Bunker modelling

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#16

Post by Domagoj » 26 Aug 2004, 20:07

Thanks for the pics Stelios

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Post by c_hoff82 » 28 Aug 2004, 21:23

I`m making this bunker for a diorama.It`s made of styrofoam and plaster.
I haven`t quite yet desided what kind of a scene to put in front of the bunker. I was thinking of some soldiers relaxing in front of it.
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Post by Yevgeniy B. » 28 Aug 2004, 22:05

looks very good i like it

Yev

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Post by Domagoj » 28 Aug 2004, 22:59

Thanks for Your contribution to the topic c_hoff.I'm also starting to make bunkers in this technik (stirofoam and plaster).Before this, I was making bunkers only from plaster, but this is a much better way.
I'll post some pics soon

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Post by c_hoff82 » 28 Aug 2004, 23:10

Your welcome. Bunkers are one of my major interests together with scale modelling, so building a bunker was something I just had to do
:D
If you build it with only plaster you will require lots of it, so I think this is a good way.
Does any of you have any tips about making the concrete on the walls look realistic?

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Post by KoOkiE » 29 Aug 2004, 01:54

use tainted tinner to give the walls a wash in dark shade and then dry brush with some lighter shades. will give nice effects. also give it rain/moss "damage", you can use green tainted thinner and let it run down some spots, looks very nice. if you have points where iron sticks out you can add rust and such using brown paint and thinner again :p

actually, thinner is an important ingredient for model painting :)

if perhaps you wouldn't know what dry brush is, it's a technique where you dip your pensil in paint and then you rubb off the paint on some paper or cloth, but not entirely. leave some half dry paint on the brush, then rubb the surface quickly up and down with the pensil. doing so you will only paint the parts that stick out, if you use a nice light color you will get a cool looking depth effect.

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Post by Domagoj » 29 Aug 2004, 10:18

You're lucky to live in Norway.You have lots of great Atlantic wall fortifications there.I have to look on the internet to find material for my models, and You can take measurements from the bunkers in Your garden :)

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Post by c_hoff82 » 29 Aug 2004, 11:15

Tonigth my bunker will be dry brushed, and some grass will be added in front of it.
You're lucky to live in Norway.You have lots of great Atlantic wall fortifications there.I have to look on the internet to find material for my models, and You can take measurements from the bunkers in Your garden
Ohh yea, threre`s lots of bunkers here in Norway. If you go 10 minutes with bike from where I live you can find three bunkers. Two of them are 30 meters! long but the third one is not so big.
The one I`m building is located here in Trondheim.

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Post by Greg K. » 29 Aug 2004, 21:12

that gun in the bunker is a PAK43, if anyone wants to know.

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Post by Tom Houlihan » 29 Aug 2004, 21:36

c_hoff82 wrote:The one I`m building is located here in Trondheim.
Great! Here I spent a month in Trondheim, and I coulda visited an actual bunker! Lovely! The only one I saw was locked shut, so we couldn't go in it! Of course, it was only a machinegun position, covering a field that could have been a landing zone.

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Post by c_hoff82 » 29 Aug 2004, 22:03

Hello Tom.
Did you stay at Lade? It used to be a german airfield there, but all thath left now is two machingun bunkers, the hangar and a big, but unfortunately locked bunker :cry:
The bunker I`m building is the big one at lade.

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Post by c_hoff82 » 29 Aug 2004, 23:07

Here`s my bunker agian after a sundays work :)
It`s now dry brushed and the grass in front of it is now in place.
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Post by Tom Houlihan » 29 Aug 2004, 23:11

c_hoff82 wrote:Did you stay at Lade? It used to be a german airfield there, but all thath left now is two machingun bunkers, the hangar and a big, but unfortunately locked bunker The bunker I`m building is the big one at lade.
For those who might think I'm being rude, there was an issue with that question that made me want to answer c_hoff by PM. It may have been a little overboard of me, but that's the way they trained us!

We're going to determine if we're thinking of the same location.

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Post by Domagoj » 30 Aug 2004, 11:48

C_hoff, Your bunker looks great now.You did a good job with drybrushing.
Where do You buy those acessories for dioramas (grass, trees, cammo nets etc).Are You buying it from the Internet or from hobby shops?
Does anybody have some pics of the storage, water storage and generator bunkers
Regards, Domagoj

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Post by c_hoff82 » 30 Aug 2004, 15:18

Thanks for the positive coments :)
I made the cammo net myself. I took some kind of a net and outlined it with thread and painted it with Humbrol enamel number 83.
The grass is from Woodland. It comes in different colours. The only thing I have purchased is the plaster and Humbrol paint. I got them in the local hobby-shop. I got the grass from a friend of mine.
The bunker door is made of card-board and the handle is wire.

I shall look in my bunker pictures to see if I can find any. Under the equpment thread you will find lots of threads regarding bunkers.

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