All for a worthy cause....... So what's your next project?

NATE

I had a couple of ideas and I`m not so sure wich one to take

I have a german fieldkitchen for a long time now and I really had one single purpose for it in a dio. Last week I thought out a quite funny scenario. The german fieldkitchen were mostly horsedrawn (I don`t know picss that show something else )
My idea was that the horse went scared of something and just run off with the kitchen behind him. The dio would show the fieldkitchen itself on it`s side onto the ground leaking the soup all over the place and the horse driver and the driverspart of the fieldkitchen into the canal that is next to the road. on the side of the road are some german soldiers laughing.
Further I have this big project "Eis Frei" that shows a stug 40f that got stuck on the road in russia during that campaign. The officers are discussing what they should do next while the normal footsoldiers are playing on the ice next to the road throwing snowballs at each other. I would say that this project is for onethird finished.
Further I`m planning to make the whole cafe of Renee Artois from the british humorseries
"Allo Allo"

And then I got a couple of oher project ideas in my mind that are a little smaller

Man, that's a lot of thinking about models... all good thoughts. All good ideas too. I hope we get to see each of them in the coming year!!!

NATE

I really have some very good ideas at this moment and it all started with this contest. it was also the first time that I made my own building. and since I found out that it`s so easy to do it yourself the ideas are just raging through my head.

And about the showing of my future projects...... I`m planning to make my own site as well and that will function more as a greater fotoalbum/gallery than that MSN thing wich is almost filled with the pics of DISTRACTION but more of that in the future

its finished!... :-) :-) :-)
Looks very nice!...very nice!
I like it!...its very nice!

have a drink for yourself...

Cris

Very original idea and great work.

Patrick

here is the final costs list

Sniper:
I talked this over with Keith because my Sniper ia completely scratchbuilt and I had no idea what to raise for it. So Keith and I agreed to raise 25ct. for every part that came from the scratchbox I thought this was fair.
-Modeling Clay from the DAS brand "Stolen" from my little sister : 0.00ct
-The Sniper gun came from the scrapbox : 0.25ct
-The right(shooting) hand from the scrapbox: 0.25ct
-the complete leftarm came from the scrapbox: 0.25ct
-The head with helmet out of the scrapbox: 0.25ct
-The boots from the scrapbox: 0.25
-The shovel and the cannister (I believe): 0.25ct
Total Scratchbuilt Sniper: $ 1.50

The building and sidewalk
-Foam used for the building and sidewalk I got it from my father out of the hospital: 0.00ct
-Windowframe was made out of a couple of icelolly sticks wich I had laying around: 0.00ct
-Miliputt wich I had laying around for a long time: Oh heck I raise 0.25ct for that then my building got any value within
-one tube of wallspackle/plaster/ (plamuur in dutch) "stolen" from my fathers workshed: 0:00ct
-The road with drainage sculpted out of the same foam where everything except the figure is sculpted out 0.00 ct.
-The rubble piles against the sides of the building are made out of foam and then covered with a layer of miliputt I`ll raise 0.25ct. for that
-balsawood for the floor: stolen from my fathers workshed: 0:00ct.
Total scratchbuilt houseruin: $0.50ct

Greta (my mannequin)
-sculpted out of the same foam as everything else 0.00ct
-German Helmet out of the scrapbox 0.25ct
-Tarp/cloth around her: Toiletpaper stolen from the toilet...... duh 0.00ct
-The gun Greta carries came from the scrapbox 0.25ct
total costs greta 0.50ct.

others
-Propaganda posters and the picture of Lenin printed on one piece of paper 0.03ct.
-Wallpaper printed on another piece of paper 0.03ct.
-burlap for the barrel of the gun. stolen a teabag from my mothers kitchen: 0.00ct.
-blanket for the Sniper Aluminium foil stolen from my mothers kitchen 0.00ct
-window remains stole a box of Q tips from our shower at home and bashed it 0.00ct
total others 0.06ct.

Overall cost: $2.56(this will be almost the same price in Euro`s I believe)


Any questions?? Just ask!!
you always get answer

Faust - $2.56
Excallent! You've got me beat there! I love your creativity, you got very ingenious with some of the supplies. You definitely hit on the overall idea of scratchbuilding for not a lot of money, hats off to you.

