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Ruined buildings and city scenes.
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Posted: Monday, January 21, 2013 - 12:04 PM UTC
I'm looking at building a diorama with a park wall & a street, but it doesn't look like any of the miniart or verlinden kits are long enough to fit a JS-1 and my German infantry. SO! My question is wether or not I should buy two of the same kits of this: http://www.scalehobbyist.com/catagories/Buildings/MIA00035547/product.php?s=0&t=6&pg=1&ppp=48&sb=stocknumber&so=a&e=0&kw=miniart&era=6&sc=35&type=alternatives or try to rework something like this http://www.scalehobbyist.com/catagories/Buildings/MIA00035505/product.php?s=0&t=6&pg=1&ppp=48&sb=stocknumber&so=a&e=0&kw=miniart&era=6&sc=35&type=alternatives

I've never worked with miniart before so I'm not too sure what to expect either

Any feedback would be great

-Conor
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Posted: Monday, January 21, 2013 - 12:40 PM UTC
Two of the modular Miniart walls looks like it would do the trick.
This Miniart model is vacuformed and is a little different in preperation and assembly. The Miniart webside has a very good instructional section that I recomend you check out before you buy these kits and attempt them. The first one I tried building was a nightmare because I went into it as though it were a vacuform airplane and attempted to add plastic stock for gluing and alignment purposes....I really overkilled. If you follow their instructions for both assembly and painting you'll have a winner.

Cheers,
C.
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Posted: Monday, January 21, 2013 - 06:50 PM UTC
If only the wall is not long enough , why not scratch one?
Buy a pack of selfdrying clay, put i onto any support (a piece of wood sheet for example) with a bit of wood glue and scrib your own wall!
If your Clay is about 1 cm thick you have probably 3 days to detail it until it is dry.
You will have a lot more fun than glueing two commercial walls together.

Claude
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Posted: Monday, January 21, 2013 - 08:36 PM UTC
Hi Conor,


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If only the wall is not long enough , why not scratch one?



I agree with Claude, you can also use fine plaster, it's easy to work it when dry.

nico

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Posted: Monday, January 21, 2013 - 10:01 PM UTC

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How is the above related to the post!!

As mentioned the miniart kits can be a pain to put together but the website does provide excellent instructions, I have recently built the Country diorama and using the instructions helped.

Back to topic.....

If you don't want to buy why don't you scratchbuild the wall using gypsum, there are plenty of references on here and all very helpful..

Paul
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Posted: Monday, January 21, 2013 - 10:14 PM UTC
Paul,
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cheers
Walter
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