Glad to see this again. Really admire your ability to adapt/alter the figures. This is certainly up there with the best dios I've seen.
Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama
- Thread starter Neil Merryweather
- Start date
Most excellent
Sometimes I kid myself and I start to think that I'm not too bad at this modelling lark, but then someone comes along with something like this, and then I realise that actually I'm just a bloody amateur!!! Lol, Amazing build and detail.....
Stunning work as always neil , its a mind blowing job youre doing . Great reworking of the figures , although at the moment the driver looks like Bender from Futurama !
Keep at it , its going to look superb . Cheers tony
Keep at it , its going to look superb . Cheers tony
Thanks everyone.
So I had given this guy a nice Hornet smiling face
But what is he smiling at? My original idea was somebody in trouble on the cargo net, but you can’t really see the smile with his face turned away, so I turned his head and gave him an unfortunate GI who doesn’t have his sea legs
Then I thought of the others with the the same problem ,what if he’s knocked over by the guy behind him?
So now I’m on a roll, and I’ve always intended this Tamiya guy to be holding on to the landing craft side
But he’s holding on with his left hand so he has to either face away from us or go on the port side
But I wanted someone behind our second GI who’s managed to hold on in time, so I found another suitable pair of legs and a shouty Hornet head and came up with this
And so we now have a nice little incident
I’m not going to put too many more figures in the landing craft because they will obscure all my hard work on the detritus and weathering
Then I moved the Coast Guard out of the way to open up the composition a bit, and which also shows off his smile better
So now it’s time break out the MagicSculpt, and I've got eight more figures to paint - and after such a long lay-off I'm up for it!
So I had given this guy a nice Hornet smiling face
But what is he smiling at? My original idea was somebody in trouble on the cargo net, but you can’t really see the smile with his face turned away, so I turned his head and gave him an unfortunate GI who doesn’t have his sea legs
Then I thought of the others with the the same problem ,what if he’s knocked over by the guy behind him?
So now I’m on a roll, and I’ve always intended this Tamiya guy to be holding on to the landing craft side
But he’s holding on with his left hand so he has to either face away from us or go on the port side
But I wanted someone behind our second GI who’s managed to hold on in time, so I found another suitable pair of legs and a shouty Hornet head and came up with this
And so we now have a nice little incident
I’m not going to put too many more figures in the landing craft because they will obscure all my hard work on the detritus and weathering
Then I moved the Coast Guard out of the way to open up the composition a bit, and which also shows off his smile better
So now it’s time break out the MagicSculpt, and I've got eight more figures to paint - and after such a long lay-off I'm up for it!
Great dramatic direction and skilled sculpting Neil.
John
John
Action, action, action. Love it.
Superb Neil, loving the positioning of these little guys
Thanks to everyone for following and commenting.
The landing craft crew are ready to paint.
So much for taking the ‘short cut’ of using the life-jacketed figures I had - once I got into the detail all of the life jackets needed improvements.
So lets start with the driver. Here he is originally
And this is how he has turned out
Originally I had used larger scale hands to represent the gloves, but I wasn’t happy so I tried digitally modifying some 3D printed hands I have and that's what I have used here and on the next guy. And I KNOW his arms look a bit too long from some angles but they look fine from others, so I will see how badly they irritate me before I do anything about them.
Here’s the gunner having a smoke
Before;
After;
He’s not wounded, it’s just the colour of the wine bottle foil that ran with the IPA I used to blend the MagicSculpt.
The rest in a separate post as I have too many pics
The landing craft crew are ready to paint.
So much for taking the ‘short cut’ of using the life-jacketed figures I had - once I got into the detail all of the life jackets needed improvements.
So lets start with the driver. Here he is originally
And this is how he has turned out
Originally I had used larger scale hands to represent the gloves, but I wasn’t happy so I tried digitally modifying some 3D printed hands I have and that's what I have used here and on the next guy. And I KNOW his arms look a bit too long from some angles but they look fine from others, so I will see how badly they irritate me before I do anything about them.
Here’s the gunner having a smoke
Before;
After;
He’s not wounded, it’s just the colour of the wine bottle foil that ran with the IPA I used to blend the MagicSculpt.
The rest in a separate post as I have too many pics
Next up is the chap with the boat hook fending off the ship
Before:
And now:
To add some variety this guy is wearing the navy blue deck jacket which has interesting toggle fasteners
And is why I changed his arms.
And here’s our laughing guy with the rope,
Before:
After:
He is wearing the waterproof parka which also has toggle fasteners .
Both the resin figures are sculpted with their life jackets open for some reason so I stayed with it but added retaining straps which presumably had not survived the casting process. The work gloves on these guys are from some 3D files of workmen I downloaded.
I have also discovered that not all 1-35 scale M1 helmets are the same size...
And here they all are together, ready for the brushes
So thanks again to everyone for following and commenting, and I will be painting these before I do any more work on the GI’s
Before:
And now:
To add some variety this guy is wearing the navy blue deck jacket which has interesting toggle fasteners
And is why I changed his arms.
And here’s our laughing guy with the rope,
Before:
After:
He is wearing the waterproof parka which also has toggle fasteners .
Both the resin figures are sculpted with their life jackets open for some reason so I stayed with it but added retaining straps which presumably had not survived the casting process. The work gloves on these guys are from some 3D files of workmen I downloaded.
I have also discovered that not all 1-35 scale M1 helmets are the same size...
And here they all are together, ready for the brushes
So thanks again to everyone for following and commenting, and I will be painting these before I do any more work on the GI’s
Next up is the chap with the boat hook fending off the ship
Before:
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And now:
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To add some variety this guy is wearing the navy blue deck jacket which has interesting toggle fasteners
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And is why I changed his arms.
And here’s our laughing guy with the rope,
Before:
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After:
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He is wearing the waterproof parka which also has toggle fasteners .
Both the resin figures are sculpted with their life jackets open for some reason so I stayed with it but added retaining straps which presumably had not survived the casting process. The work gloves on these guys are from some 3D files of workmen I downloaded.
I have also discovered that not all 1-35 scale M1 helmets are the same size...
And here they all are together,ready for the brushes
So thanks again to everyone for following and commenting, and I will be painting these before I do any more work on the GI’s
Before:
View attachment 1292366
And now:
View attachment 1292375
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To add some variety this guy is wearing the navy blue deck jacket which has interesting toggle fasteners
View attachment 1292376
And is why I changed his arms.
And here’s our laughing guy with the rope,
Before:
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After:
View attachment 1292370
View attachment 1292371
He is wearing the waterproof parka which also has toggle fasteners .
Both the resin figures are sculpted with their life jackets open for some reason so I stayed with it but added retaining straps which presumably had not survived the casting process. The work gloves on these guys are from some 3D files of workmen I downloaded.
I have also discovered that not all 1-35 scale M1 helmets are the same size...
And here they all are together,ready for the brushes
So thanks again to everyone for following and commenting, and I will be painting these before I do any more work on the GI’s
oops!
Your attention to detail is insane! This is gonna be an epic piece of work once done. Great to see my friend
ha ha, thanks Steve!
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
Actually a lot of this is your fault anyway, so right back at ya!
A real masterclass in adapting and realistically positioning figures. Looking superb.
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