Topic: Hemble's Dio's 2- "Get to your fighter" 1:48 02/06/2024

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[hemble]

Hi All,

The Echo base dio is almost completed I just need to add a little more snow. The Trooper has had the joints glued and sealed and painted and weathered using Vallejo paints and the karma is dried baby wipes re painted.

Ron

[hemble]

Hi All,

The Ice cave dio is also nearly done I just need to added two more layers of Woodland Scenics Realistic Water to it. The trooper has had it's joints glued and sealed and it was painted and weathered using Vallejo paints.  The karma was made using a dried baby wipe and then repainted

Ron

[JDeck]

Awesome dios. I never thought to use water effects for ice. I usually use silicone gel, water effects work great. You ever think of using the 1/10 artfx statues. That might cut into your margins though. Im thinking of doing that myself, those artfx statues are almost as good as Bandai, but expensive.

[hemble]

Hi All,

Awesome dios. I never thought to use water effects for ice. I usually use silicone gel, water effects work great. You ever think of using the 1/10 artfx statues. That might cut into your margins though. Im thinking of doing that myself, those artfx statues are almost as good as Bandai, but expensive.

Thanks heaps JD, water effects is great as is realistic water as that gives it a more natural icy look where water effects gives you the depth.

I have never thought about using artfx as one they are to expensive and two I like to do all the work on the figures myself.

Ron

[hemble]

Hi All,

Assault on Echo base completed.

Recipe

Snowtrooper - is from Hasbro's BS 6" line and I glued the joints and covered them over. The hands and weapon are from Bandai and I removed the Hasbro hands and cut the armour off and glued them onto the Bandai hands.

I also removed the rubber karma and replaced it with a dry baby wipe folded over and painted. The whole figure was painted and weathered using Vallejo Paints.

Base - is made using balsa wood and foam board, I made the wall and ceiling double thickness and peeled off one side of them and used a soldering iron to make the excavation marks.

I then made a partial walk plate using plastic card and glued it into place. I then used watered down spakfilla and covered the base with it and once dry I gave it a few washes of Vallejo white foundation.

The hoses at the top are from an old fish take pump and the bottom power cords are from an old charger. I used thin metal as brackets. The stalagmites where done using Woodland Scenics Water Effects.

The vent was made using plastic card and the grill section is from a plastic fly swatter. The steam/vapour coming out of the vent is cotton wool pulled apart, then the last thing I did was to add snow over the hoses/cords using the left over watered down spakfilla.

Ron

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Hi All,

SW Battlefront Ice Cave Assault.

Recipe

Snowtrooper - is from Hasbro's BS 6" line and I glued the joints and covered them over. The hands and weapon are from Bandai and I removed the Hasbro hands and cut the armour off and glued them onto the Bandai hands.

I also removed the rubber karma and replaced it with a dry baby wipe folded over and painted. The whole figure was painted and weathered using Vallejo Paints.

Base - is made using balsa wood and foam board, the ice wall and ceiling was made using high density foam and glued inplace. Once the foam was dry I then covered the dio in watered down spakfilla and let it dry for 12 hours.

Once dry I painted the ice section with Vallejo Dark blue and then covered the ice sections with Woodland Scenics Water Effects to give it some depth. Once the Water Effects was dry I then used Woodland Scenics Realistic Water mixed with a little light blue and covered the ice sections.

Once the first layer of the mixed Realistic Water was dry I then added two more layers, I than gave the ice sections three coates of Realistic Water and then let it dry.

Once this was dry I then gave it a a mix of Realistic Water with a tiny drop of Vallejo Foundation White and lightly dapped it over the ice sections to give it a bit of a frosty look. The thing I did was two more layers of Realistic water and then added the snow using watered down spakfilla.

Ron

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[Tamer]

Both of those dioramas turned out well. I like them both. Off to share.

[hemble]

Hi All,

Both of those dioramas turned out well. I like them both. Off to share.

Thanks heaps Shawn, I was worried about the ice cave dio as all the previous pics showed the ice dark blue but thank god for natural light

Ron

[Tamer]

From my Playstation4 plays it looks spot on.

[hemble]

From my Playstation4 plays it looks spot on.

Cheers Shawn and yeah I don't know how games I played to get the look I wanted LOL.

Ron