I have to agree with you
that this was the cheapest to achieve plus the fact that it`s made of stuff that you`ll be able to find in every household.
and it is very funny and satisfying to make

Roberty,
I suggest you change "stolen from" in "donation by" in your grocery list.
Anything you put down in writing here can and will be used against you in a court of law.

here is the thanks to General Failure updated final costs list

Sniper:
I talked this over with Keith because my Sniper ia completely scratchbuilt and I had no idea what to raise for it. So Keith and I agreed to raise 25ct. for every part that came from the scratchbox I thought this was fair.
-Modeling Clay from the DAS brand donated by my little sister : 0.00ct
-The Sniper gun came from the scrapbox : 0.25ct
-The right(shooting) hand from the scrapbox: 0.25ct
-the complete leftarm came from the scrapbox: 0.25ct
-The head with helmet out of the scrapbox: 0.25ct
-The boots from the scrapbox: 0.25
-The shovel and the cannister (I believe): 0.25ct
Total Scratchbuilt Sniper: $ 1.50

The building and sidewalk
-Foam used for the building and sidewalk I got it from my father out of the hospital: 0.00ct
-Windowframe was made out of a couple of icelolly sticks wich I had laying around: 0.00ct
-Miliputt wich I had laying around for a long time: Oh heck I raise 0.25ct for that then my building got any value within
-one tube of wallspackle/plaster/ (plamuur in dutch) donated by my fathers workshed: 0:00ct
-The road with drainage sculpted out of the same foam where everything except the figure is sculpted out 0.00 ct.
-The rubble piles against the sides of the building are made out of foam and then covered with a layer of miliputt I`ll raise 0.25ct. for that
-balsawood for the floor: donated by my fathers workshed: 0:00ct.
Total scratchbuilt houseruin: $0.50ct

Greta (my mannequin)
-sculpted out of the same foam as everything else 0.00ct
-German Helmet out of the scrapbox 0.25ct
-Tarp/cloth around her: Toiletpaper donated by the toilet...... duh 0.00ct
-The gun Greta carries came from the scrapbox 0.25ct
total costs greta 0.50ct.

others
-Propaganda posters and the picture of Lenin printed on one piece of paper 0.03ct.
-Wallpaper printed on another piece of paper 0.03ct.
-burlap for the barrel of the gun. our kitchen donated a teabag : 0.00ct.
-blanket for the Sniper Aluminium foil also a donation from our kitchen 0.00ct
-window remains our shower donated a box of Q tips and bashed it 0.00ct
total others 0.06ct.

Overall cost: $2.56(this will be almost the same price in Euro`s I believe)

Ah I love this political correct language Thanks for the tip GF or else I had to ask you all to raise a fund for my bail out of yail HAHAHA LOL
#:-) #:-) #:-) #:-)

have a pint or two

Now with the change in your text from stolen to donated you might be liable for non-disclosure of donations in your tax accounts. You may want to talk to your accountant about this serious breech.

That`s even a better idea plasticbattle
Then I probably can get money back
and that means that I got paid for my dio
:-) :-) :-)

Very snazzy bro!...I been seeing your progress in what???..2 weeks you made this???...very sweet!

Cris

Well gatekeeper

the dio is finished in a timespan of two weeks but only one or two hours a day
so probably when I put the hours together I come on a sum of about two days
but yeah I`m quite pleased with the result it came out very Snazzy to speak with your words HAHAHA

That's a very nice dio !
But there's only one thing that looks a bit strange to me : the thickness of the wall.
I feel that it looks a bit thick for a continental european building... But that's definitely not a detail that's shocking, and I'm no specailist of such matters !

I dont think this is a problem as with most older houses of this age, there were no two walls the same thickness.
When i was younger I worked with plasterers for 9 months and some renovations jobs would have made your mind boggle. When using cement to straighten walls, one particular wall in an old house took more than 15 barrow loads of cement to straighten.

Pen pen

the building is a Stalingrad civillian building.
The thickness and the two wall masonary is something I copied from an old verlinden building. I measured the wall and it`s exactly 1 centimeter thick so I made my wall 1 cm thick too
the double wall i also copied so maybe the verlinden building was not so good reference but then you have to blame verlinden

I'm not going to blame anyone !
I think that Plasticbattle is very right : my opinion was made considering the little I know about buildings ! And I realy don't know much... And it's true that back then, standardizing was unknown.

Excellent job... I've impressed with both the concept and the execution.

Oh guys I don`t know what to say
My head get`s a lovely red colour
and my girlfriend is not even here
Thanks for all the good comments
New Projects are planned for the following weeks
so I keep you all in touch

Shout out to FAUST

Well its the colourfull languege that get everyone goin... :-)

Cris...

Ill belooking forward to something snazzy ( ) from you next time...

I`ll definetely will keep you updated on my following projects