RC-Modellers

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November 5, 2023
Project inventory
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November 5, 2023
I will need 2 Walrus planes. The Trumper kit includes 6 planes, etchparts are just for 4.
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November 5, 2023
modifying the upper wing
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November 5, 2023
Glued the first parts. I don't like how the engine nacelle is mounted, nothing to do with the real plane, but it's the model of a modell, so I can live with it.
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November 12, 2023
Construction continues, the first PE parts have been installed.
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November 12, 2023
Some parts are just manageable.
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November 12, 2023
Short sketch of the diorama...
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November 12, 2023
...and a first placement test. Most figures fall over if they are not attached.
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November 18, 2023
Some styrofoam is glued to the frame as ground...
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November 18, 2023
...and some putty for wood is used to seal the foam, small gaps to the frame and get the textures smoother.
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November 18, 2023
Work on the planes continued.
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November 18, 2023
Because of the size of the parts I can't do more than 40 minutes in 1 go.
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November 18, 2023
Compairing with a 1 Cent coin.
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November 19, 2023
The filler was coarsely sanded (80 grit) to remove isolated peaks, a slight depression in the area of the planned runway was filled again, the agricultural/cycle path was glued on using sandpaper and the bottom of the lake was covered with bird sand and glue.
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November 19, 2023
The figures come already painted, typical of H0 railway models. Unfortunately, they are neither deburred nor have ejector- or sink marks filled.
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November 19, 2023
That's why I started by cleaning up the first set of figures and lightly filling it with surfacer in places.
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November 19, 2023
The boat is not deep enough in the water for its load, so I removed about 1.5 mm of material from the bottom.
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November 25, 2023
The surrounding area is prepared with colored structural paste from art supplies, the runway was engraved and painted gray.
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November 25, 2023
The runway was made of stone slabs. The plan is to have a very worn look, with some dirt in the depression as well as broken paving slabs and light grass growth around the edges.
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November 26, 2023
The planes are ready for paint. The MG is removed, I don't think it would be used at an RC-Model.
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November 26, 2023
The environment is customized with various oil paint washes. The higher areas are a little brighter, the deeper and wetter areas are a little darker and in the bank area also a little greenish to represent algae.
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November 26, 2023
The jetty is made from thin wooden profiles and aged with oil paint washes and...
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November 26, 2023
...glued into position.
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November 26, 2023
I started gluing in various aquatic plants from various Mosses.
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November 26, 2023
The area around the insertion point should be cleaned regularly, so there are significantly fewer and smaller plants here.
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November 26, 2023
There are also reed plants from eduard on the bank that are supposed to stand in the water. When the adhesive has hardened, resin can be poured in to represent water.
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December 21, 2023
Last weekend I poured the the lake water from resin. Unfortunately, I trusted the advice at the hardware store regarding the resin. The processing time, not the curing time, is 5 hours, the curing time is 2 weeks.
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December 21, 2023
Unfortunately, the diorama wasn't completely sealed either, so I had to put aluminum foil underneath to avoid a huge mess. When everything has hardened, resin residues must be removed from the bottom and sides so that the frame looks good again and the Dio no longer wobbles.
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January 28, 2024
The Walrus with the gear down is sprayed red.
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January 28, 2024
Not sure if I require one more layer of paint.
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January 28, 2024
But the plane is so tiny I dont want to fill all the details.
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January 28, 2024
The gear up plane with the underside sprayed sky.
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January 28, 2024
The upper side recived olive
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January 28, 2024
and a camo patern in extra dark sea grey by brush.
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January 28, 2024
It was dificult to reach the top side of the floats.
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January 28, 2024
Next: paint touch ups and detail painting.
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February 3, 2024
Due to the problems with the resin not hardening, I started again with the base plate. The rear plate is glued into the picture frame again with PVA glue.
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February 3, 2024
The adhesive residue on the back has been sanded off again. This time I also sealed all the joints with 2 thick layers of PVA glue. Hopefully it will be tight this time.
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February 3, 2024
The styrofoam plate is also glued in again, the lake will be a little smaller this time.
