Ruined streetscene HO/1/72 with Pola building

[rickoshea52]

I found a nearly finished building while I was rummaging through my model stuff in the loft looking for SG/GB material. It is a HO scale Pola kit of a house being demolished that I have modified and detailed with the intention of using it on a model railway layout idea that got canned when I moved to a smaller house. Now that it is no longer needed for a layout I thought it would be useful for a diorama set somewhere in Germany/NW Europe or even as a scene for displaying 1/72 scale vehicles in a combat zone.

I added extra detail in the way of collapsed floors, drainpipes, timbers, lead wire for electrical wiring and some bits from the spares box including chairs, a table and a bathtub. There is still lots more that can be done to this kit for realism. I mounted it on some foamboard with self-adhesive cobblestone sheets from Metcalf models for the road. The base will be trimmed down and a little more scenic material added.

Now I just need some suitable vehicles for it………….Stug III?

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[eddiesolo]

Jeez...looks my house!

Well done mate, superb quality, with vehicles it will enhance an already great model into a super dio. Love this.

Si

 

[Alan 45]

That looks cracking Rick I like distroyed houses

 

[AJay]

Excellent work - love all the little details to look at

 

[noble]

The details are indeed everything, all I can say to this is WOW well done and I can't wait to see this finished.

Scott

 

[Polux]

Nice work.

 

[flyjoe180]

Some very nicely done detail in that Rick, great stuff.

 

[rickoshea52]

I've added some more details to this diorama. Just need some figures and a vehicle maybe. The piano, sofa, bookcase and upturned bed are all resin castings from McKeeman Models while the bottles are from Auhagen. An idea I had for this was to pose some soldiers resting amongst the chaos of street fighting while their tank was re-armed.

My wife was giving it the once over and after I explained my id ea she suggested that I ought to add more to replicate a shattered roof. LMS here I come for some roof tiling sheets.

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[Gern]

Instead of something military, how about something like these:

http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=1703

Could be the house owners leaving with all they could salvage maybe?

Gern

 

[rickoshea52]

Instead of something military, how about something like these:http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=1703

Could be the house owners leaving with all I they could salvage maybe?

Gern

I had looked at these. A couple of years ago I saw a three foot long dio in a shop window in Cologne with houses like this from Faller and refugees and German troops retreating in different vehicles.

I want to keep this as generic as possible so that I can pose as wide a variety of models as possible using it as a display base as well as a dio.......but I have ordered the resting troops and tank crew from Preiser and this would pass as an Arnhem street for the Stug I have for the build next year.

 

[rickoshea52]

I visited Alton Model Centre today and bought some Wills sheets of pantiled roofs for this house. I've had some advice from the B&C and cut one sheet to a rough size and fit. There will be a bit of cutting, filing and additions for trusses and beams etc but you can see the idea from these pictures.

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[rickoshea52]

The two roof sections I cut yesterday have been further cut and filed to show some battle damage including hole in the roof and the first fix of roof beams. There are more beams to add before painting and fixing on the building. I also added some bullet holes using a drill.

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[eddiesolo]

Look at those pock-marks...RATA-TATA-TATA...superb, just love it!

Si

 

[rickoshea52]

Look at those pock-marks...RATA-TATA-TATA...superb, just love it!Si

Si,

Thank you for your kind comments. You, more than any other member has been the most generous commentator on my work and for that I am extremely thankful.

 

[eddiesolo]

Si,Thank you for your kind comments. You, more than any other member has been the most generous commentator on my work and for that I am extremely thankful.

No worries, you make superb models, I enjoy looking at them and getting ideas from them. That's what it's all about, enjoying models and getting and giving ideas.

Si

 

[The Migrant]

That looks great Rick, it's an excellent idea having a generic base that you can display and photograph different vehicles and figures on; I suppose it's the armor equivalent of a runway base that we use for aircraft. Nice work on the details and debris.

 

[monica]

nice work Rick as what everyone has mention above, very nice indeed i do realy like the debris

what was your trick for getting it to look just right ?

keep the great work coming will look forward to seeing more

Moni

 

[rickoshea52]

Here you go....tankies at rest somewhere in NW Europe.

Sturmgeschutz IV from Revell and figures from Preiser. I added extras like kit rolls, buckets, bricks and bottles from various different sources. All paints are AK and pigments from Mig. Battle damage was done with a scribe to punch holes and pliers to bend the side skirts then oils for the streaking.

Enjoy...

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[spanner570]

One excellent dio. Rick. Very impressive scratch work too.

Don't you just luuurve all that rubble? So often I see models of wrecked buildings with just a barrowful of rubble strewn about, so it's great to see a model where rubble and general debris is knee deep - as it should be.

Top marks for sure....

Ron

 

[john i am]

Awesome dio up there with the best cheers John