finally back to building!
hello there everyone. i hope you all had a great xmas and new year! now the madness is over i've been able to do a bit more work on my build. and i think i understand the look i'm going for. it's coming together and my vision is stronger. i've pretty much finished the building now and think it's looking good. i've painted up the walls, added some weathering, the burnt look. i actually decided to set fire to the floor boarding and quickly blow it out. i thought this was an easier way to give it a burnt bombed look. the burnt out look on the windows was done with charcoal wiped on it with a damp brush. i add in the window framing and broken glass (quite a fiddly job, lol). then painted up the tiled ground and cobbled road, i also left some dirty paint stained glue to the path and road to try and make it look like there is puddles left after rain. finally i added a few bullet holes across the wall ( i am also going to stick on a french propaganda poster with french resistance graffiti written over it).
i later decided that as well as rubble in and out the house, it would be nice to have some furniture, so i got to work on making a few bits. a door, a table (i set fire to the table too, was getting a bit carried away with it, lol) and a chair. just quickly done with some small bits of wood (manly matches, lol). i'll glue this inside the building with all the brick rubble next (as soon as i cut out and paint some bricks and broken floor beams).
then lastly, i put together my little bike (this will be laying in the rubble outside the building). it's a great bicycle (by
tamiya) but i didn't like the way the frame and forks where just one think chunk of plastic, so i decided to try cutting away at it, removing a lot of the plastic (basically the whole back frame and front forks) then add my own with thick wire. again, a fiddly job but it turned out of. it actually gave me the ability to twist the front wheel and handlebars, which will help with the right look of the bike laying on the ground (after all, a bike doesn't lay flat out). i also felt the wheel spokes where a bit think but changing them with thinner wire seemed like to awkward a job. i happy the way it is and think it'll be top notch when it's painted up and put in place, a nice touch to the diorama.
next move is to start making and adding the rubble inside and out, then i can get on with painting the sniper. i'm running a bit late with this one and hope thats ok with you guys, don't want to take too long. i'm glad hows thinks are coming along now tho. watch u think?
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