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Ground Forces / The littlest diorama I've ever made!!!
« on: December 18, 2010, 09:56:44 PM »
Ah, it's a long history...

Once upon a time... Euh sorry... Once a day, my mother came at home and gived me a little marble socle, saying that it will surely make an excellent base for one of my kits.
So kind...
...But that base was one for a stone egg!!! You can imagine how BIG it can be...
How to put a normal, decent, average kit on such a teeny place???

Hey, that's the kind of situations I like: to put a kit on that base? Surely not...
...But to realise a full diorama, what a challenge!!!

Yes I made it.

Some years ago, I was a wargame player, and I remembered me that There was still existing somewhere in the house, some AFV's at 1/300 scale: yes, 1/300 scale!!!
I found the box containing my wargame elements and, amongst them, there was some CRVT's. But also some infantrymen and crewmen...
I made my military duty on CVRT's (Scorpion, Scimitar, but also Spartan during my -uncompleted- formation as student officer). So I imagined a manoeuvre scene, including a Scorpion, a Spartan and some crewmembers.





I represented myself on the diorama... Egocentrism...



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Miscellaneous Subjects / Re: DA VINCI's TURTLE
« on: December 18, 2010, 09:41:04 PM »
Honestly I don't know the cannon type. I used the kit parts without thinking if there are correct or not...
The shileds, it's an invention from me: my personal interpretation of, let say, "medieval cockades": aromrials on wood shield.
The armorial is the one of the Holy Roman Empire.
...Well, it's a kind of "medieval what-if"...

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Ground Forces / Re: Belgian T13, bycicles, and Chasseurs Ardennais
« on: December 18, 2010, 09:36:09 PM »
Oh, I forgot to say that the tankcrew are from Solfig... Not as good as the Chasseurs Ardennais (bad faces), but their position limit the vision of their faces...

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Miscellaneous Subjects / DA VINCI's TURTLE
« on: December 18, 2010, 09:33:57 PM »
This one is a special one!!!

The Genius had a lot of projects, amongst them a war machine manpowered with guns: really a proto-tank.
Dominique Jadoul from Retrotracks falled in love for that engine and decided to make a kit of that.
When I saw the box on his stand during an expo... I think it take me no more than 30 seconds to have bought that splendor.

The build was easy, there are a few pieces; but it was for me an excellent test to obtain a wood effect with oil paints on an acrylic base...










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Ground Forces / Belgian T13, bycicles, and Chasseurs Ardennais
« on: December 18, 2010, 09:24:29 PM »
This little diorama represent an accident: A Belgian Chasseur Ardennais let his bycicle on the way... And a T13 came!!! So you see the scene: the bycicle is... well, out of service; the tankcrew and two Chasseurs Ardennais are examinating the situation, and the adjutant is "gently" explaining to the owner of the bycicle that he will "probably" have some punishment...

The diorama is at 1/72 scale; the T13 is from Solfig; the bycicles and the Chasseurs Ardennais from Retrotracks.
The tree is a toothpick with miliput, with "zeeschuim".
I'm proud to say that it was the object of an article for both PANORAMA (IPMS-Austria) and KIT (IPMS-Blegium)




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Ground Forces / Re: Lancia Delta Integrale - Italeri 1/24
« on: December 18, 2010, 09:11:41 PM »
Excellent work!!!

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Ground Forces / Re: Tiger I Ausf E early Italeri 1/35 - Totally off-topic
« on: December 18, 2010, 09:10:52 PM »
Totally ON topic now...
Nice build!

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Ground Forces / Re: Italeri DUKW 1/72
« on: December 18, 2010, 09:10:20 PM »
It's a very special vehicle, and you gived him justice!

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Ground Forces / Re: King Tiger Italeri 1/72
« on: December 18, 2010, 09:09:41 PM »
Splendid!

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Ground Forces / Re: The WWI Belgian SAVA
« on: December 18, 2010, 09:07:15 PM »
Thank you!
Well, that new section is realy open now...

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Ground Forces / The WWI Belgian SAVA
« on: December 18, 2010, 08:47:29 PM »
The SAVA (Société Anversoise de Véhicules Automobiles) was an automitrailleuse build near Antwerp. It was a good little vehicle, used by th Belgians during all the WWI. Anecdotic to say that a vehicle crossed accidentally the Dutch frontier, was interned, used by the Dutch army but sent back to Belgium after the war...

The kit I'm presenting here is at 1/72 scale and from Retrotracks (http://www.retrokit.net/). It's a teeny one, but a little jewel...
I've built that kit in 8 days only, during my holidays. There was some PE parts, for the wheels and the belt for the reserve wheels...





















With that kit I won in 2009 the IPMS-Belgium Challenge...
Hope you like it!

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Some modeling techniques
« on: December 17, 2010, 05:34:13 PM »
Personnally, I'm using a wash for the inter panels, with oil paints: a mix of black and brown diluted with turpentine or "f" benzine (for smokers... - I'm not smoker I must say). And for the lights, I use an extremely diluted white (airbrush applied), or a lighter color than the original that sometimes I apply with a paintbrush, like a drybrush...

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Airfix F/A-18A Hornet 1/72
« on: December 15, 2010, 05:38:13 PM »
So tiny... But well painted, nice job!

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Spad VII (Roden 1/32)
« on: December 12, 2010, 04:00:32 PM »
OK. I've tried. But nerviously, it was too much for me...

Feel better now...  :-green
I will use the kit's part, without any regret: I've verified keeping the PE and the kit's part at eyes level, you see exactly the same.

Again working with photoetch:

there are six elements...

Primer on the propeller...


...and on another part I've préviously forgotten...


And finally, the dope linen for the interior of the fuselage. I've well examined the subject and compared Mister Kit, Vallejo, Gunze and Tamiya colors and finally I've opted for Tamiya XF-55 Deck Tan. I wish a dope linen that haves some use; don't forget that the Belgian Spads came from the French surplus - Not really aircfrats from the fabric!


More work next week...  :))


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