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February 3, 2024
Everything is filled with colored acrylic paste from the artist's supplies. I was able to detach the pier from the first attempt with the scalpel and transfer it to the new diorama.
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February 4, 2024
This time I cut out the concrete tiles for the runway from plastic sheet (8X8 mm), ...
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February 4, 2024
...glued them to a piece of wood and sprayed the edges with cement gray (H455). This leaves the center of the tiles a little lighter which is the first aging.
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February 4, 2024
I made the service road out of sandpaper again, which I cut to size. Together with the tiles, it was sprayed cloudy and glued on after drying.
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February 4, 2024
I sprinkled the bottom of the lake and parts of the shore with bird sand and fixed it with diluted PVA glue (still wet in the photo).
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February 11, 2024
Smal parts like engine, propeller and wheels are painted. I#m not sure how to paint the windows as they are smaler than 1 mm and not well separated..
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February 11, 2024
This one also waits for Decals
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February 11, 2024
The path is worked into the terrain.
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February 11, 2024
I glued in the tiles for the runway with Beli-Zell, an adhesive that foams up slightly as it dries, giving the tiles a slightly irregular height.
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February 11, 2024
In the meantime, I had to produce a few more tiles because I didn't have enough.
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February 11, 2024
I filled the transition to the tiles again with acrylic paste and filled some places where the foam or the gap between the foam boards was visible.
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February 11, 2024
Comparison of the panel height before...
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February 11, 2024
...and after adjusting the height.
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February 13, 2024
Light brown washes are applied to the slightly higher areas, while darker brown and green-brown tones are applied to lower-lying areas and in the lakeside area. I have also started grouting the runway.
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February 13, 2024
To do this, the glue residue that had filled the joint was first removed, filled with fine bird sand (brushed in with a brush) and fixed with diluted PVA glue. When this layer had dried, the entire runway was coated with diluted PVA glue and sprinkled with bird sand. After this layer had also dried, the excess sand could be removed with the help of an old stiff brush and a small spatula, so that it can only be found in the areas where it naturally accumulates (sunken pieces of the tiles).
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February 17, 2024
Water Plants from moss.
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February 17, 2024
more waterplants fron a different kind of moss.
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February 17, 2024
The reeds from Heki are too high. So I cut away the lower third. Otherwise it looks nice and is the cheepest of the 4 reeds I got.
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February 17, 2024
The first reeds in the Diorama. I used Heki, Faller and one plant from eduard (by far the most expensive) I got from the first try.
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February 18, 2024
I installed more reeds in and near the water.
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February 18, 2024
While the glue dried I added the first layer of static gras.
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February 18, 2024
When that was dry I removed the loose gras with a soft and wide brush.
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February 18, 2024
Some work on the runway: I added some darker spots on the tiles and used this to paint the small dots where I accidently removed the paint or spillt a bit of glue.
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February 18, 2024
The second layer of static gras (Faller 2 mm) applied...
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February 18, 2024
and the loose gras removed.
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February 18, 2024
If you use one type of static grass after another, you can collect the excess on a piece of paper and pour it back into the bag. The size comparison shows that this is worthwhile even with the relatively small area I have.
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February 20, 2024
The resin is hard this time.
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February 20, 2024
But there was an internal leak again.
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February 20, 2024
The water level dropt the distance btween the red lines.
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February 24, 2024
Today I build the fence from needles and mosquito screen and painted it green.
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February 24, 2024
The fence is installed.
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February 24, 2024
In the gaps between the tiles now some gras is growing.
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February 24, 2024
In the reed-area most of the low vegetation, made from dried moss from the local woods, is installed. Setting the reeds takes some time for drying. If one trys to install to many plants at once, one will flip nearby reeds.
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February 24, 2024
I removed the tape on the frame. The Photo was taken wile looking for the exact position of the pair in the reeds.
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February 25, 2024
I also spent about 2 more hours "planting" reeds.
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February 25, 2024
The meadows next to the airfield and the area around the fence, which would be difficult to mow with a lawnmower, have received the first layer of longer grass (6mm).
