Bill Cross reviews Dioramas Plus's "Small Ruins Kit."



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Hey Bill, that building turned out quite nice in your hands! That Hetzer is the perfect size for it.
Andy

Thanks, Andy, for facilitating the review. I wanted to put a Panther I'm working on in there, but it was just too big, LOL!

Besides, the poor Hetzer needed a home. Hopefully this will keep it from getting bashed.

I'd actually like to put some peeled paint on one of the building walls. Anyone know of a good tutorial?

Ill have to dig around some of my model railroad stuff and see what kind of articles i find. I know somewhere there is an online website where a master modeler shares all his techniques for building and finishing some stunningly realistic buildings in large scale.

Thanks, Andy, I have found nothing on this site, and even posted a query sometime back that got no replies. Peeled paint on buildings should be a no-brainer for us, what with exposed inner walls from bombing or shell damage.

Bill if you look at the miniart site and go to techniques thy show this using the salt techniques used for chipping on tanks. You coukld also play around with a sponge and some different paints on some scrap card and end up writing that tutorial yourself

Good review too Bill. I like the inclusion of the wooden laser-cut window frames. I'd love to try this range out but the mailing costs from the US are prohibitive, probably the same for you guys ordering from Europe

Thanks, Pat. There are several companies in Europe with interesting dio materials that, like you say, are just too expensive to ship over here. Maybe if I get back to Europe on business, I can take a day for model hunting????

I'm not sure that the lack of any sidewalk can really be considered a 'glaring' weakness. After all, when a building with that kind of mass gets blown down, there are mountains of rubble. The sidewalk would be under several meters of it.

Urban dioramas are much easier when you spread that rubble around and they are more accurate too.

That's a good point. Except that rubble can fall in strange ways. I have left some bare sidewalk on my build to show that (and will likely put some Volkssturm figures there later on).