Attached are some in progress pics for Roo’s Move It Campaign.

The scene depicts a Dragon Wagon prepping to retrieve a Jeep that long ago missed a curve in the road and was left abandoned, (beyond repair), on the roadside.

The DW is by Tamiya. The abandoned/destroyed Jeep is from Italeri. The figures are a combination of Tamiya and Warrior. The dio base is pink stryofoam painted and finished with model railroading turf and dried items from Michael’s craft store. The road was formed from drywall mud.

Still to do, complete and place the figures, layer additional levels of water in the mud puddle, fix the Jeep in place, and add an additional sign or two to the existing pole.

All comments are appreciated. Thanks for looking.

Steve

The damaged/abandoned Italeri Jeep




This is the pit the Jeep falls into. More "water" layers need to be added as shrinkage is an issue with this product.




An overall look at the scene.


Some in progress Warrior figs that will be added to the scene. My fig skills need improvement--any tips appreciated.


A pic of the Dragon Wagon

lol, I love that "relax now drive slowly sign, you should put some wine bottles inside the jeep. I don't want to sound like an _____ but why would they want to recover the jeep for? The suspesion is all broken and looks totaled. just my useless, uninformed, ignorant opinion.

Good job Steve ....Looks well thought out and the figures look okay to me ...remember Americans had brown leather boots.(not black)
I like it ! cheers

Rick

Steve your skills never cease to amaze me. This is fantastic work mate. The damage to the jeep is very realistic as well.

I love it

That looks great!!


I love the sign, adds a bit of humor to it.....


I thing they would save the jeep to use still remaining unbroken parts, to use as spares in case one broke on another vehicle.

Lord Kenworth Jr (tm)

That damaged jeep looks great Excellent job on the figures and vehicles Are you gonna add anything to represent grease on the 5th wheel?

If not then maybe drybrush it in either bare metal or a light rust color? Can't wait to see this great dio finished

Steve. FANTASTIC !!! This is your best work yet. Everything looks great. M26 Dragon Wagon looks awesome. Figures (hehehe) look really well-done. Your goundwork is perfect.

I can't wait to see more !!

PROST !!!

Alpen

Honestly Lord Cool OD dude, I am speechless this work is amazing. The damage to the jeep is so realistic and your figures are very good too. :-)
Did you ever think about using the idea of the spilt rations boxes?

SteveWWH

Hey, the figures looks good, especially the flesh tone and your skills really improved a lot as well. There's only one advice: you should remove the block from the figures before painting because it will be very easy to broke the feet of the figures when you try to remove it. All in all, your marvelous skills impressed me!

Well done on your dio!

Lord Esteban ("Esteban" was in the top five but tradition won )

The jeep is mucho nice! Damage is not overdone (remember those jeeps were made of much thicker sheet metal than what they use in cars today). Very natural poses on those figures too!

Awsome work Steve!!! This is the best stuff yet and every time things get better!!! lol I wish I could improve this much with each build (I guess I dont' build enough)...

The jeep is really cool.. lol looks so beat up, I'm not sure it's even worth recoverign! ;-)

I'm in awe though Steve, seriously!

More Pics! More Pics!

Nice job. I like it a lot, this will be very well done.

Couple of things - the first may not be necessary. Where the fender is bent, I would thin the bent part down a bit, but only if you'll end up seeing it in the final position. Looks like it will be fender deep in mud

The second thing - the seam lines can bee seen on the steering wheel spokes. Shave those up and you've got a great jeep.

Steve, it looks like you got a license to hammer, you done a real good job on the damage, for that part the whole thing looks real good, my hat is off to you.

Kerry

Thanks to all for taking the time to post to this thread---it is very much appreciated.

Attached is a final pic showing the positioning of some figures on the DW dio.

I'll be the first to admit the fig painting is not up to the standards normally seen around here. However I did want to thank Bob aka Lord Hobby Shop from Alpenflage.com for sending me these Warrior figures for inclusion in the DW dio. Basically I asked Bob to send me what he thought might look good on a DW dio, and this is what he provided.

The detail on these resin figures is extremely crisp, and even for a basic fig painter like me, they provide an excellent representation of figures for any type of dio scene. Thanks Bob, for doing some snooping for me, and sending me this figs for the dio. Great customer service!!!

Hola WWH.

I love the Jeep. The damage looks very realistic. The drybrushing looks superb :-)

Very nicely done. I did like the wine bottle suggestion.

Howdy SteveWWH,

I just had to 'pipe' in here.

First off, I love the odd shape to the base you made. Especially since I've been working on a line of 'modular' model bases that I plan to market in the very near future. The somewhat multi-level setting is intriguing as well......nice work.
It really makes the eye want to work, and look around.
Your jeep is an outstanding piece all by itself. Your damage is realistic, as is the 'resting place' of the vehicle. Nits? I would add some more settled dust (to seperate the jeep more from the DW), and I would have folded the passenger seat over about 20 to 30 degrees to impart the sense of 'impact'. Also, considering the fact that the driver would have turned the vehicle away from the edge of the cliff, and in the general direction of the curve, I would have turned the wheels so they are facing to the right....not the left. Sorry amigo, these are just 'nits'.
Oh, and before I leave the jeep, I agree with slodder on the 'thinning down' suggestion.

Your DW is excellent, and your weathering is superbly balanced. You are obviously a talented bugger! I just love the pose of the guy directly behind the DW......sweet.

And as far as your figs go.............I am a 'wuss' when it comes to figs, so I am not qualified nor properly armed to dish out any guidance to you in that regard......yours look just dandy. Except for the fact that the bloke with the watch cap on looks a lot like a guy I know.........

Tread.

EDIT:......yeah, another 'nit'. Just took another look at your last pic and couldn't resist another suggestion (you can throw things at me if you want). Anyway, the piece of glass on the passenger seat.....loose it. It looks too 'staged' Instead, think about how broken pieces of glass would look with your '1/35th' scale eyes.......try opening an envelope of silica gel, or even sea salt.....it would 'scale' better. Plus, the majority of broken glass would not be 'lying around', it would be hurled towards the direction of last movement.......(now you can start throwing).

I don't know Tread, maybe the reason the Jeep is there is because the driver didn't steer into the bent...might be were the wine bottles come in. :-)
As for the glass, Tread is right, the glass would have shattered and flown in the direction of travel. I would have used acetate sheet for the glass, it's much thinner than the plastic screen from the kit. Other than that this is a very nice job, as said before, the concept is well thought out and excecuted. Top marks.

Cheers
Henk