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Looks amazing! Keep it up

Sweet, need water effects though.

Commander Cain wrote:Looks amazing! Keep it up

Thanks!

Rose_Mountainz wrote:Sweet, need water effects though.

Most likely will look to have a pool of tepid water in the crater, may also go for some on the trench floor as well...

Sans sand...





R

|I|t would be fantastic (albeit quite hard) if you put it red and/or blue led's and did some light sourcing from explosions on the models or diorama and then viewed it in a low light area to give it the effect it was at night.

And its looking great so far.

No updates but though I'd post a couple of pics, having to work from home due to the snow in the Kent and kids are off school so plenty of sleging, snowballs nd snow angels going on ;-)

This was taken on Tuesday, 30 Nov in the afternoon


This was taken on Friday morning, 2 Dec


And down my road today

hey ruglud , never saw your diorama before, its very good mate. i like the trench walls , very realistic!

Just a thought... you could litter the floor of your trench with some shells. http://www.secretweaponminiatures.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=40&products_id=151

You could also make your own, which probably wouldn't be too hard.

neil101 wrote:hey ruglud , never saw your diorama before, its very good mate. i like the trench walls , very realistic!

Cheers, there's a fair amount of work to do but all the encouragment and support I get helps no end...

Moltar wrote:Just a thought... you could litter the floor of your trench with some shells. http://www.secretweaponminiatures.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=40&products_id=151

You could also make your own, which probably wouldn't be too hard.

They're pretty cool, I have made some lasgun ammo clips which will be strewn about the trench, plus there'll be some boxes of grenade and some other general clutter - still a way off getting this stage done, but I will get there - promise

R

so your doing second gen cadian diorama and i am doing a first gen , funny because i considererd doing this also, sort of a 1st 2nd and 3rd. but i dont have to now and can just sit back and watch yours matey we should get together and make a 3rd gen between us shame your not using the metal second gen guys , but cadians are so uch easier to convert, i am having the same problem, i only wanted to use imperial army guys, but they dont look half as good as newer models and are 3 and 4 times the expense. so well see. I still think you should pick up the 2nd gen guys, after its done just to see what it looks like. enjoying watching your work with this . i really like the colour scheme for your cadians. btw

found another pic of the scene hope its ok to post it here

That's so much clearer than my copy (which is a dog eared photocopy of a WD flyer). That's the first time I've seen the figures in the background, I knew there was a heavy bolter but the rest of it is covered by text.

I did start to put this together with the old style metals, even ordered some specially direct from the GW mail order trolls, but ended selling them on ebay after I lost motivation to continue a few years back, so instead went for the newish plastics, like you sya, they're much easier to convert...

hmm quite excited to see how this turns out!

It's looking great!
Wow thats a lot of snow

why the hell have you got snow still! here in cardiff, its -5 in the morning with perma-ice, all the snow's gone away =(, funny, yesterday everyone in school was like "much warmer today!", it was still -2 =D

can't wait for the finished diorama. gonna look good!

IHEARTLARGEBLASTTEMPLATES wrote:hmm quite excited to see how this turns out!

Me too! gotta get my downstairs decorated though before any more progress - Chistmas is fast approaching and the snotlings are complaining that we haven't got the tree up! Have to chuck some wallpaper up and get it painted first

Commissar Agro wrote:It's looking great!
Wow thats a lot of snow

Thanks and yeah, more snow than I've ever seen for South East England... Where's that global warming we keep getting promised...

dark6spectre wrote:why the hell have you got snow still! here in cardiff, its -5 in the morning with perma-ice, all the snow's gone away =(, funny, yesterday everyone in school was like "much warmer today!", it was still -2 =D

can't wait for the finished diorama. gonna look good!

LOL, yep it's totally iced over now - roads are clear(ish) but the pavement (sidewalk for our colonial friends) have about 4 inches of solid ice! And now they say it might snow next week, just what we need...

Just WOOOOOW!!!
Great work. Keep it up

You should definitely have a guard carrying a injured guard. Came over from your new blog (assuming you don't mind as you linked it).

[img]http://siamthenovel.com/images/h6_somme_carrier.jpg[/img


They made that man pose twice.

Anyway. Dirty up the trench a lot. Then dirty it some more. Maybe some plastic rats...skulls/limbs in wall.

All present in trenches.

manoknok wrote:You should definitely have a guard carrying a injured guard. Came over from your new blog (assuming you don't mind as you linked it).




They made that man pose twice.

Anyway. Dirty up the trench a lot. Then dirty it some more. Maybe some plastic rats...skulls/limbs in wall.

All present in trenches.

Hey, post away. This model is still alive and kicking, just waitng for some inspiration to visit before going back to it really. Plan is to add lots of junk to the trench, possibly some graffitti on the walls (kill marks, "for the Emperor", etc...)

Like the image, I'd probably approach that as a standalone model / mini diorama, rather than add it to this as it could be a really powerful piece if done correctly... Food for thought... ... and possible inspiration...

Been a while since I did anything with this project, but I've been reminded of it by Viktor von Domm,so thought I'd take a look and see what needs to be done...






Well, I need to finsh the grunts for a start and also some further work to the trench, both in extra detail and colours... A few posters have mentioned adding LEDs but i wont be doing this... Stand by for some updates...

the diarama is looking really cool and the buzz is funny, nice work so far

Awesome so far mate keep it up

Looking forward to seeing this done, only found the blog as i was plannig this myself !

ah!!! finally someone to heed my words... really good looking drama scene! one of these days... one of these days i gotta submit myself to some smaller dio like this... i always end up making way too big stuff... and get lots of problems with storage...!

this is a gem that waits to see more of your good work mister! glad i am finally able to comment here!!^^

Wow, impressive work. I love it greatly. and I greatly love it. Looking forward to more updates.

love the trench reglud well done.

Rogue Wolves wrote:the diarama is looking really cool and the buzz is funny, nice work so far

Cheers RW

spanner4000 wrote:Awesome so far mate keep it up

Thank you

sphynx wrote:Looking forward to seeing this done, only found the blog as i was plannig this myself !

Nice, give it a go and post your WIPs One day I will complete...

Viktor von Domm wrote:ah!!! finally someone to heed my words... really good looking drama scene! one of these days... one of these days i gotta submit myself to some smaller dio like this... i always end up making way too big stuff... and get lots of problems with storage...!

this is a gem that waits to see more of your good work mister! glad i am finally able to comment here!!^^

Just for you Vik

And it's not the size that counts you know

Orkitron5000 wrote:Wow, impressive work. I love it greatly. and I greatly love it. Looking forward to more updates.

Why thank you Updates will happen, but I've got to get my entries to the two competitions that are running in this section out of the way before I can do much more, I will though crack on with this as I'm feeling the love for the piece again - might mean that my t-hawk gets to sleep in the cupboard for a while though... (sorry Vik)

cormadepanda wrote:love the trench reglud well done.

Thanks Panda

And it's not the size that counts you know

says who??? ask my wife... two healthy kids...

How did I miss this! Awesome diorama mate

Thats looking brilliant, and it's been great to see all the progress and different stages of devolpment. Look forward to seeing this finished.

love the build, love dioramas, as to shells lying around on the ground I use small plastic tube painted and then cut up same efeect as what was mentioned before about shells but cheaper, look forward to more

Looks fantastic so far mate.