Resin Water went WRONG! | Italeri 1/72 DUKW Build and Diorama.
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Hi folks, In this video I Build the Italeri DUKW in 1/72, I also make a resin diorama, and boy did I end up making a mess !
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"In the back of my mind I knew this was stupid, but I did it anyway". We've all been there! :) Seriously though, that was an epic recovery. Great job!
Thanks Mate ! Sometimes we do questionable things but it all adds to our learning and experiences !
Despite all the challenges, you managed to achieve a very cool diorama! It is so frustrating if products don't work like they should do.
Absolutely sweet build! I think the water looks fantastic :)
Edit - thanks for the shoutout at around 9 mins! It is indeed time to prime!
Ooooh! Great diorama James. My Dukw model waiting for me maybe 1 or 2 year))) Now i have motivation to work! Thank you my friend!
Thanks mate, Go for it !
I think showing your mistakes and how you learn from them and progress from that point is incredibly valuable and takes some guts in the "stormy sea" of the internet. Props to you James for your honesty and showing everything here in such clear and deliberate steps. Water bases aren't easy, but you adapted and pushed through, and I'm sure the next one you do will be so much better for what you learned along the way. Thanks for a great video and lovely build.
@@MannsModelMoments thanks Alex ! I'm all resined out for the time being, at least at this volume and scale , it was a good learning experience !
You got AK'd! - Also, you didn't do it wrong, you learned how to do it right. Great job, i know myself how daunting dio's are, and especially dio's with resin, thats why i've yet to do one, so Bravo Zulu for having the bollocks to do it.
I really wish my ups were as good as your downs! 😂 Great build and educational as always. Thank you so much for sharing all the little accidents along the way.
Thanks for watching! I think it's important to show the good with bad, mistakes are part of life and are good to learn from, even if they can annoy us sometimes
The end result is great James! It's always questionable when trying a new technique or product and it goes south, but you saved it in the end!
Nice save in the end! And nice diorama. When you showed your blackish ocean, I figured you could've pretended it was oil from a nearby stricken vehicle or vessel... ;)
I keep procrastinating on using my resin for a water diorama, so thanks for sharing the pitfalls you encountered! Great video quality as always!
I didn't think of Oil ! Thanks for the thoughts. There's no better way than getting stuck in. I always have the problem of procrastinating when there is a tricky step coming up, the fear of things going wrong is real ! But usually things are salvageable.
Top job! Thanks for the shout out...happy to help 😊
@adeofbass it was much appreciate mate thankyou ! Sometimes finding the right figures is a right pain 😁
I think you got a really good result in the end. Its only in really calm water in this part of the world that you can see through to the bottom. There is a guy on YT called Laser Creations who does a lot of diorama's and mixes resin by the bucket load but he only uses the very minimum of tints in the resin. It almost looks clear when he is pouring it.
Thanks Allan, you're right 100% . No better way than to learn by doing !
Yeah, great result in the end and interesting to see the products in application.
Thank you!
Absolute quality build that turned out to be! I did have a slight anxiety attack when I saw the black resin being poured. But you nailed it in the end as always James! 👍👍👍
Thanks Marc, wasn't one of my finest choices but all came out in the end !
That took some balls to persevere, well done on the result
Thanks mate 😀
James, is wonderful diorama 👏👏👏👏
Thanks a lot !
I think it came out good afterall!
The water gives a nightly feeling so I wonder if making it a "shadow box" would look good?
A pitch black box with stars made out of tiny opto fibers. Give the water a high gloss finish between the waves so that the stars sparkle on the water surface!
After the show of course...
Give us an update 😃
That's a good idea ! Thanks 😊
An excellent job despite the somewhat opaque sea.
I've always had a fondness for the DUKW
Thanks man ! Didn't go to plan but the rescue went OK lol
Great result - DUKWs are such cool things
They are. We used to have one up till the 2000s locally as a ferry
I think you totally Quacked it. I'm here all week and don't forget to tip your modeller.
Cheques in the mail 😆
I understand your frustrations but you pulled it off. Fantastic.
Many thanks Alan
Hey James, I commend you for pulling through! I would have thrown mine in the bin, but I understand why you had to finish. I guarantee that your next resin build will go a heck of a lot smoother!
Thanks mate ! Yeah usually I'm pretty good with staying power with a project but It was pretty close to the bin half way though
Nice build James and nice recovery from
“The big mistake”. It’s tough to power through that and finish for sure. Stunning results as usual!
Thanks Zach ! Yeah it was satisfying to fix.. if a tad annoying to start, I won't make the same mistake twice lol
Superb built mate, love it! 👏🏻
Thanks Dave ! 😊
You did a great job saving this. I think I would have boxed the edges in with some balsa and just forgotten about everything under the surface, since the surface was already opaque. Its important to realize that the color of water comes from light interacting with its depth. This means it has to be an additive result of all the layers you intend to use - you cant just pour a dark layer on top if the sides will be visible. Lessons learned though, and I'm sure your next water dio will be ace. Thanks for sharing - I've always admired both your talent and your honesty with your audience. Cheers.
