Hello guys!
I'm back with a new dio of mine.

Ive been watching the pacific the past few days and this is like straight from it you have some serious skill

the best part is the burnt soldier how did you create that effect

Very cool build. Effective layout of the diorama.

Thanks for sharing.

Great stuff here. That corpse is gruesome, but in a good way, if that's possible haha. Has the looks of the old footage from the Island War.

Hey Pawel, great work. I like dios with a morbid touch.

The bunker is sratch build? If yes, what materials you use?


One point. I don't know waht you want to represent with the half burned man, but, if he's a tanker, the tank should not be more burned too?

Congratulations for the good work.

Fantastic work, Pawel. Striking. You captured the gaunt look of war-weary Marines in the Pacific very well.

My only nitpick would be over the lack of small debris in the trench around the bunker near where the Marines are walking. I would think that this would be pretty full of dirt, foliage, and bunker pieces.

Nice work.

OUTSTANDING

Thanks for comments!



You are right. I will add something there.




It is indeed! whole engine part is burned, tower inside, so only the flame marks are visible. I have just realized that I didn't took a photo on which it is visble. Tommorow I will try to upload more pics.




It is made of tiling glue reinforced with wire. First I soldered some wire to create reinforment, put it into form and then cover with tiling glue. Next I destroyed one corner of it so the bars are visible.




I've sculpted it from magic sculp. Then painted.

Hi Pavel!
This is a fantastic dio!
I am particularely interested in the bunker, as I too have in mind a similar setting.
I tried to meke walls using regular plaster ad acrilic plaster but it engulfed also the wood planks I used to form it so it was impossible to free it... Then I made myself a silicon mould and things seem to be working a little better but results are far away from your outstanding realization.... So how did you manage to detach wood planks from tile glue? Or what did you use to make the form? Do you have some in progress picures?
Thank you very much for your help!
Ciao
Edo

Hi Edoardo!
About the bunker. I used tilig glue, like this one:

To make wood easy to take of I painted it with ordinary sunflower oil. As far as I remember I took wood off when tiling glue was not completly dry but yet solid.
Here you have some pictures, if you want to know more don't hesitate to ask

Brilliant Pavel!
I'll give it a try! I'll let you knuw how it works!
Thank you!
Ciao
Edo

Very well done overall! Nice scratchbuild and painting.


@eduardo
You can try also with Plastic as barrier. It will not stick to the plaster. if you take it away before it completely dried, you are on the (pretty) sure side.

Claude

Hi Claude!
Thank you for the tip!
But I was trying to replicate the wood grain pattern on the concrete... how could you do this with plastic?

Pavel: sorry for hijacking your thread!

Edo

Hi Pavel!
It worked!!
I still have to practice, but the basics are there! Much better then plaster!
Thank you my friend!

Ciao
Edo

No problem! I'm glad it works. One more tip - to obtain better concrete surface you can damage your balsa planks you are using as a formwork.

On this photo you can see burned engine compartment and smoke marks form hatches.

Very nice Pawel. Great job on the figures and Jap camo.