Building a Schwimmwagen river crossing diorama (1/35 scale model)
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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Building a Schwimmwagen river crossing diorama somewhere on the Eastern front. Materials used include: XPS foam, Vallejo acrylic mud products, epoxy resin, and grass tufts. Includes weathering the Tamiya Schwimmwagen Type 166, painting German WW2 oak leaf uniform camouflage, building a wire frame tree, and creating a river from epoxy resin. I also get to recover from a rather nasty mistake when using the two-part resin.... You can buy the Schwimmwagen kit here: www.hlj.com/1-...
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It's good to see humility and showing mistakes during your build. We all make them and I actually like the muddy river effect. 👌🏻
Thanks David, I appreciate that.
I know it was a shame to lose the river bed detail (and a great save there by the way) but to be honest most river banks look murky brown anyway. I think it looks fantastic as it turned out 👍
Thanks Simon.
Simon Moss could it be that your resign did needed the “torch treatment” to get the bubbles out? I have had a similar experience and that soltuon worked well. Nice work anyway!🇳🇱👍
Nerd sounds not quite right, I would say artist extraordinaire
Thanks Paul. But I take 'Nerd' as a compliment too :)
Nice dio and tutorial. One comment however. You put the Grossdeutchland marking together with SS number plate. GD was no W-SS division.
Hi Tony. You're surely right (I have no reason to disbelieve you :) ). That's definitely an area where I am a bit slack - checking for little details like that, and making sure units are in diorama settings appropriate to the front they actually fought on.
Nice catch is so glad I wasn’t the only one
That's what the bank should look like anyways. You didn't ruin anything.
Thanks Joe.
Beautiful end result, thank you.
Thanks Gary
The best save of century right here
Haha, it didn't feel like that at the time, but I'm happy with it now :)
The model gods threw you some lemons. And you made some good lemonade with them. Good job.
Haha, nice way of putting it - thanks Jon.
Very good work!
Thank you Jose
Nowt wrong with that lad looks great 👍
Thank you mate
Excellent recovery but more important is sharing when things go pear shaped. Happens to us all but good to see someone acknowledging when the model gods conspire to mess with hard work.
Thanks Dennis - I agree completely.
Absolutely amazing pal 👍
Thanks Chris
Very nice diorama!
Thank you Ernie.
Thank you for sharing. It muat have been a heart wrenching experience once you saw the result of the set resin. Fair play to you for not throwing it out. AND showing it to us. I d call the finished product a happy accident 😎 and knowing the story behind it makes it even better for me.
Thanks Hanno. Yeah, I must say the end result is growing on me. I'll just have to do a clear water / shallow stream in another dio :)
I want to try and do epoxy resin dioramas and I'm scared for that to happen , those mass amont of bubbles forming how can I prevent this?
The main problem is heat generated by the resin as it sets. I had a very limited choice of resins to choose from, and it turns out this version produced a lot of heat. I'd recommend 'low heat' ones if you can find them, plus doing a test pour to a similar depth.
@@ModelNerd thank you that was very helpful
it looks great
Thanks Deborah
It's very beautiful video my friend ! Thank you so much for your sharing ! 😍😍😍
great save 👍
Indeed! Thanks!
Thanks for sharing. Great save of what could have been a real mess. I'm impressed.
Thanks Perry.
Where did you get the figures?
They're a Tamiya kit - "German Panzer Division Frontline Reconnaissance Team" (kit number 35253)
Nice job, excellent recovery from disaster! I expected you to spray gloss coat over the front and hood of the wagon to mimic water, did you decide it wouldn't look realistic?
I didn't think about that to be honest! If I did it again I'd brush on some varnish or Wet Effects for sure.
Excellent fix on the river. Wonderful skills, aI am thinking in building a diarama for my Schwimmwagen, and SDKfz 251/10 command halftrack. Thanks for the inspiration. Cheers 🍻
Thanks! Good luck!
Is it difficult working with the water like resin? I’ve never done it myself but am checking videos to learn how to and have never seen that result on any video that I’ve watched.
Depending on the type, resin can produce a lot of heat as it cures. The heat speeds up the curing, which creates more heat and causes these bubbles. Unfortunately it is hard to know in advance if this will happen (though some resins advertise themselves as 'low heat' varieties. The resin I used was a generic brand - brands aimed specifically at model making should be better (and more expensive).
Personally, I like the murky brown water effect and got a similar dio in mind with a damaged SW and crew.
Thanks Simon. Looking back, I agree - a totally clear river would not look as good. There is a certain foreboding quality about murky water.
Bumped into this by chance. I built one of these Tamiya models 41 years ago. Great recovery on the water!
Thanks. Yep, it's a classic kit - like the Tamiya 6x4 Krupp truck and the Flak 88.
Fabulous diorama!!
