What Im working on right now.

[Uruk-Hai]

Finally Im getting to a point in my construction of my hobby room that Im able to build and paint. At least paint by brush.

This is a vignette made of a 1/35 Dragon Red Devil. Its supposed to be Arnhem. Ive replaced the head with one from Resicast, added a Tamiya waterbottle and a strap for the gun.

The base is scratchbuilt using many materials such as foamboard, wood, Plastic Card, lead solder, photetch, Magic Sculpt, plaster, Humbrol Filler, Custom Dioramics bricks and a Tamiya german helmet.

For me, the setting is as important as the figure and I always see it as a whole piece and sometimes the setting gets to big and overwhelms the scene and the main subject.

However I would like to get some views and ideas regarding this scene before priming and painting. Also some tips to improve my photos would be really helpfull. And dont worry about hurting my feelings or anything lika that. Im here to learn but I might not necessarly agree with you.

 

[John Long]

That looks promising. I look forward to seeing the progress.

 

[Guy]

This is really looking good Janne.........keep us posted as you go along

 

[yeo_64]

Looks good so far,Janne;do keep us posted on its progress.Cheers !
Kenneth :lol:

 

[Rob Brown]

I really like the new head vs a dragon, appears to be more detailed. The project looks like it will turn out nicely.
Rob

 

[Roc]

Very nice , looking forward to the finished product.


Roc.

 

[Pete_H]

Talk about "creative." I'd suggest some shrapnel damage & bullet holes on the walls.

 

[RobH]

Very Nice

as said, looking forward to this one progressing

nice

Rob

 

[Anders Heintz]

Tjena Janne!

Fint att se att du ar pa G igen Kommer ihag ett litet hus eller nagot som du byggde pa i IPMS Open 97, det inspirerade mig att prova pa byggnader for forsta gangen. Jag var typ 15 da sa du kommer nog inte ihag mig.

Ser fint ut, och jag ser fram emot att se det malat!

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Thanks for the comments and especially thanks to Pete for his suggestions.

Some damage from bullets and shrapnels on the walls will be added but I think less is more in this case as there aint much wall in fact in this scene. Perhaps merely painting some damage on the wallpaper like on an medievil shield would do the trick. Or what do you think?

Ive been laborating with the camera and came up with these pictures that I think is better and give you an better idea of the build.

Anders:
Nog kommer jag ihåg den lille pallevante som di asade upp ända från skåne. :lol:

Cheers

 

[Guy]

Thanks for the additional pics Janne. It has been a long time since I have done a wall section like you are doing and I may have to include one with the WWII GI i am doing. Keep up the terrific work and post more as you go along.

 

[RobH]

Hi Janne

Much better pictures! And I love the little details of the structure.
Very well done



Rob

 

[LCoote]

Janne, much better pics. Very nicely done and great attention to detail

 

[Pete_H]

Janne,
I'd still consider bullet holes if I were you. I would imagine that damage such as those seen on medieval shields wouldn't be so common in Arnhem circa September '44. Afterall, this is World War II where the weapon of choice was a bullet If one were to argue the merit of bullet holes on such a small section of wall, then what's with the Fritz helmet on the floor? How would such a helmet get there? I know this sounds extremely anal-retentive, but it helps avoid a common pitfall - to put something in the groundwork just to fill up space. If less is more, then wouldn't the helmet be a bit too much? In my humble opinion, I think it would be. If for any other reason but everybody uses the helmet trick in groundwork.
Of course, this is just my opinion and I'm not professing to be an authority on the subject. I am 100% certain that your project is going to come out awesome regardless of the groundwork As a sidenote, I must say that so far it looks very impressive. Care to ellaborate in detail as to how you built it? I'm intrigued ...

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Okelidokelido Figureteers!

Bear with me as this seems to be a long answer.

The walls are made by foamboard about 5mm thick. Cut to shape and glued together with white glue. The bricks showing throu is Magic sculpt kneaded together and glued to the ends with super glue before being formed into bricks matching the size of the ones from Custom Dioramics on the floos. Of which some were cut to smaller pieces using a sidecutter. A blob of Magic sculpt were placed on the floor to build up for the debris and a wood piece, bricks and a stereotype in the form of a Tamiyas german helmet were pressed into this blob. When dry, I put on lightly diluted white glue on places where I wanted some finer debris of varied size and sprinkled a mix of such over it, finishing of with some plaster dust.

The beams were made from wood strips, sanded with fine sandpaper and scorched alongside the grain with a knife. The same goes for the windowframe and doorframe. But in that case the smaller frame holding the glass, it were made of Plastic Rod in which I scribed a grove to accomondate for the glass. The glass is also made Plastic Card and were cut and scribed to look like broken. The windowsill is also made of wood but covered with Humbrol Putty which I dilute with Ethyl Acetate(Acetic Acid) til I have a diluted filler that can be brushed on. I repeated this three or four time to give the sill a more stone like texture.

Plumbing is lead soldier which Ive actually never used before due to its soft nature but I was quite pleased as it was easy to cut with straigt cuts at the ends. I drilled some holes in the ends to make them look like pipes and bent them in a fitting way.

Floor and roof planks were made of Plastic Card with the individual planks being scribed with a P-cutter and the card graintextured with a grit 50 sandpaper being pushed hard in the inteded directions of the grains to be, two or three times.



Pete! Im with you in some points but not all the way. Let me explain how Ive reasoned when laying this scene out.

My reference to a medievil shield perhaps werent the best but what I meant was that its an option to paint in smaller shrapnels damage in the same way rather than actually doing the damage.

Also Ive now made three bulletholes but not more. Even as guns are the preferred weapon of a soldier not by choice perhaps but rather due to the doctrine, production and the quartermaster, throughout the whole 20th century its not the bullets who claims the most causalties. Shrapnels and mines are the cause of most casualties both light and severe. And we all know that Frosts men recieved some shelling, thats for sure. In addition, handguns didnt tear that building apart. It takes a little more to do that. Shrapnels cames in many sizes, shapes and speed.

I admit that the steelhelmet wasnt the most original thinking when it comes to vignettes. Still I wanted that helmet there as the german steel helmet has some attitude whenever it is to be seen, but also I wanted to show some hint about the resistance that met the british airborne troops at Arnhem with an SS rhune decal on the helmet. Note how the left side of the helmet is shown. Although the helmet could have ended up there in many different ways, I will add a ciggaret butt and a crumbled german cigarett packet. My intent is not that the enemy in this case has been driven out by force but rather been there and retreated. Otherwise an ammomag or shells would have been apropiate. Its also a reminder for the viewer how close the enemy is. Hadnt it been for the helmet being in the pile of debris a butt with a little string of smoke still rising from it would have been a nice touch, hadnt it?

Cheers

 

[Pete_H]

Janne,
I'm with you, amigo ! Severe shrapnel damage would make the most sense; afterall, poor guys were being hammered by elements of the 9th and 10th SS Panzers. As said time and time again, "less is more," so no more bullet holes would work nicely. Here's a thought for the helmet: put some shrapnel damage into it - say one hole - and a small hint of blood mixed into the rubble.
You're really onto an exciting project here. I can't wait to see how it goes And thank you for the notes on how you made the groundwork.