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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Thanks for all the kind words folks... There is a detailed description of all my work above, but with all the old images reduced to thumbnails it's a bit hard to follow. So rather than just repeat myself - and with apologies to those who have seen it all before - I will do a few edited...- TIM FORSTER
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- Forum: Diorama's Under Construction
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
OK, so where was I..? Sorry for the long absence. We are a year or so on and this is still not finished - but there has been some progress! By way of recap... I started over 2 years ago with this: Then a few months later I reached this: Then I got to this: And then this: And now I...- TIM FORSTER
- Post #162
- Forum: Diorama's Under Construction
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Old pics appearing as thumbnails on some posts but not others...
Dear all, I have held off asking about this because I have read other posts and I understand that there is a time lag in the old forum pics being re-uploaded to the site. And I get that. I have also held off posting on my own blog because I have been awaiting for the 'magic' to happen. It's...- TIM FORSTER
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Telling the story, potential figures… and how to add a feeling of jeopardy Here is the backstory as it now stands: The early stages of the advance of the Kampfgruppe brings an SS recce unit into a Belgian farmyard (recently abandoned by the occupants who, for the last few weeks at least, had...- TIM FORSTER
- Post #136
- Forum: Diorama's Under Construction
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Building a farm or field gate Like most people, I’m sure, I like to take the easy route most of the time… but every now and then I am pleasantly surprised to find that there’s something I want for my diorama which I cannot find in pre-made or kit form. Now I will be glad for someone to...- TIM FORSTER
- Post #128
- Forum: Diorama's Under Construction
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Thanks so much for all the kind comments. I really do appreciate them. Most of the time I am flying by the seat of my proverbial pants and I really don't know how a lot of this stuff is going to turn out. The acrylic paste was a good example - I thought I had ruined everything at first, but in...- TIM FORSTER
- Post #123
- Forum: Diorama's Under Construction
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Windows and Doors Thanks for all the kind words and encouragement guys! As with the shed, I decided to use plastic card rather than wood for most of my actual woodwork. The plastic was scored with a razor saw to create the effect of wood grain and hinges, handles, etc added from some...- TIM FORSTER
- Post #110
- Forum: Diorama's Under Construction
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Well I have made quite a lot of progress over the last 3 weeks… the image shows the farmhouse in its current state. Painting the stones and brickwork For a template I used two main sources. First, a google street view image that I found of a rustic building in one of the villages along the...- TIM FORSTER
- Post #98
- Forum: Diorama's Under Construction
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Thanks for all the lovely comments / horseshoe theories guys. More Shed Shennigans I achieved the wood texture by using various shades of MIG wood paints (they come in the Weapons and Tools sets) and wet-blending them over the black base colour, then applying washes. Everything here is...- TIM FORSTER
- Post #93
- Forum: Diorama's Under Construction
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Bring on the black and let the pre-shading commence! So, as I said, I decided to give the buildings a coat of Mr Surfacer black. This was from a spray can (which is expensive - I have now bought several jars of the stuff). The rest of the base was then covered in a slurry of PVA and cheap...- TIM FORSTER
- Post #90
- Forum: Diorama's Under Construction
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
THE CORRUGATION MACHINE! (AKA the most innocent fun I have had in ages) To add some more variety and break up the monotony of laying tiles I decided that my shed should have a corrugated roof. So I started to look at the options… I had some embossed ‘corrugated’ metal sheeting in my stash...- TIM FORSTER
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- Forum: Diorama's Under Construction
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Thanks guys. I thought it was time to start looking at the composition of figures and vehicles. The idea I had from the start was that of the German recce group having just arrived at the farmhouse… out of sight is a broken down jeep and a group of GIs who have just realised their predicament...- TIM FORSTER
- Post #82
- Forum: Diorama's Under Construction
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Thanks guys. More progress is (slowly) being made... Building a shed Here you can see the beginnings of the out-house that I had planned for the upper part of the diorama. This helps to create a backdrop to the broken-down jeep which is going to be positioned behind the farmhouse and just...- TIM FORSTER
- Post #77
- Forum: Diorama's Under Construction
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
The tiling continues... Well it was certainly a relief when I reached the last tile. What I find interesting is the way that some of the tiles have a different shade even though they are all cut from the same piece of black card. I guess it must be the way they reflect the light. It...- TIM FORSTER
- Post #71
- Forum: Diorama's Under Construction
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Raising the roof part 3… [Otherwise known as tiling madness] So diamond pattern roof tiles… I’ve learnt a lot about these of late. I started to notice them as I looked at images of the towns and villages along Peiper’s advance. By way of example, have a look at these images taken of abandoned...- TIM FORSTER
- Post #69
- Forum: Diorama's Under Construction
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Anyway, I should have said Happy New Year to all. Although it was busy in our house over Christmas, I did find time to actually make some progress. Raising the roof I guess if you are building a REAL house then putting the roof on is always going to be the crowning achievement… Because I...- TIM FORSTER
- Post #66
- Forum: Diorama's Under Construction
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Avoiding a lop-sided house One problem that only emerged once I had started putting the walls together was how to level the building within the base. This may sound obvious, but given the sharp slope I had chosen for the terrain, once the structure was in place it looked a little lop-sided. In...- TIM FORSTER
- Post #65
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
So I have actually made quite a lot of progress since my last post, although not everything will be obvious here. The advantage of building everything from flat sides is that you can not only lay them flat on the workbench whilst scribing and shaping the stones and bricks, but also detail the...- TIM FORSTER
- Post #60
- Forum: Diorama's Under Construction
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Let the cutting and scribing commence! Although Nightshift / Martin Kovac gave me some of the inspiration for this build, I didn’t exactly copy his method. He tends to make structures that sit at the back of his dioramas and which are only partial in depth, so his use of foam blocks makes...- TIM FORSTER
- Post #52
- Forum: Diorama's Under Construction
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Materials… The last time I made buildings (on my ‘Liberation, Italy 1944’ dio) was also my first attempt since my teens - way, wayback in the 1980s. My older self had used thin plywood, laboriously cut to shape with a fret saw, then covered in thin plaster. When I made my Italian church (a few...- TIM FORSTER
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