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My scratchbuild wall
ACHTUNG
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Victoria, Australia
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Posted: Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 10:00 PM UTC
Hi everyone
i just finished bout 80% of my wall here
its made from plaster of parish and give some pastel chalk colour
i'm just hingking to use my AB and give a light spray of black colour just around the bricks
what do u think guys ?
all comments are welcome
cheers
Ricky




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Victoria, Australia
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Posted: Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 10:59 PM UTC
G'day mate
Very good, you have done a fine job, which diorama is this going to go in?
Cheers
ti
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Dalarnas, Sweden
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Posted: Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 11:01 PM UTC
totally awesome. a write up with pics would be nice.
slodder
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Posted: Sunday, May 08, 2005 - 02:21 AM UTC
This is a good start for a scratch build. The style is very unique and it sets it appart.
May I offer a few suggestions. The seam between the two sections is to wide. Either tighten it up or add some putty. The blocks on the front section do not wrap all the way around the front section. This can be seen at the big seam in the second picture. The big hole in the side section needs brick color. Walls with interal brick layers usually have two or three brick layers throughout. You could add a bit of brick sculpting to give the impression of some corners of bricks and touch in some red and then cover it with depris if you don't want to sculpt all of the hole.
Mech-Maniac
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Posted: Sunday, May 08, 2005 - 03:05 AM UTC
very good, like it a lot, but a suggestion, scale down the size of the red color bricks toward the top of the wall (last picture). Make them the size of the bricks toward the bottom.
Danial
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Singapore / 新加坡
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Posted: Friday, June 03, 2005 - 08:16 PM UTC
hmm...plaster, wat abt polystyrene?
i got this small piece of polystyrene lying ard...can it also be made into a wall?
any suggestion how?
slodder
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Posted: Friday, June 03, 2005 - 10:53 PM UTC
I'm not sure what the material is but if you can scratch/etch/grind in mold lines and cut out windows and doors you're fine.
I've seen guys use the foam packing material used in meat packing to do wonderful dioramas. Here is just one of them.
https://armorama.kitmaker.net//features/142

You can use foam board, poster board, even construction paper (with balsa wood framing).
Danial
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Posted: Monday, June 06, 2005 - 05:37 PM UTC
thanx for the info...
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Posted: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 06:20 AM UTC
I think you have a great start there so far. Taking into the minor adjustments that others have already mentioned, i think it will be great in a dio. Keep us posted as you progress.
Mary (++)
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Posted: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 01:41 PM UTC
Looks good to me! What scale are we talking here? I it a backdrop for a 1/16 scale fig or something 1/35?
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