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waterboy
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Posted: Saturday, July 19, 2003 - 09:58 AM UTC
Heres some update on the France 1940 Dio I'm working on

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Added ivy and ground foliage

Step4
begin testing best place to put captured Frecnh soldier and invadeing Germans


Let me know what you think. I'm in the middle of building an Alan panzer II ausf C to be crossing the bridge
bison44
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Posted: Saturday, July 19, 2003 - 11:15 AM UTC
Very nice work Waterboy, it is coming along great. The ivy and foliage really are believable, I can imagine that soldier having a nap beside the bridge amongst the brush. Excellent work!
Mar-74
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Posted: Saturday, July 19, 2003 - 11:31 AM UTC
very nice work, have you considered putting a moss type growth on the bridge. i think you'd find it there especially near water.
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Posted: Saturday, July 19, 2003 - 11:50 AM UTC
GREAT WORK WATERBOY - CONGRATS
ROBERTO
Marty
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Posted: Saturday, July 19, 2003 - 12:19 PM UTC
Great work my friend. I really like the ivy. Are you going to leave the grass as is or are you going to color it a bit more. It would look good with some additional greens in it.
waterboy
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Posted: Saturday, July 19, 2003 - 12:30 PM UTC
Marty,I'll drybrush some different colors on the grass as one of the final steps
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Posted: Saturday, July 19, 2003 - 12:41 PM UTC

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Great work my friend. I really like the ivy. Are you going to leave the grass as is or are you going to color it a bit more. It would look good with some additinal greens in it.


This is my nit-pick as well. The bushes and ivy look so bright and alive and the grass looks so flat and dry. Although colour variation is excellent, this looks to be a bit much.
Maybe some earth colours alongside the water as well would define it a bit better. Its unlikely that the grass will grow where water is constantly running.
Otherwise this is turning out to be a fine dio, and something that little bit different which is nice. Those figures are looking neat also. Looking forward to seeing it progress.
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