Hi everybody, I am finishing my new dio "Reaching Caen"...

I am posting two pictures, more in my gallery. Pics are not so good but I waz in a hurry :-)

I'd love your opinions!!!!

nice dio looks pretty big . have u gt some mesurements ??
'tis a wonderful peice
nice cracked masonry :D

Thx a lot!

it's 40cm x 30cm, that's about 1 ft x 1,3 ft

for the masonry I used a box of a Cisco router !!! Technology can help :-)

What part of SW of England are you? I've got friends in Torquay !

barnstaple in north devon
lol that isnt as big as i thought it'd be
still very good work,impressive
ifor my dios i cant get the nack of making it look convincing , you have

keep it up
james

been to your town, years ago

you should exercise by observing: walls are not red, bricks are not uniformly colored, tree logs are not brown, people's faces not pink, etc... :-)

also (but that's my opinion) do not use pre made houses, bridges, trees... enjoy building'em yourself, you'll be surprised by the effect

i got the jist of that , but the trouble is mainly my compostition and i cant afford many matrirals*ohyeah what did u think of barnstaple??*

Hi!
Like it alot. Nice to see 1/72 dios. Nice looking vehicles.

Cogratulations on the Dio its real busy plenty of action. What figures did you use (did you double up on the guy with the .45) you have put everything into this Dio, water buildings the works I like it . Correct me if Im wrong but didnt the British take Caen(eventually)

It's 1:72 but you got me fooled with the first picture in the beginning! Those figures are painted very good!

The dio is busy indeed and there is much action in it.
The only thing I would advise you to do is to place some wooden or cardboard sides on the dio, to cover up the white foam and to make it totally finnished.

Paul

If im correct wasnt Caen taken by the Canadians?

very nice dio, lots of detail, looks busy




and british yes, but the americans were headed in that way from the canadian right flank.

Nice work.

Nice lil' town!! I love Devon and Cornwall, I go there every few years...

I use almost zero cost materials like old boxes cardboard, foam, musk, rubble, silicon... really dirt cheap

Thanx for all the nice comments: I am finishing it making a nice border with bread paper bags of my favourite "panetteria" (bakery), dipped in 60% water + 40% white glue and then painted brown (like the interior of the river).

I used:
Italeri: Sherman, Dodge, US troops, German DAK, German paratroops, German pioneers
Hasegawa: GMC truck, some sitting and standing US troops

Materials: styrofoam for the ruins, dirt, resin glue for the poddles, resin glue + silicon for water, musk + wire for trees, toothpicks + Lego doors + dirt + twisted wire from a Spumante bottle (hick!) for rubble, dirt + white glue for mud.

Dio is 1/72, brush painted with a mix of Pebeo, Maimeri, Revell and Humbrol paints.

When finished I'll post better pictures!

Very good diorama!!!!!!!!

Very nice dio. I was also fooled by the first picture

Cheers
Erik

Very nice diorama. The details in this huge miniature work are awesome.

woah! it really is breathtaking...gd job luke1999..