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February 25, 2024
From the waterside it looks quite good already.
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March 10, 2024
I added another colored grass to the meadow
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March 10, 2024
I started buildingthe towel from a papier napkin.
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March 10, 2024
The first flowers are on the dio.
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March 17, 2024
The kit decals are applied
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March 17, 2024
2 small trees and some bushes are completed
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March 17, 2024
I started working on the bent reeds.
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March 28, 2024
In the last few days I made some progress with the figures.
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March 28, 2024
the crew of the boat
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March 28, 2024
the crew of the boat
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March 28, 2024
the crew of the boat
I'm not sure if the dress works like I hoped. Instead of flowers it reminds me of a clown.
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March 28, 2024
Skateborder
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March 28, 2024
Skateborder
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March 28, 2024
Skater
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March 28, 2024
Girl playing with dogs
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March 28, 2024
Boy playing with dogs
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March 28, 2024
Dog 1
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March 28, 2024
Dog 1
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March 28, 2024
Dog 2
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March 28, 2024
Dog 3
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March 28, 2024
Guy with glider model. I do't think the colours fit.
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March 28, 2024
Guy with glider model
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March 28, 2024
Guy searching for his plane
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March 28, 2024
Boy with remote control
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March 28, 2024
Guy stearing the ship model
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March 28, 2024
Guy collects his wrackage after crash landing
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March 28, 2024
the guy in the reeds
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March 28, 2024
the girl in the reeds
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March 28, 2024
the girl in the reeds
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April 21, 2024
I realized that I had forgotten the couple's clothes. So I roughly cut them out of printer paper, crumpled them up, unfolded them, painted them and glued them onto the diorama.
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April 21, 2024
In addition to further reeds, the first 5 figures are also glued on.
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April 21, 2024
The water has hopefully been finally treated. The layer should become clear again overnight. The boats and geese are placed directly on the wet water gel.
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May 5, 2024
The various parts are slowly but surely coming together. Since my printer isn't working as it should at the moment, I haven't started on the airplane windows yet.
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May 5, 2024
The various parts are slowly but surely coming together. Since my printer isn't working as it should at the moment, I haven't started on the airplane windows yet.
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May 5, 2024
The various parts are slowly but surely coming together. Since my printer isn't working as it should at the moment, I haven't started on the airplane windows yet.
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May 5, 2024
The various parts are slowly but surely coming together. Since my printer isn't working as it should at the moment, I haven't started on the airplane windows yet.
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May 5, 2024
The various parts are slowly but surely coming together. Since my printer isn't working as it should at the moment, I haven't started on the airplane windows yet.
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May 5, 2024
The various parts are slowly but surely coming together. Since my printer isn't working as it should at the moment, I haven't started on the airplane windows yet.
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June 16, 2024
after a few unsucsessful tries with decals for the cocpit windows I tried today with paint. The result is not perfect, but I can live with it.
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June 16, 2024
While painting the Windows I broke of one float from the 2nd plane, witch ended with the carpet monster. So preparing a new float (I got parts for 4 spare planes and 2 spare PE sets)was nessesary. Thats the only reason this project isn't finished.
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June 16, 2024
In the last weeks I build mostly the smal stuf like the rc-controlers, toolboxes, the windsock.
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June 16, 2024
I also re-aranged some of the figures to get rid of the empty space where the runway meets the frame.
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June 16, 2024
On short final
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June 16, 2024
Just the second plane missing
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June 22, 2024
Finaly finished
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June 22, 2024
Finaly finished
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June 22, 2024
Finaly finished
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June 22, 2024
Finaly finished
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June 22, 2024
Finaly finished
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June 22, 2024
Finaly finished
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June 22, 2024
Finaly finished
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June 22, 2024
Finaly finished

