Ola folks,

while painting a 120mm figure last night i got up onto an idea and, placed the figie assied and grabbed my tools.

This vignette wears the name "Over the bridge" for now, until i came up a better name.

Its placed near the town of Borodino, Russia, 1941. A group of german soldiers are taking a russian tanker prisoner over a small handmade wooden bridge.

Figures are from ICM set, tanker is finished, german soldier is half done so still glossy. there will be one more soldier and one officer when im done.

So here it is, my progress for one night work













So far im deciding should i make water from whiteglue/water or use Revell tubed liquid glue since i cant find any of the "make water" stuff here in serbia and cant afford an online order.

Cheers
Mirko

Well ok u seem to be pretty productive and thats good . Try to be more carefull on detailing , like bridges wooden pieces ends and also using small tiny peebles in the bottom of the stream sas they would have surely been carried there ok ?then take care to make some "dirty" footsteps behind the 2 men on the bridge, and also try to use vegetation and iorama stuff to get some balance in the scene. For water u can use craftwork transparent silicone, i have used before and is really nice, and u can use some gloss coat over its final layer. Its cheap and u can afford

Interesting Scene. Here are some things to think about.

1. The sides of the stream maybe too verticle, and the bottom too flat. By blending the gound work more into the streambed will fix this.

2. DO NOT use either of the glues for water. If you go to an art supplier and get a acrylic gloss media, this can be built up in layers, and tinted with Tamiya clears. You can also use paintable clear latex caulk

3. Maybe a good idea to finish the frame and mask it now, before you get much further. I finish the base all the way, before even starting a dio, but that's up to you. I have found it just works out better in the end.

Keep us posted!

Hi Mirko,
So far it looks pretty good. I agree with with Costas comments on the small pebbles in the stream and dirty foot prints behind the men. What do you use to make your ground work?

How about...."Walking the Plank?"


I like it thus far, I'll be looking forawrd to seeing it when it's finished.

Steve

hi Mirko,
nice idea and nice progress. I agree Costas adding so much vegetation here and making water using transparent silicone can help better than liquid cements.

Andrew-I think the groundwork is DAS Terracotta modelling clay.
best regards

Nice little vignette so far Mirko. I have the same problem over here on getting Envirotex or any of the other expensive water products. I've used locally available, cheap wood varnish tinted with acrylics. Several layers of gloss wood varnish gives a fair approximation of depth, at least for me.

To extend a bit further what the guys have mentioned. I guess you'll be painting the stream bottom. If not you may want to consider a different color as not too streams have a blackish bottom, short of volcanic sand or muck. Rocks in streams tend to be partially embedded in the bed as they eventually get part of their bottom covered with silt/mud settling around them.

Some holes in the planks at the ends may also help with simulating nail holes. An interesting vignette with lots of potential.

What did you use as the base? Doesnt look as dry as plaster so am wondering if its play dough?

thanks all for replies folks, you gave me some nice pointers on where to go next. Some of them were already part of my plan but some i like and will use them.

groundwork is made (like Engin said) from DAS Terracotta modelling clay softened just a little with small ammount of water to make it even softer and easier to be dealth with.

as i already said, scene will have total of 4 figures (2 more together with the ones already on pics).

cheers and thanks for nice advices. Any more?

Mirko