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Hutwarming

a diorama feature by Toni Kysenius
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The Tree

The base of the tree is simply a piece of spruce branch which just happens to have similar structure and colouring as a pine tree in that scale! Some suitable roots were glued in small holes in the wood. These holes were made by some friendly insect and it saved me from the effort of drilling. How nice.

The only thing left to do was to give the branches some spray glue and apply some dark green foliage. The whole tree took me about fifteen minutes to complete and no painting was needed.
 

Accessories

I made spare equipment pockets and a bag of Milliput. Then I used the CA glue tube foil to make the basic structure of the harness used by Finnish army. I glued the pockets to the harness and painted the set with enamels.

The RK62 rifle has black plastic handholds and clip and the metal is also black. In an effort to make these elements look different I painted metal parts with Citadel boltgun metal and finished with matt black enamel. I didn't stir or shake the enamel, so the result was a bit shiny. I treated the plastic parts with Revel enamel, very dark gray. The result was very nice. Some dry-brushing with aluminium colour was added over metal
parts. I made the leather sling of glue tube foil and scratch-built the yellow muzzle cover used when firing blanks. All the equipment is placed the way we used to do it in the field. I would have liked to put the rifle facing the front (that´s how much I like the paintwork) but then everything would have been too straightforward. Besides, that's not where it would be in real life!

Foil was again used to support pants on the figure and for ID plates.

The firewood was just pieces of real wood but it was tricky as it was too light to look like real wood. A light brownish watercolour wash corrected this.

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Comments

KFMagee
Nicely done... unusual subject (i woulda never thought of THAT one!)... and the conversions look excellent!
AUG 27, 2002 - 01:32 PM
Hollowpoint
Great job, Toni! Those conversions are outstanding. You really captured the "topless" look on both of those figures. There is one thing abut this, however, that I just don't get. You guys in the Finnish Army actually WANTED to get hot and sweaty when you went to the field? When I was in the service, I went through a couple summers at Fort McCoy, Wis., with the National Guard. They had to be the hottest, most humid weeks I ever spent in the woods. We spent all of our spare time trying to figure out ways to cool down. The highlight of our day was when we received our ration of ice. If anyone had suggested that we take a sauna ... !?!?! It must be a cultural thing
AUG 27, 2002 - 07:40 PM
Envar
You tell me! I see no point in that either! Maybe it was just too boring to do anything else...so the guys wanted to see how many segments of the exhaust pipe they could make glow red! It was a day when we had one hour (!) of training. We went to throw a live hand grenade 10 am and the rest of the day we just relaxed and enjoyed the summer and mosquitoes! #:-) Toni
AUG 27, 2002 - 07:59 PM
Tin_Can
Toni, more great looking stuff. An original idea a well-great job.
AUG 27, 2002 - 11:26 PM
Envar
Almost forgot. Thanks Jim for putting this up, I´m sure you have your hands full of work! Toni
AUG 29, 2002 - 09:15 PM
D-Cycle
I tried to replicate your technice, using kitchen plasticfoil as tent canvas (or as in my case - rain cover), but it wouldn't take my acrylic paints. I solved this by laminating aluminium foil (the tin one, used in kitchens), and silkpaper from a teabag. I simply glued on the teabag material on the foil, then spraypainted it, and et voilá - i got a wonderful material to use as any kind of canvas for tents, raincovers etc. Easy to fold, but still stiff enough. /Daniel
MAR 31, 2004 - 12:31 PM
animal
Add another great little dio to your list. Bravo Toni..
MAR 31, 2004 - 12:53 PM
druid
It's actually quite refreshing. The short time heavy sweating opens up your pores and after you have washed up you feel great, almost like a new person. During winter we might blow a hole in the ice of a lake or the sea and take a short dip there. Now THAT's invigorating and will make you feel like a new person. I dare you to try it, sounds extreme but is really good for you. I do it whenever it's possible. It's much nicer to crawl in the trenches or slumber...I mean stay alert at the guard post if you have time to clean up every once in a while. Some people like a bath after a hard day, I prefer sauna. HTH, P.S. To stay on topic Toni's dioramas touch some special spot inside me. He truly catches some of the local spirit in them. I wish I could buy it in a bottle.
APR 01, 2004 - 05:16 AM
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