Dear All
I have been working on my Stryker .

And I decide to build a dio,crazy idea not really after seeing the work of Chas, JBA and his french neighbor, I decide to try a smal dio well with the Stryker it will be big.

It is a simple road in a Iraki village, I start the ground work as well as the electrical pole total stracth .
I will put more rabbish on the opposite corner.
Concerning the figs, Stryker crew, journalist at rear and some locals.

Comments welcome

The base is looking good so far. The scratch electric pole is good. Rubble is good. Love the drain pipe. The stryker is nicely done.
My suggestion would be to even out the road or compess and extend the suspension. The wheels aren't touching the road.

Thanks Scott
Yeap, I need to fix this issue but I dont know how yet since i glue the road onto the plaster surface. maybe adding some patch of dry mud, or some piece of tar ???
Other question where can i find concrete block (CMU) at this scale ???
i would like to build a small wall and scatter some all around the dio.

Cheers
Seb

You can easily pour your own concrete blocks with some plaster. A quick mold out of some balsa or legos.

I was thinking of doing master in plastic strips and mold in RTV.
But there is no AM for them, anyway that was my first plan to scratch them

Seb nice diorama mate! Intereasting how your going to fix the stryker to your base.
Are you going to add some Crew mate?

Update
I fix the issue with the wheels
i start to add some vegetation
Comments are very welcome
BTW find a way for the concrete block using Hansa.

Dear ALL
I have been busy reworking on the base wall and repainting them.
I restart the small bush and start to add the tar line to cover the holes on the road.
I also work on a mattress for the garbage

Please tell me what do you think
cheers
Seb

Hi Sebastien

Nice Dio, like the striker a lot! And the matress. How did you do it?

One thought though: If the matress burned where it is now, the plastic garbage bag (by the way, how did you make that?) would also be burned.

Did you scratch the electric pole?

Cheers!
Stef

Really nice work Seb, the matress is a great idea!

Great setting,
I like the composition.
I keep a close eye on it Seb.


The french neighbour.

Awesome looking dio man. I like it a lot. your work is fantastic too.

Nice setting.

Love that mattress idea and plastic trash bag looks the part.

Seb,
Nice representation of a Stryker as well as the Iraq countryside with your dio. I would recommend that you add more trash. Bottles, paper, empty plastic bags, empty barrels, etc.

One thing that I have to ask is why you have wires tied to the Duke Antenna (105D antenna)??? In real life, this would significantly decrease the range of the Duke and its ability to defeat radio controlled IEDs... Do you have a reference pic that you used to model the vehicle?? If this something tied to the antenna, I would guess that it would be parachute cord verses wire.

John

Dear All
thanks for the comments

@ Stefan
The electrical pole is totally stracth with styrene part
Concerning the fire issue, the matress has been burn there but the locals throw the bag after, I will put more stuff paper water bottles and more plastics bags. I will attached also some plastics parts to the brushes.

@ Martyn Thanks my man

@ Alex thanks yeap you are right concerning the French neighbor

@ Charles Thanks

@ Jeff thanks

@ John for sure I will add more garbage like concrete block paper bottles etc ...

Concerning the Duke it is Cordura rope that are normaly used to tie it down. I found a lot of pics with such representation

Cheers
Seb

Great dio mate, your styker is great and the slat armor really makes the difference,

keep it up mate

Nice dio. Like the mattress and the detail on the tower. Good job.

Tony

Yo Seb,

Nice Stryker!

You're setting looks good, what dit you use for the groundwork?

The electric pole looks very good...I should place more bleu chips on it...it will nicelly contrast with the hole scene.

Following this one

greetz Nico

Oh man, how did I do to miss this one? Your very first dio from what you say? quite good I like it, the matress and the ferns are looking great and the ration vehicle/size of the dio excellent as well as the balance of the diorama, really keep on that way and we might see great things for you very soon indeed!

@ Nico
for the sand i used aluminum oxide powder from work it is 0.053 mm diameter so very fine and look really realistic.
I dont know if you can buy it like that well ask Sigma Alrdrich.

@JBA
well if the king of the dio appreciate it I am very happy
And not my very first dio, but my very first dio taking your lecture on volume/area and all configuration.

Cheers
Seb

Dear All
I would like to add a palm tree
I have 2 options
what is the best one please tell me:

Upper part of the dio


Corner of the dio


Cheers
Seb

looking good. I guess a palm tree would look good but the one you have is a bit too smooth possibly? there a a few articles on making palm trees in the features section that may help you here. Also i like the rubbish pile, but you might want to scatter some other litter around the scene so it doesn't look like someone has collected it all up and put it in a nice pile, (unless that's what you intended of course).
great work!

Luke
i found the palm tree in my stash it is from Verlinden not the best for sure but i will do the job with some upgrade
Concerning the garbage, I would like to represent all in the same place.

Cheers
Seb

Some progress on the garbage
I add more garbage, broken glass more plastic bag some items from Verlinden, the drum is from Mig cut and empty and fill with junk.
Comments welcome, I will add more paper trash what do you think ???







i also did some work on the water pipe, tell me if you like it





Comments and feedback welcome

Hi Sebastien,

Looking good! I would be very interested to know how you made the plastic rubbish bags and the mattress.

Cheers,
Ian