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Neulingadded a new photoalbum.
110 30 April 2021, 08:44
Spanjaardsimply perfect, as usual. and the same trademark fantastic photography 🙂 how did you do the camo nets on top of the vehicle?
30 April 2021, 08:52
OlivierI was vaguely looking at the images and I thought 'Oh it looks like a Neuling diorama'.
30 April 2021, 11:53
James CImpressive work once again and fantastic attention to detail. VERY cool! 👍
30 April 2021, 17:58
DAVID CParece una foto, un nivel para mi inimaginable! Enhorabuena por la obra de arte!
30 April 2021, 20:28
Achim RibbeWow... on the first glance, why did he post real pics? Congratulation to this perfect rollout.
1 May 2021, 06:17
Robert PodkońskiAbsoultely fantastic, as always - at first I thought this is a reference photo, really.
1 May 2021, 06:48
Jean-Michel TilquinAgain a perfect realisation in all aspects, kits, figures, dio... and the pics! Congrats!
1 May 2021, 15:17
Nathan DempseyAnother absolutely beautiful build Neuling. Your realism is something to strive for.
1 May 2021, 17:58
NeulingThanks mates, merci, obrigado, danke! I´m glad you like my album. - Spanjaard the camouflage net is a Tamiya product, which basically is a decal, not easy to handle for me. - Jean-Michel, I was inspired for my build by your beautiful album showing the basic version of this impressive truck.
2 May 2021, 09:29
Guillaume BlanchetImpressive as always! Incredible how much real sun ligth add to realism.
4 May 2021, 12:50
FranckyIt should be forbidden to portray a scale 1:1 situation as a modelled scene !! 🙂
Really, this is very good, and the phorography adds a lot to the diorama.
I would like to have these skills!
4 May 2021, 14:44
Evander BorgThe soldier getting into the truck moved! I'm sure he moved. Well done. The more I look at the photos the more detail I see.
15 May 2021, 07:13
NeulingThank you mates! - Evander, I have checked the dio: the soldier is still there.
17 May 2021, 09:10
NeulingThanks for the hint, Olivier! In order to avoid fuel stains on the magazine I took it and put it in my library ........
18 May 2021, 06:47
Jean-Michel TilquinBoth of you must have very good eyes and/or a lot of imagination!
18 May 2021, 16:25
NeulingThank you Zach, much appreciated! - Jean-Michel, it was Olivier bringing up the double meaning of "modelling" ...........
19 May 2021, 11:40
NeilJust to add my own admiration and amazement for this 👍 It definitely DOES look real... Unbelievable skills! 🙂
20 May 2021, 13:05
FranckyI would love an explanation of how these photo's were taken. I know it starts with a perfect model and that is already hard enough, but I am sure that the photographic art is addign a lot on its own.
20 May 2021, 17:26
Michael OsadciwReally fantastic work; excellent vignette. @Francky, re: photography: to get the depth of field present here you need to shoot with an aperture of at least f8, more likely f16 or f22. Natural light and a tripod help immensely. Given the lack of distortion I think its unlikely this was shot with a smart phone.
20 May 2021, 17:48
NeulingThank you mates! - Photography: I started taking pictures of my dios 3 years ago, much trial and error there. As Michael wrote: natural light helps a lot. Some bushes and trees of my garden and an open sky give a realistic touch, close up and horizontal camera perspective as well. Enhancing with Photoshop. I use a Sony DSC-WX 500. You can see my camera on picture 21 in my album "Aftermath of Tet".
21 May 2021, 10:07
Slavo HazuchaIt's just very cool to follow your work & method... The excellent models and superbly planned dios (not cramped or unnatural, but not a square-cm waster) + the camera work - I guess you put the model at least in 3 different positions (or 3 times of day) due to the different shadow layouts, always making the best out of the given situation. Top job for the X'th time, but keep'em coming, always a feast when I discover one of your photo-series 👍
7 August 2021, 19:00
Bob HallNeuling ! Your dio's are going to give my flashbacks dude, your work is so good, it's like I'm right back there again ! Keep the great work coming my friend !
