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  3. Here begins tonight's lesson: Getting a 500ml bottle of builder's PVA online is a great idea compared to the price of a 50ml bottle from the LMS. Getting 500ml of the cheapest PVA you can find online is not a great idea. This is peeling off the foamboard too easily. Get a decent quality exterior grade, water-proof PVA. It will still work out cheaper in the long run. Hopefully this will flatten down under a second coat and be hidden by the grass scatter material when I get around to it. On the positive side of tonight the accumulator trolley is looking good under a coat of primer, though I do need to tidy the engine cover a little. I'm not going to be at the bench for a week or two, if all goes well I should have my new specs by then and detail work can start again. Onwards and upwards!
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  5. Your work as always is excellent! Love the wear and tear on the machinery especially. Paul
  6. Another cracking diorama from you. Lots of lovely detail to look at. I've never seen this machine before, but I'm getting a '60's Japanese vibe from the design. Like it!
  7. Hi T. Thanks for that - glad you like it! TTFN Steve
  8. This diorama was once slightly bigger before it was reduce to the size you see in the photos. I wanted to concentrate on making smaller dioramas, so decided to re-do the diorama. The cab is now back on and figures have been re-arranged. But I do not think it takes away from the main theme, which still remains from the original build. Hope you all like the results. I'm still adding little details here and there, but not too much as to not over-crowd it. Will be making the concrete floors a little dirty, but not too dirty; just some oil here and there. Not all areas of workshops or big factories are full of oily floors and dirt, like most would think. --------------------------------
  9. Absolutely an amazing piece!!!!!!!! The whole resin water and plane slightly sunk into the water is a masterpiece.
  10. Well my last order of paints was for ten of 'em for the 3 kits I got from Hobbycraft with their 25% off sale Spent more than the saving but hey ho. The paints included in the D-Day kit look a bit worse for wear so I may end up having to replace them once I open them up and examine them. Then, it may also be the wrong colours to begin with (and missing some). when I start it, this will be kit no. 7 and the previous 6 there has always been at least one mistake in the instructions - wrongly labelled sprue item or colours not mentioned on the outer box etc.
  11. Welcome aboard! One bottle of paint or perhaps the colors needed for the kit?
  12. Found a review link here on bm - Starting my research now and will start the build hopefully this weekend if I can get the three aircraft I have on the bench finished. thought no 3. I only started 2 nights ago, so that might just go back in the box. The other two are Metoer F8 and F9 on a side by side build as the kits were pretty much the same apart from an extra sprue for the f9. Might have to build it in the conservatory as the office/work room wont have enough space for a 2ft scene and enable me to use my desk when 'working' from home. If anybody else has built this and can steer me away from any pitfalls that would be most useful for a noob
  13. Well done smuggling it indoors undetected, clearly you're getting the hang of this 😁
  14. Because I MUST buy a kit to take me over the £30 free delivery threshold when I buy paints for recently purchased kits (vicious circle there!), On my last paint order I added this diorama set to my basket https://uk.airfix.com/products/d-day-operation-overlord-set-a50162a. Its £69.99, but £55,99 at the mo in their sale, less my 10% member's discount, less £29 I had in hobby points, resulting in a £20 final price! Its arrived and its far larger than I expected. Was difficult getting it into the house with SWSBO not seeing! I didnt really look at the dimensions in the details but its 2ft long. Going to see if I can get this done for June, but as a newb its going to be fun, though they do list it as skill level 2 so I should be OK
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  16. Very evocative, well presented.
  17. Following the large scale Allied Rhine Crossing of Operation Plunder in March 1945, somewhere in Western Germany, a British paratrooper's jeep has taken a spin off a wet country road while on a supply run, but fortunately a passing US supply truck is at hand to recover them. This diorama was inspired by the 3djson figure set of paratroopers loading a jeep onto a glider with some figures in pushing poses. I wondered how it could be included in a scene and this idea was born. The scenery was built on my standard 10x10cm base with some cut up cork coasters doing most of the work, covered in Create and Sculpt paste - basically a premixed plaster goo. This was topped in terrain paste an a tree was added, its an white metal armature from a Woodland Scenics model railway set. Static grass always adds a lot of life and for the stream I used AK Interactive slow water paste, which dries transparent but with a good tint and is quite solid so doesn't need damming like using resin. The vehicles are 3d prints from Paint & Glue Models which have nice detail. The figures are all from 3djson, two from the glider loading set and one Red Ball Express mechanic as the US soldier (there is a dismembered model railway figure driving the truck but is almost invisible). With the addition of a nameplate from Name it Plates, all was done.
  18. Anyone who has seen my Stirling WIP will know the subtitle is "How not to do it!" and I'm continuing the theme here with Wyton. Typically, I have been researching baseboards about two steps too late. The need to prime or seal the foamboard on both sides before starting to slosh the PVA around just had not occurred to me. Fingers crossed I can rescue it on Tuesday. Doh!!
  19. Thanks Pete. There would have been a lot more shouting and raging if it hadn't been gone 2am! I do fancy doing a snowy airfield scene, but I think I'll save that for a Battle or Blenheim in France in the winter of 1939/40. For Wyton any gap filling will be black acrylic to represent the tar used between slabs, with pigment powders for mud and dirt, and specks of green scatter material for a few tufts of grass in the cracks. Thanks Ian. Like Pete I haven't seen anyone else do that correction on the bowser, but when the time comes I'll give it a go. Though that might be a little way off, unless I do it as a bit of light relief between other projects! Murray
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