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Leopard "jumping" into water
Ralf
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Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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Posted: Sunday, August 11, 2002 - 11:02 PM UTC
Don´t You have sometimes dios in Your mind that seem impossible to build?
Well, looking one day to a foto in Amorama´s modern German AFV section, I saw it:
A Leopard 2A5, "diving" literallly into water, pushing forward a rough water-swirl. Wow, this would be (favourite modelers topic) ... But how to build? One day I just began to play with a piece of modeling clay, puzzled around with a just finished Leo 2A5 - and here is the result:

http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/rgellings/lst?.dir=/Leopard+2A5&.view=t
matt
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Posted: Sunday, August 11, 2002 - 11:23 PM UTC
Great Job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Matt
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Posted: Sunday, August 11, 2002 - 11:25 PM UTC
That is pretty cool! Love the foaming water.
sgtreef
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Posted: Sunday, August 11, 2002 - 11:50 PM UTC
Nice job Ralf. Good use of clay I kno wtheir has to be some uses for this stuff
TUGA
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Posted: Monday, August 12, 2002 - 12:23 AM UTC
Hi Ralf,

What else can we say, then it's a big splash.

Very nice work.
ArmouredSprue
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South Australia, Australia
Joined: January 09, 2002
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Posted: Monday, August 12, 2002 - 09:33 AM UTC
Real cool job!
Original and reallistic!
Keep up the good work!
TreadHead
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Posted: Monday, August 12, 2002 - 11:35 AM UTC
::::::nodding head:::::::::: Real nice stuff there Ralf. Nice effort.

Tread.

Hey.....how are you with snow?
TimberWolf
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Joined: July 15, 2002
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Posted: Monday, August 12, 2002 - 11:40 AM UTC
Wow good job. Didn't know clay could look that good
Sancho0409
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Joined: July 25, 2002
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Posted: Monday, August 12, 2002 - 11:47 AM UTC
One word........NICE!!
drewgimpy
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Posted: Monday, August 26, 2002 - 03:27 PM UTC
Great job, Even armor guys can find a way to play in the water if your creative enough.
BlueBear
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Idaho, United States
Joined: August 26, 2002
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Posted: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 07:27 PM UTC
I haven't tried building any modern armor since I had a rather unhappy experiance trying to do the new NATO camouflage on a Tamiya Leopard 1A4 many moons ago. That aside, that beast of yours looks just plain MEAN! I might have to grab a couple of the little Revell Germany modern armor kits from the local shop and give them a go
Pieter
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Louisiana, United States
Joined: August 14, 2002
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Posted: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:14 PM UTC
Hey ralf,

Very Nice work. One thing, What technique was used in making the splash? Just curious
AJLaFleche
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Posted: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 09:03 PM UTC
Nice work, Ralf.
Abrams101
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Posted: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 - 05:31 AM UTC
Ralf thats incredible ,I love the water. Beautiful portrayal of realism!!
2-2dragoon
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Washington, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 - 05:44 AM UTC
The word that comes to mind is masterpiece ! Good job...
Kencelot
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Posted: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 - 06:38 AM UTC
A little late to the party here (just a month...eeek) but, that is sweet! I love the "stop-action"!
Ralf
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Joined: June 20, 2002
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Posted: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 - 06:01 PM UTC
Hi everybody,

There is an excelent photo on this webside (modern afv / germany) showing a Leo pushing forwards a big wave on the training ground. The splash of my Leo-Dio was sculptured by modeling clay taking this image as reference. The wave was built around the front of the tank and when hardened I based it on the ground, which was painted in a dark blue-grey colour by airbrush. I gave various coats of white to the wave, aplied a clear blue wash, then finished the "water base by various layers of gloss acrylic paint.
For sculpturing I higly recomend You soft and light modeling clay as children use it at school. It can be bought for 5 $ in every paper store and is an excelent feather-light material to work with. Give it a try and You´ll see that sculpturing water-details with soft-clay is fun and much easier You think. Here is the photo reference I used:

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/modules.php?set_albumName=albup84&id=aaj&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php
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