hey all, long time no post, been doing this dio on and off for about 2 years now, and its not even halfway done, lol. im just lazy. lol

anyway want to know what you guys think, i am mostly worried that my house is out of scale, so if you guys can give me some feed back on that and the rest of the dio, that would be fantastic. enjoy.

matt

Nice work there, love the little stream and the layout is very convincing.

What is the tall grass? That is just what I am looking for at the moment.

Stuart

Gday Matt
You are definitely running at my speed then!
I like the flowing grasses down th slope, and to answer your question, the house is fine and not too big. Although I'd remove a couple of the main rafters as the damage looks too even if you know what I mean. My main problem is with the fence. The pickets seem too thick, as well as the beam they are attached to? The rooftiles indicate an Italian location? If so then I'd recommend a low stone wall in place of the picket fence...
I'd move the observer with the fieldglasses; he seems non perturbed whereas there is a flurry of activity behind him... He seems a sitting duck!
Oh, and don't forget the rubble from the building's damage!
Cheers mate
Brad
P.S. Gettiong cold at nights up there in the nation's capital?

thnx guys for comments.

stuart, the long grass is from woodland scenics, its very good, i reccomend it, paint bristles are good, but sometimes they can be stiff and not realistic.

honeycut, thnx for input, i thought the pickets were fine, so how thinner should i go, half the size that they all ready are? yeah i was going to have tiles, but thinking of maybe something else, perhaps straw, or something, any sugestions, its in normandy by the way.

and dont worry about the guy with the benoculars, he goes with the story and that will be revealed when dio is completed ( there will be germans in house with gun aiming out of hole, etc)

oh and i with the rubble and all, dont worry i havnt done any of that yet.

what do you guys think of my terrain, shrubs, and grasses, do they look realistic, should i paint the grass. oh and the road will be different colour, its going to be a light sandy colour.

p.s. honey cut, lol im in melbourne, i dont know why it says capital, lol

cheers.

come on guys, lol, wheres all the comments and feed back

Hi,

I think the terrain is well done, some elevation difference etc.
Bradley told you the most of the problems already. I would add some dark washes on the terrain between the bushes (3. pict.).
I can't tell a lot more here, your pictures are not really that good to allow a lot of comments.

Cheers
Claude

Hi,

Couple things. First, I agree with honeycut, the guy with the binocs has to go. If the other Americans behind him are so "ready" for enemy soldiers in the house, what's he doing standing there like a beacon. He might as well be wearing a day-glo orange shirt or something.

I'd like to see what the house looks like with paint.

I also think the pickets are too wide, or should be replaced by a stone wall.

And finally, for a Normandy scene, you have a tank that never fought in Normandy. The 47 degree hull m4A3 did not start to appear in Europe until the fall of 1944. And the inside of the top hatch looks like it's been painted white, when it should be OD like the outside of the tank.

Groundwork looks pretty good from what can be seen. Nice mix of elements.
Rob

Nice comeback after 2 years.
A couple of things I see are
the base needs to have a nice clean edge and when you're done, the eleveations (white stuff in the cut away) needs to be painted a dark neutral color.
I'd stick with tiles for the roof and put a ton of them on the ground. Also the section of the roof that has tiles is to uniform and there seems to be a gap between rows. Just touch that up a bit and you'll be good to go there.

hey, thnx guys

i am yet to do the washes,

the tiles on the roof, i am going to rip off and replace withe straw technique, the base isint finshed so i am to fix that, oh and for it being in normandy, yeah i know , so where do you guys reccoemnd of having it set?

thnx again

cheers