Here is my entry in The winter campaign... seek and destroy.
First figure dio and first with snow!

That is a great little dio. I think the snow suit on the figure looks great. Did you make the building section or was it precast?

that's some nice work buddy !!!

PlasticBattle, I'll post this into the Gallery Folder as soon as I can. You will be eligible for the judging, but the "People's Choice Poll" has already started - don't think we can get you into that. Thanks for getting this in - nice work - great weathering job on the building!

EXCELLENT - CONGRATULATIONS

ROBERTO

That`s a lovely dio man
to bad you got a digital camera that late

but really nice work. I love the subtle use of snow you have.

Great work dude

Im not really worried about this part! As was talked about so much on a few of the other threads, I enjoyed making this model and seeing all the other work during construction and all the final results. Im just pleased to get campaign ribbon!

And also a big thanks for the kind words guys! Its nice to be a part of something like this! Cheers and good luck to all you guys competiting!

Plasticbattle,

What a nice dio you have done. Did you scratch build the building or AM? I can see that the solider is a bit tensed holding his rifle ready for shooting.

Steve Pig#6

PB,

congrats on the Campaign Ribbon. That's a fine dio you shared with us. Specialle the weathering of the walls is excellent. Maybe you can write down a few words for us on how you did it...

Eagle,
You touch on something I have been wondering about. I know you shared a great deal of your construction as did Faust and others. I actually wrote a narative regarding my diorama.
Question is - Did you and others and do you think it'd be a good idea to include them in the features or reviews section???

I think that`s a good idea Slodder

And I think that it would be very interesting for other modelers that the people who made a dio for the contest would make a feature out of it to share their knowledge with others

If everybody is ok with it I will make a step by step feature on how I did my dio as I already did in the DISTRACTION photo update posts. So it will be visible here on the big "A"
maybe that more of the participants would do this

Good idea slodder good idea

Very nice entry. I really like it.

I like the weathering on the model and the building. Is that the Italeri Church Window that you modified a little bit?
Also the tall grass adds a good dimension to the ground work.

Congrats, I'm glad you made it into the contest.

It is indeed Italeri´s church window ruin! It looks good after a lot of work to the back. For those of you who have never used these ... dont! The are hollow at the back and need to be blocked up. I stuck each part down onto 1mm plastic card and then cut out around the shape. Taking lots of care to to try to have whatever detail that was on the winow and walls carry through to the backing! I used some putty here and there, but mostly over-glued it and trimmed it of with a knife. I added some sand over the broken wall parts for more texture and to hide the joint as well. this where most work went into the model!
The samll picture frames are bought from IKEA ... 3 for $1. I filled up from glass to frame height with the centre of a used meat tray!. The walls were stuck to the wooden parts with superglue and to the tray with hot glue! I then made the ground with some spackel from a tube. I covered this with static grass on the outside. Then i drilled some holes and add brush bristles for longer grass. The stones on the back side were to hide the plainess of the plastic card and also as rubble. I have a pre-cast form for bricks that are too big for 1/35 but broken uo are perfect for this. I built up the back with the same meat tray material, covered in the same spackel and added the bricks. When this was dry I covered in white glue and sand. This whole thing was then sprayed black from an aerosol can.

I drybrushed the building first with Humbrol dark grey, then lighter with light grey anf then finally gull grey or camo grey... cant remember but very light anyway! On the inside I used dark gray and medium grey. No washes at all. I used a dampened q-tip with humbrol enamel thinner to blend in the colours to each other! The rubble was painted in a mix of these two ways. The grass was firstly soaked with humbrol dark green and drybrushed with grass green. The timber was varius balsa wood bits, stained with burnt sienna and then set of fire. These were glued to the top of the stones and then I used pastels for the first time to blend them into the rubble. I was very pleased with the result of this as it looked very false before blending in with the pastels. I used white and black only, mixing up to achieve variuos shades of grey as well. I then painted all top areas with humbrol flat coat and blew microballoons all over. i then roughly masked of the walls and sprayed the ground area with citadel varnish. I then poured microballoons over again. I srayed agin with the varnish and repeated twice as the varnish blew away a lot of the MBs. I liked the result after this.

The figure was totally painted with humbrols. Sprayed black. Drybrushed white. Face got a glaze of burnt sienna (oil paint) and the uniform got a glaze of light grey. Then i drybrushed white again for uniform and a skin mixture for the face. Glazed and drybrushed once more getting lighter each time. (the Calvin Tan method). I think that covers the process. Ask if you have any questions or i have left something out!

I made 2 dios at the same. I had Italeris door and window ruin and i had DML sniper set. This dio will have the spotter included the next time you see it. I have also made the door dio with the other sniper pair and made it a spring/autumn setting. This is nearly complete and will be posted shortly! Im calling it "Creeping Death" so the pair have their names from a similar source as well! Stay tuned!

Thank you all for your kind words! I think I can speak for us all and say it was a pleasure to be involved in this project and i am looking forward to the next!