Hi Bruce

...have you perhaps started to deal in bricks recently? ....



Joking aside I hope to see other steps soon

Cheers

Yo Bruce,

Superb painting on all the small items. Spot on.

Greetz Nico

thanks everyone for the kind words of encouragement.

Remi, start with the burnt cad red (814) and add orange red (910) at about 70/30 orange. these colours will dry a bit darker so use small jars to store the mixtures and blowdry the mixes to see how they turn out. note that due to my camera and your monitor it is hard to base colours from what you see on screen. i've looked at this site from a friend's computer and was quite shocked how the colours looked compared to my monitor.

for darker bricks add black red (859) at only a drop as it is quite dark. these colour number are for vallejo acrylics.

i've had to do a huge amount of home projects the last few weeks but plan to get back on board with this project in the next few days.

cheers for now, bd.

hello fellow modelers,

getting some progress once again on the hobby front (unless you're interested in my newly stained deck and porch or my new barn's interior finishings... i'm not but glad they are done so i can work on tiny miniatures).

here's where i am with the furniture:








i also have begun adding the broken glass to the window frames but i am going to divide that task up into multiple sessions as it is tedious and i don't want to get burned out doing it. all this is supposed to be fun even though some portions can be labourious.

this project has been ongoing for quite awhile yet i am still having much fun everytime i sit done to work on it. as always, comments are welcomed. cheers, bd.

...WOW!!

Your work is so amazing,really dont know what to write.



Kind regards,Sven .

absolutely stunning work mate, will be following this one.

Truly awesome work, Bruce! Can't stop looking at all the scratch-build and spot-on details.

If the orange labels on some cans are the "flammable" caution ones, it could be corrrected, as I guess they were used in the 60s or 70s for the first time.
I could be wrong as said lables are diamond-shaped while yours are squares, but who knows.

Just stumbled onto this today. Simply amazing.

Cheers

Jeff

Hi

really awesome work.Great.

I'll follow with interest

Regards Dominik

And now all the little jewels are being added. Splended work.

Great Work here, with Very Cool details ! Like this project alot, following with Great interest.
milvehfan

Hi bruce
This is an amazing work, incredible difficult, rich and perfect detail.
I admit that I have become your fans.

Cheer
Blackwater

Speechless, I am just speechless!!

Just amazing …

Regards,

thanks everyone for the great response to the latest update, it has this humble modeler a bit taken aback. lots of work goes into the smallest details and then all of a sudden it all comes together. i had a vision of how things would look and i tried my best to match the image i had in my mind especially on the wooden pieces.

Sciappapetre brings up an interesting point and i don't know if the flammable decal is the right pattern for this era. i will have to leave that one for the historians to debate. hard to find info on russian details like this one.

i've been busy getting the rubble ready. i am again employing the method of pre-dyeing the plaster using acrylic paints to match the bricks and concrete which i then break into the appropriate sizes:




we have a long weekend coming up and the plan is to deploy a major offensive on this project... maybe even push it close to completion. fingers crossed. cheers for now, bd.

Bruce, the detail just keeps getting better and better, lookin GREAT!


Cheers, Ski.

Every thing is coming along nicely.

I look forward to seeing the pics after your weekend of work!!

Bart

Bruce, looking good. IT's really comingn together

David.

Hey Bruce

I've been following your excellent build since it began and your work has been very inspirational and exciting to watch.
The techniques, details and explanations are all great! Thank you for sharing this with us.

I have a couple of questions for ya:
How did you make the peeling plaster on the inside of the building?
What colour are you going to use for the mortar?

I'm using your build as the guideline for my (much smaller) entry to End of Days campaign.

Keep up the great work!

Anirudh

Very very good !!!!
amazing assembling
following

ZACCARO - BR

thanks once again for the kind replies on the progress of this project everyone. today's another great day to get some more work done on the Red Rain diorama and i hope to be adding a nice update soon.

to Anirudh, here are some more details to answer your questions:
1) i used pre-mixed premium fine plaster spackle (the kind for patching drywall) to create the interior distressed plaster. i used a flexible putty knife to apply a thin layer and carefully smeared it onto the bricks making a broken pattern with the edges where the plaster would have chipped off.

2) the mortar between the bricks was airbrushed first using a mix of vallejo foundation white with a few drops of buff keeping it light as the oil washes will darken this later in the weather stage.

hope this helps. the End of Days Campaign is a great theme and one that popped onto my radar just as i was thinking of doing a sci-fi project involving scratchbuilding.

the fellows over at ModelGeek kindly added the diorama i made for that campaign to their feature articles. here's the link to my Tripwire entry that was much fun to put together.

i really like your M1A1 on Patrol diorama and look forward to seeing your End of Days project. cheers for now, bd.

sneak peek...




...still wet.

it will tone down in colour once the white glue has dried and then it will get some buff airbrushed over the rubble and some detail painting here and there.

then it's time for a snowfall.

cheers, bd.

that looks awsome! can't wait to see it with all the snow added

The rubble looks spot on Bruce, very impressive so far.
Thank you for the explanations as well, they'll be very useful in the next week or so. I did see you Tripwire build on the EOD thread as well and its another great diorama.
Cheers for the compliments, I'm glad you liked the Abrams build!

Anirudh

Very nice indeed!