Dioramas
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El Alamein's Grandsons
beepboop
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England - South East, United Kingdom
Joined: May 23, 2004
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Posted: Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 05:38 AM UTC
Truly astonishing. Not only are the models great, but the composition of the dio is so well thought out that it really draws you into the scene. One of the best dios I've ever seen - amazing work!
SIRNEIL
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England - South East, United Kingdom
Joined: July 30, 2007
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Posted: Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 05:45 AM UTC
the diorama is stunning but how much does something like this cost to make ?????
rotATOR
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California, United States
Joined: November 16, 2006
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Posted: Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 05:48 AM UTC
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harrier1
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England - West Midlands, United Kingdom
Joined: June 09, 2005
KitMaker: 613 posts
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Posted: Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 06:07 AM UTC
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is truly amazing and right up my street!! I remember when you showed us those first photos, I never thought it would be so huge but WOW!!! I do have a couple of questions though:
1. Just how many figures are there, (just curious )
2. As I am fairly new to making decent well thought out dios I was wondering, did you purchase the figures and the vehicles at the same time and then wonder how to fit them all together or did you get the vehicles, position them and then think, 'Well I could put a figure here and another group here' and then get a number of figures and convert them all into the appropriate pose and fit tehm around the vehicles
3. Where did you find the Arabs or are they scratch built
4. Does the warrior have an AA interior, if so Id love to see it.
As I said this is a truly stunning dio and it is really great to see a modern British dio which can show us all what can be done with the limited aount of modern British kits out there. Thanks very much for showing this. Cheers,Nick
tsitsosdera
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Attica, Greece / Ελλάδα
Joined: September 29, 2005
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Posted: Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 06:36 AM UTC
Great dio ,great composition.I loved the group photo idea.
One small notice, the vehicles are too clean other than that everything is great!!
Keep up the good work
netcop
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Moscow, Russia
Joined: April 17, 2007
KitMaker: 15 posts
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Posted: Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 07:15 AM UTC
Genrs,

Thank you very,very,very much for you comments.
Please give me some time for amswers, Really I prefer to do it right now, but my spouse doesn't think so.....

We have huge family party in this weekend ( parents, mother-in-law ,father-in-law.......) to celebrate Old Russian New Year.

Thanks again,
Nick
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Spain / España
Joined: July 04, 2003
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Posted: Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 07:28 AM UTC
Hello Nick
I want also give my congratulations for your work is first class for all points of wiew: composition, vehicles figures, etc..
cheers
Carlos
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Joined: May 05, 2002
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Posted: Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 07:56 AM UTC
We're not worthy
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Snowhand
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Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Joined: January 08, 2005
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Posted: Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 08:32 AM UTC
Wow, just wow.. I am speechless. This is one I have to see with my own eyes, even if it's the last thing I do.

Just.... wow!!!!!!

james84
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Roma, Italy
Joined: January 28, 2006
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Posted: Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 08:45 AM UTC
10+!
Any further comment is useless!
stevem
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Texas, United States
Joined: April 26, 2006
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Posted: Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 09:13 AM UTC
Nothing more that I could add, except "humbling".

Steve
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Dalarnas, Sweden
Joined: May 08, 2002
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Posted: Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 01:48 PM UTC
Simply the most advance piece of modern dio I have ever seen. Two Words...Unbelievable ballistic!!!!!
Murdo
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Scotland, United Kingdom
Joined: May 25, 2005
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Posted: Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 02:01 PM UTC
Seen the first additions... Now this is just fantastic!!



I am unworthy to judge!
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Joined: February 07, 2007
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Posted: Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 04:31 PM UTC
Absolutely fantastic. Not much to add to the rest of the commentary.
noliyam
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Philippines
Joined: December 19, 2007
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Posted: Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 09:04 PM UTC
I am trying to collect all the vehicles (armored and soft skin ) of Operation Telic but when I saw this Dio I was speechless and I can only say WOW!!!! What a great built!!!
tommaso66
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Trieste, Italy
Joined: January 01, 2006
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Posted: Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 04:46 AM UTC
impressive work !!!!!!!!!!!

how many figures are there?? somebody counted them???



tom
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Belgium
Joined: March 17, 2005
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Posted: Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 05:08 AM UTC
Oustandig job!!!

Your dio looks really good! I want to see more pictures if that is possible. I really like the British DPM desert and woodland that you have painted. It looks convincing Which colours did you use to paint the woodland DPM?

Grtz
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Nord, France
Joined: March 15, 2004
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Posted: Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 05:12 AM UTC
Just one word : AMAZING !!!!
f1matt
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Manitoba, Canada
Joined: August 13, 2006
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Posted: Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 06:27 PM UTC
I count at least 40 unique and highly detailed figures and about 8 vehicles. I was trying to figure out why the Chally was looking a little different in some pictures. Than I realized that there are two of them !!!

I'll never get tired of looking at this as there is always something more to look at.