50 5 November 2023, 15:30

gorby
Interested to see what's going to happen.

5 November 2023, 15:54

Alex K
Me too...

5 November 2023, 16:10

Nicolas
Thanks for watching. I'm not entirely sure what will happen myself, but it will be some kind of diorama with a RC-Airfield and a lake. The not sure part mostly relates to how deep the lake will be and whether I need an additional frame or can I get by with my usual picture frame.

7 November 2023, 19:42

Nicolas
The planes are ready to paint, the lake is redy for the water, about half of the figures are cleand up, but that is a good job for afrer work when I usually get just about 15-30 minutes for modelling per day.

26 November 2023, 19:55

Nicolas
A short update:
The diorama is currently at a standstill because I made a mistake when weighing the resin. The resin is still sticky, but is currently on the radiator to dry (not to cure). I hope that when the resin is halfway solid I can fix the problem with another layer.

20 January, 10:47

Ralf Topeters
I mean the project stash alone looks promising. I have to follow this. ...can't resist...

20 January, 11:04

Nicolas
Wilkommen Ralf

20 January, 12:19

Jennifer Franklin
Taking a seat, this looks amazing 👀

23 January, 12:44

Nicolas
Thank you.

23 January, 18:29

Spanjaard
I was going to say... exactly what gorby did 🙂

23 January, 18:50

Shar Dipree
funny idea - watching 🙂

28 January, 21:05

Nicolas
You are weklome Spanjaard &Shar.

29 January, 05:57

Nicolas
Due to the problems with the resin not hardening, I decided to start the base plate all over again. I bought a new picture frame today and have already glued the plywood panel in place. Of course I will try to salvage as many parts as possible from the first attempt, e.g. the bridge and the reed plants from Eduard.

30 January, 20:32

Nicolas
The new construction of the base plate is making good progress.

4 February, 14:58

Jennifer Franklin
I hope attempt two goes much better; so far, so good.

4 February, 15:07

Shar Dipree
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that things will work better noch.

4 February, 17:17

Nicolas
Thank you, I hope so too.

5 February, 05:52

Atomicdelirium
Cool project! Good luck with the second attempt with the water.

11 February, 17:55

TH SCALE MODELS (Thomas Haberl)
Respekt!!! 👍 Viel zu klein für mich … glaub ich bleib bei 1/72 und größer 🤣

11 February, 18:37

Nicolas
Thank you both very much. @Atomicdelirium: I Hope to get so far next weekend. Before that, a few washes need to be applied to make the ground more interesting and the aquatic plants need to be added. @Thomas: 1/72 ist mir eigentlich auch lieber, aber als ich die Figuren gesehen habe konnte ich nicht wiederstehen.

11 February, 19:04

Łukasz Gliński
Regarding the Walrus' windows - decal stripes perhaps? Black or silver?

18 February, 19:42

Nicolas
Hi Łukasz, thanks for the Idea. I will use an Instruction, scale it down and cut the decals from an "Balkenkreuz" decal from the sparesbox.

Today I tried again with the water. My diorama seems to be tight this time, although the water level has also dropped this time. Hopefully everything will be hard too. But I won't be able to say for a few days. There won't be any pictures until then, unfortunately the diorama can't be moved at the moment.

18 February, 20:01

Jennifer Franklin
My fingers are crossed it works out this time.

18 February, 20:41

David Taylor
Is this a stealth fighter.

18 February, 20:56

Nicolas
Thanks Jennifer. This Time it worked better. There is still some internal leakage, as the water level droped about 3 mm over night, but there is no resin on the outside. The resin-residue in the mixing container is after 26 h harder than the first try after 2 month. But with about 5 days cureing time I'm not totally sure yet.

