, because when you put it into the plastic miniature, the plastic will be deformed. You must be patient, because you must sculpt the wound while the plastic is hot. It's a little annoying, but it's very realistic effect!

99MDeery, hahahaha! Thanks for your very good comment!

Regards...

I see,well all in all Connann my friend the diorama is very good.

I liked that sewer diorama you did to.Keep up the great work,I must ask you something.How did you paint the nids carapace?

Thanks, Deff!

Regards...

* To get that colour scheme I used these paints:

base: Black Chaos (GW) + Burnt Umber (Model Air, Vallejo),
tyranid armour: Terracota (GW) + Sand (ref. 075, Model Air, Vallejo),
shadows: Charadon Granite (GW, Foundation),
tyranid skin: Sand + Light Sand (Tamiya),
details (eyes, tongue...): Iyanden Darksun (GW Foundation), Warlord Purple (ref. 14, Game Color, Vallejo)

Ok,thanks dude.Keep up the good work,happy painting.

Outstanding work, its clear you can see the time , effort and skill put into this..

I tip my hat to your sir , Magnificent work

It's an amazing piece of work. Still, the Marine is lacking something. A muzzle flash, maybe.

TPC, perhaps a gore spray from the round strike on the gene'

That's the end, the final post of my latest diorama project. Finally, 4 months after, I finished it.

It was a hard work but your comments (forums, blog...) gave to me the "power" to finish it. Yes, I want to thank you for your comments (polite and critic), because all of them were added into the process.

There are a lot of people who helped me a lot, but in this post I can't write all of them. That's why I decided to put the name of the forums, because this work is yours too.

Thanks again for all!!

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It looks really good i especialy like the tyranid being shot!

wow. I hope you win!

There is no flaw it's got to win!

Absoultly stunning. Fantastic piece of work, from one of the best GW novels. I don't think you could've picked a more awe inspiring moment from the book, and it's brilliant what you've done with it. Great job, I hope to see more from you in the future

Fantastic work!

Incredible as always!

Absolutely brilliant. Well done!

Holy Crap this is Epic! i just started reading this one and if the diorama is this good i can only hope the book is just as great!



one thing im gonna say about Uriel shooting the Tyranid, it would look awesome if you could wip up a quick muzzle blast out of some green stuff or something to really make that boolt pistol feel as menacing as it is!

Outstanding work!

That is really amazing work man, my only crit is with the walky talkie cord, it is wayyyyyyy to thick, thicker than a mans wrist. try wrapping the wire around another piece of wire to make the coils, or use a guitar string and stretch it out. i love all the little details youve done, the shell casings, the peeling wall paper,even painting the inside of that building(the first one) to look like my game room(peeping conan)/war room.
Amazing stuff

You win a pack of Morleys! I'm so impressed!

Wow, that is awesome. I love the weathering, and I love the narrative of this piece. A good diorama should really tell a story, and I think this one definitely does.

I can just imagine that Imperial Guardsman frantically calling in an artillery strike on their own position as the space marine makes his final stand.

Great stuff.

Wow

I loved that novel! There are only two things I can think could have been different if you are basing it off the particular section of the novel (excluding the whole ice scape that you've already covered) is that the rhino was from the mortifactor chapter (but hey, it's your diorama and if you wanna paint an ultramarine rhino then you use an ultramarine rhino! Artistic license and all that ) the other is I would really have liked to seen your interpretation of Uriel's power sword! But that's just me nitpicking cos I could never do anything that amazing! Truly in awe of such fantastic work!
you sir have my lasting respect!

*edit* Meant to say I also like the fact you left out the gunner and made it all about Ventris, he is one tough S.O.B.! How about a Snowdog diorama? Would love to see what you could do with him and his gang!

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