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Dioramas: Buildings & Ruins
Ruined buildings and city scenes.
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"Ambush" a WW2 diorama
olivato
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Distrito Federal, Argentina
Joined: August 16, 2005
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Armorama: 107 posts
Posted: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 07:01 AM UTC
Hi everybody!
Here is one of my latest dioramas. I hope you like it.
This is my first contribution to this site, and I hope not the last one.
The soldiers are Dragon Gen 2 and the scenary is from scratch
If you have any comments or questions they will be more than welcomed.








If you like this, there are more photos in my gallery.
pdelsoglio
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Mendoza, Argentina
Joined: November 13, 2005
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Posted: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 09:11 AM UTC
Hola Víctor!

Cool job with that vignette. Those soldiers look very realistic!
Hope you will post more of your work in Armorama.

Saludos.

Pablo
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Joined: February 22, 2002
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Posted: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 02:36 PM UTC
Overall a nice project. The figures are painted very well. The scratch scene is basically nice too.
A couple of things I'd like to offer: The boxes of 'fausts, I'm not sure front line troups would have a full box of these. They may have a couple, but to have two boxes, I'm not sure.
The second thing is that I would like to see more loose debris. The overall quantity of rubble is fine, but it seems to blend a bit too smoothly for my tastes.
Karl187
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Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Joined: October 04, 2006
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Posted: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 12:55 AM UTC
Great work Victor- the camo on the uniforms is awesome.
olivato
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Distrito Federal, Argentina
Joined: August 16, 2005
KitMaker: 127 posts
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Posted: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 12:07 PM UTC
Juan, Pablo, Scott and Karl,
Thank you for taking the time to look at my work and give me your impressions on it. I really appreciate this feedback.
Scott, I agree with your comments and I will take your advice into account for future works. Thanks.
Wisham
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Alaska, United States
Joined: September 05, 2007
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Posted: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 12:34 PM UTC
Nice effort! The camo is very nice. The uniform are a little to clean for crawling around, but you have the camo pattern pretty darn good. Keep up the good work and remember to have fun. Warren
HONEYCUT
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Victoria, Australia
Joined: May 07, 2003
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Posted: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 07:48 PM UTC

Hi Victor
A great little scene you have created here mate! Your painting and weatherin g are quite effective.

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I would like to see more loose debris. The overall quantity of rubble is fine, but it seems to blend a bit too smoothly for my tastes.



Couldn't agree more! But this is a simple enough 'problem' to remedy. Take the window for example. It seems a large size, and the missing glass fragments have to go somewhere...
I also agree that the uniforms whilst well painted, are too stark in contrast to the dusty surrounds. A little bit of dusting over them would even work.
Good stuff
Brad
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Joined: January 31, 2009
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Posted: Friday, September 24, 2010 - 02:32 AM UTC
Howdy Victor,

I'd say you did a fine job on this dio, and as mentioned before, add some loose debris and maybe some dusting or pigments for the ground work. You could still add it now without much effort. Ties it all together if you do that. All in all a fine job. Keep em rollin!

Cheers, Ski.
GeraldOwens
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Joined: March 30, 2006
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Posted: Friday, September 24, 2010 - 12:05 PM UTC
Very nicely painted figures, but the base needs much more debris of differing sizes. Bricks, broken pieces of brick, broken scraps of wood, wiring, pipes, shreds of cloth from drapery or furniture, and so on. Look at a building demolition site, and you'll see how much texture you're missing right now.
Some powdered pastel chalk or dry pigments brushed lightly on the uniforms would make them less tidy looking.
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