Early fall in Alps, 1947.
Rhone, France
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Posted: Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 10:15 PM UTC
Hello, here are some new pics,


hope you like it.
Cheers.
A.
Oklahoma, United States
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Posted: Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 10:49 PM UTC
looking good real good.
I am beginning to like bases better then the Model
Antwerpen, Belgium
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Posted: Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 11:34 PM UTC
Very lifelike ! I like this ! G.

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Kobenhavn, Denmark
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Posted: Monday, March 02, 2009 - 01:13 AM UTC
Looks great. The ground work is very convincing and the slated rock looks realistic.
Looking forward to see more.
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Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
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Posted: Monday, March 02, 2009 - 01:14 AM UTC
2nd that!
lovely groundwork
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Rhone, France
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Posted: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 05:17 AM UTC
Thanks everybody for your attention and messages.
I bring you a pics of one of the figures there will be in this dio.
Here a panzer crewman in kriegsmarine leather suit.
Cheers and thanks again.
Rhone, France
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Posted: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 05:18 AM UTC
forgot the most important. Sorry.

Rhone, France
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Posted: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 05:48 AM UTC
Kriegsmarine in the Alps? he'll get mountain sick!
Your background really turns out okay..
"too much colour distracts the viewer"
Jacques Tati
Rhone, France
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Posted: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 03:51 AM UTC
Hey Jean Bernard you're right!
Thanks for your nice comments.
Here is new pics of the figure, in progress.

Rhone, France
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Posted: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 02:25 AM UTC
Hello gentlemen!
Back to serious stuff with some ferns.
Made of paper, cut, then CA applyed, then put on a brass wire.
Here's the pic.
Comments welcome.
Regards.
A.

Rhone, France
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Posted: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 04:22 AM UTC
and the same painted and put on the dio.


Rhone, France
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Posted: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 04:24 AM UTC
very good, building plants out of paper and dipping them in CA is THE way

"too much colour distracts the viewer"
Jacques Tati
England - West Midlands, United Kingdom
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Posted: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 04:51 AM UTC
Brilliant work Mate.
Paris, France
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Posted: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 05:32 AM UTC
Really Nice piece of work on the ground
And the ferns it is insane
Cheers
Seb
Rhone, France
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Posted: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 10:28 PM UTC
Martyn> Thanks mate, very appreciated.
Seb and JB> thanks guys, but the major trouble is to create flowers. I've been trying for days, but I can't make it in the same way using paper.
Anybody here can share tips about flowers? What is your way JB?
Virginia, United States
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Posted: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 11:01 PM UTC
Very nice groundwork! Thanks for posting.
Hamilton, New Zealand
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Posted: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 11:39 PM UTC
Looks awesome so far man!
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Victoria, Australia
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Posted: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 12:35 AM UTC
NIce Alexandre !
Looking forward to more posts, especially the Panther
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Wales, United Kingdom
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Posted: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 01:54 AM UTC
Nice work so far! Is the Panther going to have a "What If" camo or a more traditional camo paint job? The Germans were going for the Octopus camouflage scheme in late April and onwards. Looking forward to "Hitlers Last stand" Cheers Geraint
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Rhone, France
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Posted: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 07:50 PM UTC
flowers? what flowers.. so many different kind of flowers.
The stuff that is sold by companies and that is real dried small flowers doesn't do the trick as they're too big for 1/35.
Some flowers I did were roses which are fairly easy to do with cigarette paper and stretched sprue.
i also did "lys" and "arômes" (can't find the words in English) with normal paper and etched sprue. Those are rather big flowers so relatively easy to do.
Others like Edelweiss I never tried but i will try to think about it.
"too much colour distracts the viewer"
Jacques Tati
Rhone, France
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Posted: Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 01:42 AM UTC
Thanks all ! you give me the energy to keep posting!
Geraint> I'm not sure for the camo sheme. Maybe a what if "mountain sheme" ...Thanks for your comment
Here are new pics : another ferns and a Leontopodium alpinum, a.k.a 'Edelweiss'. not painted yet, and realized with JB's way.
(thanks mon ami)
A Digitalis purpurea is in the design office...

Cheers!
Rhone, France
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Posted: Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 05:25 AM UTC
On first pic the stuff (zeeschuim) I use for edelweiss, and cigarette paper.

then the same put on the dio, painted and weathered. (Edelweiss are the small white dots above the ferns)
Hope you like, comments welcome!
Regards.
A.


Western Australia, Australia
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Posted: Friday, March 13, 2009 - 12:56 AM UTC
G'day Alexandre,
Groundwork so far looks incredibly realistic.
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West-Vlaaderen, Belgium
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Posted: Friday, March 13, 2009 - 07:15 AM UTC
Yo Alexandre,
Great groundwork you have there...the rockformation is superb!
The "zeeschuim" is indeed a good base for you're edelweis...great work.
I will follow this one
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Antwerpen, Belgium
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Posted: Friday, March 13, 2009 - 10:06 AM UTC
Great work on the plants ! Realism is the word for this job ! G.