Hello All, I post some photos of my last dio made in collaboration by my friend Werner Kampfhofer from Vienna. Werner make the vehicle and paint all, I made only the building and dessing the scene.

These building is made in cork and balsa wood

I hope that are interesting for you

You can find the photos at:
Photo Albums by blockhaus101

well..... first of all welcome to armorama, secondary, i have an error mesage when accesing the site, but i'm sure it's a great diorama

Welcome to the site, I got the same message, sure would like to see it. Especially if it was built in 2 different countries and then pulled together....

SORRY

Seems that now works well... I hope

Welcome aboard Blockhaus! I fixed your linkage. The buildings look great. Very nice detail and quite convincing. I like em.

Indeed excellent buildings. When you make them do you use reference materials or just do it using your imagination?

Thank you for you kind words,
I use a combination of imagination and reference materials. In these case I have take some different buildings from different sites and I combine in one scene.
Internet is plenty of reference materials about old buildings, specially of turn of century in France. I find one websites with more 12.500 post cards of towns, and these is only one website, have more
cheers

i like very much teh ambush dio

Carlos, can you post the link to the postcards?

Nice building. I like the arcitectural flare of it.
One thing I would like to see to get a better feel is a reference point - a figure included - just to get a better idea of scale and sizing.

The techniques look good. Keep us posted on the painting.

The link is:

http://www.cpa77.com/cpa77.asp

these web are in french, you must click in the rigth window named "communes" all names are towns you must click in every name and apparead all postcards of these town

Carlos

Hey blockhouse nice buildings! may i ask what material u used on the ambush dio or were they pre-made plaster molds? oww and welcome!

Hello Penkala,
These building is a carboard structure, the wood is balsa and the rest is cork, and stones are bits of cork sanded and glued one by one.
Cork is a material very versatile, depend the grade of sanding you can reproduce different textures.

cheers

carlos