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Damn they look great mate

wow Mike that looks the nuts, got to love Ultimate it's the bees knees the new dark dirt just adds something to the paint it's a game changer multiple layers and boom, all hail Ultimate


Dan

Awesome Mike, I really like the truck. Very nice progress. Nice to see your not hauling snow all day.

Very sweet diorama coen, you really make show pieces, fun to watch them come alive.

wow just does not seem to say enough, looking amazing to be sure.

Another Coen masterclass

Very nice work so far Michael
i like the olive drab color on the vehicles
it is a bit darker then the one i used on my recent Sherman but not so dark as the Tamiya od
your problem with photobucket may have something to do with a maintenance thing
i couldn't upload anything yesterday
keep up the good work

It's not just you have fits with photobucket....

I just got a completely unhelpful email reply to my service ticket for Robert the photo bucket robot.
He suggested that if his email was unhelpful to reply to his email and someone would give a crap.

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Robert
(The Photobucket robot)

I had a good laugh at this massive customer service failure.
It's one for the books.
It hits on specific words in your ticket and offers the most unrelated advice hahahahaha!
Needless to say... I replied.

Hi all,
I was concerned about the glue problem so I got in touch with Libor and this is his reply..... quote

"Hi Ian
There has never been problem with tamiya super thin glue, only early produced diamond trucks in abs were good to glue with abs plastic glues or fair amount of tamiya super thin.since all produced in PS,it glues very easy.
Cheers libor "

It seems Coen you were unlucky in getting an early kit but problem has now been fixed. Much to my relief as I have one or two kits unbuilt . damn who am I kidding I have a lot of unbuilt kits.

Ps..... Damn fine job

WOW coen, outstanding builds on here, what did you think of that jeep? that wreaker is just AMAZING! and I've always liked the Sherman, you really turned it into a real soldier, where did you get some of those Decals on your builds? love your work,

digger303 wrote:Hi all,
I was concerned about the glue problem so I got in touch with Libor and this is his reply..... quote

"Hi Ian
There has never been problem with tamiya super thin glue, only early produced diamond trucks in abs were good to glue with abs plastic glues or fair amount of tamiya super thin.since all produced in PS,it glues very easy.
Cheers libor "

It seems Coen you were unlucky in getting an early kit but problem has now been fixed. Much to my relief as I have one or two kits unbuilt . damn who am I kidding I have a lot of unbuilt kits.

Ps..... Damn fine job

That's good to know, I'll have to mention that fact in the next video that I make about the diorama.

InitialProduction1 wrote:WOW coen, outstanding builds on here, what did you think of that jeep? that wreaker is just AMAZING! and I've always liked the Sherman, you really turned it into a real soldier, where did you get some of those Decals on your builds? love your work,

The jeep was ok... Tamiyas jeeps are hundreds of times better, the best out there I think it's fair to say. This one was better than the italeri one that I built for my Holy Yeeps! diorama last year. Better instructions, better fits and better plastic.
The Tamiya jeeps are still the best choice though.

I have a huge stockpile of decals left over from prior builds that I use. When I don't have what I'm looking for I'll go to Ultracast, or Archer for the rest.

that sherman's an absolute stunner!

this is one of your best dios and that's saying a lot!

Thanks for the info, I love Archer drys, Ultracast? Have to look into them. Now your build Wow, hard to shut me up on builds, but you just did. Really amazing,.

Thanks coen, nice site.

A BIG thank you for the 4-Part how-to on painting and weathering that fantastic Sherman. I've just got to watch Part 4 but have already learnt loads.

Happy to help, I'm glad you found it useful.

I've made more progress on this project but I can't post any photos until photo bucket is working again.
If it's a ded duck then there's a whole lot of work here on the forum that will go poof.

You know coen, you just keep putting out amazing build's, one after another, thank you for letting us into your world. you turned, "in my opinion" and I am only speaking for myself, the biggest piece of crap figure set, into a work of art. Outstanding work my friend.

Epic. Fantastic. It just gets better and better.

They're still pieces of crap.

Damn that looks good

Wow Mike its coming along great with all the details, I really like the guy reading the paper Its one of those dioramas you can look at for a long while. Great job

Amazing work Mike love the weathering on that wrecker, absolutely spot on!! The Bobby trap sign is a nice touch. Well done mate.

