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hmmm i dont get that one...?

well treied myself in a field i am not so acustomed with...namley decaling...here are the pics... note i also did a bit of freehanding there too...some killmarkings... the crosses are for the campaigns the tank has already fought in...the rest seems rather selfeplaining^^

cheers, vik

smallish addition here for you to oggle on... made as suggested by dantay a airrecognition sign on the two sponsons... the paintjob will be alternated as it is currently... so red will switch with white...used paper cut to pattern and thus i hope to get some raised detail too there...will keep you updated on this hopefully tonight...




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well this is the possible automatic attached update as promised...

the aerial recognition completed and also i detailed the turret in every space between the fretworks... all additions aren´t completed this is the task for tomorrow...









vik

sweet work! I'll do the how-to-improve stuff later when I'm actually awake

lol... i will now go to sleep^^ see you later^^

Looknig better and better vik

Now you just need a freehand mural of a famous viktorian battle going down the side of the entire tank

Get on it!

Sweet work indeedy
Love the shields/crests on the turrets

The only thing am not sure of are the kill markings Vik
This is prolly just a hangover from typical scale modelling pedantry, but they are over scale.

In real life they would be no bigger than a couple of inches.

God is in the details, seems an appropriate term to describe this phase of work Vik. Great stuff love the tank cheverons , and the kill markers mate.

at mikzor:
wellllll.....i can´t see that happening^^ at all...ever...sorry^^ to burst your bubble^^ i am no artist, merely a merry mingler when it comes to painting...

chibi do you mtalk about those big "templar" crosses? they are there for the campaings the tank fought in... the kill markings are on the other side with a small tank and a small plane...but i see where you are coming from... i have to rethink about these campaingsigns...

at neil...and the devil too...thanks for the chevrons, i just had a flash about them and knew a way to make them with my unsteady hands^^

No the campaign signs are fine Vik
Scratch what I said matey, I was being dense. Just seen a pic of an artillery piece using a Kill Marking system like you have used, with tank and plane symbols.

The kill markings may still be a bit over scale but is not a big deal.

found the image again:



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i still know where your coming from, you have a point nevertheless...the thing is the marks on the tank killpoints is from the Leman russ decal set, so thought myself secure in the realms of the justified^^ the campaign signs are a bit too german looking for my taste atm but one day maybe they will make more sense as i would like to make a chaosy IG army based on the warzone minis...got quite a few of them and they will be more of a WWI style of german troops then so the iron cross is rather a mocking of the arch enemy...

also about the size one more thought... they are for pure show off effect... so i guess any good crew would love to make thema s big as possible to show friends and foes alike how good they are...^^

the kill markings look good.
Not much else to say really ^^

lol...thanks^^ *gives a pat on the back*

omg, dood you've got to see this thread over on annother site
http://z11.invisionfree.com/Work_In_Progress/index.php?s=f6cff2a3594f2b7f41b522feb5070a0f&showtopic=12070&st=775
/drool

looking hot vik looking hot! Especially the gold! it looks like...real gold!!

thanks bebop, the effect was aimed to be brassen looking but whatever makes you happy i guess^^

at dsteingass, oh yeah thats klaus and his gorgeous models totally scratchbuilt at that i might point out, he has by the way a thread of his own here on dakka too....:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/310208.page

i recommend to read that only if you are sure not to wee yourself when you realize that this level we can never hope to reach of modeling...in fact i see klaus work lightyears from my paintwork...but it is a vast source for inspiration!!!

Aha, Klaus strikes again!

