Yose75

Thanks for your kind words and...Of course your suggestion's gonna help build the wall...😉 I will use plaster from now on also as I'm not happy with the resin and is too messy to work with... You are right about make latex mould to build the wall sections but I'm not inspired yet to go down the road and make my own moulds. Just getting into diorama and scratch build and I will try in the future for sure. I'm happy that you like the street furniture as they are my first attempt to scratch build something like that. Only the lamp posts are aftermarket products

Thanks a lot everyone for the kind words!

A bit of progress on the wall. Nothing has been glued together yet but it looks already much better to me then my previously attempts...the DioDump wall section are beautiful casted and I think that the decision to add sections of other graffitis on each end of the "The Wall" one is the right one. It give more points of interest to the overall wall... I have try many times to make custom made decals work without success...I cannot seal them properly as the ink keep bleaching out every time I put them in water. So I've decided to print the graffiti on normal printing paper and glue them to the wall sections using PVA glue. Once dried a coat of Matt Varnishes was applied. I'm replicating the wall capping using half cylinder styrene profile... The pavement slabs and curbs are resin moulded by myself using the amazing moulds from Diorama Debris...Still moulding slabs though, last batch is drying and I hope to carry on with the pavement soon...hopefully my years working as stone mason with my father when I was younger will help me to lay down a nice pavement

Thanks gentlemen

Here my first fully painted Gunpla. Amazing quality kit, with a lot of parts and really well engineered and one of the few Gunpla kits that comes with waterslide decals. I wanted to depict a Zaku during a conflict, getting ready to aim a precise shot standing on same arid, alien ground... Primed with AK Interactive Primer and Filler, painted with Tamiya Acrylics. I could have done a better job on the weathering but I've lost interest toward the end of the build and I decided to stop. It still looks cool on my display cabinet A good build test for the RX-78-2 Gundam, my all time favourite...

Same for me Dennis, for sure is going to be one of my favourite builds once finish...

Thanks Kris

Tony, Yetifan, thanks!

Thanks PlaStix

This is a build that I finished few month ago. The kit itself is great, my first Tiger Model kit and I well impressed with it. Only issues the instructions: they looks like the Tamiya ones but there are quiet a lot of errors. You have always to looks ahead of where you are in the build to avoid unpleasant surprises... OOB build but the tracks, they are from Friulmodel. The model is primed with AK Interactive Primer and Microfiller Grey and painted with Tamiya paints. A light filter has been achieved with Abteilung 502 Oil and sealed everything with Vallejo Matt Varnish... First time I try to attempt a splinter camo scheme. I got for it the DN Models Masking Set...I found it not that great for masking as it a bit thick and not easy to make it conform to the model but great as template. I then use them on different sizes of Tamiya Masking Tape and Masking Sheet to achieve the splinter camo scheme. I work of patience but with a great result... The Barriers and Cones are from Meng, rubbish items and grass are custom made, for the tarmac I've use the AK Interactive Diorama Asphalt Texture (love this range!). The figures are from Evolution Miniature

In the photo below my homemade decals sheet. It's the first time that I'm printing custom decals and took me few trials before get it right, both on normal paper and, unfortunately, on decal paper... I'd split the graffiti in 6 parts, down to the wall section size. It worked out 4 parts for the PF graffiti plus 2 for the ones next to it...one for each side. Not sure yet if I will use the banner at the bottom as my diorama title... I'd print the decals on Bare-Metal White Inkjet Decal Film, then I brushed Microscale Liquid Decal Film to protect them. I did try to airbrush the Decal Film: too thick, get gluey using thinner or water, no good for your airbrush... I did try to use Gloss Varnish to protect the decals instead of the Decal Liquid...another no...big no! As soon I put the decals into the water the ink dissolved... And the first decal is on! The wall sections are cast in plaster so a coat of Gloss Varnish is needed to get the decals conform to it. Quiet happy with it, now time to get the other 5 done...

Nicely done vignette, like it a lot!

Nice one, well done!

Great diorama, details and weathering, well done!

Great work all around. The diorama details, the figures painting and the weathering...well done!