Hey dear dioramists!
How is it going? I´ve tried to trace any posts and updates but there haven´t been too many lately. Just that there were so many of us enrolled in this SPLASH thingy...
Company - report!



Toni

Well to be very honourst Toni

I haven`t done very much on the dio. The hardest part is for me to get me the french Snio Troops needed. Everything else is already in the house.
Another thing I suddenly reminded was a scene that I have thought out long before this groupbuilt started And now I have a dillemma:....... Wich one to built. I know I have to start by now but I`m also quite busy with my job/school/acting group and more of that super
-modelingtime consuming- stuff

Lets see If I can find a way out of the enormous swamp that is called me Agenda to make something good for this campaign

I had some troubles finding creative ideas.... I had a dio in mind, but I couldn't fit it in the limited base size......

Now I have another idea. I worked out this idea with cardboard and it fits just fine. Now I can start the building, but with only one month left.......it will be hurry up again I fear....

This afternoon I'll get the Digital Camera from work, so I'll be able to do some posting.

To be continued.....

NB : You can follow progress through the updates of journals on the campaign pages....

Feeling stupid now.
I never noticed the Campaigns link in the main menu before...
How to start a personal journal?

Help me, I´m Finnish.

Toni

Envar - no big deal missing the campaigns link.

I've been plugging away about an hour a day or so. My basic base is almost complete. The ground work has been built up, covered with celluclay. The because the soil I am depicting is heavy on the clay side I have added a thin layer of spackle to smooth it out a bit. I've gotten my road ruts worked in. I've been working on the exposed 'cut away' portion of the ground work. Challenge here is price. I'd be easy to slap a hunk of styrene over it but I'm seriously cost challenged (lots of water to come) so I'm using spackle. More time consuming but cheaper I've gotten the river bed done. White glue/water rail road balast and some other various 'stuff' that looked like bottom feeders.
My jeep is coming along. I've gotten it basically assembled and a base coat of paint on it. I'm now going back over it and detailing it and adjusting some size issues on some of the pieces. You know the more you look the more you find you 'can' do. Gotta say enough's enough and stop soon.
My figures are coming along. I continue to work on the joints that I have repositioned and/or sculpted. I consider these guys as having had major surgery (at least for me) and it's taking some time to get it acceptable.
Oh - I've also had time to get two tall scragglie trees done. Used a stick from out back and some lichen and parsley.

You can check out page 3 and 4 - there's a hodge podge of stuff in there.
http://groups.msn.com/armorama/sloddersstuff.msnw?Page=3


Weekend plans - Try and wrap up the basic figures and get a coat of paint on them. Try to get some water testing done - trying to add a bit of tint to it and retain some clarity/transparancy.

hello all !
To be honnest, I haven't been writing in the forum because I hace no picture to show, but I update my campaign journal each time I make a significant step forward !

I built a small bridge out of styro, covered it in spackle, and engraved the detail in it (very simple detail...).
The base is a photo frame.
I built the basic shape out of styro.
I made a mix of : earth pigment, microballoons, white glue, water, wood putty to create the earth.
I added aquarium stones for... stones.
The shape of the water is made of self curing clay. It is now dry ! The cracks (because it schrinks a lot) are filled with spackle. The water has received it's first layer of colors, mostly light brown.
Now it's ready to receive uncountable coats of future.
All these operations do take a lot of time so I'm happy I started early !

Envar, to create your campaign journal :
- go to the SPLASH campaign page.
- on the right side, in the list, click on your name => it will open your campaign account page
- somewhere in the lower half of the page, there's a button saying "add an entry" or something like that... there you are !

I have been bouncing between several ideas. After I decided which one to go with, I have begun gathering the needed pieces. I wish everyone would participate in these campaigns, the size and budget restrictions really make you think. I'll add photos to my journal as soon as I have some.

Patrick

Still waiting for my Huey model to come in so really I cant do anything.Should be in here in about a week or so.