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Normandie: Humber scout car meets FFI

koenele

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Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 08:53 PM UTC

Hi guys,
this is the WIP of my latest project for the Light Armoured Vehicles-campaign on the benelux-section of the kitmaker network.

The kit is the humber scout car from bronco with figure,
the frenc resistance fighter is from the french company Nemrod!
Grounwork is made from the traditional materials.

i'll show some WIP photo's of the groundwork first

The scene

paint on it

the products i used for vegetation

The humber scout car

primer

shade

man at work

first layer

second layer

highlight

decals

chipping

overall

still a lot to do:
painting figures, some more washes, more work on the groundwork, weahtering, dust, etc etc

all feedback is welcome!

greetings

koen

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Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 09:02 PM UTC

Boy that is some impressive work Koen! I like the photo progression on the Humber.
The base looks the part, but if I had to critique something it would be the placement of the grass tufts in the road centres? I don't think it looks as 'natural' as it could possibly be. I guess this would just be trial and error to fix though!

Great stuff, and I love the 'work desk'...
Brad

koenele

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Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 09:12 PM UTC

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Boy that is some impressive work Koen! I like the photo progression on the Humber.
The base looks the part, but if I had to critique something it would be the placement of the grass tufts in the road centres? I don't think it looks as 'natural' as it could possibly be. I guess this would just be trial and error to fix though!
Great stuff, and I love the 'work desk'...
Brad

thanks brad,
the gras... you have a point, i have to look at that again!

haha my work desk, i was just cleaning the airbrush!!

thanks for the feedback!
much appreciated

Koen

jba

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Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 09:15 PM UTC

hey Koen, your diorama looks promising -I would tend to agree with Brad about the grass but won't you paint the tufts afterwards? You could sure get more colour variation this way. Some mud in the crevaces would be a must too! Great Humber too -I stay posted.

yep man at work, that's the position in which your hair will beging to fall, take care about this as it's happening to be since 2 years now - you should perhaps invest into some true colour lamp too, I know my diorama life changed a bit once I secured a couple !

youngc

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Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 09:17 PM UTC

Hi Koen,

This is looking very nice. The Joefix stuff looks amazing, I will have to buy some soon.

Question: What will become of all your Vallejos if an earthquake strikes your country?

Chas

koenele

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Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 09:24 PM UTC

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hey Koen, your diorama looks promising -I would tend to agree with Brad about the grass but won't you paint the tufts afterwards? You could sure get more colour variation this way. Some mud in the crevaces would be a must too! Great Humber too -I stay posted.

yep man at work, that's the position in which your hair will beging to fall, take care about this as it's happening to be since 2 years now - you should perhaps invest into some true colour lamp too, I know my diorama life changed a bit once I secured a couple !

Hi jba,
i'm glad you like it.
The grass tuffs are allready painted a bit with the AB. But admit, they need some extra attention. also think i need to place more smaller tuffs to add some variation.

The mud is a good idea! How would you do it? You have some tips?

I'm also pretty happy with how the colours of the humber turned out. I took the photos with flash, the color in real life is more lively and in my opinion, a lot better.

Haha, well, in my family we don't lose our hair! So i won't have to deal with that problem

About the lamps. I already have turned blue, true light in the lamps! but off course that is not visible on the photo's!

thanks jba
much appreciated!!
Koen

koenele

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Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 09:26 PM UTC

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Hi Koen,

This is looking very nice. The Joefix stuff looks amazing, I will have to buy some soon.

i can only recommend the products! It's great stuff!!

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Question: What will become of all your Vallejos if an earthquake strikes your country?

Then i'm f****d.

But in the 24 years i'm on this planet, we never had an earthquake here in belgium. So for now, i'm pretty confident that the vallejo's will stay in place!!

thanks Chas

koen

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Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 10:26 PM UTC

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The mud is a good idea! How would you do it? You have some tips?

well quite simply indeed -I would select your bigger crevaces and would pour some wood varnish or clear quote, and paint the borders or any wet areas in some darker colour diluted maybe diluted with some future to get a bit of wetness about the whole.
Then as the varnish may not be enough to get a feeling of water dephth (if you feel like you need it) pour a few drops of transparent resin in the crevaces

andy007

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Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 11:24 PM UTC

Great stuff Koen, I am going to following this one closely. Have to agree with Chas the Joe fix product looks awesome.

exer

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Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 11:35 PM UTC

Koen, your dio looks very good, I like the composition and the groundwork looks very well too. The FFI figure is very interesting. I'm a Nemrod fan though I don't have that figure.

