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Dioramas: Water Effects
Water! A sometimes intimidating effect.
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Revell PT-109 Boat + Diorama
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Posted: Sunday, July 10, 2011 - 11:22 PM UTC
Hi Guys. Watched through this series of video blogs this morning, where a Japanese modeller builds and paints the Revell 1/35 PT boat, and makes some interesting effects in the diorama base with water effects. Some useful ideas regarding weathering of the boat as well.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6

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Posted: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 10:08 AM UTC
very usefull, thanks for sharing!

Greetz Nico
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Posted: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 11:16 AM UTC
WOW!
Thanks for sharing Frank.
Be nice to speak Japanese to fully understand.

Tom
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Posted: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 11:42 AM UTC
Hey Frank!

I' m ADDICTED to that tutorial series

If you (or other guys) want to watch ALL the "Plamo Tsukurou" video tutorials go here

http://sl-blag.blogspot.com/2007/11/gunpla-tutorial-videos.html

Stay tuned because Blog's owner adds a video to the list every two months

The next will be this one

http://sl-blag.blogspot.com/2011/06/plamo-tsukurou-sp-19-on-625.html

cheers

PS . Maybe you've already watched...anyway look here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOE7D18qbro (1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRyheIY0p14 (2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjKYVyzCtmY (3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPSh0ndDgRI (4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM-9k8XX-xQ (5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P31C4Ejj3iY (6)

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Posted: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 04:55 PM UTC
I subscribe to that channel and I'm still going through all the videos. This guy really captured the sense of speed and drama. Loved it. Don't know how I missed this one. Thanks Frank for sharing.

Just wish someone could translate or better yet one of the syndicates do an english version. If they can do it for Iron Ched then they should be able to do it for this. I'd even watch SBS just for it. It shows you how much the Japenese love this hobby that they can make a TV show for it. No wonder they are so good at minaturisation.
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Posted: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 07:43 PM UTC
Thanks for all the new links Mauro.

Its great to see these ... theres always an idea or technique worth seeing .... and if nothing else, a little bit of inspiration. No matter what level of modeller you are, theres something for everybody.

It amazes me some though .... the finished model looks really good .... but some of the actual work is quite sloppy sometimes, and little care is taken in places, where I know I probably would put in so muuch more effort. Maybe this is why so many of us get "modellers block" ... we get bogged down in details and "perfection" and in reality the overall impression counts for more and the extra effort is not really seen. Maybe this is why they call themselves "master modellers" ... they know exactly what is required and where to give extra attention, and can quickly hop over the details less obvious. Just a thought!
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Posted: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 08:39 PM UTC

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Thanks for all the new links Mauro.

Its great to see these ... theres always an idea or technique worth seeing .... and if nothing else, a little bit of inspiration. No matter what level of modeller you are, theres something for everybody.

It amazes me some though .... the finished model looks really good .... but some of the actual work is quite sloppy sometimes, and little care is taken in places, where I know I probably would put in so muuch more effort. Maybe this is why so many of us get "modellers block" ... we get bogged down in details and "perfection" and in reality the overall impression counts for more and the extra effort is not really seen. Maybe this is why they call themselves "master modellers" ... they know exactly what is required and where to give extra attention, and can quickly hop over the details less obvious. Just a thought!


Well Frank, I totally agree with you. As far as I undestand (from the comments because unfortunately I don't speak Japanese) the modellers have to complete their models in a very short time (during the episodes of the first series they had to complete them in just 2 days and one night!...) and that's the reason why their jobs sometime aren't perfect. But anyway as I said I'm really "addicted" to these tutorials because are incredibly inspiring for me.
And yes, I think is interesting to see that you can do an outstanding job also if you don't go mad with a lot of tiny details

cheers
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Posted: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 09:04 PM UTC
hi guys

These are great videos to watch, ive seen them countless number of times and even tho i dont speak or understand a word of japanese, you just know what they are talking about. The episodes on the sherman tank and the german halgftrack are great to pick up hints and techniques for weathering.

cheers
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Posted: Thursday, July 14, 2011 - 03:17 PM UTC

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Maybe this is why so many of us get "modellers block" ... we get bogged down in details and "perfection"


You hit the nail on the head there frank, so many unfinished builds becous I try to make them to perfect
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