At last. My church 1/35 scale dio is complete. Finally my local hobbystore can get it displayed.

The ruin is Verlindens old kit "Church Ruin" which has been painted in a neutral grey, weathered with a mix of light and dark brown shades. The stonework (window, door etc) is in Valejo's "Stone Grey". A quite good colour also for weathering vehicles for example. The debris is a mix of sand, catlitter and pieces of wood in all sizes.

The parkwall is made from sheets of stonewalls that apparently is made for trainmodellers. They have a good variety of these stone-sheets, and some of them seems to fit the scale. After gluing it to a piece of polystyrene cut to size, I've added PolyFilla to make a rough surface on the stone-sheet. The stones on top and the bottum are made from cardboard as is the top of the pillar at the end of the wall. The pillar itself is balsawood. The plants crawling on the wall is roots glued to the wall and sprinkled with "fine flog". Posters are Verlinden.

The cobblestone roads are made from split peas (do you call it that?), glued to the surface with white gule. Once dry I'd gave a layer of varnish before painted.

The pillars leading to the churchdoor is something I found at my hobbystore, as is the lamp. The foot of the lamp is made from a compass used for shipmodels, and the lamp itself is from some German company I don't know the name on.

Figures are Tamiya (man leaning on wall - German Tank Crew at Rest, modified with a putty west - plus tank crewman from the M8 kit), CMK US Mechanic (man in sand overalls and blue shirt) with a Hornet head, Warrior US Camaraman. Animals are Tamiya and the Jeep is a Italeri kit build out of the box.

Thats about it. Please ask me if there's anything you'd like to know. Feel free to comment it. Enjoy, and thanks in advance.







Sorry for the blurry photo.

I like it a lot, a good casual diorama

Nice......

What's the canvas top on the Jeep...scratch or AM? If AM, which manufacturer? And, how about the wall on the right? Getting the necessary "stuff" rounded up for my dio and both the afore mentioned items may be VERY useful.

Thanks!

Mike

The jeep looks like the Italeri jeep that comes with a top.

Nice work. Glad you are getting public display

Which kit is that???

Excellent dio, looks casual as stated above....
congrats

Thanks for the replies.




The jeep is Italeri's old kit, and perhaps only Willys Jeep apart from their Commando Car if I'm not mistaken? The canvas top is from that kit as well.

As for the wall on the right, I've tried to explain it in my text. Or; could you be more precise in what you want to know? I'd love to help.

Anyways. Thanks again. Your replies are much appreciated.

Simon

I like it. It has a good "feel to it".

Simon,

Sorry...... Missed your detailed explaination of the wall.....duh. Makes very clear sense to me how it was constructed. Another question: "After gluing it to a piece of polystyrene cut to size, I've added PolyFilla to make a rough surface on the stone-sheet." What is the PolyFilla? And how was it used to "roughup" the surface?

Thanks!

Mike

Nice job! :-)

Great looking dio Simon, It has a really natural look to it. I also really like the way it conveys the scene with a minimum of figures and some great composition.

Cheers
Darren

Hi there
Thanks for your replies.




Well, its a kind of plaster you use to fill gaps and cracks in walls and such. You could actually use plaster for the job. Just mix some sand in it to make the rough surface. I think that'll do the trick. What I did was to add as much water so I could use a brush and brush it on the wall. Just don't make it to thin... Hope that helps.
Good luck with it.

Simon,

THANKS!! Makes good sense to me now. Here it's called, more often than not, spackle. Not quite plaster, but close enough. Heheheheheh, got about 4 gallons (+/- 15 liters) of the stuff. Wonder how many scale miles of walls I could do???

Mike

Simon, Fine job and congrats on getting it displayed at your LHS. All I can say that you possibly add is some pin washes in the cracks of the stone work and also possibly some thin blackish green washes around the base of the stone work to give it that feel of old mossy growth. but thats just my two sents. fine work! Cheers Kevin

WOW that looks amazing, just one thing unless thats a very friendly cat it probaly would have run away from the movement and talk(?), but other than that it looks great

Not necessarely, cats can be very curious as well

Very good dio, it indeed has the right 'feel' to it. The church and debris are a very nice backdrop.

The composition is good. I like the idea of the figures pointing attention to something that's actually outside the dio. Very good!! Adds some nice dynamics to a dio that otherwise would have been rather static..

Hi all

Thanks for your replies. My next step regarding this dio is to make this and that correction to it: Drainpipe in the corner on the church, some paintings on the inside of the church to break the grey surface there, and then; make the road the GIs and civillians are looking at and the rest of the wall. Stay tuned. It'll grow a bit bigger....the dio that is

Cheers

Simon