Peter Reuss
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Kevin Elliott shows what you can do with the HB Bergpanther!
Honour Bound Bergpanther (1 Viewer)
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Louis Badolato
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Wow Kevin, that is unbelievable!! It almost looks like a color still from a Battle of the Bulge scene in Band of Brothers. It is too real for words.
Peter Reuss
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Here are some more images of it. What wonderful lighting! Very impressive images. I agree with Louis - they look real!
desk11desk12
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Nice, very nice.
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jazzeum
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The snow looks real. Kevin, can you enlighten us how you did it. Perhaps we could have a forum where people like Kevin and Alex could explain how they do things and people could ask them general modeling and diorama questions, a sort of "Ask Alex" or "Ask Kevin" kind of thing.
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Brad
I'm no expert, no BS.
The 'hill' is the diorama I built myself. This is just a four by two base, using old waste polystyrene foam packing that I thought might make nice cliffs as a backdrop on two sides to frame the photos I wanted to take.
The two 'bunkers', one with a hard top, are cardboard packing waste that just caught my eye as making a nice trench type scene, about the right depth.
I built the frame of the hill out of those and then used balsa and matches to support the bunkers and cover the surface as a framework to be later filled in by mod-roc - plaster of paris bandage like they use on fractures (but not that good quality I have to say). I then built the roof of one bunker with balsa and wood glue. I will do some more when I get time, there is another little trench and a tunnel.
I painted a little mix of brown acylic as a sort of wash on the road. I painted the cliff just with up strokes in acrylic grey, again just as kind of wash. The peice de resistance was the household emulsion my son got for me as this has just the right sort of pearly texture and light. I just painted this in down strokes and the cliff and along the road, which I had textured slightly with the mod roc. Oh, and I used some model putty to make rocks for the bushes to stand on, painting them grey with 'snow' white paint on top.
All painted in one covering as I only had a spare hour or so, the whole thing took less than a day to make and paint but was done in shifts as I don't get much spare time. You can see the 'original' diorama in the photo album.
In the latest diorama, the foreground is the work of Mr Gittings again JG Miniatures - I bought a diorama from John at the last London show - and some of the bases are the BB series. It is John you need to ask about the snow texture in the front of the bushes! John - about that commision ,,,,,,,, And it is John's bushes that really bring the thing to life. He is the genius.
As for the pictures - I took some time off this week as I knew the light at this time of year can be good - it was and I took hundreds of photos. I have never had a lesson in my life - just point and shoot with a good digital SLR - but the light did the rest. No secrets, no BS.
As I said last year Brad, I enjoy my collection as a screensaver on my computer, so I really enjoy getting them to look as real as possible.
One controversial note - as you know I love the KC stuff, but the HB stuff is much more realistic to photograph like this at present! We await Andy's reply to this competition.....the response with the latest flakpazer etc is good but still some way to go in realism in my opinion. I look forward to robust responses...........
Best wishes, and thanks for the kind words, Kevin
I'm no expert, no BS.
The 'hill' is the diorama I built myself. This is just a four by two base, using old waste polystyrene foam packing that I thought might make nice cliffs as a backdrop on two sides to frame the photos I wanted to take.The two 'bunkers', one with a hard top, are cardboard packing waste that just caught my eye as making a nice trench type scene, about the right depth.
I built the frame of the hill out of those and then used balsa and matches to support the bunkers and cover the surface as a framework to be later filled in by mod-roc - plaster of paris bandage like they use on fractures (but not that good quality I have to say). I then built the roof of one bunker with balsa and wood glue. I will do some more when I get time, there is another little trench and a tunnel.
I painted a little mix of brown acylic as a sort of wash on the road. I painted the cliff just with up strokes in acrylic grey, again just as kind of wash. The peice de resistance was the household emulsion my son got for me as this has just the right sort of pearly texture and light. I just painted this in down strokes and the cliff and along the road, which I had textured slightly with the mod roc. Oh, and I used some model putty to make rocks for the bushes to stand on, painting them grey with 'snow' white paint on top.
All painted in one covering as I only had a spare hour or so, the whole thing took less than a day to make and paint but was done in shifts as I don't get much spare time. You can see the 'original' diorama in the photo album.
In the latest diorama, the foreground is the work of Mr Gittings again JG Miniatures - I bought a diorama from John at the last London show - and some of the bases are the BB series. It is John you need to ask about the snow texture in the front of the bushes!
John - about that commision ,,,,,,,, And it is John's bushes that really bring the thing to life. He is the genius.As for the pictures - I took some time off this week as I knew the light at this time of year can be good - it was and I took hundreds of photos. I have never had a lesson in my life - just point and shoot with a good digital SLR - but the light did the rest. No secrets, no BS.
As I said last year Brad, I enjoy my collection as a screensaver on my computer, so I really enjoy getting them to look as real as possible.
One controversial note - as you know I love the KC stuff, but the HB stuff is much more realistic to photograph like this at present! We await Andy's reply to this competition.....the response with the latest flakpazer etc is good but still some way to go in realism in my opinion. I look forward to robust responses...........
Best wishes, and thanks for the kind words, Kevin
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From Andy or that Oz guy
Personally I've been happy that K & C have made some changes, but as you say there is still some way to go to match HB and Figarti in the track detail department. However I feel K & C tend to have a better or at least a cleaner finish than some HB pieces, which would tend to make K & C pieces appealling to the majority of collectors that aren't into the heavier weathering styles.
Combat
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I agree that the HB vehicles are far superior to anything that I have seen on the market. Figarti has not done it for me so far. The figures are horrible. The tanks too small. Admit I haven't seen the Tiger.