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Dioramas: Buildings & Ruins
Ruined buildings and city scenes.
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Old French city gate
blockhaus
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2010 - 08:35 AM UTC
Hello Now I´m working in this pieces. As ussual I do it with a wood structure and over it different materials for reproduce textures; little stones from acuarium soil and cork. The wood for beams came from Ice cream sticks ans ornamentation from wood pincers for subject the ropes afther clean it.



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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2010 - 08:53 AM UTC
I love seeing your work at this stage Carlos with all the different surfaces and textures before paint. Great work.
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2010 - 08:54 AM UTC
Looking good blockhaus,
nice interesting build love all the different textures very good,looking forward to seeing it go further.

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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2010 - 08:56 AM UTC
The gate looks great already, love to see it finished.......Al
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2010 - 09:01 AM UTC
Great stuff--- as always!

Cheers
Claude
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2010 - 04:48 PM UTC
Truely inspiring. Have to get to work on some of "put off" buildings and this sure is lighting the fire. Thanks for sharing it.
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2010 - 11:09 PM UTC
I've said it before -and it's worth repeating. Your creativity in architecture is only surpassed by your creative use of common things. Everyone can take something away from your projects.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - 12:18 AM UTC
The material gives an interesting "real look". Overall this looks very good!
Perhaps I also should build something like a house... or a part of it.

greetings...
Soeren
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Posted: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - 04:50 AM UTC
Always so nice looking, you never cease to amaze!

There's a great Taschen book XVIII and XIXth centuries architecture in Prussia I saw the other day, and I thought doing this in scale could well be your nirvana eh..
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Posted: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - 09:04 PM UTC
Yo Blockhaus,

Nice start...very realistic.

Hopeing to see this one finished

Grt Nico
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Posted: Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 09:30 AM UTC
Tahks guys for your nice words, JBA yes , Taschen have a interting books about architecture... and not only architecture...
please taka a look how themodels looks now I added more little stones in the base and spackle over this.



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Posted: Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 09:45 AM UTC

Quoted Text

ornamentation from wood pincers for subject the ropes afther clean it.



Hi great building and imagination , as always.

This part of your description had me puzzled, then I got it......you took wooden clothes pegs used for hanging out clean washing on a clothes line is what you are saying, cut up to make the building ornamentation.


I was looking at those myself the other day, my wife chucks them away all the time. Not any more....

Great idea. Thanks for sharing.

Alan
blockhaus
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Posted: Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 10:32 AM UTC
Thanks Alan, Clothes pegs! I not know what name have this tool , and give this definition with the hope that some colleague help me ...
Cheers!
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Posted: Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 07:28 PM UTC
Beautiful work again Carlos. Its always so interesting to see the materials you use, the final results when its built. Always inspriational.
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Posted: Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 06:41 PM UTC
Carlos, this build tells me how greatyou are as a modeller, the textures are spot on and the architecture looks fantastic to be used in a diorama work.
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Posted: Monday, February 15, 2010 - 02:07 AM UTC
Wow what a great building! I love it.
blockhaus
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Posted: Saturday, February 20, 2010 - 07:33 AM UTC









here is this work near finished. you cab see here some of the textures and how he can be obtained. little stones, and cofee stick for the roof.The windows frame no t hare out of scale, in fact these frames are big frames where the frames that can be open hare.Hope that this can be understand...

Carlos
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Posted: Saturday, February 20, 2010 - 11:16 PM UTC
Superbe!

Cheers
Claude
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