New project... marines attacking japanese bunker... Few Dragon
figures, few Masterbox Japanese soldiers... Final setup not determined yet , still working on main components..

Cheers
Robert

Cool!! Great topic and concept. Nice start to it all.
J

+1 Awesome start.

Very cool !
I like a lot the flame effect out of the flamethrower !
The palm tree looks real nice too.

Julien

thanks for comments, here's a new tree (banana) in progress...
Need advice on groundwork, what do you think how to continue ? Cover it with grass and dead leafs or ...?

cheers
Robert

Hi Robert, nice concept and set up so far. Looks as if it will come out real fine. The flamethrower's flame is awsome looking. Was that cotton you used? Also wondering if that is a air-cooled type 1941 7.7 m.m. M.G. and if you remember where you got it from? Fine models maybe, I could use one for my South Pacific dio I'm working on.

Hi Bob, thanks for comment. Well, flame is made from cotton pads ... (kind that is used for removing makeup, hope You understand what I mean). MG is taisho 3 woodpecker made by RPM, soft plastic... not as good as I hope it would be, but it will serve purpose. Bought it from Jadar hobby shop, Poland.

cheers
Robert

continuing with ground work... any suggestions ?

Nice progress! Keep up the good work!

—mike

few more pics ....

Really nice progress so far. The layout is great and cool action scene.

Looking forward to see more

Still working on landscape...

It is coming along nicely.
J

Thanks for watching guy's... .Landscape almost done. Not entirely satisfied with palm barks , will try to work on them.... any suggestions ?

[quote]Thanks for watching guy's... .Landscape almost done. Not entirely satisfied with palm barks , will try to work on them.... any suggestions ?


hi Robert
The layout is great
Yes , try to give a color variation to barks ,some brown washes may be,and then a light sand/grey drybrush
and generaly do the same to the green plants and leaves (some dark green wash and lemon yellow touches)

Keep up the good work
D

GREAT WORK, ROBERT!!! It's ABOUT TIME that someone paid attention to the VERY REAL WAR in the PACIFIC, instead of the ENDLESS TIGER Is, SS MG-42 Machine Gun Teams and big-mouthed pointing SS Officers on the Russian Front!!! This is TRULY REFRESHING!!! I'll be following this build with great interest!!!

You might want to add some dust on top of the vegetation from the artillery shelling...

Who is your source for the palm and banana trees? Thanks!

Thanks for tips Dennis and Dimitris !
Palms and banana trees are scratch built from paper and aluminium tape, trunks are wrapped with rice paper, there are some dried herbs on base and hemp rope for grass... everything I could gather around my house..

cheers
Robert

Ok, this is almost THE END ! Few more corrections and this one is over and out. So , thanks everybody for watching and commenting this little project.

Cheers
Robert

Very nice diorama. A nice change from ETO.

Not sure how I missed this project. It came out great, the stream from the flamethrower especially. What did you use to depict it?

Nice dio and great finish to the project. May I suggest that you buy a cheap piece of light blue hobby paper and place that behind your dio when you take pics? It helps us focus on the work and not the background? Just sayin'
J

Great dio and kewl action! Esp. love the flamethrower flame. Trees and detailing on the figures really nice as well.

Thanks for comments and sorry for photos but my work table is in such a mess and that was only free place where I was able to put dio for taking few shots.. next one will be better !

excellent work, the variation on the leaves and bark works really well

would you be able to do a SBS for the flames, i can never get mine looking like flames, more just like painted cotton wool