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Pushing Up - Barbarossa
El_Campesino
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Posted: Friday, March 04, 2016 - 10:32 PM UTC

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You have done a great job so far! I especially admire your work on the building, may I ask which tool to you use to carve the blue styrofoam? How did you achieve such a neat look? Thank you!


Hi, not sure if I understand correctly but it is not really carved. It is cut with a modelling knife.The styrofoam sheet is about 5mm thick. I simply cut a base layer then built extra layers on top made with more styrofoam shapes. These were glued on with superglue.Then the cork sheet was cut into strips and then cut again into bricks of various sizes. The bricks were then glued on with PVA.
El_Campesino
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Posted: Friday, March 04, 2016 - 10:35 PM UTC

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Enjoying this journey very much. Especially like all the cork work and your chimney.


Thanks. First time working with this medium and I like it very much. Possibilities with the blue styrofoam are endless.
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Posted: Friday, March 04, 2016 - 10:40 PM UTC
Base coats applied. Black and rust (to give some variation when chipping) overlaid with a coat of hairspray.

El_Campesino
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Posted: Monday, March 07, 2016 - 01:15 AM UTC
The crew for the T26. The loader will be barely visible in the turret.I detest doing figures but always seem to convince myself that I can do a good job and get carried away with numbers. Relatively happy with the paint job on these. But it is just that, a paint job.

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Posted: Tuesday, March 08, 2016 - 12:18 AM UTC
The almost completed base. I coated the brickwork with Pollyfiller slightly diluted with water then sponged off the excess. Once dry I gave the whole thing a wash of PVA glue. Next came a coat of acrylic sand paint for the mortar followed by various shades of acrylic brick red brushed onto the brickwork. The next step was to achieve a Factory Yard/Industrial grime look which was done by airbrushing acrylic matt black. I can't make up my mind if I overdid the black. To this I added debris and broken bricks along with a FOG crushed oil drum. I still think it may need something else but conscious that I already have quite a lot planned to fit into a small area in this diorama.
El_Campesino
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Posted: Tuesday, March 08, 2016 - 07:35 PM UTC
T26 painted and weathered. I used the Mig Ammo 4BO modulation set (without worrying too much about the modulation). Then chipped away at the paint using water and a cocktail stick. It was then washed with a very diluted Enamel paint mix of Black/Dark Earth/Rust. A few streaks were added using oil paints, mainly raw or burnt umber and white. Finally the running gear and hull were coated with Mig Ammo European Earth pigments.


El_Campesino
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Posted: Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 02:58 PM UTC
Next up was the T20 Komsomolets. Same painting process used as on the T26. The figure had to be trimmed down somewhat to fit within the hatch and cut off at the knees to get a satisfactory stance resting his forearms on the cab roof.
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Posted: Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 03:04 PM UTC
And the loader and commander fitted into the T26 turret.


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Posted: Saturday, March 12, 2016 - 05:49 PM UTC
Here are the foot soldiers "pushing up".


The riders are giving me all sorts of problems and have had their heads removed again and are now awaiting their Hornet heads. This I anticipate will give me a bit of grief as the heads are painted separately and positioned after the bodies have been finished. I anticipate a few problems here blending them in as some filler will surely be needed.I'm not happy with them at all but they are what I have and will have to suffice.
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Posted: Saturday, March 12, 2016 - 11:00 PM UTC
Really really nice progress here. I like the way that wall turned out and also the "mini tanks".
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Posted: Saturday, March 19, 2016 - 04:14 PM UTC
Well, here are those pesky 'Riders' complete with Hornet heads. I'm still not happy with them although that has much more to do with my inability to paint figures. I used oils for the flesh this time having been disappointed with acrylics in the past - but I didn't enjoy the experience. I know, practice makes perfect and all that but.....

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Posted: Saturday, March 19, 2016 - 04:17 PM UTC
And a trial fit of the whole thing. Quite a lot to fit in a small area as I said before. So even harder to photograph from a good viewpoint.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 - 02:16 AM UTC
I think the brickwork looks great, I w8uld probably have over weathered it myself, but ive seen a lot of fires and bricks grab soot pretty quickly and this place looks like its seen some fire.
Id be tempted to put a big black smoke stain above that arch but yours looks really good to me.
El_Campesino
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Posted: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 - 09:51 PM UTC
So here is the (almost) complete Diorama. Next to do will be to top it off with a 5-sided acrylic box to keep that pesky dust away and probably try to search out a photograph to go in as a backdrop to give the diorama some depth.




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El_Campesino
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Posted: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 - 10:14 PM UTC

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I think the brickwork looks great, I w8uld probably have over weathered it myself, but ive seen a lot of fires and bricks grab soot pretty quickly and this place looks like its seen some fire.
Id be tempted to put a big black smoke stain above that arch but yours looks really good to me.


Thanks Mark. I did consider a soviet poster on the factory wall or a slogan painted on the chimney, but in the end I opted to leave it alone.
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Posted: Saturday, March 26, 2016 - 05:39 PM UTC
Finally complete. The diorama within it's acrylic box with a backdrop added. I'm not 100% that I like the photo I've used and may look around for something better.



I hope you've enjoyed watching this build!
Dmitri
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Posted: Saturday, March 26, 2016 - 07:18 PM UTC
Dear Harry
You incorrectly applied a set of infantry. You infantry shoulder straps, and this is the year 1943-45. but not 1941. In 1941, the infantry were colored buttonholes and a slightly different style uniforms.

http://www.rkka.ru/uniform/files/arm37.htm
http://www.rkka.ru/uniform/files/arm20.htm
http://www.rkka.ru/uniform/files/arm29.htm

Even if you use infantry 1943-45 year. the question on the T-26. Almost all of them were destroyed in the first year of the war and in 1943-45 they could be found only in the Far East.
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Posted: Saturday, March 26, 2016 - 07:49 PM UTC

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Dear Harry
You incorrectly applied a set of infantry. You infantry shoulder straps, and this is the year 1943-45. but not 1941. In 1941, the infantry were colored buttonholes and a slightly different style uniforms.
http://www.rkka.ru/uniform/files/arm37.htm
http://www.rkka.ru/uniform/files/arm20.htm
http://www.rkka.ru/uniform/files/arm29.htm
Even if you use infantry 1943-45 year. the question on the T-26. Almost all of them were destroyed in the first year of the war and in 1943-45 they could be found only in the Far East.


Thanks Dmitri - I was aware that the uniforms of the marching soldiers were incorrect but didn't have a good enough source to correct them. Your links will come in useful next time. I'm also aware that few if any of the 1933 T26's saw action in Barbarossa but I took a degree of artistic license with this. Next time perhaps you can chip in some suggestions before I have finished?

My main area of interest is WW2 Soviet armour (especially Vickers derivatives like the T26) so I may be coming to you in future seeking a little guidance if that's ok with you?
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