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Scrap Metal - Update 2
I've updated this dio by adding different shades of rust to break the monotone look of the junk in its entirety. I've also added steel rods as a load on top of the Suzuki. I've also added other smaller details here and there and add more [...]
Scrap Metal
Not much to say here, but just experimenting. Saw a photo of a similar scene and thought I'd replicate it. Will probably add a figure or two, not sure. But a dog would probably be added if the figures do not work out.
IJN destroyer Kagero restocking torpedoes
Hello guys this is another 1/700 diorama. This is a IJN destroyer restocking his torpedoes in a Philippine bay. The ship comes from Pitroad and is the “de luxe“ version with photoetch, metal barrel. The torpedoes carrier, come from [...]
Zara passing Castello Aragonese Entering Taranto 1/350
A couple of years ago I won one of the monthly competitions here in imodeler. The prize was the Zara kit from Trumpeter, which I promised to build and post. Here it is! The scene is inspired by the great work of Lou Carabot.
The kit is [...]
Mud Trap
I have been experimenting with different types of methods lately. This time is with mud. Yep! Good old natural mud. 🙂 I used mud collected from a neighboring farmer's dirt road. Really fine dirt, I must add. All I did in this diorama, [...]
HMSC Flower Class Corvette at Roker pier lighthouse
Hello dear friends, this is a Flower class corvette built in a 1/700 scale. It’s a resin kit by Triumph model and come with a complete set of photoetch. The Roker pier lighthouse came from Orange Hobby. The killer whales is from Snowman [...]
SHANTYBOAT
SHANTYBOAT (scratchbuilt)
A shantyboat is a small crude houseboat (also called a flatboat, broadhorn, barge, scow, or ark). There is a long forgotten history in America of people living in homemade shantyboats, a reasonable and cost-free [...]
CONSUL PUST
CONSUL PUST
Scale 1:400 - (10,5cm)
Scratchbuilt
1:50 DHL Accident Snow Diorama Update
I've updated this diorama moving the trailer slightly more inward and adding hydraulic cables and snow here and there. I've always added or tried to mimic melted ice on the roads, in certain areas. You can see them in a few photos. I also [...]
1:50 Scale DHL Truck Accident (90% finished)
Yep, its's another 1:50 job in the works. Rikard Algotsson has Commission me, to build another 1:50 scale diorama. This time a snow diorama. Now this is my first snow diorama has I have never felt comfortable about doing one due to the [...]
