here is the site that i'm posting pictures of the dio in progress. http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/elementskata6677/lst?.dir=/diorama+pics&.view=t

I can't access this site

what does it say??

I can't get in to see the pictures either. The message is something along the lines: "the site is inaccessible."

i'm so dumb. it was on private. i changed it to public view so now that link should work. here's the link again just in case http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/elementskata6677/lst?.dir=/diorama+pics

Nice work...

the cobble stone... Lentel? Beans?

John
http://www.johnneill.com

Terrific work

just a question: What did you used to fill the space among the lentils? I used this technique some time ago and used plaster to fill the space and the lentils goy wet. When they dried a lot of craks appeared in the plaster and didn't look good.

Daniel

Bingo - got in and I like what I see. The build up of the plaster on brick is well done. The drain pipe is great. The images of the tank are a bit dark and make it tough to comment on them, generally they look good.

Couple of things - the window frame looks a bit thick on both demensions (on image11) . On image 7 the top edge of the wall could use some etching to represent the edges of bricks.

slodder, i was thinking about that side of the wall you were talking about earlier today. how can i go about etching out the bricks?? i'll try to take some more better pics of the tank. waht should i do to fix the window?

The building is looking very good. Is it made completely from scracth? if so, could you explain your buidling method?

I would start by transferring the mortar lines from the front of the wall around the edge with a pencil. Lightly draw where the mortar would be on the edge with a pencil so that it lines up with the front of the wall.
Then the etching starts. Just take the back edge (dull side) of a 311 exacto blade - or a dental pick. And carefully carve in some squared off edges to make it look more like broken bricks.
It won't take much, just a bit of squaring off some bricks and you're good to go. Then go in with some dark wash and dab the wash into the cracks and grooves. Then take some highlight color and dry brush the edges.

As far as the window frame goes. I wouldn't worry at this point on the edge thickness of the frame. That's not so noticeable. The depth thickness (from the buildings outside to the buildings inside picture 11). The window sill can be a bit deeper than the other three sides so you decide on if you want to touch the sill. All I would do is take a small piece of sand paper and sand down the sides and top to bring them a bit closer to the wall face.

I hope I'm being clear enough on the direction of trimming - if you have any question at all I can do a quick sketch to be clear.

i think i know waht your saying but if you don't mid doing a sketch it would be much appreciated. on the window i mean...i know what your saying for the bricks.

kbm, the building is mainy SB. the brick wall is from custom dioramics and i broke it in two glued together with ca glue let it dry covered with POP drainage pipe is excess sprue drilled out window frame pop sticks. painted with tamiya paints and washed with burnt umber raw umber and a rusty red (for the drainage pipe)

John, thanks for the information on your building technique.

Nice paint job and "field weathering" of the tank... also the drain pipe looks super. The texture of the exterior of the plaster building looks a little overly rough and out of scale, but the tone and aging are quite well done.