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Yea, congrats! Looking forward to some of dat shiznit

Congrats.


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Congrats.

Not to mention i've just bought myself a couple of treats

including this scenic stuff: http://www.internationalmodels.net/acatalog/Ivy.html


the sets of grass tufts and the like from these guys are absolutely fantastic, not only for dioramas but for basing.. the grass tuft packs are great, you get loads for the money.. i'd say enough for a whole army in a £4.70 pack and they're really tough.. plus you don't get static grass everywhere



plus another tank and figures to do another dio for a competition as the tiger one will be done very soon

SoO


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Oh and thank you all for the congrats the big day is in august when the results are released

and surprisingly i'm rather looking forward to it lol

Looks like herbs. Carnt wait to see what you do with them ...or on them:L

Just for the summer, or completely? If the latter then that nasty ol' work thing might rear it's ugly time-sucking head

But we'll be looking forward to more updates regardless

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stonned_astartes wrote:Looks like herbs. Carnt wait to see what you do with them ...or on them:L

well if you mean chives them i see where you're coming from lol

monkeytroll wrote:Just for the summer, or completely? If the latter then that nasty ol' work thing might rear it's ugly time-sucking head

But we'll be looking forward to more updates regardless

edit : replied without realising the page had rolled over.

well for the summer.. then it's a UNI level course so that will eat up the modelling time :/ but it will be fun

Hope your exams went ok dude! What uni you going to?

Very interested to see how good those flora look on a finished piece.

Yea, I'm curious too, where are you going?

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Hope your exams went ok dude! What uni you going to?

Very interested to see how good those flora look on a finished piece.

I'm doing an engineering course at Bath though i can do the first two years of the course at my college as it's linked with the uni so hopefully i'll be doing that. the facilities are pretty amazing, it's cheaper and there are some really good links with industry and potential sponsorship opportunities..

What about you?

Bath is awesome!

I got to visit there back in 1998 - fantastic place to go to school, I'd imagine...

Im going to Bristol Uni this in Oct, to do a Chem Masters, after my year out So not too far from each other! lol.

I'm going to the International School of Brussels 9th Grade

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Im going to Bristol Uni this in Oct, to do a Chem Masters, after my year out So not too far from each other! lol.

cool stuff.. i'm often in Bristol and GW Bristol's my local store so i guess I'll see you there


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1 figure left to do on the diorama... could be finished tomorrow pictures coming soon

Tiger Diorama finished pictures up tomorrow hopefully

Diorama Finished!!

and i got a few pictures before it began to rain



the whole thing.. a little over exposed but that'll be sorted when i take some proper pics with i nice background..












That's all the good pictures so far.. the sheet to keep the snow off the MG42 is a piece of tissue paper soaked in watered paint and PVA glue and carefully draped over and positioned without tearing it. the pine branches are just bits of moss i found while out and about and dried off in a dark cupboard (if you dry it in the sun it loses it's colour faster)

I Hope you all like it and there's more coming...

I was on eBay the other day.. not intending to buy anything and came across these two wonderful kits... which i proceeded to buy...


a german flampanzer III from gunze sangyo (1943)

and...


A Russian JS-2 which was used from, i believe, late 1943

Feel free to comment,

Many thanks, Chris

Very cool Chris, that diorama is just incredible. I can't wait to see what you do with those kits

Just spectacular... well worth the wait. I like that flammpanzer... should make for a very interesting options.

The finished diorama is just stunning. I'm still looking at the snow and wondering how it can look so realistic. The whole scene is excellent.

Beautiful work.

Great job! Really well done!

Metsuri wrote:The finished diorama is just stunning. I'm still looking at the snow and wondering how it can look so realistic. The whole scene is excellent.

I still can't believe that most of the snow is just that stuff from a can that people spray christmas trees with.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MODELMATES-SNOW-EFFECT-WEATHERING-SPRAY-200ml-NEW-/310288368587#ht_3015wt_905

this is the snow i use.. it's pretty much is the stuff people spray on windows at christmas

/need moar sons of orar updates!!! especially the marines and terminators!! they rock!

Hi all!

I'm still alive!!

I just posted this post in the finished work forum too

It's been WAY to long since I last posted on DakkaDakka or this thread! Ahhh the joys of a hectic life!

Anyhow, I recently finished a 1/35 scale (for all you war gamers out there the figure's about 56mm high) Joachim Peiper. The figure is resin and is made by a company called Alpine Miniatures who make some jaw-droppingly good realistic figures at a not to extortionate price. I panted him with a mix of Vallejo and GW paints, this is the first time I've used Vallejo paints for some high detail work and i am impressed

A little History: Joachim Peiper was a regimental Colonel in the German Waffen-SS during the second world war, the figure portrays him in the winter or 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. i won't just copy out the Wikipedia article but if you'd like to read more it's at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Peiper

To the pictures!






a couple of shots from various angles. My aim was to practice on smooth blending, especially with flesh tones, and at the same time have an experiment with some camouflage.


A WIP shot



close ups of the base

As always all comments and questions are welcome! and feel free to rate the pictures


Chris

Where are the SoO???
Ive missed this blog!!

Amazing as usual Chris.

In particular the weathered red leather book jumps out at me, great effect there.

fantastic work here, how did you achive the winter base on that german?

Nice to see you back at it Chris. Fantastic job on the German soldier! Impressive.

Superb work! The skin blending is excellent and I love the leather coat, very realistic!

holy wow!