PanzerWomble

Piece of cheese dioramas...there's only about 30 methods or so to choose from . Top tips I learnt after too long .....don't start off with a big board and try to fill it, they inevitably don't really work , less is more etc ...decide on 'the story' and fit it on the smallest area that makes sense ...pick a new skill and do one at a time to perfect the skill ....trees , grass buildings , water ..and then you can combine them together . "Dartmoor" is actually a very old 1/35 base I'm a bit sentimental about that initially looked like this . I was very happy with it at the time , static grass and everything Whoop whoop !

Wowsers Phil , that must have been a heap of work ! I had a Trumpy version that I sold on after looking at the track build ...each link was 4 parts ....nope 🥲 This 7 and the FAMO both make great subjects, especially in the Panzer Grey, & that 'veirling looks great too about 100 years on from Tamiyas old clunker from the 70's . The open ammo boxes is a nice touch . Thanks for sharing . 24th PzDiv ?

Thats all coming together very nicely .

Agreed- the tread on the road is often a different colour , mud in treads etc etc, nothing of course to stop you using this as a base as it gets in at the rims easily , and then going at them with a brush afterwards ....which is also my take on these. So anyway ....... tell us more about your 'Mask Fetish', Rob .....pix or it didn;t happen 😳

These have popped up recently from AK this summer I've not been adverse to using fine Sharpies and a ruler for applying walkway lines etc in the past as opposed to using decals ...so I guess I was part of the way already to this product . There's a full range, I only bought the semi gloss / rubber black for doing wheels quickly . And yes...... I should ..... as proper modeller ...... get out the 0000 Riggers brush ....... or the Tamiya tape and knife........ or fire up the vinyl cutter ..... or use a plastic circle stencil ..and I've done all of those . ...however This cheap paint marker pen made a very quick and easy job of these aircraft wheels ..so guess I'll be buying them again . Will be interested to see if they dry up quick or keep on trucking over time but at £3.90 / (half a pint of beer in the UK these days) I won't loose any sleep over that . Laterz PW Below took me less time than to take the picture, write my witty blurb and post it ..

Thanks folks , @Fran indeed ! I think I need to close out my WW1 1/48 stash and man up to fork out the big bucks for 1/32 biplanes next year.

Thats specially lovely , I'm glad the weathering toned down the crazy paint job which was harsh on the eye Amazing to think thats 1/48 scale not big mans scale . Very good 👍

Thnaks Mike It was on / off for a month , picked it up ........put it down

111 Sdn , formed in Palestine in 1917 and issued with a variety of aircraft including the F2b. Their first victory came on 30th October when this aircraft downed an enemy observation aircraft. My first double bay biplane , a lot more fiddly in 1/48 than the single bay 1/32 one's I've done . Fun though ! Laterz PW

More Roy Cross Artwork @BlrwestSiR one for you ! Lovely to have nice renditions of the old boxtops Also picked this up for silly cheap , looks like a pantographed 1/72 in it's simplicity . Will be a quick build whenever i get around to it !

Second half of the bays done and tail plane on , bit more painting and more knitting next . That which does not kill me ....etc

Nice surface treatment Rob. I could never build only planes or the umpteenth Tiger tank 100 %👍 For me , if you're not moving forward , trying and learning new stuff, it's just treading water .

Nice one for Braille Scale . 👍

Thank you all for the kind comments .

Just out for a drive on Dartmoor ...just some quick pix before moving on

Meow !

Great find , thank you Maru !

Coming along well ! Going to be one statement piece at the end of this build for sure

Now with Zimm . Tracks and bits and bobs and paint tomorrow . It confused Kurt ....

Went Prym thread for an experiment , discarded tubes this time as over scale - they are not 1 inch dimeter in real life . (0.5mm *48 = 24mm) See how it goes Half done so far

Screams Zombie Apolcalypse dio to me , but then thats just me .

They used to start Royal Navy Deltic Diesels the same method - modified shotgun shells I think.

Use a 1/3rd less of everything , takes up less shelf space ....a lot less choice though.

1 /48 - part of my playing around with that scale armour last year . Did the Tiger, Jpanther and K2 ambulance. Pros and cons at this size tbh . This was left in the stash so finishing it up