7 August 2021, 19:13
NeulingThank you mates! - Slavo, indeed I carefully watch day-/sunlight, clouds and shadows when taking pictures, paying more attention to the process of picture taking and processing than many modellers here do who don´t do justice to their top builds due to sloppy photography. - Bob, it´s an honor to me when a veteran considers my scenery "realistic"!
8 August 2021, 10:10
Eric Goichonas usual it's impressive realism ?
I don't know anything about military models
but it's just wow ?
8 August 2021, 16:03
Bob HallHere ya go Neuling, a few pics from one of my trips to the sandbox !
Iraq 2007-2009 | Album by springfieldm14
9 August 2021, 05:15
NeulingThank you Eric! - Thanks Bob for these - partly dramatic - photos! Very good inspiration! Bob, are you on one of the pictures?
9 August 2021, 06:56
Thorsten UngerechtsI was only at KFOR. ? Camp Bondsteel and Banski Rid.
By the way I first wanted to ask how much Germans were in Iraq. But then I saw it is a model. Damn this is so realistic. Can I learn from you, Neuling? I am a real Neuling. Back from 30 years of dark ages.
Verdammt gut gemacht! Ich bin beinahe sprachlos.
10 August 2021, 09:13
R KA masterpiece. No extensive chipping which makes it absurd in reality. The weathering is very tasteful.
10 August 2021, 18:45
NeulingDanke Thorsten! Wichtig ist, authentisches Bildmaterial sorgfältig zu studieren, dabei Vorsicht bei restaurierten oder Museumsexponaten. Da gehen manchmal Effekt und Schönheit vor Authentizität. Ansonsten arbeite ich wie alle anderen Mates, die hier auf scalemates ihren Arbeitsprozess eindrucksvoll step by step dokumentieren. Als KFOR-Teilnehmer hast Du sicher sehr interessante Erinnerungen, vielleicht sogar Fotos, als Vorbilder für den Modellbau. Ich freue mich immer, wenn hier Bundeswehr-Modelle vorgestellt werden. - Thank you R K! I agree: sometimes less is more.
11 August 2021, 09:58
Thorsten UngerechtsFotos habe ich genug. Leider schlechte Qualität und hauptsächlich eigene Aktivitäten der GeCon. In Camp Bondsteel hat man es nicht gerne gesehen wenn Fotografiert wird.
Mal sehen was ich von den Ideen verwirklichen kann.
11 August 2021, 10:08
NeulingIch bin gespannt. Deinen Posts bei scalemates nach zu schließen hast Du Dich ja schon umfangreich mit Bausätzen eingedeckt.
12 August 2021, 09:05
Thorsten UngerechtsIch nutze Scalemates wohl anders als ihr Profis. Auch wenn es unter Projekte läuft, sind es absolut nur Ideen. Welche ich davon realisieren kann und werde hängt von mehreren Faktoren ab. Bekomme ich noch die Bausätze, Umrüstteile, Decals usw. Habe ich genug Platz. Wie ich in meinem Profil schrieb, habe ich im Februar 2020 nach rund 30 Jahren wieder angefangen. Ich habe detaillierte Vorstellungen. Aber ich habe bis auf ein paar Testbauten noch nichts bauen können. Corona hat mir ganz schön die Füße vom Boden weggerissen und ich befinde mich im neuen Lebensabschnitt. Sehe also meine Projektideen nicht als Start sondern wirklich nur als Idee.
Unterm Strich habe ich 1 Ferrari-Set.
Von meinen Ideen die in meinen Projekten stehen habe gibt es 10 - 20 Ideen die ich auf jeden Fall realisieren möchte. Wie es dann mit den anderen weitergeht weiß ich noch nicht.
12 August 2021, 10:54
Bruce HuxtableSimply a Master Class. Soo much to take in. Its simplicity belies the observation skills needed to make every square inch perfection.
21 August 2021, 18:35
NeulingThank you Jonn and Bruce! - Bruce, indeed I take my time to watch reference object and model closely. That´s why I´m a rather slow modeller.
22 August 2021, 09:33
HannesHoly sht, for the first couple photos i was thinking it was the real thing!
31 August 2021, 20:15
