Tank Workshop Base
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40 25 March 2020, 16:59
coporadoStarted assembling the crane and steel beam of the lasercut kit. This is a wonderful kit, really looking forward to that base building 🙂
25 March 2020, 17:02
coporadoThanks mate! No - just clicked together straight out of the box to see what this kit has to offer 🙂
26 March 2020, 05:24
coporadoThanks! I Just bought the crane and the steel beams as I'm going to Do the building structure with styrofoam. All the parts I'm using from the kit are really great. Perfect matching, easy to assemble and lovely detailed, thumbs up!
26 March 2020, 12:55
coporadoThanks Spanjaard and Brian, much appreciated! @Brian the wall does not come from the kit, this is scratch build from styrofoam. From the kit I use the crane and steel beams, which is indeed very nicely.
16 April 2020, 04:12
Rui SVery nice detail work and paintjob on the lamp and pipe 👍
Like the detail on the wood Window😎
16 April 2020, 22:05
Rui SNice weathering on the wall. What did you use to make this wall?. Also like the paintjob on the crane motor 👍
26 April 2020, 17:17
coporadoThanks mate! I use Depafit for the walls. It´s kind of styrofoam/ insulation board which is available at the hardware store. Very nice material to carve and easy to paint. Carved the damages with a pencil. Then lighlty sanded the whole surface. Applied a very thin blackgrey wash. Then painted different sand and greyish shades all thinned down to a wash.
27 April 2020, 04:44
Rui SVery Nice progress coporado. Your scratch work on the locker door and wiring is Great. 👍 Keep it comming
13 May 2020, 21:29
coporadoThanks gentleman, much appreciate your encouraging comments! Mike, Stefan welcome here and good to know you´re watching!
17 May 2020, 10:31
coporadoSpanjaard, Rui thanks so much for your kind comments! Prepared the concete floor in order to attach the walls. Scratch bulid fire basket as little detail for the outside
20 May 2020, 16:13
coporadoFinaly, the walls were mounted to the base and all the bathroom stuff was attached.
24 May 2020, 05:21
Bernhard SchrockFirst class scratch building especially the TGA (Technische Gebäude Ausrüstung). I love your details in the "restroom" (newspaper, Bürste and 3-Lagiges!) and electrical installation included black distribution boxes (Bakelite!!). 🙂
24 May 2020, 07:29
coporadoThank you Bernhard, happy you like it. Was quite hard to sacrifice 3- Lagiges for the dio in these times 🙂
Made some progress with factory utilities.
30 May 2020, 16:15
coporado@Bernhard yes Bakelit switch, eagle eye 🙂 I remembered These from my grand Patents home 🙂
30 May 2020, 16:22
coporadoMore details for the factory. Had a nice welder set, unfortunately without cart. Scratch built this one from plastic profile, wire and some remaining parts of a completed kit.
1 June 2020, 16:25
Rui SNice workbench, Mate 👍. I would go for a darker tone ir color on the wood top, just a two cent😎
9 June 2020, 20:11
coporadoThanks Christian and Rui 🙂 Rui the workbench still needs weathering, this will tone down the wood color to a darker shade
10 June 2020, 05:06
Rui SYes, i agree Mate, i thought it was done 👍.
But as you mention that... You know what i thougt when i saw photo 45, for the first time? It would be interesting to creat contrast between the Bath Room floor and main workshop floor, maybee with some kind off chess ceramic floor??? But i thought it was too late. Anyway just a two cent opinion. I'm not famliar with the 40s tank workshops, but bath rooms usualy have that kind of pavments and walls to ease the cleaning...😎
10 June 2020, 12:30
coporadoHehe Rui I had the same idea with the locker floor 🙂 Got these floor tiles --> 3D Floor Tiles - Design A (Reality in Scale 35111, 1:35) Putting them on the floor or even on the wall it came out like a hotel or private bath room. They looked just too noble for a factory locker room. So I discarded the tiles and left the floor in it´s concrete look.
12 June 2020, 04:39
Spanjaardthose desks look amazing now! and the touch of the panzer drawings is sublime!!!
12 June 2020, 08:25
Rui SOhw yah??? Hehe. But that ones where very expensive tiles and with diferent formats, (small pieces for the corners??? That's for rich people mansions or chalés. 😄 i was thinking something simpler pathern more like, One squared black Shaded /one square white... with some craks. Or only white if on the walls😉
Hey Mate, I agree with Spanjaard 👍
12 June 2020, 18:56
coporadoThank you spanjaard, thank you Rui, much appreciated and happy you like it 🙂
@Rui Unfortunately I didn't found any apropriate tiles. Tried to scratch build with styrofoam and styrene but the result Was rather poor. So I left it with the concrete.
Completed the workbench with adding more Tools and some tank parts. The machines got their wiring and were plugged to the Power supply.
22 June 2020, 04:37
Tom ...Only seeing this now. Incredible work. Just amazing. The detailing and treatment is perfect. Following for sure.
23 June 2020, 00:46
coporadoThanks for your kind words Rui! Browsing through some pics of old factories I discovered carts used for carrying small stuff and loudspeakers installed. Found these would be nice detail for my dio. Some residues, plastic sheet and sheet metal helped to scratch built both.
23 July 2020, 17:03
coporadoDaniel, Rui thank you for your comments. Finally I completed the missing part of the crane to lift the Panzer IV turret.
6 August 2020, 05:26
Danny MeerSuch an amazing artwork, so realistic 👍
Love it how you scratchbuild all those little details
17 January 2021, 16:45
coporadoStarted the figures. To achieve the look and feel for the scene, some kitbashing was done. Heads come from Hornet and are just lovely in in their sculpting.
