Hi all,

This is my second diorama. My first one was the diorama "Loading Up"
This work will be my entry on the dutch campagne "crossing the rhine"

The building is the second part of mini-arts Belgian village house.
The figures and Sherman are all dragon.

I hope you like it.
























Comments are welcome.


Martin

Hi Martin
Unfortunately all I can see is the dreaded red x's . Sorry. Nick

Same here.

Edit: Now I see them. Looks pretty good.

Well Strange I can see the image
The buidling is nice but you should add some yellow bricks and different red brown bricks well it is too uniform for me.
you need also to put some wash on the building.

The rest is ok and promising maybe you should redone a little bit the debris and rubble part of the building it look like mud rather than destroy area
You can check this tutorial by Keith Forsyth very usefull.
Dio tutorial
Congrats for the quality for a second dio

Seb

You have created a good diorama Martin, with an obvious story line, and good balance of content. No undue open spaces, they eye is drawn around the diorama looking for small details.
There are a few points to keep in mind for your next one though.
The house, needs more work to bring out the texture of the brickwall. A wash of a very diluted 'dirty white' to bring out the pointing (voegwerk) between the bricks is a must, and so is the use of different shades of red, brown, maybe brownish yellow, on individual bricks. You have done a nice job on the interior, but the rubble needs to be more like rubble. Make a mix of plaster, coloured in a brick colour. Smash it up with a hammer. (No, really..) Mix that with PVA glue (houtlijm) and add to the diorama. Look here for an example. Yes, that's another MiniArt building.. they arre very nice..

Looking forward to see your next diorama Martin,

Cheers
Henk

Overall very nice. Easy to view and figure out. Good details included (glass wood gear etc).

A few minor points to help with the next one. Add some interest by opening the C rations box. The story would be that the guys had eaten instead of leaving a full box of food behind. Match the mud on the boots to the dirt in the scene (looks a bit muddy/wet compared to the scene).

Thanks for all your replies.

@ Sebastian,
The ruble turned out like mud mainly because of the lighting of het photo's. I've used the article by Keith Forsyth for my diorama.

@ Henk
I think I've made my weathering of the house too subtle. I'ved painted a couple of bricks in differend shades aan added the wash,. But I thing that my work with the pigments has overdone it.


I like your advise on the interieur of the building. And I'll give it a try. hopefully it turned out just like your house. (which is great)

@ Scott.
I still have some boxes left. And I'll add some food and other stuff in them.
About the mudd, well not everything dried as I was hoping for. I'll fix it.

The weather has cleared up a bit so I've made some new photo's










Thanks for watching

Martin

I love the bright light in the second batch of photos. It's up to you if you change this diorama. I was just pointing out a few really minor points to consider for the next one.

I know But I love to do a lot of extra details on my diorama's (like with loading up, gun shells, sigarets, newspapers). Currently I'm working on a rainpipe and some eletric wiring like this:

Gday Martin
Some very nice touches you have added here.
A good thing is the amount of rubble and debris, which often gets overlooked. I would have added some more small pieces of rubble (that look 'loose' in appearance as opposed to the mounds you have in place)

As for the Sherman, it looks like you have missed the interior handle on the co-driver's hatch?
Also the flat metal brackets/bars on the transmision housing should be vertical, attached the sides of the fenders, so as to support a timber plank or similar to utilise as a stowage area...
For future reference, the small oval plates on each corner of the rear deck should be removed during assembly, as this is the same hull used for thir M4A2(76), which had grouser storage boxes.
Other than these minor things she looks great, and you have done the DML crew justice!
Cheers
Brad

Even though your rubble turned out "like mud" you can still go to the street and scoop up some of that fine gravel on the curb. Sprinkle some of it strategically around the piles to give it that chunky texture. Best of all it's real rubble from the street!!

Martin - I like the dio alot. The one thing that I might add is another figure. This figure would be of a GI sheparding the PoW's back.

Mike T.

hi, nice dio like it alot, how did you do the curtains would like to no if you dont mind sharing!

one other question how did you post pics whit your post

cheers rob

The tiny Life magazine is great.

I agree. What's stopping one of these guys from pulling a grenade or a Luger and capping the commnader whose attention is not on the prisoner closest to him?