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Middle Eastern store front vignette
Made a little vignette for a pic frame wall mount for a possible buyer. Scale is 1/35.
Scrap Metal - Update 3
I've just added the figures to the dio. Again, I am no figure painting expert, but I always try to give it my utmost best. The figures were bought ready made, but I repainted them differently and because the original painting was not to my [...]
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
