John, to be honest, it deoes look a little on the dark side (no star wars pun intended), but, if you hadent mentioned it I probably wouldnt have noticed

Your figs look great, along with your wall....I envy your figure painting skills

Keep it up bro!

Jon

Hi all,
Here is some progress that I am in the middle of doing right now. Just got it taped up and it is already sprayed, just need pics, which I will get in a few minuts. I used sawdust for the ivy.
BTW- I also highlighted the walkway.

Jon- Thank you for your comments. You were right though. I am gald you like my painting. I have learned everything from Armorama.



thxs,
John

Here is more progress pics-
After getting it airbrushed I took the tape off and fixed all the outer edges. I then darkend and highlighted the ivy.


After that I noticed the middle part looked a little square. So I had to fix that too.



more to come!

thxs,
John

And more-

Next I added some leaves to the walkway to give it some depth.




I will give more in a couple hours.

thxs,
John

I think it looks good. The main thing is that you started. Awesome amount of good advice. Looking forward to the next update.

Thomo

Thank You very much Thomo!! I am glad you like it.

thxs,
John

Johnathon,
The ivy doesn't look to bad, but what I would do to give it more depth, is dab some slightly diluted Ehlmers on what you have. Use a brush to dab the glue on randomly, then sprinkle that with what ever you used to make the leaves on the sidewalk.
That would then have to be re-painted but that should give a more 3-D effect.

Keep it up,
BillK.

I agree with Bill. But I've never seen this method before and it looks very realistic.

Lars

Bill- Thank you for your advice! I will try what you said. I used basil for the leaves.

Lars- I saw the sawdust idea on another website. Thank you for your comments.

thxs,
John

Here is the last fig of the dio. I got him all done today. He is going to have a Kar 98 in his left hand.




Thxs,
John

i love this dio it is great!
and brilliant figures!

Martyn- Thank you for your comments!!

I added the basil leaves randomly to the ivy to give it more depth. I am thankful that
"anti-hero" gave me the advice.



Any other advice or commentes are more than welcome!!

thxs,
John

Here are the figs on it too. Hopefully the last thing I got to do is get some veneer wood for the sides.




thxs,
John

Great scene John, looking real good. Like how your wall turned out. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers -
Tim

Thank you Tim!!

John

Good work John.

Here is some good reading and some reference pics for you on SS camo.

http://www.missing-lynx.com/articles/figures/mbcamo.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SS_Platanenmuster_Herbst.jpg

http://www.atthefront.com/guni_SScamotunic_oak.jpg

http://www.atthefront.com/g_uni_sscamo_trou_comp.jpg

Regards,

Paul