Following my previous diorama I wanted to produce another for the Syrian conflict.

This time I will be doing a typical Minaret - not sure of the vehicle yet.

I have started the building with moulds produced by good friend of mine at www.redzebramodels.co.uk




I have started planning out the various add ons to the building -

Paul, looks good. Did you see the new Meng Middle Eastern roof top set? Check the Armor tab on Hobbyeasy.

Thanks Greg and theres me scratch building them!!!

Yup, I remember your excellent work on that diorama. As a side note, I did purchase an item from RedZebra. Good stuff.

well in between doing summer stuff have cracked on with the Minerat..

That Sir is a work of art. Bravo.

that looks amazing, i'looking forward to seeing more of this soon!

Well Paul,I see you have not been idle ! That thing really looks the biz ! Great job getting all those elements to work so well together.
J

Good morning all and many thanks for the kind words.

Will be bashing this up a bit going forward.

Paul

Very Interesting topic. I'm working on a Syrian Dio myself too. Looking forward to see further developments!

Brgds, Andre

What product are you using to make the walls of the apartment building?

Impressive progress !
J

I have decided to form the building using plaster of paris.

Firstly I formed a mould using lego/plasticine.




Plaster of Paris was then poured into the moulds and reinforcement added in areas thet would be smashed up



Once dried over night the plaster is released and cut to size and glued with super glue



Then the detail work can commence...

Excellent idea !
J

Paul , lookin good !!
Great idea with the lego molds .
How did you make the concrete blocks ?

Cheers guys

The concrete blocks are from here

http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/paulie1964?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2754

Had chance to crack on with this last night ..

NICE !! You can almost always tell when the modeler has seen the type of things he is modeling. If you haven't seen damage like this then you are very good at guessing how it would look ! 'Cause it all makes sense.
J

Well had chance over the weekend to add some paint and add some detailing ----

Thanks Paul, looking good mate :-)

website- www.redzebramodels.co.uk

Nice looking damage and really nice rebar. Source ?
J

Thanks gents

The rebar is supplied by

https://www.redzebramodels.co.uk/scale-cegp?lightbox=dataItem-j00n1on7

I have now added the spiral staircase within the tower - the base is yet to be fixed and weathered -

Well the minaret is now completed....