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Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008 - 12:13 AM UTC

Hey Koen,

The master himself at work!Your diorama is really taking shape, I like the layout but also have to agree with Brad and Jean-Bernard about those tufts of grass.
Aren't the products from Joefix fantastic!?
I have invested in various items from their range, not just because of their quality but also because my wife got sick of me taking stuff from her "flower arrangements"

As you know I know next to nothing about armour but i will say that the weathering does look spot on.Your painting and weathering of armour has really made great leaps and bounds over the last year or two.
I look forward to the next update mate!
Cheers,
Shay

martyncrowther

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Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008 - 07:28 AM UTC

wow amazing mate this is a great dio cant wait to see it finished!

Martyn

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Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008 - 08:11 AM UTC

Hi Koen real nice work so far mate,i like the subtle elevation you have added to the basework which will add visual interest to the groundwork.
Nice work with the Humber and looking forward to seeing more.

Oh and get your hair cut

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Steve

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Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008 - 08:42 AM UTC

At this point i will simply agree with what has been said about your dio but also give you praise for the excellent foto feature, a work often underestimated and taking a lot of modeling time also.

If i look at your "small" work places i also realize why you guys are wondering where i put my castle

Cheers
Claude

koenele

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Posted: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 09:45 PM UTC

hi guys

@ jba: thanks for the tip, but the dio's taken place in august 1944, so i doubt if there would be any wet mud... or am i wrong? looking forward to your reply

@ andy007: thanks for the kind words. The joefix-products are awesome!! I can only second that.

@ pat: jop the nemrod figures are great!! this one too is very well executed. There will be a review of the figure on the benelux section soon, maybe i could translate it to place it here aswell.

@ kiwibelg/shay: hi shay, always good to here from you. I really miss the times we came together to talk about the hobby...
The joefix prodcuts are great!! That's a fact!!
Thanks for the compliments, i only try to use new techniques and read a lot about them. The result is idd a bit better then 2 years ago, but still a long way to go! but the learning process is a great experience so far!!
Hope to see you again soon shay!!
thanks a lot

@ martyncrowther: thanks man!!

@ steve readdie: my hair...

well since i bought a trimmer to save some money (to buy more kits off course) i trim my hair myself. It's quiet difficult but i'm getting it! only this time it was a bit too short

Thanks for the kind words, i'm also happy with the subtle elevation, it looks pretty good when i put the humber scout car on the read!

@roudeleiw: thanks claude, about the photo's, i learned a lot from other builders blog's so i try to do the same and hope someone can learn somehting...

I havent got much time lately but this week i'm starting againg with full power!!

greetings and thanks for the comments,

koen

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Posted: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 11:30 PM UTC

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dio's taken place in august 1944, so i doubt if there would be any wet mud... or am i wrong? looking forward to your reply

Hey Koen
I think you'll find that there was definitely wet weather around. I know that Autumn was shockingly wet, September especially, so for August maybe a bit?
Brad

koenele

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Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 09:14 AM UTC

did some more... not much

greetings

koen

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Posted: Saturday, October 18, 2008 - 03:12 PM UTC

So far so good!

Couple questions. For acrylics I have used Tamiya exclusivly. How do you find Vallejos and how would you rate Bronco, I've never built one before.

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Posted: Saturday, October 18, 2008 - 08:23 PM UTC

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@ jba: thanks for the tip, but the dio's taken place in august 1944, so i doubt if there would be any wet mud... or am i wrong? looking forward to your reply

Brad above is right, Normandie as a rule is shockingly wet at all times a year -the place is nicknamed "France's chamber pot", my wife comes from there and she can't stand temperatures above 24°c!

Seriously, I *never* saw something that looked like truly dry weather in Normandie so that tracks forms in mud that deep could have the time to dry up completely..
Otherwise, your Humber still looks good, I look forward the progresses
JB

koenele

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Posted: Sunday, October 19, 2008 - 08:06 PM UTC

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So far so good!

Couple questions. For acrylics I have used Tamiya exclusivly. How do you find Vallejos and how would you rate Bronco, I've never built one before.

Hi blake,
Vallejo is great to paint details, chipping, etc...
but for the Airbrush i always use Tamiya. Vallejo air is pretty good but i like the colors of tamiya more. Also tamiya paint with some lacquer thinner is much easier to work with (and clean afterwards).

Bronco... i have different feelings with this broncokit. The manuel is not good. There are as good as no instructions for the PE-sheet that is included.
On the other hand, the plastic parts are pretty good. The interior is basis but well detailed...

@ jba,
Thanks, i'll try to add some wet mud!!

greetings

koen

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Posted: Monday, October 20, 2008 - 04:06 AM UTC

Nice work!

I really would like to know what kind of vegetation is used by JOEFIX to create "takken met blaadjes" (branches with leaves)

Keep up the good work!

Wijnand

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Posted: Monday, October 20, 2008 - 05:22 AM UTC

wow Koen what are you usig for FFI figures?

Martyn

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Posted: Monday, October 20, 2008 - 05:29 AM UTC

sorry mate ive seen it was nemrod thanks anyway are you going to put any other figures on?

Martyn

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