Ray Dunakin
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Post by Ray Dunakin on Apr 13, 2016 21:40:47 GMT -5
Looks great!
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Post by deafpanzer on Apr 13, 2016 22:57:07 GMT -5
Those figures look great especially one with the binoculars
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Post by panzerjager2 on Apr 29, 2016 21:10:18 GMT -5
So I've been "toying" with the Ferdinand's base. It's gonna be representing the steppe near Ponyri during Zitadelle.....well that's the hope....Remember I haven't completed a base since before Clinton was president.........  
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Post by dierk on Apr 30, 2016 4:47:35 GMT -5
Really like your Ferdi, and the base looks like it will do its job!
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Post by wbill76 on Apr 30, 2016 19:58:09 GMT -5
Looks the part from here PJ! Ferdinand won't mind that at all I think.  |
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Post by deafpanzer on May 2, 2016 18:12:23 GMT -5
Agree with the guys... base do look pretty good to me!
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Post by panzerjager2 on Jul 11, 2016 20:54:12 GMT -5
Well here is as they say the "latest and greatest on der Ferdinand.
Basically, I nave begun what I am calling Grass Tuft Central...... The tufts are and old rope from a block of provolone cheese. I took the rope and dried it for YEARS, and I do mean YEARS. Then , unwrapped it or untangled it. Once it was in strings so to speak, it was cut into various lengths, tied at the base and fixed with Zap. Some had dried "stuff" added. This stuff I got at my local Arts and Crafts store.....Just stuff I thought looked like it could belong on the Russian Steppe.
After processing HUNDREDS of the lil buggers, I am now painting. This batch has a deep dark green sprayed into the root base. Then a lighter green over-sprayed, followed by a homemade orange-ish yellow. The next series will be more light green and tan-ish. Those will be followed by a deep green batch, which will be a small number for highlighting or accenting the field of weeds/grass. The very last batch will be more bush with flowers. These will be more of that orange yellow highlighting the ( pink, purple or violet), flowers.
Here is the first run
       
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Post by panzerjager2 on Jul 11, 2016 21:01:32 GMT -5
Here are a couple ancillary shots
  
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Post by panzerjager2 on Jul 11, 2016 21:16:26 GMT -5
Last ones.......... These obviously are just "randomly placed.... the base has ZERO paint or details... Just a quick tease..
Bye the Bye.... there will be "flattened" tufts in the tread tracks.
   
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Post by panzerjager2 on Jul 11, 2016 21:50:33 GMT -5
Okay, my vanity got the best of me.... here is a couple "test" shot with der Ferdinand in place....
PLEASE NOTE, the lighting sucks, BUT the point is the grass as it could look
THANKS
    
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Post by panzerjager2 on Jul 11, 2016 21:56:27 GMT -5
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Post by panzerjager2 on Jul 11, 2016 22:07:17 GMT -5
Here is the Infantry Oberleutant just placed for a test shot
  
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Post by panzerjager2 on Jul 11, 2016 22:22:01 GMT -5
And.........................
   
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Post by dierk on Jul 12, 2016 1:32:33 GMT -5
Nice bit of gardening! Coming together nicely PJ!  |
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Post by Leon on Jul 12, 2016 5:45:17 GMT -5
Nice progress on the base PJ! Looking really good.
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flmlm
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Crack open that kit and smell the build ????
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Post by flmlm on Jul 12, 2016 10:02:37 GMT -5
Very nice. Love the base with custom grass!
Regards
Mike
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Post by wbill76 on Jul 12, 2016 17:00:27 GMT -5
Can't go wrong with that gardening effort, looking good PJ!
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vlpbruce
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Post by vlpbruce on Jul 12, 2016 18:51:22 GMT -5
Great work PJ.
I love how this one's coming together.
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Post by panzerjager2 on Jul 13, 2016 13:48:26 GMT -5
Just a very quick post today....really....
I've been playing with an undergrowth concept...I am sure it's been done before but what the heck I'll go ahead and take full credit for it....LOL 
The concept is really quite simple...You take pencil shavings mixed with dried parsley flakes and white glue. Add warm water and basically make a undergrowth paste you can apply throughout the base, well as needed.
Here is the first test batch
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captfue
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Post by captfue on Jul 13, 2016 14:17:01 GMT -5
To say it turned out great would be an understatement. As a figure guy I'm interested in where the figures came from?
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Post by panzerjager2 on Jul 13, 2016 14:52:28 GMT -5
Thank you for the very kind words....
All of my figures or conversions from Tamiya 1/25th, Airfix, Italeri or even Model Cellar.... I am a big believer in detail     
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Post by panzerjager2 on Jul 14, 2016 22:13:56 GMT -5
Well back on track today.... I had a "airbrush" issue....... I guess that's what happens when you NEVER deep clean your 20 year old airbrush....who woulda thunk...
Here are a couple of shots of the undergrowth and the grass.......
    
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Post by panzerjager2 on Jul 27, 2016 21:10:02 GMT -5
So I have been playing with the "undergrowth" some more and here are the updates. As an adjunct to this all the grass tufts are complete. And now i'm really focusing in on the actual ground work painting /weathering. Plus completing one to three more figures....will see though
  
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Post by dierk on Jul 28, 2016 3:38:49 GMT -5
I'd like to say 'looking good' - but without the grass tufts it reminds me of an old cowpat  Please put the tufts back in before I need therapy  |
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Post by panzerjager2 on Jul 28, 2016 8:11:09 GMT -5
Paint has to come first my friend..... then therapy LOL
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Post by dierk on Jul 28, 2016 8:48:48 GMT -5
Paint, schmaint - Nurse! Medicate me! |
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Post by panzerjager2 on Jul 28, 2016 20:57:54 GMT -5
Well, I'm not happy with this.... and for the record.....I am an idiot........ I thought I had "plenty" of tufts....yeah right not even close.......
Here are a bunch of shots
       
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Post by panzerjager2 on Jul 28, 2016 21:13:03 GMT -5
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Post by panzerjager2 on Jul 28, 2016 21:24:45 GMT -5
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Post by Leon on Jul 29, 2016 4:48:55 GMT -5
Bad news on the tufts PJ! What you have so far is looking really good. |
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Please put the tufts back in before I need therapy 
