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Modeller Build Logs
Encounter in Arnhem |
| By Andrew Herbert | | Started: | Aug 7, 2003 | | Updated: | Nov 5, 2003 |
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About 18 months ago I got the pieces together for a little dio/vignette, and I've started work on them again. The scene will portray a German dispatch rider checking his map (from the recent Tamiya Motorcycle Orderly set) about to meet up with several British Paras who could really use the map (combining a DML para from their four figure set with the pair in Warriors set 35371). They will be posed on the Verlinden street corner resin base, which includes some rubble, a dead German soldier, cobblestone street corner and other odds and sods.
The base was assembled before we moved from Texas, and I assembled most of the motorcycle kit. The fit of the resin wall pieces was a little dicey, but I used putty and wood filler to smooth things out. The base should be a lot of fun to paint.
The Warriors figures are in nice, but exagerrated poses, and the very heavy resin plugs were a pain to remove. The weapons (a rifle and Bren gun with hands molded in place) broke in half. Nothing too serious, but adding to the assembly process! |
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| Chapter 7 - Base Near Finished | Oct 30, 2003 |
Well, it's been a while, but I have been slogging away at this base and the figures. For now, the base is nearly done. Lately I've made the move to all acrylics. Given feedback, I repainted the brickwork red, then painted in the mortar and gave the walls some washes. The interior walls were repainted too.
The cobblestones, sidewalk and rubble have been painted with innumerable washes of brown, umber, ochre, you name it. The details have been picked out, and the dead German in the rubble is almost done (not too visible here).
Can anybody help me with the colors of the traffic light (?) in the foreground of the upper figure? |
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