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Post by RED » Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:31 pm

Hey yall!!! Just 1 week left to enter!!! So far I have 7 for 1:18 --- 1 for 1:32 and 2 maybes!!!---RED---
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Post by MIGMADMAVIS » Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:32 pm

Im in for 1/18. Do we have to have our final product in a week?, or is that just the deadline to enter
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Post by RED » Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:37 pm

Hey MMM!!! NO you have till FEB.3rd,'08 to have all 8 pictures in!!! The DEC.28th,'07 deadline is to enter the contest!!!!---RED---
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Post by MIGMADMAVIS » Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:04 pm

Ok sweet :D :D
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Post by RED » Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:34 pm

Hey yall!!! I just need 3 more folks to enter the contest for 1:18 and 9 more for 1:32!!! Only 4 days left !!!---RED---
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Post by RED » Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:34 pm

Hey yall!!! Only 2 days left to enter!!!! Contest ends FEB.3rd,'08 for yall who think you dont have time to work on your diorama!!!! :wink: ---RED---
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Post by Jay » Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:04 am

Sorry Red, but I'm out. :oops:
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Post by RED » Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:49 pm

Hey yall!!! 1 day left!!! Looks like 1:32 might get canned!!!---RED---
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Post by Col.Pickle » Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:43 pm

Okay, I'd be in for 32X if 8 other ppl join :roll:
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Post by Jagdpanther » Fri Dec 28, 2007 5:45 am

Im in for 1:32 but still not enough people like pickle said. Come on you small scale guys ?
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Post by grunt1 » Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:36 am

Count me in for 1:18, thanks for doing this RED! :D

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Post by AlloySkull » Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:33 pm

I'd do 1:32 but I need help with figuring out what vehicles will work and what won't... :( I know I wouldn't win because it'd be a ragtag patchwork of gear because I don't have two of anything and honestly with small scale you gotta have a pretty big scene. It has to be winter, ETO? Would it be plausible to use my FOv Tiger I in tri-color, and my FOV stuart, and my British Firefly? I'll need some soldiers but that's the easy part. :) I'm in for 1:32.
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Post by RED » Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:53 am

Hey yall!!! Alright--- I have 8 who want to enter 1:18 and only 1 and 2 maybes for 1:32!!!! Because of the lack of folks who want to enter 1:32 Im going to can this scale of the contest!!! If any of the 3 who thought about entering the 1:32 scale contest want to do 1:18 that is fine with me!!!! Just let me know!!! I didnt get the 10 folks I would like to have had but I aint going to let that hold the contest back---so we will go with what we got!!! Yall who entered know the rules ( I hope :lol: ) so have fun and keep me up on whats going on!!!---RED---
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Post by AlloySkull » Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:38 pm

Darn... I don't have much of anything to do 1:18 with... But I'll go to 1:18 instead of the now defunct 1:32. :)
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Post by kevrut » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:12 pm

You're a good sport RED. :P

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Post by AlloySkull » Tue Jan 01, 2008 4:16 pm

I've started "re-landscaping" part of my back yard for my dio. :D I'm sure my mom will find it accents the house well. :D

I was on a roll, but I had to come in because I've already got a stuffy nose and it's real windy outside, and even though it's Texas, and it's not COLD, it's cool enough to be bothersome. I have to say though where I'm going with mine is pretty cool. I just hope it doesn't rain really bad, or my cat doesn't run through and destory stuff. :D

Other than that, RED, I have a question. I know the rules state historically accurate, but the only 1:18 item I have that could make a diorama possible is the Pak-40 Hanomag. It's in tri-color paint, and it's all I have. I don't have the ability or time to do a custom on it. I've already come up with a story behind everything, and an idea, not to mention I've started building, and I really hope it doesn't have to crash and burn because my Hanomag doesn't have whitewash.

I really want to do this and I know mine is going to be really nice, I just don't have the historically correct figures nor vehicles. I do have an excuse though, it's first snowfall, and the story behind mine has something where they need as little equipment as possible... So I guess it could work. Just that Hanomag...

