Bunker modelling
- Yevgeniy B.
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Your welcome. Bunkers are one of my major interests together with scale modelling, so building a bunker was something I just had to do
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?
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?
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.
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.
Tonigth my bunker will be dry brushed, and some grass will be added in front of it.
The one I`m building is located here in Trondheim.
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.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
The one I`m building is located here in Trondheim.
- Tom Houlihan
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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.c_hoff82 wrote:The one I`m building is located here in Trondheim.
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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!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.
We're going to determine if we're thinking of the same location.
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
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
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.
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.