.Still, since I put in so much work to make the tree, the tree house and scratchbuilt this Volkmar idiot on his swing, I post some new (this time sharper) pictures of the whole thing.
1) The whole vignette. You see a tree with a little tree house where the sniper will find his shooting position. Whoever built the treehouse for his kids, added a swing and a rope ladder at the same time. A sniper has spent quite some time in perfect hiding in the tree house, but since no enemy activity is expected soon he came down to stretch his legs, have a pee and a smoke. He sits in the swing, smoking a sigarette. His Mauser rests on his leg.
2) Volkmar on his swing.
3) Volkmar from the back.
4) Volkmar : close up. As you can see I'm no champion at painting faces. Much better than my previous attempt already, but not quite there yet. I'm happy with his posture, though. The arms and legs are scratchbuilt, only the hands are figure hands. He should be holding a sigarette between the fingers of his right hand, but it seems to be broken off ! (I even added a fine thread of cotton that was painted grey to show smoke - it looked cute !).
5) The tree hut. This picture is sharper than the previous ones. The roof was all built in shingles, but the snow hides all that. I still had to put glass into the windows, but since this is not an official entry... Maybe tonight ? The hut was painted light blue to simulate the kids' world, and was heavily weathered after that.
6) The tree. This is what the dio was all about. Look at the colors of the stem on some of the pics above, and here. I think the tree looks very well, but the snow is cluttered a bit too much. That's the result of my glue technique. The message I learned from this is : never use white glue again for this for 2 reasons : - it clogs and - it turns yellow. i had to repaint the whole thing white again after a week !
So, this is the whole project.
Since this cannot be an official entry, I'm working on a sequel. Expect more news in a week or two (next weekend is all taken for other priorities and all my nights are already taken this week for work and official functions).
I'm glad I did this dio, though. It proved my technique of building trees, and I'll try to update the tree making story into a feature article.
I'd be really happy to read your honest comments.
