Alexandre, you've made a wonderful piece of groundwork her mate. I like the colors, textures and the wet, frozen look ! This is gonna be something ! G.

Fantastic work (again), Alexandre!

Any progress on this dio?

Rudi

Hello gents, and please forgive me for the late answer.

Wijnand, my friend, I really apreciate your comments, it's nice to see you're always here for friends.

Jannes, thanks, well, there's nothing easier than doing a convincing groundwork : just look around, take reference pics, and let your inspiration do the job. That's far easier than doing a Tank...

JB, thanks friend. Well, soon we'll drink a beer together, watching this little dio and you'll hear me say : "Hey, this one is finished."
Keep safe mate;

Hey Nico, I'm flattered, I like your builds, for the water I've used NIMIX resin poured with a paintbrush...not a very good product, but the only one I've got in hand...

Hello Erik, well, it's far too small for the Panther size, and too snowy for the Fall in Alps, but glad and flattered you remeber this good ol' project of mine... Thanks for following.

Guy, thanks for the nice comment as always. Really Hopewe will talk soon with a couple of beers. Cheers friends.

Hey Rudi thanks!! I've made lot of new thing on it. I'm not posting it cause I'm a bit busy these days. This diorama will also be published in the next Steel Master magazine issue.
Anyway, here (few) pics :

I wasn't satisfied with the primer and paint work, so I redone the build with few new things. The commander cuppola, a new MG barrel, cut the rear part of the hull, etc... Let's see :





Cheers Friends.
A.

uuuu, that barrel is looking good! I'm very anxious to see the Panzer in paint.
Primož

Thanks Primoz,
Well, there is already kind of paintwork on it....
This time, I can't post more.



Cheers all.

Alexandre.

Looks good Alex

Alex, Awesome fun. nice use of Sci Fi with panzer parts. Got to be Splinter or one of the SS autumn camo's on the legs to go with the Dunkelgelb hull/body. Come on its the only way to go with a Herr/SS walking( arms and legs) machine. Do you use Tamiya primer on all your models? Is it that good? I haven't used it before, but I see so many top modeller using it. Please can you give me your input on the primer, cheers. Again your ground work looks great, so effortless but so detailed, you are evolving all the time, its a pleasure to watch. Thanks Geraint(Forward 46)

Thanks Yvan my friend as always. Hope I will not disapoint you once finished.

Geraint, nice to see you onboard. Thanks for the kind words on the groundwork. Well, in fact I've been really disapointed by Tamiya Primer. Once the build finished, it has ruined my model. So I have to remove all the paint. The good point of it : I've improved the model by making new details and adding some spare parts such as the kampraumheizung, the commander cuppola, a scracth built MG mount, and a new MG barrel, some hooks ...
Once the Tamiya paint removed, I've primed the new walker with Citadel Black primer, the one I use for everything. Figures, groundwork, models. An I'm pretty happy with it.

And, uuuh, for the leg camo, I'll go for another thing, it will be the same as the hull.

Cheers,
Alexandre.

Hello gents, well, sorry for digging out this old topic, but I would like to show you the finished project.
I've redone little things, and I saw that some img in the previous pages have been deleted.

So here we are now :
The resin kit was upgraded with accesories from DML spare part, griffon models and RBmodel ones.
The MG cuppola ring is done in Evergreen styrene...

Some pics before painting :







Then, a bit of paint on it, sorry, but I had not took pics in the differents painting stages :
The used white wash is done using hairspray tech, weathering is done using oil color and some pigments.





Maybe some of you remember the groundwork? Anyway, here it is, finished, without the Walker on it :





And then, the completed diorama :







Well, I'm waiting for your feelings and comments about it, hope you like it.
Regards,
Alexandre.

Well well my friend, here it is at last ! I'm so glad to see your finished project.
You did a good job on the the muddy, snowy landscape, it was a good idea to do something different ! The washed away white wash completes it nicely.
A great diorama, I like it and it shows your skills to make wonderful projects !

Your Belgian friend Guy.

Salut Alexandre,

It looks a bit like end of the world in winter. Groundwork is really good, i like the look of it.

Cheers
Claude

looking real good and different my french colleague!

hmm yes, i saw that one actually, it's a good little diorama, and honestly those pics don't give it justice!
more please!

Yo Alexandre,

Stunning work you show here! The walker is very nice accomplished, nice weahering to.

But you're groundwork is awsome!!! Superb.

I getting to like this kind of models.

Great work Alexandre.

Greetz Nico

Hey Alexander, Sharp dio there. The walker is real nice looking but your ground work is exceptional. Many built dio's are nice but fall a bit short on the ground work. Yours my friend, ties it all together splendedly.

Wow! That's a cool dio right there. Really love the ground work. You mind giving some "lessons" on how you did your ground work?

Hello Gents,

A big thank you!
Guy, my friend, thanks for your kind words, It's been a while since we last talked.
I'm really looking forward to an update of one of your project. Bye!

Salut Claude, thanks, greatly apreciated.

Hello Nicolas, thanks, your project sounds pretty cool, waiting to see more of it.

Hi JB, well, when I'll be able to get some time, I should take better pics of it, see you.

Hello Nico, thanks! If I'm right I saw one of your work in "Art du modelisme" french edition last issue. Glad that you like this little vignette!

Thanks Bob for your kind comment, I'm glad to see you're following this one too. Indeed, I put my efforts on the groundwork, because that's what I like to model, but my kit painting abilities are far from perfect. Lot of modellers don't really care of the groundwork, but are painting very good models.

Hi "The M", well, in one or other of my buil log I explain the way I work the grounds of my dioramas, but in the next, I have to do a real SBS about it. Thanks for your feedback.


Well well, a couple of days ago I was reading topics of mine, like "Crete '41" or "Pripyat" and I must admit that it must be a pain to be a follower. Why? because in more than one year of more or less active membership, I have not been able to finish anything.
Peoples like you, friends, always had taken time to answer my post, writing usefull and constructive comments.
I think I should take it more "seriously" and try to finish something "really", even if I'm not happy with the result, because that's what some of you, friends, are maybe waiting for.

Thanks every one.

Alexandre.

Definitely. We all tend to expect from the people whose work we appreciate what we think they are worth of.

Yep Nico. We all tend to expect from our friends what we think they are worth of.
Come at home this summer, i'll make you work Prypiat at the point of a gun

man this turned out nice.....i personaly thik those skinny little back legs look a little too delicate. i would have beefed em up....but its already done....and it looks good.... to you my freind.

btw where can you get one of these kits? i have an idea for a russian version.

You can find a lot of such kits on eBay... http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=ma.+k&_sacat=0&_trksid=p3286.m270.l1313&_odkw=ma+k&_osacat=0&bkBtn=1

You might also be interested in the Dust models. They have recently released some cool russian mech robots

http://www.dustgame.com/products.php

/Jesper