INSPIRING STAR WARS DIORAMA

It's time for another Diorama of the Day video. I came across this amazing piece a couple of days ago and just instantly knew I had to make another video in the series.

This piece, a Dagobah diorama, was created by Michael Fichtenmayer of Fichtenfoo.com and I must say that I'm truly impressed. The scene is set in 48th scale and it took Michael, off and on, about 5 months to complete the diorama. It's great to see the mood of the scene is captured in fine details.

Great job, Michael. I hope to see more of your artwork in the future.

The Death of 6th Army in Stalingrad

Well guys. I did it again. Another video of the amazing work done by Paul Keefe. I really have a soft spot for Paul's work because of his ability to tell a story in his dioramas. I just love it and it really makes my job of creating a video very easy. I just have to find some related footage and the video just creates it self. Thanks Paul, for your inspirantial work. I hope everyone enjoy's it as much as I do.

This diorama is called "Death of an Army" and is in 1/48 scale. It was a commision to a private collector and deals with the collapse of the 6th German Army at Stalingrad. I am completely blown away by the level of detail in this piece. The way the snow has been modelled to look like the wind has caught it and blown it across the tank just looks so good.

If you want to see more pictures of the fantastic diorama and check some of Paul's other works out, head on over to his blog through this link. I will promise you he has more goodies in the bag...

-Kasper

HM Cutter Alert - Diorama of the Day

"Alert" 1/48 scale scratch build diorama by Kazunobu Shirai.

All men on deck! The HM Cutter is in a very dangerous position in the hard storm and the crew needs to be alert.

I love when model builders are creating a story line in their pieces and this amazing diorama from Kazunobu Shirai is a perfect example of this. Not only is it a stunning model but Kazunobu truly shows he understand the sea and I have received information from a good friend and a professional seaman, that the sea and the ships positioning is very realistic depicted.

The model itself is not less impressive. The HM Cutter is a 1/48 scale model and is completely scratch build and hand crafted. The rigging looks great and the whole model just looks so damn good. Most the figures are converted from Tamiya German soldiers but it really don't show. I will be stopping by his website in the future to see what goes on in Kazunobu Shirai's workshop. If you want to see more of these beautiful ship models, please follow this link...

-Kasper

Rework of weathering of P-47 Thunderbolt

By Francis Lee


Model: 1/48 Scale, Otaki/ Arii kit

It was fallen on ground & broken more than a year and recently I rebuilt it and rework of weathering on Thunderbolt surface.

P-51D Mustang, Burma 1945.

By Francis Lee


1/48 Otaki / Arii Scale Model

This is the second plane I select to repaint, I built it 3 years ago and last week I mainly did the overall weathering, I masked the surfaces into small areas and applied darker/ lighter weathering. I found silver paint is easy to get dull (especally acrylic paint) , so I took these photos right the way.

Video of this Mustang

Japan Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa (Oscar) Fighter

By Francis Lee


1:48 Otaki / Arii Scale Model

I reently take a look of my old completed models and I try to repaint some of them, this is the first one. Hayabusa (Oscar), a classic war plane of Japanese Army.

Video of the model

C4 Open - Small scale vehicles

by Kasper Fischer

This is some of the best small scale vehicles from the C4 Open. It's is actually 3 different categories but I not sure which is which. The first class is kinda easy to spot because it all in 1/48 scale. I especially like the first one because it's not often you see this type of paint-job. It's is from  the Prague uprising in 1945. I have never see this scheme before but I'd really enjoy it. It might be a bit too clean but that's OK as long as it looks good.

The rest is 1/72 scale or smaller. This is two categories but I can't really distinguish between them. It's about skill level or detail level but I'm not sure. No matter what I was completely stunned by the level of details on some of the pieces. Especially some of the dioramas caught my attention. Amazing work...