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Posted: Friday, September 02, 2011 - 08:28 PM UTC
This is what i have been upto for the last few months just so you can all catch up a few pics of the main players.

House no 1











House no 2













Ambulances.



A bit of dry fitting.







Now back to the ground work around the first house.
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Posted: Friday, September 02, 2011 - 09:05 PM UTC
Great job on the house. Top job with the hedge as well!
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Posted: Saturday, September 03, 2011 - 02:24 AM UTC

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Great job on the house. Top job with the hedge as well!



Cheers mate thank you,

Finished the garden rubble off this morning now sat waiting for it all to dry.





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Posted: Sunday, September 04, 2011 - 12:41 AM UTC
Andy a great looking diorama. Did you scratch build the house? Where did you get all the furnature for the inside? Again a great diorama, looking foward to more pictures,
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Posted: Sunday, September 04, 2011 - 02:19 AM UTC
Hi Andy,

Great work on the house, I was just going to drop in for a cup of tea

Coming aling really well, you've put a hugh amount of work into the building the whole set up looks grand, time well spent.

Terrific build.

Al
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Posted: Sunday, September 04, 2011 - 05:46 AM UTC
Thanks Thomas both houses are from helmuths stronghold made from plaster the out side detail is great but inside is totaly bare so you get a clean canvas to do with as you please.
The furnitre is a mix of helmuths stronghold,verlinden,plus model and scratch made and a few bits i picked up from e-bay which came from hong kong.

Cheers Alan thank you its been a bit of a labour of love so far.

Took this photo the other day so a lot as been done around the right hand side house since.

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Posted: Sunday, September 04, 2011 - 06:15 AM UTC
Hi Andy, but well worth it.

This will be fun to watch I like the general layout. The kublewagon Ambulance is an interesting vehicle.

Al
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Posted: Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 12:10 AM UTC
Cheers Alan got a bit more done today and made a start on the ground work to the right of house no 1.



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Posted: Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 04:38 AM UTC
lots of care and attention on this rather huge project makes it a fun piece to see. not a lot of modelers would take on the challenge of building such a large scene let alone finish it to your standards. especially like the hedges and that sweet opel ambulance. cheers, bd.
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Posted: Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 02:40 PM UTC
Andy great job here that is a lot of detail inside those houses and I really like both of those ambulance kits which kits are they
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Posted: Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 02:55 PM UTC

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Andy great job here that is a lot of detail inside those houses and I really like both of those ambulance kits which kits are they



Agreed! The weathering on the Opel is outstanding, and the Kubelwagen ambulance is such a unique piece...I'll be following this build for sure!
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Posted: Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 11:09 PM UTC
Great diorama!! Full of nice details to look at, I really like the kubelwagen (is it scratched? Or a kit?)

By the way I kinda lost the link to that other website, the one you originally posted the build of the dio!

Topnotch work!!!
Regards,
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Posted: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 08:55 AM UTC
Bruce thank you means a lot coming from a guy with your skill thank you.

Sal the blitz is the opel truck with the plusmodel conversion and the kubal is the italia one with a conversion kit addition.



vladimir thanks mate glad you lie it so far,the only full build log on this dio can be found on my site.But its only half of it as the old site was hacked and i lost the first half of it.

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Posted: Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 01:11 AM UTC
Bit more done just the little things that ppl notice are not there and got the medic in place,glue still wet and sorry about the crap photos.





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Posted: Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 06:26 AM UTC
Hey Andy,
Been following this over on your site. Awesome work m8.
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Posted: Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 06:55 AM UTC
Outstanding work Andy ! The house really looks like it was somebody's home not just a house if that makes any sense. Lots of nice little touches & details. A quick question : what did you use for the cobblestones and sidewalk ? Thanks for sharing this awesome project ! Tom
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Posted: Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 08:40 AM UTC
Cheers Mil

ivanhoe6 The road is miniart,the curbstones are from helmuths stronghold and the pavement is scratch made with air drying clay.thanks for looking mate.

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