Nice work Gary, great little build although alot of patience and time needed i suspect! You've definitely got much more patience than me! 😂 Looking forward to the next part. Great stuff mate 👍 👏 👊
Hi Gary, on the subject of sanding I had some glass cut to the size of the sanding sheets as used on electrical sanders, and then used spray adhesive to fix different grades on each side. Keeps the paper perfectly flat and the abrasive on the other side holds it in place on your building board. Didn’t cost a lot and ensures any sanding of objects is on a perfectly flat surface. Keep up the interesting content…👍 Best Regards Gary
you can easily add smashed glass to the windows using glass microscope slides , put the slide in a plastic bag, smash it and super glue the pieces to the frames , works well .
Thanks, Gary. There are a lot of really handy tips in this video, not the least of which are the do-it-yourself tabs inside the walls. Looking forward to Part 2!
More to it than l thought Gary but looking forward to the end result the thing is this can be any diorama.....now l have to think about dioramas too 😮 nice one Gary👍
Looking good, Mr Evans..! Don’t forget bullet / shell pock marks on the walls. Think that most of the window glass would have been blown out by blast or shot out, so wouldn’t be much of it in the frames. Maybe have a framed picture hanging haphazardly on one of the inside walls, too? Looking forward to seeing how you progress this nice little dio! Best wishes from Wirral, as ever. 👍🏻
@@garys_stuff Think CD case plastic might be a bit too thick, tbh, Gary. Maybe try acetate sheet? It would be easier to cut into shards to fit frames and for the floor area underneath the window. I used this to do same on a ruined house base for a German anti-tank gun and team many moons ago.
I have been trying to get some buildings in 1/72 scale for a diorama. I managed to get an old Airfix one. They don’t seem to make them anymore. I guess they did not sell.
Gary with the windows, may I suggest using the frames as templates to cut out whatever clear material is used /before/ the frames are glued in the model? Probably easier and you're guaranteed they fit :) Also at 11:20 ish.. may I suggest putting the piece at 90 degrees so what you cut away is always against the mat? That may be easier too.
Cool Gary! Is there a pump for the well? The vac-form tips were very interesting - reminded me of a vacform and white metal Stingray I made mid 1980's! Wish I had seen this before building that 😂
Could be village idiot syndrome lol🤗 Can you remember the plaster of Paris diorama sets with plastic finishing in the mid 1980s around 86 I remember buying them with my pocket money Probably Yugoslavian made I remember making a railway gun Emplaced I was only 12 going on 13 . It's bugging me
And to think we used to build vacformed aircraft in the dark ages of modelling! 😁 It’s a cracking kit by Miniart and looks like the perfect diorama setting for that truck and GIs.
Vac Form - No thanks, horrible stuff! Endless cutting, sanding, filling, sanding, gluing, sanding then finish of with some sanding! I am working on a Normandy diorama just now with the Heller ruined building set which went together well and is 100% injection molded. Just my personal view of course but compared to this kit it appears better in every way.
Great progress on the diorams, looking forward to the next installment, best regards from a Kiwi living in Australia 👍👍👍👍
Nice work Gary, great little build although alot of patience and time needed i suspect! You've definitely got much more patience than me! 😂
Looking forward to the next part.
Great stuff mate 👍 👏 👊
Nice as allways gary. Thank you for sharing. With sticky greetings from good ol'germany. Christian
Great video I never knew some parts were vac form thanks for the info
Hi Gary, on the subject of sanding I had some glass cut to the size of the sanding sheets as used on electrical sanders, and then used spray adhesive to fix different grades on each side. Keeps the paper perfectly flat and the abrasive on the other side holds it in place on your building board.
Didn’t cost a lot and ensures any sanding of objects is on a perfectly flat surface.
Keep up the interesting content…👍
Best Regards Gary
Excellent tip!
you can easily add smashed glass to the windows using glass microscope slides , put the slide in a plastic bag, smash it and super glue the pieces to the frames , works well .
Microscope slides - that's a good call, thin enough and brittle enough - thanks!
Thanks, Gary. There are a lot of really handy tips in this video, not the least of which are the do-it-yourself tabs inside the walls.
Looking forward to Part 2!
More to it than l thought Gary but looking forward to the end result the thing is this can be any diorama.....now l have to think about dioramas too 😮 nice one Gary👍
Yes, the basics are the same for many pre-made diorama sets like this - a mix of vac form panels and injection moulded details.
Looking good, Mr Evans..!
Don’t forget bullet / shell pock marks on the walls.
Think that most of the window glass would have been blown out by blast or shot out, so wouldn’t be much of it in the frames.
Maybe have a framed picture hanging haphazardly on one of the inside walls, too?
Looking forward to seeing how you progress this nice little dio!
Best wishes from Wirral, as ever. 👍🏻
Yes, I'm inclined to create some shards out of CD case plastic and stick them in haphazardly, maybe have a few bits of frame broken and singed.
@@garys_stuff Think CD case plastic might be a bit too thick, tbh, Gary. Maybe try acetate sheet? It would be easier to cut into shards to fit frames and for the floor area underneath the window. I used this to do same on a ruined house base for a German anti-tank gun and team many moons ago.
cool build on the channel keep up the good vids thanks lee
I have been trying to get some buildings in 1/72 scale for a diorama. I managed to get an old Airfix one. They don’t seem to make them anymore. I guess they did not sell.
Strange to describe a Water Pump a 'fountain'!
Maybe it's an odd translation from Ukrainian!
Gary with the windows, may I suggest using the frames as templates to cut out whatever clear material is used /before/ the frames are glued in the model? Probably easier and you're guaranteed they fit :) Also at 11:20 ish.. may I suggest putting the piece at 90 degrees so what you cut away is always against the mat? That may be easier too.
Hi Gary! I don’t think there would be a lot of glass left in those windows after a blast like that!!?🤔,a few splinters perhaps!
That's what I was thinking, some kind of shards of plastic to look like shattered windows. Acetate probably won't do...
Cool Gary! Is there a pump for the well? The vac-form tips were very interesting - reminded me of a vacform and white metal Stingray I made mid 1980's! Wish I had seen this before building that 😂
No there's no pump. I'm guessing they imagine it as a spring source needing no external assistance!
Looked for this on-line its now out of production, shame really
Hi Gary... is there a part two and I missed it?
Not yet, I did the fountain in a separate video but haven't finished the diorama yet...
@@garys_stuff Yes I saw the fountain. Great work 😊
Could be village idiot syndrome lol🤗
Can you remember the plaster of Paris diorama sets with plastic finishing in the mid 1980s around 86
I remember buying them with my pocket money
Probably Yugoslavian made
I remember making a railway gun
Emplaced
I was only 12 going on 13 .
It's bugging me
Don't remember them, I'm afraid, my model making didn't extend to backgrounds in those days!
Gary, I think you have mislabelled the title of the video.
Well spotted, thanks!
Really useful video on how to work with vacform. Thanks.
And to think we used to build vacformed aircraft in the dark ages of modelling! 😁 It’s a cracking kit by Miniart and looks like the perfect diorama setting for that truck and GIs.
Vac Form - No thanks, horrible stuff! Endless cutting, sanding, filling, sanding, gluing, sanding then finish of with some sanding! I am working on a Normandy diorama just now with the Heller ruined building set which went together well and is 100% injection molded. Just my personal view of course but compared to this kit it appears better in every way.