27 January 2021, 16:10
Spanjaardpoor guy on his knee is thinking he is going to see snowy landscapes soon😉
27 January 2021, 16:12
Norbert SteffensHi Sascha, how did you paint the walls and the floor? Looks realistic. Nice weathering
28 January 2021, 06:44
coporadoThanks mates! @Spanjaard: Bad day for the youngster, he´s in charge for the beer later 🙂
@Norbert: basic material is Depafit, a styrofoam type. Available in your DIY store.
It´s more stable than Styrodur, comes with a lightly structured surface like plaster and can be sanded.
First I carve any structures like damages etc.
Next steps apply to the the whole wall:
First coat with silver grey, once dry another coat with a mix of 50/50 silvergrey and pale grey is painted. Once this coat is dry a black wash is done, to create a good contrast for the details. Therefore the wash should be pretty thin to keep a good balance between base color and black.
Once this has dryed properly, the whole wall is sanded with 600 sanding paper. The sanding brings variation into the colors, as the black is removed more or less in certain areas and releases the base color.
Finally certain areas receive detail painting using a less thinned black wash for deeper areas such as cracks. Base color, white grey and any other colors at your desire are used to highlight certain details, like edges of cracks.
I found this technique in the "bible" of styrofoam modeling by Emmanuel Nouaillier. Absolutely worth having that in stash. --> amazon.de/Perfekt-bi..tungen/dp/3837511634
28 January 2021, 12:29
Rui SVery Nice plumbing 👍 😄 Nice progress.
The figures look good but the one with the head looking upward looks a bit forced. I think the eyes could do part of the rotation not the head, just my two cent, Mate 🤔
28 January 2021, 20:47
coporadoThanks Olivier! I´m quite happy with this technique as it applies to all scales and is quite easy and cheap, achieving nice results.
@Rui: Thanks and you´re right, the position of the head brings pain in the neck 🙂 I cut the necks a bit and rotated the heads to a more healthy position 🙂
29 January 2021, 05:22
Rui SI'm glad that my humble constructive opinion matters . Thx 👍
IMHO, one thing that i have noticed in the modelers who use these extremely well detailed heads is that they leave the necks too long and end up ruining their very realistic appearance even when they are excellently painted😎
29 January 2021, 12:02
coporado@rui the proper length of necks is a tricky job. Lots of factors such as age, constitution, body shape etc need to be considered. I struggle here as well figuring out the best solution. Though I appreciate any hints 🙂
30 January 2021, 06:40
Rui SYes, I believe you, I was generaly speaking, Imho, many fail to adress that issues well.
Your two guys are looking good now 👍 keep it coming😉
30 January 2021, 11:56
coporadoChecking images of the original tank workshop I encountered the crane was operated from a platform mounted to the crane bridge. From residues and plastic sheet this one was scratch built.
12 February 2021, 17:05
Dietmar BogatzkiGanz großes Kino was du hier zeigst, Wahnsinn die Details wie Steckdose, Bohrmaschine usw..
12 February 2021, 18:13
coporadoDankeschön Dietmar!
Olivier thats true, the more more progress it gains the more Detail comes to mind. Hope to complete that one Day 🙂
13 February 2021, 07:03
Rui SAgain, Nice scratchwork 👍 detailing makes the diference. keep it comming Mate😉
13 February 2021, 12:31
coporadoThanks Rui! Honestly, detailing is the most enjoyable job, you know what I mean - flipping through your Marder dio pics 🙂
Figure conversion is done so far. Next is priming and corrections.
14 February 2021, 16:18
coporadoFinally, started the painting on those figures. Skin parts are most challenging, so this is the task for the next days/ weeks. First head completed, painted in acrylic.
26 February 2021, 12:13
Slavo HazuchaSeriously cool work all over - and excellent skin/head-job on the first figure too! 👍
Pose & Expression suggest this could be a German WW2 version of American Chopper? 😄
26 February 2021, 13:23
Hanno KleineckeYeah, only with tanks instead of bikes - quite an idea Slavo 🙂 ! Your own bespoke custom panzer III....
I wish I could paint figures like that, excellent !
26 February 2021, 13:53
coporadoThank you for your encouraging comments, mates! Your patient attention to this neverending project is much appreciated!
@Slavo: For an American Chopper he definitely misses a beard, though it´s only a German Chopper :-D
Next face completed during the weekend. This one was not going as well as the first one. As the expression is different to the first one, the surface and details are much smoother. Found it quite tough to place highlights and shadows at the right spots. Challenged my patience seriously.
1 March 2021, 13:22
coporadoDaniel, Olivier, Rui, Xerxes - many thanks mates! After a long break I put some color on the next face. Some corrections and blending still to be done.
13 June 2021, 14:36
coporadoSlow progress on those figures, 5 of 8 faces painted. Keen to have faces completed in 2021 :-D
9 October 2021, 14:40
Bruce HuxtableStumbled across this album for first time today. Amazing crafting skills demonstrated from beginning to end. Blown away by your great eye for realistic detail, and how you create atmosphere. Brilliant 👍👍🙂
9 October 2021, 15:50
SpanjaardRome was not built in one hour, and neither your amazing dios. No rush🙂
9 October 2021, 18:13
coporadoThank you for all your kind comments, mates! Started to put some paint on that clothing. Some more blending on the shirt is neccessary. I recognized that Khaki isn´t very handy when it comes to light and shadow 🙂
19 March 2022, 16:41
JvNot sure why I only seen this one now
What a great job
Love all the detail
A big job
Amazing
19 March 2022, 16:58
gorbyWhat an incredible project!
I'm in awe at how well those figures are painted. You should give them names because they look like they might come alive. 😄
4 April 2022, 14:39
coporadoThanks gorby and Tom!
@gorby: giving those figures names might end up in psychologic therapie for me in case my wife will find out 🙂
5 April 2022, 10:22
