C4 Open 2015 - Part II

Second and last part of pictures from 2015 C4 Open. This time around it's a mixed batch of airplanes, armour, dioramas, cars and miniatures. Hope you'll like them.

C4 Open 2014

Last week I had the great pleasure of visiting yet another installment of C4 Open, my local modelling exhibition. As always, there was a massive amount of wonderful kits, although I could also observe some rather worrying trends - number of dioramas was decreased noticeably when compared with last couple of years. Hopefully it's not an indication of things to come. Anyway, a bunch of pictures was taken by yours truly and is ready to be viewed in galleries below. Hope find them to your liking.

Arnhem vignette - Part II

A Sunday afternoon put to good use - basic layout of the Arnhem vignette is clobbered together. Shoddy worksmanship (on my part, that is), but considering my limited experience with diorama buildning and the fact that I am pretty much shooting of my hip in regard of the concept as well as the layout, it will have to do.

Arnhem vignette - Part I

And now, as they say over to something completely different. An online modelling group I belong to has announced a group build. The topic is operation Market Garden, due to the fact that the 70th aniversary of its start is just around the corner. To begin with, I intended to ignore it, but then I remembered that I have long, long time ago purchased  a 1/35 scale British Paras set from Dragon. It seemed like a good occasion to do something with it!

After a bit of pondering I decided to try making a little vignette with two of the miniatures. While I had a general idea of the concept and layout, I needed to know the size of the miniatures before starting the work on the vignette scenery. And so, here are the two minis in semi-assembled state. Left arms are not attached to make painting easier. Brass rods have been inserted in holes I bored out and will serve as holding pins during painting process and then be re-used to anchor the figures to the bases.