Steve does a great job painting a popular manufacturer''s newest offering. This kit will be available Aug. 15th on www.scalemilitary.com

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Te diorama itself looks good, but I'm quite disappointed about the hughe amount of airbubbles in it. Besides that I don't think the individual stones (Hansa ?) do much good to the overall impression.

If these two items could be avoided, the diorama would be smashing !

I think Keith is going for the market where modellers want to skip the dio building, but do like the base for their model and/or figures. I think he has succeded, .. the composition looks very natural and not pre-planned at all. This must be one of the biggest downfalls in dio building.
I have made one of keith´s bases before, and the pin-hole problem was nothing like this .. just a little at the end of the ruined wall. This meant instead of filling the holes, a couple of twists with a knife made it look like natural damage.
Steve has made his usual great job painting and weathering the scene and cleverly added some extra rubble to individualise the base.

The base overall looks nice.
I've built some of Keith's kits too, never any problems, like that.
I'd say based on the future availability of this kit, that this was a first run (first pour) issue vs. anything else.

I pm'd Keith a bit back about the air hole issue. He mentioned something about a pump that will remove approximately 90% of the holes from the resin. That will be great as this is a nifty little scene that is extremely well composed. As I mentioned in the review, building the master for this must have been a challenge. The variety included just makes the whole thing fun to paint.

Scott, -- I appreciate the job you did on the review and pic selections. My compliments to you sir.

Steve

Besides the holes in the resin, and the holes in the bricks (unless that is actually a type of brick) I really enjoy the composition of the base.
I see plenty of opportunites for a story to take place, maybe a vehicle parked in the road, with some NCOs and maybe an officer standing around the barrel with a map, just to give an example.

very nice
-Shain

Hi all!

I think he refers to a vacuum pump wich eliminates the bubbles before the moulding process! Such a machine is required when using very detailled and complicated mold forms...

But honestly, having worked with resin and forms, I can't understand why there are so many of them, even without vacuum pump! The mold of such a base is easy to deal with! I suppose it is upside down while the resin is poured in it! Therefore the bubbles should be on the underside of the base!

I think the resin shouldn't be mixed like milk-shake! That's all! :-)

Jean-Luc