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The question marks mean that I don't understand the comment of khai1981.
Best regards
Frank

rasanya boleh di perbaiki pada pewarnaan model figure ...........base dah ok cuma perlu di perkemaskan lagi tapi kalau nak lebih tahu bagaimana pembuatan model bolehlah pergi ke blog saya .... kita sama 2 belajar ok

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rasanya boleh di perbaiki pada pewarnaan model figure ...........base dah ok cuma perlu di perkemaskan lagi tapi kalau nak lebih tahu bagaimana pembuatan model bolehlah pergi ke blog saya .... kita sama 2 belajar ok

http://khai1981modelminituare.blogspot.com/

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Thank you my friend, I may learn a lot

thank u to you too my friends hope u can learns more from my blog .....

My English is very bad and I hope you don't missunderstand me.
The kit of the PAK 40 is very old - the figures are not good proportioned and very bad detailled - this is not your mistake but the effect of the dio is disturbed.
The wall is illogical for me - it looks like a mixture of bricks and broken stone. The wall is too thick.
The rubble and the dirt on the street is ok.
The painting of the figures is too unvaried.
Don't be angry but this is my opinion.
I'm certainly not perfect also.
I'm sure, you have done your best, but you wish a constructive criticism.

Best regards
Frank

2. I have the sample image of such wall, but since I forget where the location of it in my computer local harddisk, I have to find it first. Let us discuss it, ASAP

The use of brick facing on stone walls was not that uncommon; stone was cheap and bricks could be expensive, so constructing a wall from stone and then facing it with brick made the building look more expensive without the actual expense of full-thickness brick walls. For dwellings, the inner walls would generally be plastered flat anyway, hiding the construction materials. Brickwork panels might also be used decoratively (i.e., as edging on a doorway or window, or as a repair of older construction.

Good effort all around Ricky; nice detail on the ripped poster and the G.I.'s mohawk. I'm curious what you made the 'stone' wall out of though, it looks almost like slightly melted packing peanuts to me.

I have a simple question. Who is operating the gun? The guy with his thumb out, on the left is too far away to be firing the atg. The one on the right, is too far away and facing the wrong direction. The operation of the atg should be smooth and fluid, for a faster rate of fire. Abandoning your post would be a serious offense.

Nice dio You actually did a good job with this old set. I like the stencilling og the ammo containers. Great touch.

As for the position of the gunner. He would either kneel or sit at the left trailarm. Leftside of the gun is also where the scope and the elevation wheels are. The whole stance of the thumbs up guy is not really suitable for the fire position. Closest to the firing position is the kneeling guy by the ammo crates. I think his head is at the right height to peer through the scope. But it probably requires some plastic surgery with the arms to have him operate the wheels

Hi Ricky (or Garry) -

Several people have made comments that are in the area of what I see as the major problem – the “wall”.
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From the first two photos my reaction was exactly the same as Christopher’s. I could tell that it was meant to represent a wall, but it seemed a most strange one, and I had no sense of what it might have once contained. There is a small area of brick, but the bricks look like each one is slightly different. On either side of them are these packing peanut - marshmallow looking things that are all the same color. I don’t see any sign of mortar to hold them together, so I’m not sure what is. On the inside we would expect some sort of finished wall surface. There’s one object that might have been furniture, and in the second photo it looks like someone has stuck a giant knife through the ceiling. I can see floorboards at the edge, but no indication of doors, windows, or anything else to make me think it might have been a dwelling.

Stone is cheap so long as it is readily available locally, and skilled workers aren’t required to cut and place the pieces. On the church-tower that Sean posted a photo of, it is fieldstone, but it was either selected to have one large flat side or that work was done before each stone was added to the building. I just looked at the Stevenhagen site, and it states it is “split fieldstone”. It is also obvious from the site that the stone was used for structural support on the lower level and where they didn’t need to create precise, straight lines. The brick is used for the window and the corners of the tower, and all detailed sections of the lower level. Pomerania is on the Baltic, where there is a long tradition of building with brick due to a lack of high quality stone in the region – see the cathedral and other structures in Gdansk.

Also note the wide variation in the color of the stones, and the extensive use of mortar to fill the gaps between stones for bonded strength and to create a wall that is closer to being flat. Ashlar stone often doesn’t need mortar, because each piece was so precisely carved for a particular location – the major buildings at Machu Picchu being an example.

The construction photo near the current end of the thread is illustrative. It looks like you used (X-acto) knife cut stiff cardboard for the paving stones, and these are laid quite evenly with consistent separation. I almost half wondered if after doing the paving stones you thought it had taken too much time, so you speeded things up. However, as soon as we reach the curb, things start getting a bit chaotic. The universal order and precision of the German people are well accepted, to the point of being a stereotype, and the base stops looking like something that could have been constructed in Germany – it simply wouldn’t have been culturally acceptable.

I do applaud your choosing to use “scratch” materials for all of the construction, instead of buying commercial products. It seems that some of the stronger modelers here do make their own cobblestones, and half-timbered structures, and doors and windows. It saddens me to see the increasing number of completed (built, painted and detailed – and all looking just the same) models in all construction hobbies, sitting in those boxes with a plastic window, only because inexpensive labor is available in Asia.

I hope I haven’t been too critical, but was responding to my initial reactions. If I could sum it up, it would be to apply the same focus you used for the paving stones to all aspects of the dio. Try for more straight lines. War is chaos, but it often has roots in order; in the case of Hitler and the Nazi regime - to excess.

Charles

Garry -

...Have you found that image of the wall you had in mind?

Charles