That dio looks amazing!

I love the guys eating apples, it gives the figures a real human touch that many dios dont have.

Freakin awesome work Mike

Dan

Wow amazing build sir coen,

Wow, Mike!
This truly is an Epic Build!! What an awesome diorama. So much going on, so much to see.
The apples are my favorite! Brilliant idea and execution! How you made and painted them, simple thus brilliant!
The apple tree is also beautiful! I have gót to get me some sea foam too! The weathering on all the vehicles is spot on.
I especially love the weathering on the M4 (that you'll be taking of later). The story of the MP's and the booby trap is genius!
Top to bottom amazing work. Love watching your build videos on it.

And I too am watching and learning from your clay based washes tutorials!
I'll keep my stick on the ice.

Wow... Thanks fellas.
Very high praise.
I'm just trying to make it as easy as possible, so that there's no smoke and mirrors.
Breaking it down so that any of us can figure it out with some practice.

Mike, in your 4-part weathering how-to videos I thought the homemade handle you use to hold the workpiece was a great idea (I've lost count the number of times I've left a thumb print behind when painting a model).
A question, the threaded rod looks quite substantial (obviously needs to be rigid enough to withstand vigorous brushing without flexing) and I wonder what diameter rod it is and if you bother to fill the hole afterwards (not seen to the end of pt4 yet so apologies if you covered it there).

The handle is about an inch and a quartre diameter. I've no idea what the threaded bit is.
I don't bother filling the hole left behind, if I was doing an overturned vehicle I would certainly have to, but that has yet to happen. There's not much call for seeing the bottom of a tank. If I was I'd have to make some changes. Like glueing the stick to the inside through the turret ring with some epoxy instead of drilling a hole.

I actually have a how to on the stick thing if it's of use.

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Mike
As expected...your work has my boat floating big time !!!
Fantastic, words really do fail me....the scene, the painting and building, the....well...the whole thing !
Thanks for sharing El Maestro

Mark

Great work as always Mike

Very nice coen, I really like this build/diorama, I'm a sucker for dios, I like the story part. I watched your's on YouTube, very cool. On the wagon how was the details on the rigging and tires? The wreckers rigging is beautiful and you really nailed it. On the tires, Some tread patterns are just awful, and I get after market, but on the wagon that would cost some.

Mike, coming on and amazed as always at the way it all looks.

The diorama will be just great

Thanks Guys

InitialProduction1 wrote:Very nice coen, I really like this build/diorama, I'm a sucker for dios, I like the story part. I watched your's on YouTube, very cool. On the wagon how was the details on the rigging and tires? The wreckers rigging is beautiful and you really nailed it. On the tires, Some tread patterns are just awful, and I get after market, but on the wagon that would cost some.

The DW tires are all rubber, so the detail is pretty good. The trouble is that because they're rubber they won't take paint well, if at all. So leaving them in plain rubber is the other option. The problem with that is that over time they will disintegrate because they are unprotected. It might take months, years, or decades, but eventually the rubber will fall apart.
However, some of the solvents in the paints or weathering materials can attack the rubber and cause them to fall apart as well. So there's no really good plan.
They should really have been replaced with resin.
But as you mentioned... that would be really expensive... and it's why I didn't do it.
They aren't permanently attached so I can remove them and replace them if I need to at any time, and I may do that at some point one day.
But not this day.
My recommendation would be to replace them for anyone looking to build the kit. The resin will be far longer lasting and take paint better. The rubber ones just don't look good when they're left unpainted. The colour is out of scale and it looks funny.

Well, sold me. ugh! I hate the rubber tires, did not read they were rubber yak, thank you. Wonder what there paying for one arm or leg these days lol. Again very cool build.

awesome Mike awesome


Dan

Maybe time to do a race car in the GB, Mike
You have mastered all this armour stuff
Really super work here, love the truck and the guy with the news paper

Can't add any more to what's already been said, your work is brilliant.
Also, thanks for linking your YouTube hand-hold thingamajig, guess what I'll be making this weekend

OOOOOH i like i really like