19 February, 18:59

Nicolas
I made good progress this weekend, but I discovered, that "planting" the reeds is suprisingly time consuming with about half of it done in nearly 5 hours.

25 February, 18:32

Guy Rump
Looking good Nicolas, very creative! 👍

28 February, 20:20

S M
Well made environment!

28 February, 20:59

Mr James
Agree with Guy

28 February, 21:11

Jennifer Franklin
Very nice Nicolas

28 February, 22:25

Nicolas
Thanks a lot everyone.

29 February, 06:32

Johne 69
👍

29 February, 17:54

Nicolas
Since I didn't get to build last weekend due to a hand injury and my visit to the exhibition, I made some progress on the diorama this weekend. Almost 3 hours of work on grass and reeds, as well as the first flowers and preparations for the first bushes / trees and the place for the couple in the reeds have taken place.

10 March, 20:07

Shar Dipree
Get well soon. Looks good so far. I think the lake turned out great with the stuff floating in it.

10 March, 20:36

Nicolas
Hi Shar, thank you. The lake isn't done. The floating stuff is there just by acident. I'm going to clean is, add some drifting wood in the reeds and a second layer of resin. Than the 2 boats and all the floating gras can be added and fixed with some water effects. I do it that way for two reasons:
1: I got the leak where resin went missing under the frame and the water level is not high enogh.
2: I hope the resin in the first layer has seald the gaps in the reeds, so the second layer will not "climb" due to the capillary effect.

11 March, 06:06

Nicolas
This weekend I didn't do much, but still a little bit of progress.

17 March, 19:26

Nicolas
Thanks for your interest and the likes.
Last week I worked at the figures, partly repainting with acrylics, and starting modifying everything with oils. Work still in progress. there are 2 figures I don't realy like so far, perhaps that will change after a matt coat.

28 March, 20:31

Nicolas
Most of the parts ar together now. Having trouble with my Printer means the decals for the Windows of the plane are still missing. I also realized today that I forgot to build toolboxes, so I made up for that today.
Thanks for your likes and your interest.

5 May, 17:24

bughunter
The new landscape works much better! A lot of details to discover ...

16 June, 18:45

Nicolas
I'm nearli done with this project. Oll that's missing now is the second Plane witch I managed to demage today. I got the spare perts, bit the paint isn't dry yet. I didn't manage tho get the cockpitwindows from Decals to my liking, so I used paint today. the result is not perfekt but I can life with it.
Thanks everyone for the likes.

16 June, 18:56

Nicolas
I declare this one finished. Thanks for the likes and the nice coments.

22 June, 18:53

Łukasz Gliński
Lovely dio of the Walrus fan-club 😄 Love all the sweet details, like the dogs 😄

22 June, 19:08

Guy Rump
Great result Nicolas. Congrats! 👍

22 June, 19:08

Nicolas
Thank you very much for your comments, I really appreciate it.

22 June, 19:33

S M
Very well done dio! It's so detailed it could be from Miniatur Wunderland 😉

22 June, 20:12

Shar Dipree
Looks great. Something completely different. 👍👍👍

22 June, 21:14

Alex K
Lovely work, utterly enjoyable to watch this progress until the grand finale - congrats! 👍 👍

22 June, 21:33

Nicolas
Thank you very much. 🙂

23 June, 07:20

Neuling
Lovely! 👍

23 June, 07:44

Ralf Topeters
Your dio is not only filled with life it is filled with several different stories. So wonderful! So much love for detail! I enjoyed the whole ride from the beginning. As I finally saw the last plane, I thought it would have been a funny twist if it would have been a camera drone over the reed. 😄
Great work, keep it going! 👍

23 June, 10:58

Nicolas
Thanks you for your kind words. I realy like the Idea with the camera drone. Perhaps I use is with one of my future projects.

23 June, 11:34