As well as the dust what about adding some posters to the walls or above the door or even giving the brick wall a faded paint job from floor to halfway up.

or alternatively if you have any old bricks and concrete in your garden or like me have a cellar either break up the bricks and concrete or use a paint brush and sweep cellar floor and use as bust. and then spray the area you want to do with hair spray and sprinkle on then use larger bits of brick as chunks of broken bricks and place them in the rubble then spry with matt varnish

My entry is a bit late and a bit lite but I wanted to create approximately this,


The corner of Henry St and O'Connell St, Dublin on 4th July 1922.
Government forces are using 18 pounders against Anti-Government units trapped in the "Block," largely the Gresham hotel and the offices of the Dublin United Tramways Corporation accross the road.
I intend to convert and use this;

MiniArts cobbled street with tramlines and add a Lancia Triota armoured lorry from another thread.
Firstly I needed to convert the Continental street into an early 20th century Irish one.
I replaced the smaller European paving setts with larger British standard ones.

Then using the standard reference, Dr Seamus Hall-Weigh's, Irish Street Furniture, Vol 1, as a guide, I rebuilt the lamp standard into a tram traction standard.

Replacing the fluted center with a plain brass tube, re-arranged the finial work and scratched the cable arm. Finally I added the crest of the Dublin United Tramways Corporation on an access door to the base side. The one over the street in the first photo gives a good example of the late Victorian type.

Rather than build the poor unfortunate corner chemist shop, something I think a little beyond me, I just cut a square of thin perspex, used rub-down lettering to say Dispensing Chemist, established 1871put bold text here then cut it into shards and glued it to the pavement.After weathering and painting it looks like this,






The open space is for an Emhar 18 pounder(when I find it) a Prince August Collins figure (when I paint it) and a Crossley 25/35 Tender (when I finish it)
regards

fantastic work mecanix looks great.

i have been doing more work on the shops and interior please feel free to comment good or bad











hopefully the furniture will turn out ok once its painted still have a lot of work to do the bricks are becoming a strain lol

Yes I knew I forgot something I have to posters in the box too
I will try Jesses suggestion of the light buff dusting too

@ everybody those projects are looking great I love the Dublin street keep up the good work

Ok I added the posters some more washes to the walls, some more dust/ debris the figures and some spray glue that gives the figures a look of ice/wetness on there uniforms

Even though I've been leaving the components for my large Factory diorama on the workbench at night, the diorama elves have so far not done any work for me so although I still plan to build it I'm going to warm up by doing a smaller dio first.

I have a large box with bits and pieces of plaster buildings I've cast over the years so I dug through it and picked a few pieces out to represent half buried buildings in a sea of rubble.

As a base I recycled this one as the walker was destroyed by some visiting children

I reshaped it added the walls and covered most of the groundwork with plaster bandage/modroc





I cut a lot of bricks from plaster with a junior hacksaw. I made up a gloopy syrup of acrylic paint and PVA glue which I then added the bricks to to soak up some colour. Then I applied the bricks to the groundwork and let the glue drain away.





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It's meant to depict the backs of buildings in a sea of rubble that has been fought over for a long time. Still lots more bricks to add and I haven't made a final decision on the figures I want to include yet.

I like the way you've gone about building that pile of rubble - must remember that technique!

some more work adding more rubble and some bits of roof. I want it to look on the verge of collapsing








now to start adding the figures

Figures are mostly Masterbox with a couple of Tristar as well







Final positions are not decided and I'll probably add one or two more.

fantastic work mecanix mice to see an older period, look great

looking good so far exer like the choose of troops.

have been working on tiled floors so my eyes are a little soar. after doing some more cork work im unhappy with my hospital frontage and have decided to redo it am getting on well and am much happier with the result. will have some pic later today

a little update...very little. i havent worked on this much lately. im looking to get it finished though. a couple pics. i placed a spots of grass to help break up monotony. also, going to add at least one of these two barrels behind the door. maybe both of them. not sure. the barrels arent eve close to done. i was just messing around with color options.

HI every one i have started work on my dio and i will have some pic of the early stages latter today. it will be Iraq war and if anyone has any advice that would be great, thanks.

here are a few pics of the first stage the M113 is from another project its just there for scale. Im thinking of putting a US sniper team on the roof and a Humvee on the street with some civies on the side walks and in one of the apartments.



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Thanks for the help guys

Hi folks,

A bit late in the day but I thought I join in with this one.





Now to go back and read the campaign from the beginning.

Al

Hi folks,

Got underway yesterday. I'll need to add some filler around the joints and I off set it on a re-cycled base I cleaned up. Joints need some filler but I cracked on with the cobbles and pavements.







Al

Hi Guys,

Pat that's a mighty project you have under way.

David, I think yours is even bigger

Sal, Nice work so far, Jesse same detail.

Keith, looking good.

Excellent stuff folks if I missed anyone apololgies.

Some more work on the kit, but not sure about the colour of the building?



Cheers

Al

An update on my dio i decided to make it allot smaller, Im almost done will my figures and Ill post a Pic of them when Im done. then it will be back to work on the building.

I just joined up with this campaign myself. Betta late than never I say.

Some amazing stuff going on here. I am duly impressed!

Don't quite know what I will come up with, but I have factory scene that I want to create, as well as possibly trying my hand with something modern. This will give me some inspiration though if nothing else.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with Billy

Hi guys,

I have the build blog on the go for this as I reviewed the kit but I thought I better update the campaign.

This is where things stand at the moment.





This afternoon I did a bit of gardening





There is not much space here to creat anything spacial so I though a couple of headstones and a Graveyard would work.

Although I bought this one with a generic base in mind, for the campaign I think I'll go down the BEF route as I have some early carriers to build and some Frence civilians. As it will be a recently damaged house then more brick and rubble will get added and I might even find a home for my Citroen.



Cheers

Al