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Dioramas
Do you love dioramas & vignettes? We sure do.
Somewhere in the desert
Venom
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Alessandria, Italy
Joined: July 28, 2003
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Posted: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 10:40 PM UTC
Hi guys
Tell me what you think about this, it's for the under the sun compaign
The dio rappresent somewhere in the desert near El Alamein but it isn't finished
The troops are Italian Bersaglieri, Folgore paretroops and a 75/18, al the figures are dragon with a lot of strachbuilt, the tank is zvezda, nice
Part of sands is the real sands of El Alamein (a present of my girlfriend)
If you have critics or suggest..please..tell me




vlady
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Bucuresti, Romania
Joined: September 06, 2002
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Posted: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 10:49 PM UTC
venom sorry to inform u but, the campaing is starting on th 15th, and there are 4 more days, so don't get upset but i am afraid u will have to stop building and i don't think u were fare with the others who still didn't start. there are 6 months for the campaing, and i think it's enought.
Venom
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Alessandria, Italy
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Posted: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 11:59 PM UTC
So?
Sorry Vlady I'm a rookie on the compaign and I don't know all the rules, I started when you put for the first time a post about under the sun compaign.
I have to abandon the compaign?
regards
bison44
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Manitoba, Canada
Joined: August 27, 2002
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Posted: Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 01:59 AM UTC
Hi Venom: I really like the figures. The flesh color and especially the stubble/beard looks dead on. The groundwork looks very lifelike as well. The mixture of large boulders, smaller rocks and sand is a nice touch. Excellent job!
vlady
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Bucuresti, Romania
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Posted: Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 03:33 AM UTC
venom, the rules said that the start date is the 15th of september and if there was something unclear to u you could ask. u don't have to abondon, but u will have to build something else for it. sorry but it shouldn't be hard for u because u have done a wonderfull job with this one and the others that u have posted.
Venom
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Posted: Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 06:34 PM UTC
Ok vlady , I 'll do another for the compaign.
Bison I know the beard isn't too nice, but it's more realistic, don't you think? But I have to see if with the beard the model is less nice. Personally i like with bear. But....do you think It's less nice for your? I have to decide and I'm not sure if I have to keep or remove
other comments and suggest?
vlady
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Bucuresti, Romania
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Posted: Friday, September 12, 2003 - 12:59 AM UTC
k venom. i am just waiting to see what u are going to do for the campaing, but please start on the 15th or later, not earlier.
bison44
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Manitoba, Canada
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Posted: Friday, September 12, 2003 - 01:51 AM UTC
Howdy Venom: I think we have a language mixup, I meant to say that I thought the beard was good, very convincing, sorry about using North american slang. The beards makes them look tired, dirty and like war weary veterans, which adds to the diorama in a positive way. Could you fill us in on how you did the groundwork? Good job and good luck on the next desert dio!
Folgore
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Canada
Joined: May 31, 2002
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Posted: Friday, September 12, 2003 - 03:27 AM UTC
Nice idea. It's good to see some other WWII Italian dioramas out there. You did a good job on the conversions. Though they are, of course, not entirely accurate, they do look like Italians. How did you create the Bersaglieri plumes?
The diorama is nicely done. Good use of space with the Semovente, the figures, and the rocks. The actual sand from El Alamein is a neat touch too

Nic
Venom
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Alessandria, Italy
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Posted: Friday, September 12, 2003 - 06:44 AM UTC
Thank guys
Bison sorry for the language mixup, I don't know nothing about slang. The plumes was did with a bicomponent plastic cement ,is called the green Stuff by Citadel modelling .You can use it for les of 40 minutes, after you have to wait some hours and it will be like plastic.
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ti
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Dalarnas, Sweden
Joined: May 08, 2002
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Posted: Friday, September 12, 2003 - 09:05 AM UTC
Fantastic work Venom. Your figure representation is awesome. Just hope I get as good as you when I get the nerve to continue with my firgures
MadMax
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Germany
Joined: August 19, 2003
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Posted: Friday, September 12, 2003 - 01:57 PM UTC
nice work!
waterboy
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Joined: July 03, 2003
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Posted: Friday, September 12, 2003 - 02:16 PM UTC
Great Job Venom! I really like the way you converted the German fiqures to Italians and your ground work is outstanding. If I may I have one small constuctive sugestion. You need to make the tank look like its heavy and sinking into the sand. Right now it seems to be floating over the ground. I usually do this by making tread impressions in the ground work while its still wet and then sprinkling sand over the track later. Just a suggestion
Venom
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Posted: Friday, September 12, 2003 - 08:34 PM UTC
Thanks guys
Good idea Waterboy, I will do it
but the dio isn't finish, I have also to add barrel and somethings others...
regards
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