Looks good, What kind of tank is that.

Greetz Rob!

Hi Marc. I see you've really been working on your dio. The grass looks like they're more or less in the right places that's in sunlit areas.

If your'e up to it you might want to highlight your tree canopies with lighter shades of green to show new growth/shoots. It might help break the single solid of green and make them a bit more realistic.

Not major as it is already a very good first attempt.

hy,

@ rob: this tank is a t74. look one post bevor there i worte something about this tanks.

@ beachbum: thanks for the tip, i will try it with some highlights. but not yet, i iwill wait till i have enought trees.

thanks all,
greetings
marc

*edit* i try to make detail pics of the ground, so i hope u can see more now. sorry, just a old hp215 with 2mb.





if u see something, that i could change, please let me know

thanks,
marc

yes, better now

Das ist sehr schön Marc. Vielleicht kann ich mal ein kleines kampf spielen auf dieser diorama mit deinen rc panzers! Ich höffe du verstehst mein Deutsch, ich habe es fur einige jähre nicht gebraucht und nicht benutzt haha.

Auf wiedersehen,
Martin

hy,

ur german is good, yeah come on over to good old germany and take a fight but only if u bring me ur kakao with 2brüder aus venlo lets say, 10 t

mfg
drunken

hy @ all,

i know u all work hard at ur 1:35 modells, so its very hard to make such a great work like u all do, but i try my best at the 1:87 scale. i got some problems with the delivery, so here are some pics, most the same small scene i am working on. it take so long with the details hope u like. if u see something unnatural, please let me know or if u like ?!?

oh, i forgot, the pics are shoot by an old hp 215 just 2mb pix, sorry for this.















many things to do, i need glass at the backside, an transformator and so on... anytime, anywhere i hope to finish it

mfg
drunken

I really like it. So you're actually gonna use this as a battlefield for 1:87 radio controlled tanks?

Really cool mate :-)

oh entschuldigung......sehr schön! hehe

Cheers (or ehmmr auf wiedersehen)

Martin

hy,

at the beginnig i wanted to build a playable dio but now, i make the streets smaler, i can drive with my infrarot tanks about the tracks, its getting real and realer with everyday but i think i will move to 90 % modellwork and just 10 % playing. i love to build up something, than it would ne fatal to destroy it just with cruising at the tanks on it. later if the trees are completed *wow* i hope so... i will keep this thread from time to time up to date, yeah u all hate 1:87 lol, i know... but give me a chance

Marc, you have a "play" dio to be proud of. If only you lived a lot closer I would be begging to come over and paly with these mini r/c tanks with you With the amount of work you have put into this and the time it has taken and the results I see here, I simply cant wait to see a regular diorama by you. That includes any scale even 1/87th. Keep up the excellent work and have fun with this dio. Cheers Kevin

thanks maybe later there will be a dio in 1:35 which i made just for fun, i don´t know ... now i like to work on this, its great the cam doesn´t show my work like i can see i live (sorry) but this is planed for 12 scenes, this ist the first wood. they all will be compatibel, so this one grows together with the next and so on. many many work...

i like it, i get many tips and tricks of this forum here an positiv resonanz, i am working since 4 month at this dio. most of the time i can´t work on because the glue is too wet and the money for it is missing but let me learn more about this dios, this is my first one ever! so later i will try a perfekt 1:35 detail dio. but my fun, hobby or ever is this small world trains will follow (even on this dio!!!!) parts of holland, berlin... i think for a big dio at the end is 1:87 perfekt.

see u later if my dio is growing again many details are missing

greetings and cheers
mfg
drunken

*edit*

well this pic is a little older but here u can see that i try to make details like u do in 1:35 the ground has moved to gras i just use this estragon and majoran for groundwork together with pigments and water and "lack" perfekt

very well done Marc. the only thing I saw and is easy to fix is the hut roof. Would there not be old pine needles in all the hollows on top. I know I have seen this in New Zealand and other places with large areas of pine forest.

cheers
Cliff

Guten Tag Marc,

Your dio is getting besser and besser with every photo. Very soon mein freund you will not want to run your tanks around it anymore because of all the great work you have put into it.

The road looks fine now even if you decide not to put the grass.

hy,

@ Mr Roo could u please wrote something else for "hut roof" i don´t understand what u mean ?!? sorry.

yeah, its getting better and better, thanks beachbum, u helped me alot and this will be maybe a great dio at the end, i planed so many things at this track i will show u if somehing big changes. but this will take some time u know its a little bigger (1,40meter x 1,10meter)

oh, and yes, i think at last i will only drive with a tank with cam throw my dio to hard work but the gras holds, thanks the wood glue (white glue) no problems. but please, i am tired this morning the roads are better now, but did u think i used too much gras?

cheers
drunken

In the last picture posted you show the tank next to a building with a fairly flat roof. Would there not be dead pine needles on top of that roof?

oh, yes some dead pine trees, sorry now i understand u. so i put some twigs and sticks between the pines, the whole forrest will get with the pines i actually have at the track but the company has delivery problems so i have to wait for new. the places with the dead trees will not stay open! hope i understand u now right.

cheers
drunken

fresh and wet later comes the details, some trees are to "drunken"

mfg
drunken

hy everyone,

i got a little problem, hope u could help me. on my forest dio i put this tank traps, but is this real? does anyone know something about tank traps in forests?



btw: does anyone has a tip for me, what i can build in a forest what also could be found in a german forrest ´42-44 ? open for every tip, thanks.

cheers,
drunken

There would be anti-tank devices in the woods to defend a location. I don't know if they would the kind you have. I have seen where they would use more of the materials at hand (trees) vs dragging in I beams.
It really depends on how 'built up' and 'stocked' you want the camp to seem. A newly built camp would have more trees vs I beams, an older well established one would have I beams.

I think you may be ok to keep them it will be your call.