Bravo. Big time.

-Matt

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Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Joined: May 14, 2006
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Posted: Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 09:09 PM UTC
If cursing was allowed on the forum
I was baffeled how you managed to put it all together in such a coherent way!!

And if I may be the "evil one"
the only thing I noticed about the dio, it's a desert dio, and (slap me if 'm wrong)
there isn't much dust on the vehicles?
on the other hand , dusting such a large group in a way that is convincing,..it's probably the best solution you made (it's gonna catch some dust anyways hé )
I've been looking at the pics , and here and there I noticed some figs I 'might' have seen somewhere, in another form,but brilliantly put together, I mean, I know when you put 2 figs next to eachother (different brands), the differences are sometimes to much to be 'reeel'
but you did it

And don't forget to thank you wife...
for letting you the time to created such a beauty, giving us eyecandy


I bow down

Tha Pit
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Kobenhavn, Denmark
Joined: July 20, 2006
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Posted: Monday, January 14, 2008 - 12:37 AM UTC
Fantastic job!! Simple outstanding!

Thanks for sharing
PISTOLPETE
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Posted: Monday, January 14, 2008 - 02:43 AM UTC
I think I just looked at the picts five times in disbelief. Thanks for the work it is amazing.. By the way Happy New Year and whats next I want more.
05Sultan
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California, United States
Joined: December 19, 2004
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Posted: Monday, January 14, 2008 - 03:51 AM UTC
What a great snapshot scene of desert war downtime.Just stunning. Best large diorama I've seen in a long time that had 'everything' tied together so very well.
Gonna be hard to top this on your next one!
Cheers for super work!
netcop
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Moscow, Russia
Joined: April 17, 2007
KitMaker: 15 posts
Armorama: 14 posts
Posted: Monday, January 14, 2008 - 04:35 AM UTC
Thank you everyone for the comments. I really appreciate it.

I also want to say many thanks to guys, who worked with me on this diorama - Vladimir Ulianov, Serge Skreblov and Alexander Fetisov. I am especially pleased with Sasha Fetisov's ( 14 years old ) work on details. Take a look on some examples:



Cameras are exact 1/35 copies of Nikon F-4 fitted with SB-24 AF-TTL Speedlight. And you may see Big Ben, two red buses and one London cab on 1.8 mm copy of cookies blue metal box.

Well... Few statistic information:

Diorama size: 95 x 75 sm

Number of figures : 64 ( + 3 camels)

Number of vehicles: 8 ( +1 motorbyke)

Vehicles: Accurate Armour, Dj Parkings, Тamiya, Academy

Figures: self-made and conversions of various kits from Drаgon, Verlinden , Accurate Armour, Dj Parkings, СMK, Hornet

Accessories and decals: Accurate Armour, Dj Parkings, Legends Models, DioArt, Echelon Decals, PlusModels, Model Point, Еduard, 4D Modelling

About your questions:

1.Yes, it’s too early for Land Rover Wolf , must be SAS Scud Hunter version. Il’s “known error”, sorry. Now AA has DPV Version available which may be converted to SH.

2. Arabs and white camels are Verlinden figures with our small additions.

3. Warrior is Acadeny kit + AA command conversion w/o interior.

4. Personally, I don’t like a lot of dust on vehicles.

Few words about diorama base.
We used foam plastic mat (50 mm thick) for base and make necessary terrain shape using knife. Then apply thin layer of paper on surface of the mat using white glue ( we use copies of receipts from supermarket cash-register, because they have equal size and appropriate thickness).
This procedure reinforces base and help to minimize amount of glue and sand which is needed on later stages.







Then apply next layer of white glue on paper and start applying sand . Thickness of sand layer must be around 3-4 mm.





Due to contact with glue sand will change its color to darker one. In approximately 30-45 munites ( depends on room temperature, glue, etc.) sand will start drying out and changing color to natural.
At this moment top layers of sand is pretty dry, but bottom layers – still wet. It’s time to start applying the tire and tread marks on sand. You have around 30-40 minutes for this process ( again depend from some factors), after which the sand will become hard. We use just appropriate size toy cars to imitate tyre marks.









As for desert plants we use corn female flowers aka corn silk















If you need some correction on completed base, you may apply some amount of white glue (mixed with water) on problem areas by using hand sprayer and adding more sand.

Best Regards,
Nick
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England - West Midlands, United Kingdom
Joined: June 09, 2005
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Posted: Monday, January 14, 2008 - 05:06 AM UTC
Hi Nick
Thanks very much for those tios and information. As I have said before I love this dio. However not wanting to detract anything from it, I have noticed one historical error on about my 10th look at the pictures. That is the picture of Saddams statue being pulled down on the newspaper here:



This happened at the end of the 2nd Gulf war and your dio is the 1st Gulf War. As I said I dont want to detract anything from this dio but I thought I should say incase you enter it into any competitions or anything like that. Nick