this is my new dio that i just finished for the tiger campaign. there not the best photos in the world, but there good enough. comments welcome.















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nice work, i feel the base needs something to tie it togetehr a little, and be careful of the ends of the wall, they need a wash,
i love the composiion, your KT is very nice and your weathering that i can see on the side of the turret and hull in picture 3 is REALLY nice.
i feel that it is missing a figure though, maybe somone crouching behind the tank
( the front RHS) for cover!

thanks for the reply james. i was thinking of having a figure in it, but don't really know which one to put in and where to put it (seems like you told me that one).
stan

Nice Dio. I really like the groundwork. looks like a lot of effort has gone into the rubble, looks very life like, one thing missing . I would like to see some dust/pigmemts tieing the KT, rubble and building togeather. A figure is begging to be added to such a good Dio, it would be the iceing on the cake. thanks for showing us your work. Cheers.

Very dramatic pose Stanley. I agree with the others about tieing it together more .. with filters and dust. A figure would bring it to life and add scale.
Another thing that needs sorting is the floating road wheels and track. If its not possible to move the wheels and tracks, add more rubble in under them.

wow Stan, you really put together another nice diorama with this scene. you are showing huge advances in your modeling with each new piece.

a little trick i have used and may apply here is once the tank is glued to the scene you can add more rubble to the track areas to "build up" the gaps that help make the tank look like it's resting snugly due to its weight.

you may want to build up the areas in the front portions of the tracks so they don't appear to float above the groundwork. easy enough to do and really makes this one difficult diorama aspect a lot neater.

i love the slope you decided on and like others have said, a bit more weathering would tie the scene in better. looks like you had a lot of fun with this one and thanks for sharing. cheers, bd.

A nice little vignette. But, it looks unfinished. Add washes to everything. Maybe a little dust pigment and some on the bricks. Fix the floating roadwheel problem. All of this should really bring it to life. Oh, one more thing. What caused the track to come apart? Some type of damage needs to be shown concerning why the track is broken.

Dramatic stuff Stanley- and a great title too!

I agree with what Matt said though- some dark washes would definetly add a bit of color intensity.

hi guys, thanks for all the kind comments and thanks for the advice.
i did apply filters to the KT (four of them i think), it was my first time applying filters, but i had no idea how many layers of each different filter i needed to put on. i never thought of trying out any washes. i used a lot of the ak interactive products that they have (streaking grime, dust effects, rust streaks) it was also my first time using these as well, but i followed the dvd as best i could. i'll take some more up close detail shots of it to see what you think of it.

as for pigments, i tried to apply them to the sides of the tank and at the front, but i don't have the first clue on how to use them really.
not sure what figure/figures i'm going to use though?

thanks stan

Stan pigments are quite easy to use. You can quite literally add them dry, just dust them on with a brush. Try a small brick 1st or you can fix them to the model with a Fixer. Water, thinners or special pigment fixer. Also you can get a dusty look by misting Tamiya buff with very light coates with a AirBrush, again pratice on a spare bit of rubble 1st. The dust effect is used to break up the mono red tone of the bricks . Figures, take your pic of late war Waffen SS in summer tunics. Dragon done a good set of Waffen SS Arnhem. They are a good set of figures. one of Dragons better figure sets. Looking forward to modelling with you on the Panther Campaign, what paint did you use for the camo on the KT? Did you use a mask on the camo? Cheers Geraint

Stanley- what Geraint said about pigments is right- they are easy to apply straight from the pot. As for dust- you mentioned AK Dust Effects (is this the Africa Dust one?)- you can get a good dust effect with that product when you thin it out- it beds down like a light layer of dust and looks pretty good. I can see you've applied streaking to the side of the KT and it looks good- although some close-ups would be nice if you can.

As for figures there are quite a few you could go for- in my humble opinion it would be cool to have a soldier or officer at the top of the base maybe peering over the rise, with some troops covering behind him. But, its your model and your scene so I say do what you feel like!

Hey mate,
Good dio you have going there, the rubble looks good and I like the cam on the tank. You may want to rethink the broken track if the tank isn't fixed in place. The track is a continuous band and where it breaks it starts to sperate. What I mean is how did the length of track get behind the tank and half underneath? The tank will continue to pull itself along as long as track is on the drive sprocket, when this stops depending on a)direction of travel and b)location of the sprocket, the tank will either have left a trail of track and some loose on the return rollers/ tops of the road wheels or just a line of track on the floor.
I hope you don't think I'm trying to be negative , just passing on some info for next time.

Cheers
Robbo

It looks really nice and like all of our models there is always something to add to it or sometimes to remove. A curious thing that I see here and often see in dioramas with brick rubble, is that each and every brick is cleanly broken and there are no pieces of broken bricks or even two or three bricks still somewhat joined together with mortar laying in the pile. For it to look real it can not be as if some workman walked around setting perfectly good bricks in perfectly proportional stacks next to a blown up building. There would be a tremendous amount of chipped and partial bricks among the heap. Nice job, thank you for sharing.....................Al

First of all: it does look excellent, no doubt ever about that. But... the building is nowhere near looking Dutch We hardly, if ever, plaster the walls on the outside.. Any proper Dutch building shows bricks only and perhaps some decoration, but never in the amount you show us here. It would be a nice Belgian building though It would definately look convincing as a building somewhere in the Ardennes.. but just not in the Netherlands

Still: Excellent dio

Stan, for a 14 year old excellent work but take all the advice guys have given you here and use it on your next build. Yes your damaged tread would appear that your tank was in reverse. the rubble looks great but the solid bricks are out of place. You need dirt/mud everyone will tell you to use all these fancy pigments, go cheap and used crushed plaster mixed in your acrylic paint with some water or the scraps of plastic that you scrape off your model part that fall to your work station

Ditto on the fancy pigments. Used right , you can use even tempera paints and they are about the cheapest you can buy. Looks just as good.

Nice looking Dio Stan!

Keep up the good work!

thanks everybody for all the help and comments