So you decided that the first ivy wasn't good enough!
Meantime, i copied you and made one like that on one of my houses.

Good work on the water pipe! Using soldering wire or straight wire could have saved time.

The view of your room is great.

Claude

Excellent work. I've been following this for a while now and it's been an inspiration for my current work. Keep up the good work. I'm looking forward to see what you do with the vehicles.

chris

I have been following your post off and on. Your attension to detail is great. Your scratch built furnature, and dishes. The attension to detail in the realistic building of the building. The excellent showing of the debris in the building. Showing that by including the broken furnature and pipes. Which most all of us forget that these buildings are occupied before, during and after the battles. Keep up the great work.
Tom

Hello All, It's been awhile since I've posted anything, mainly because I've had nothing new to post. I've been working so many hours at my job, that the time and the motivation just haven't been there. But I've been trying to get my butt into gear and have made some progress these past few weeks.
Claude, in response to your comments...First, I did not replace my first Ive vines with some thing else. I added the Ive leaves in addition to the vines.
This picture's not the best, but hopefully you can see the out come a little better.

And secondly, using wire for the pipes, would have made it very hard to make the broken ends look hollowed out.

I worked on the second floor alittle bit. Making the bathroom door.

Still needs some weathering...


Did some ground work. Used Stucco Patch, the same stuff I used on my exterior walls. It is textured, so it has more of a dirt look to it. While spreading it out, I kept it moist with a diluted whiteglue mixture.
Mixed two different grades of gravel together.
Spooned on the gravel, and press it down into the Stucco.
Once the Stucco dried, which took about two days, I sprayed it with the white glue mixture, three times, allowing it to dry each time.

Alot of work to go yet, but it's a start...




Hope not to take so long for my next post
Kirk

Time to go get some Stucco patch - you've used some cool techniques on this. Inspiring stuff here!

Yo Kirk,

Gladd you back on the tracks Keep up! Nice update.

Greetz Nico

Hi, congratulations on your work, do not think you can do
more real a war scene.
I wanted to ask a question, does the window that has the curtain
rotates, the framework should not these something moved?, because
such a blow on the corner is to move the entire frame.

A greeting and thank you for showing your work.

The road surface has come out really well. The grass looks very bright, I'm guessing you'll touch that up as you go.

The most unbelievable thing I have ever seen. This is a MASTERPEICE plain and simple. Beautiful work .

Bob

Kirk,
I admire your efforts on this project. Every little extra effort is noticeable down to curtain rod rings. This has been fun to watch and I can learn a lot from your scratch techniques. Also a very good job on the photos.

Keep it going.
Tony

I have revisted this and continue to be amazed at the detail you are achieving. Excellent scratch building techniques, the gutter and spout, furniture, slate, rubble, curtain rod, to many to name. Keep up the excellent work.

Kirk,
All I can say is 'WOW' Your scratchbuilding techniques are excellent and your sharing of your tips has been quite informative. I have really learned from your build log. Keep up the good...no great work!

Stephen

Thank you everyone for your kind comments. It's nice to know some of you are finding some use in my techniques.

I spent some time this week making a towel cabinet for the bathroom...




I need to paint the inside before I put the top cabinet doors on permanently.

I added a wheelbarrow to the side and I did tone down the grass a little by airbrushing a little brown to it. But I think the photos still make it look brighter then what it really is.



Thank You all once again
Kirk

cool cabinet, great scratchbuilding!


Cheers
Claude

Hello All, thought I'd give you a little update before I head back to work tonight,
First, I finished the bathroom towel cabinet...


I finally found a use for those old figures that have been hanging around but I know I would never use in a dio. Let's make some tracks in the snow!!!


I saturated the grass with a white glue and water mixture...

Than sprinkled "Woodland Scenics" Snow over top...

Than some more white glue and water over the snow...

Remove boots once dry. There you have foot prints in the snow that look like they've been there for a while.

Did a small wicker basket For the attic, complete with cobbwebs...

Started on the roof...

That's it for now, got to head back to work. {Oh Joy!!}
Kirk

Fantastic work! Just awesome. You should work in miniature modeling for a film studio. Pretty soon every town in Luxembourg will have a WWII diorama made for it. LOL What impresses me with this and Claude's Clervaux diorama are that they both portray the US Army in action. Thanks for sharing and please keep us updated.

Jeff

WOW, just WOW. Although still in progress it is one of the best dioramas i have ever seen. You scratch built everything!! It’s truly amazing.
You deserve a medal!!!

regards

Simply brilliant.

Well done !! Inspiring stuff.

That weave for the towel cabinet, did you weave that yourself out of styrene!?! That must have been NOT fun.

What i'm impressed with the most is the tiny detail work that shows up in those pictures. The patience and effort is astounding.. The cloth in the bread basket (?!?!), the tiny hinges and chains, etc, etc, etc. This is without a doubt some of the best stuff I've ever seen posted on this forum............... and i'm not just saying that off the cuff. I do really mean it.

BTW, you've now set the bar REALLY high for your vehicles (and figures?!?!). We will be expecting no less eh!!! WE WANT TO BE BLOWN AWAY !!!!

Hi Kirk, very well done! Congratulations!

Did you scratch that basket? Cool!

Greets

Claude

Yo Kirk,

Nice updates! The footsteps in the snow give this diorama a nice touch!

Keep up!

greetz Nico

Hey Kirk, Spledid job you are doing. I see your attention to the every day details are showing, like the flange on the pipe in the floor. You'ld be amazed at how many forget these things. When you add all the eye candy, it makes it stand out. Nice idea for the pipe conections with paper.

Hi All, Happy Holidays to everyone!
Thank you all for your kind words!

Tom, the weaving for the towel cabinet was made with thin strips of index card paper.

Clauda, sorry, but I didn't scatch biuld the wicker basket. I don't think I would have enough patience to even attempt something like that!! The basket came from "Custom Dioramics" .

Here's a small update...
I added a little snow to the roof top. Here are the products I used...

Taped off the area I'm working with...

I added some white acrylic paint to the "Sulptamold" to help with the whitness of the snow. With the paint added to the mixture, care must be taken when placing on dio, so not to get "white" some place were you don't want it!

While still wet, I sprinkled some of the "Woodland Scenics" snow over top...

Then carefully worked it in with a little water. Than blow away the excess.



And finally, I spent the whole day putting the shingles on the roof...



Tomorrow I paint....
Hope everyone has a Joyous and Happy Holiday with Family and Friends!!

Coming along nice....I really like the work you've done on the damaged roof section.

Bart

I am truly blown away by this project. I found this thread and couldn’t move away from the computer until I read the entire thing. OUTSTANDING work. I have to book mark this one so I can keep up and refer to it later. You my friend have inspired many of us! Thank you for sharing this with us!

Big John