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Dioramas: Buildings & Ruins
Ruined buildings and city scenes.
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cheyenne
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Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2016 - 07:04 PM UTC
I'll be trying to build from this ref. pic. but as a ruin somewhere on the German border late 1944/45 , no specific location .

SDavies
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Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2016 - 07:13 PM UTC
Sounds interesting, having a Soviet Tank driving through the building would be nice !
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Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2016 - 07:14 PM UTC
No running,no shouting,no heavy petting,no bombing........

Seriously though,this looks to be an epic undertaking,good luck!
cheyenne
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Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2016 - 07:23 PM UTC
Ok , now that I know Wally Timberthumbs here can post pics , I'll show you what I've got so far .
This will probably get real big and involved so please bear with me .
Hopefully after the playoffs today I'll have another update .

















































cheyenne
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Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2016 - 07:29 PM UTC
Steve , Steve , both of yas , thanks , no Soviets , German boarder on the western front .

I'll be tryin to add most of these , really wanna do the L4500 with flak and throw it in the street somewhere .

I'd like to add a seperate build down the street from the pool with a British or U.S. contingent among more ruins .



ahandykindaguy
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Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2016 - 07:46 PM UTC
A most impressive beginning so far Wally Timberthumbs!!!

I love the wood, and how you have laid it all out....looking forward to the next updates.
cheyenne
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Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2016 - 07:51 PM UTC
Thanks Dave , haven't been around for awhile but it feels good gettin back into buildin .
stufer
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Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2016 - 07:56 PM UTC


Wow.........as we say over here,'gobsmacked'

Great work so far,looking forward to the Allied element
pod3105
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Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2016 - 08:36 PM UTC
Wow- gobsmacked is a bit of an understatement I think!
Thisis an awesome undertaking and Iits looking fab already. Looking forward to watching this progress.
jrutman
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Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2016 - 08:44 PM UTC
Very nice start to what looks like a hugely ambitious project. Love the stairwell and the Mockingbird statue. I can safely say I have never seen any kind of pool modeled in a dio so far so that gets high marks from me.
Can't wait to see how you approach the rest of this unique build.
cheyenne
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Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2016 - 08:50 PM UTC
Hey Jerry , thanks man , I see you made stellar use of those Italeri
medic and supply wagons I gave you way back when .
You've got some brilliant builds man , brilliant !!!
anti-hero
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Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2016 - 09:03 PM UTC
Wow Cheyenne looks very cool!
You do have a penchant for those massive projects.

I remember years ago on another forum you had two massive builds going. I think one was an overhead signal railway tower and one was a dock scene ...???
Whatever happened to those?

Thanks.
cheyenne
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Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2016 - 09:19 PM UTC
Hey Bill , thanks for rememberin , the bits and pieces are still in my room hangin round .
One of these days man , one of these days I just might get round to finishing everything ............... or not .

I just like buildin stuff , that's my happy relax place , sometimes it don't matter weather I finish somethin or not , long as I'm buildin .
justsendit
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Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2016 - 09:19 PM UTC
Wow! ... Welcome to Architecturama! That's a very interesting topic you've chosen. Very nice work so far ... looking forward to updates.

--mike
cheyenne
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Posted: Sunday, January 17, 2016 - 05:23 AM UTC
Thanks Mike .
Workin on a little outer wall damage .



















ahandykindaguy
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Posted: Sunday, January 17, 2016 - 08:56 AM UTC
Looki good Cheyenne. What are the gray bricks made of? Store bought, or self made?

cheyenne
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Posted: Sunday, January 17, 2016 - 04:11 PM UTC
Hey Dave , I have some plastic forms , different sizes that I fill with regular old wall mud , sheet rock mud , tap em out and I've got hundreds of bricks .

ahandykindaguy
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Posted: Sunday, January 17, 2016 - 07:03 PM UTC
A cool and inexpensive way of producing them....cool.
SDavies
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Posted: Sunday, January 17, 2016 - 07:12 PM UTC
Your wood working skills are very impressive !

Great start
jrutman
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Posted: Sunday, January 17, 2016 - 07:31 PM UTC
You know I love the low-tech solutions to things and this is right up my alley as far as those brick molds go. Where can I get those?
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Tojo72
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Posted: Sunday, January 17, 2016 - 07:44 PM UTC
Very interesting subject,and looking good so far.
cheyenne
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Posted: Monday, January 18, 2016 - 03:13 AM UTC
Steve , thanks man much appreciated .

Jerry , weeeeeeeell those are modular splice covers from when I worked in the phone company . I recently moved my modeling room and I found the one I posted in my last pic to show Dave .
However it's making me nuts trying to find the other 6 or 7 that are somewhere in my room . If I don't find them then all I have is the one in the pic and whats left from the last batch I made in the tin cover .

Anthony thanks , hey man how's it goin , long time no see , your boys did good this year . AC/DC was a pretty good combo for the Raiders . They look like they could go further next year , Carr rocks .

My boys unfortunately had Johnny Failball , and will more than likely [ once again ] try and draft another untested college wonder blunder for their q-back .

It's real hard being a Browns fan ..............
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Posted: Monday, January 18, 2016 - 02:35 PM UTC
Don't know about the pool mate, but the timberwork on those stairs is brilliant
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Posted: Monday, January 18, 2016 - 03:10 PM UTC
Mighty impressed by your work.
Karl187
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Posted: Monday, January 18, 2016 - 04:34 PM UTC
Truly impressive work- I can't wait to see more of this.
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