Is that what you mean by historically correct?
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Post by RED » Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:11 pm

Not a problem!!!!! I know you wanted to do the 1:32 scale contest so I will bend the rules a little!!!!! By historiclly accurate I was talking about not haveing Japanese figures in a Battle of the Bulge diorama or Germans in winter gear Fighting Marines at Tarawa!!!! :P I do have to say I dig the fact that you are willing to improvise,adapt, and overcome in your diorama---nice ideal to come up with 1st snow for the lack of winter equipment!!!! :wink: ---RED---
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Post by RED » Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:16 pm

Hey yall!!!Alright---Less than a month left till the deadline!!! Just wanted to hear how things are comeing along????Keep me posted!!!!---RED---
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Post by Jagdpanther » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:46 pm

Red if its still not to late can I enter for 1:18? Because I was of the people who wanted to do 1:32.
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Post by RED » Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:20 pm

Hey JAGDPANTHER!!!! Not a problem brother!!!!!If I remember correctly you were the 1st to sign-up for 1:32---Thank you!!! :wink: Im sorry that I had to can that scale of the contest---but maybe next time more folks will enter for 1:32!!!!! ---RED---
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Post by V2 MAN » Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:25 pm

Ill show a pic of my progress really soon 8)
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Post by V2 MAN » Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:44 pm

Heres all that im showing 8) :wink:

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Post by 1958Zelda » Fri Jan 04, 2008 6:20 pm

GREAT Picture! looks like yours is coming a long fine 8)

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Post by AlloySkull » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:46 pm

I've had to work a lot lately, haven't had any time... It sucks because I work from 2-10:30 and I don't have daylight... and I got off tonight at midnight due to lack of people closing... I'm going to try and pull it off, I just don't think it's going to be what I want. I need more dirt, and sticks. :) I'll take a pic tonight... I've got decent lighting out there and with a flash it should do it. :)
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Post by AlloySkull » Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:54 am

Here is my progress, of course I'm planning a lot more "trees" and this only makes up a third of my whole diorama. The reason it looks wierd from above is because I'm not planning on taking pics from this angle... :) Can you say super macro action shots? This is also without my artificial snow. I'm laying down floral moss in spots to give it the forest feel, after looking at pictures of the Ardennes it seems that the undergrowth is still pretty green even under snow. I'm using sticks from an oak tree to act as trees, since you won't see it from above, it will give the effect of tree trunks.

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As you can see I dug a creek bed, and with the roots naturally criss-crossing it, I added some fallen trees and moss to it. I'm going to place rocks also. You can see the first support I put in for my bridge, which obviously will be a field-built bridge wide enough for the Pak-40 Hanomag.

Here's a basic taste of the scenario...

The Germans have placed a single mobile artillery piece in the Ardennes, along a ridge that overlooks key terrain features. Receiving coordinates to shell an American convoy moving through the countryside, the crew of the Pak-40 Hanomag fires off it's ammo load after almost a week of nothing to do. The other soldiers accompanying the crew are relaxed, not fearing anything as a Panzer division is within several miles heading to intercept the convoy. Around a small fire, but still armed, two soldiers talk of victory in the Ardennes.

Across from their camp, behind a small rise in the land, the field-constructed bridge stands guarded by a single Otto. He too, is secure enough to listen to nature and watch what little wild life there is in the trees. Little does he know that 100 feet down the creek bed a task force of four lightly-geared American GIs tread on eggshells with the sole mission to destroy one of many artillery emplacements which threatens to slow down the American advance. A bazookaman, a BAR gunner, a GI armed with a Thompson and an officer with his .45 get within earshot of the Otto... Resting the bi-pod on a downed tree spread across the creek bed, the gunner waits for the thunder of the Pak-40. A body falls just as the rumbling dies off...

:D Got a lot more.
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