Thanks Vorpal. I would have loved to do something different to the base but I was under a bit of a time restriction, the show was upcoming and it needed to be posted with enough time to negate any post issues ! I thought about wood, I thought about cutting it to a thinner depth too.
The additive depth thing wasn't something I considered. The coast here is very similar to normandy, and on top it's green grey, and under if you open your eyes it's murky green, and to my mind that was what I needed to do without thinking of the how's and whys behind things. It was a bit short sighted of me in retrospect. I'll have to bear these in mind for next time thankyou !
Great save! Turned out really well in the end.. 😎😎😎
Thanks Sera ! There were many clenchy moments. Nice though that I didn't have any real problems with the resin, just the planning.
We've all been there... Getting carried away in CAD then checking the reference and realising OH FK! Nemesis follows Hubris...😌
Hi James - great effort despite all your challenges, I beleive it’s turned out wonderful, cheers Liam.
Thanks Liam !
Thanks James, came out great! 🤩
Thanks Chris ! Loving the diorama textures, always finding uses for them
@@lpjmodels Glad to hear that James!
The sun went down and the water has a darker appearance, looks fine.
Cheers !
Wow what a build. Very impressive water effects.
Glad you like it!
Nice work man and great recovery, well done 👍
Thanks William !
I no way is the end result a failure. Nice save, and I guess we learn something new everytime something needs fixing.
Thanks !
got this to do next on my list, looking forward to this stream
Hope you enjoy it !
Love the seaweed. Top tip for earth and small rocks - Go to your back garden, field or park. Crush it up and strain it through a tea strainer. Another source or materials is your pet shop. You’ll find chinchilla dust and aquarium gravel are very cheap and will have lots of uses on dioramas.
Thanks for the tips ! For longevity I'm wary about introducing too many microorganisms with soil, but have had chinchilla dust in the stash before. There's lots of products and items around if you look carefully when out and about
I enjoyed this
Thanks a lot 😀
That was a fantastic vid, the final result, even after the ups and downs, came out fantastic! Hard to believe it’s 72nd!!
thanks Andy !
Fabulous results.
Thank you! Cheers!
It looks just fine to me. Has night feeling to me. I assume they continued off loading operations at night.
That's a good point 😀
Looks phenomenal mate, really nice work! Also the lack of British/commonwealth figures is a problem in any scale, you can have anything you want as long as they're German or American, otherwise good luck, because they're a bit like hens teeth
At 25:49 you used AK Water Gel Effects instead of AK Water foam (not the same thing). Water gel effects are used to imitate wave shapes and dry to a transparent finish while the Water foam remains white. Anyways I think you did an amazing job with water👌
@argonaut1462 well that's on me for not looking properly. I ordered foam and because the packets are almost identical I missed that... whoops. My bad
In my experience, top layer is clear to give water depth. Maybe a light tint best. I've painted the base with sponge and 5 colors if the river bed is seen and solid when not. Mainly water color is in second layer.
I was trying to replicate what you see in reality, sadly it doesn't work too good for model water due to the depth limitations
@lpjmodels I would advise trying as I think you'd be surprised. In one case, we were modeling a large area representing 50 to 100 ft of water depth but only had 1 inch of actual depth to fill with color and clear. We tested half a dozen methods and simply sponge painting the base with 1 light tint, and then clear was enough to create the effect in an important iconic structure.
Even the better modelers on RUclips nail the textures but not the depth of water. I swear no one looks at large bodies of water. Real water, no matter what color, cleanliness, or depth, is always clear to 1 or 2 feet. The color comes from below in sediments or river bottom.
Cool. 👍
Top JOB
My late father drove one in the USMC
Hi, your work is excellent. Could U please tell me what brand of the these figure you used?would
The amphibious vehicle should have an open breakwater in the water.
@@krzysztofg.9675 not always
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Thankyou !
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can we see you paint a model with just enamel paint and brush
Maybe one day but i have a lot planned already. Did you see @model minutes PM Models Sea fury? He does exactly that.
Slow clap for you blaming AK products when you didn't research how to use them before hand... Much like your not researching how to do a water diorama first. I mean it's not like you do this as a RUclips channel or anything...
Jokes on you man, I did the research, I'm just incompetent.
@@lpjmodels Love this! @Enemy0fMine1415 What a dumb comment - so RUclips modellers are all meant to be omnipotent modellers? So stupid.
jesus, the AK fanboyz are out in force on this one. 'It MusT Be YoU NOt AK ProDuCTs' - Fuck off mate. AK products are a bag of wank.
cry some more m8.