I still say that the Big Red Christmas gift of your tank is looking sharp Vik!

lol nice methaphor shaso^^

for all interrested this week i will complete something to make my pics in the near future a bit more nice to look at, i have been daydreaming about some kind of diorama that can be used with different terrain pieces to raise the effect of any pices i want to take pictures of...stay tuned as i hopew this will be a smallish revolution to my work^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol nice methaphor shaso^^

for all interrested this week i will complete something to make my pics in the near future a bit more nice to look at, i have been daydreaming about some kind of diorama that can be used with different terrain pieces to raise the effect of any pices i want to take pictures of...stay tuned as i hopew this will be a smallish revolution to my work^^

have you got any ideas as to what models it will involve and what will they be doing?
I was thinking maybe "connor", the scout with the pistol, could feature

oh the major idea behind this is to make a two walled and ground diorama that can feature any model i make in the future... i am sick of the white background and need some stimulus when making pics....so a basic landscape and such things... funny you should mention connor the scouting pistol wielder, had him in my hands this very day and thought it was high time he got a treatment ^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:behold the connor...


cheers, vik

exactly that one!^^ i think camo cloak and such things is a must!^^

so there was i bigmouthing something about a future diorama... well here are some shots of the Dòmhnall Dubh`s 32th Light Infantry Regiment marching out withe the steamtank through some ruins...keep a watchful eye open mates, enemy is close at hand...



take cover!!!


fan out mates...


trumpet boy keep the men together...

That is some lovely foam carving!!

The tanks come on a bit since I was last on vik, looking nice now The detailing is starting to make it come to life.

And I like where you're going with the photo-diorama thing, makes pics so much more interesting.

thaanks mates, i dreamed abou one day making scenic pics with the minis... that is of course if i have one day enough painted minis, models and terrain to go... as for the foam carving tho it was quite tedious it should have been even more tedious as when i do it next time i try to make the indvidual stones smaller...or what do you think? currently the bricks are about 1.5 times as big as a cadian torso...too big? or just right.... wanted to do them in a brwonstone kind of look...

Not really Vik
Wouldn't worry overmuch as the bulding with the arches is of some size and eminence.
iirc the bath stone in Bath are large and also some of the blocks in tenemants in Glasgow

A torso is only a couple of feet and I am guessing the blocks in this pic of a smaller building are not far off:


Am liking the dio matey

Edit: They stone here is probably a bit smaller looking again, but I still wouldn't worry about it as the size of the stone blocks in your fictional setting is highly plausible imho
What I would say however, to save you some time, is that although the lower storey has very deeply rescessed lines between the rows for decorative purposes, the upper storey is tightly faced.
This could be easily represented by drawing the lines with a pencil and require no carving.

It looks great man, no worries. Sometimes, the smaller you carve, the worse it looks, as seen in one of my 20mm scratchbuilt buildings

Bloody hell , where did that come from? looks like you spent some time on that building matey, nice work with the carving , and great archway pillars , I bet that wasn't easy. Nice dio too.

Now Vik has himself a stage area for photo ops!

thanks chibi for the reassuring comments and all the more for the refference pic, something along this lokk i had in mind when going into full carving^^ by the way, the carving was done a couple of weeks ago and i tried before to make a dioframe by cardboard but some things just have to have a certain stability to it, lest it falls over itself once you really want to squeeze some use out of it^^ so i used the multiplex i think it is called for the frame , the foam as said before was of stock i had when restarting my modeling...in fact mostly leftovers form the tankmaking really but i can´t helping securing bigger peices for further needs... i am for that like an old women keeping used strings^^

dsteingass, lovley building, and no misstake! the wood effect only gets betsed by the feel of the stones in the lower floor! don´t humble yourself because then you humble us all! is that all foam or what else did you use?

well neil mostly tedious work, as each line i carved had to be carved in two direction to get that slightly curved feel to the brickwork. glad you like it^^


small update, i have sort of primed the foam and the frame with cheap wall paint in black for a first coat and i think after drying i will aply at least a second black coat and then i start drybrushing same color as first installment of my tank got... the ocker color...:


then washes for the lines of the stones...also i will try myself to make a scenic skyeffect but i think this might be above my current abilities for now but it has to be done^^
then i ponder what to do with the ground... some of my models have muddy bases and i wanted to go for a muddy feel to the dio ground too... or should i go the grassland fell? or for that matter should i do a cobblestone look and if so how???

cheers, vik