scratch building

[pibber]

(thank you guys for your kind comments )

BurtWolf :
I use very thin iron wire for the ropes to tie down the crates to the artillery. They are glued with cyanocrylate and fix with the help of a small precision clamp.
The ammo boxes and iron wire are painted together, then, iron wires are painted at last.

No problem for imitation, it's also in this way that I learned a lot of things in models or figurines making.

I love so much your engineer trailers, I need few of this model and boat trailers too.
I hope that GHQ will not be too late to produce them someday because time passes...

[CBoy3]

Pibber, great work as usual! You always choose interesting prototypes, and execute your conversions and scratch builds really well. You are an inspiration to many! Please keep posting!

[chrisswim]

If you have scratch built items post pictures here.

[7.62]

The long awaited S-300 support kit I needed.



Radars and command.








Added to the missiles

[panzergator]

Pibber, 7.62,

Good eyes, good fingers. Talent and skill. Very nice work.

[redleg]

Those look awesome!

[Mk 1]

Bit of an old thread, and unhappily most of the pics have been lost due to Photobucket's more recent policies, but there may still be items of interest in here, and hey, who doesn't want another thread with 1/285th eye candy ... so I am re-posting something I placed in the "Show Us Yer Stuff" thread, and may follow it up with some more of my recent scratch-built stuff.

In my gaming experience, minefields are usually just marked with a paper chit on the table or some such. Mien Panzer even comes with cut-out counters you can use (as your paper chits) to mark the location of your minefields.

Having seen marked and wired minefields used in several game AARs of games in larger scales I felt … shall I say … left out.

So I have created a few marked minefields for my gaming terrain.



They were pretty easy to make. I cut out 1 inch by 2 inch (approximately) rectangles of sheet styrene, put some fence posts around the perimeter, put a bit of acrylic gel with earth-tone paint on top, flocked 'em, and ran a thread around the fenceposts.



I did two of the bases with diagonal edges, to provide some level of flexibility. They might go alongside other terrain (like rivers or hills), or they might be put together into a network of fields that provide "access" for infantry patrols to go out, but channel any attack coming in to make it vulnerable to bunching up and flanking / grazing fire.

A simple and quick project, but something I've never had before.

-Mark

[Mk 1]

So why resurrect an old thread if I'm just going to re-post stuff a second time, right?

Well because I'm also going to post something new.



This is a scratch-built structure I thought I might post up. I haven't done one of these in a loooonnng time.For lack of another term, I'm calling this my Technical Institute. IDK, maybe it's a factory? It's a big building with only a limited number of windows ... maybe a home for the institutionalized?



It's made from a styrene "bubble" off of something I bought at a store. I think it was a car part. I just tore off the plastic to get at whatever it was I bought, looked at the plastic, and said to myself "self, you can make this into something." So first I spray primed it in gray, then I put it in my garage and aged it for a bit more than 2 decades. Recently I found it while looking for other stuff, and thought maybe I could/should finish it.

And so I have.



The plazas are also scratch-builds. I plan to use them mostly as town squares, but here I put them around my Technical Institute. The one in front is based on squared styrene sheet, with flocking and a button out of the home sewing kit as the town fountain in the center.

I used to create scratch-built structures quite often back in the days when there wasn't a lot of commercial product available to spread around my game tables.


Here are some more examples, originally posted from about page 5 or 6 in this thread (back some 15 years ago!). Again the large building is a scratch-build from some product package I tore off of the cardboard. But back then all I did was paint them up. Now I add doors (cut from card) and windows (cut from screen). Not a whole lot of skill development in 15 years!

And the planes, in this case Mig-21s, were scratch-built back in the late 1970s / early 1980s. I don't scratch-build planes anymore....

-Mark

[BurtWolf]

Like the minefields Mk - good work!