Thanks Mark.
Well this is what I call a fortunate accident... I have a paper model of a PTS-M amphibious tracked carrier, and I was thinking of making a diorama of a 1997 flood in Poland, which would require me to partially cover it with water; but, because it's a paper model, resin was out of the question.
With this video in mind, I'm now considering priming it with a paper varnish, inserting it in a hole in a styrene base, pouring a thin layer of plaster around it, then painting it light brown and covering everything with medium gel, to imitate the murky browny waters brought by the flood. Should work about fine.
Sounds great. Good luck!
I think it turned out great despite the issues ! And honestly the wheels would've kicked up a whole mess of soot and dirt as it entered the river. I rode in one of these at a military airshow / reenactment day, years ago (on land only). Very interesting vehicle for sure. They are surprisingly smoother to ride in then the allied Willys MB & DUKW.
Thanks mate - glad you enjoyed it
Very nice work and a great 'save' of the river. Any idea what happened to cause all those bubbles?
It was a runaway thermal reaction I think. The curing resin creates heat which causes it to cure quicker, which generates more heat.
Just the air trapped in it did you use the flame torch over the top of the resin when it was wet to release the air bubbles? Just one of them small kitchen flame torches does it fine but abit of the AK water foam for waves would have fixed it it's just one of those things I think we have all experienced at somepoint when something is going to good eh! There's always something that stops us haha, That's what modelling is all about though now you have that experience and a fix for if it happens again in future it only betters us as modellers! Well done though looks good 👍it's happened to me aswell I done the same painted it merky green with a small top layer of resin over that and that AK foam water stuff for making white horses (waves)
Thanks Charlie. Yeah, I've seen the flame method but tbh this was my own fault for using cheap generic resin - this wasn't so much a few bubbles as a runaway exothermic reaction - it even melted the model kit plastic! That'll teach me not to be a cheapskate!
I never seen this video. I didnt know you were a teacher, that's cool broseph.
Thanks Rick
Beautiful dio you have done,nice work and nice thought to make the river dirty after the problem you've faced. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks mate.
YES THAT WAS A GOOD SAVE STILL LOOKS OK.
Thanks Alan.
probably should of used colored resin
A nice subject and a wonderful work, truly impressive!
Thank you Phil.
Hello Mate ... thanks for the nice construction video ... I think it's always the key to have success in every little step in this process ... but ... we all knew ... that's not how life works ... there's always something going wrong ... I'm glad you did not throw this nice piece away ... the result night be not what you expected, but it still looks amazing ... I love it it Mate :-) .. thanks for sharing ... cheers
Cheers, thank a lot for your comment.
It might have looked more realistic if you'd used a real twig for the tree, and real mud for the mud, or is that cheating?
The problem with real mud is it can sometimes go moldy when used in a diorama (when I made this I lived in a very humid country). You're right that real twigs etc can look good, although they often need painting too because otherwise the scale does look a bit out. Nature is such a hard thing to model, that's for sure.
That's one beautiful build brother I just subscribed to you
Thank you - I'm glad you enjoyed it.
i watch any of your videos always entertaining what type of metal did you use for the tree really good
Thanks Paul.The wire for the tree was just some random stuff I picked up in a craft store or a dollar store :)
Your video popped up in my recommendations and WOW this turned out really great. I’m currently working on a Sherman easy 8 Fury build I’m using that Vallejo mud effect stuff it’s great to work with and looks very real.
Thanks Brian. Good luck with your Easy 8 - have fun!
look's alright,good save,pity it didn't work out like you hoped.
Thanks
Nice save, I think it looks great!
Thanks Greg.
Great save. Looks superb 👌
Thanks Bob
Great work. But I'll bet you missed the tiny detail I saw. Why would green leaves fall from their tree?
Very nice Diorama,love it!👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Nice recovery but unless I’m not seeing the mistake as mentioned, looks like running water in the river. Yes on correcting the seeping into roadway. Either way, mud cover over water in river looks fine. Thanks for this and other tutorials..
Thanks Ed. The resin was so bubbly I think the crew would have been quite insane to have tried crossing! Glad you liked it.
That looks amazing. Great idea!
Thanks
So great diorama , schwimmkubelwagen 1/35 scale , excelent painting and weathering . It's looking so great !🎩👌
Thanks mate.
Love these small dioramas
Thanks
Good job and nice idea!
Thanks mate.
Model Nerd, I think it turned out great and more how it should have looked in reality anyway! Good job.
Thanks mate
Just came across your channel by chance and glad I did. While you may not have completed the diorama as envisaged you did a sterling job in recovering what could have been a throw away disaster. The muddy river actually looks really good. I have subscribed and will check out your other builds. Congrats!!
Thanks Robert - much appreciated.
good save man I really hate it for you that you lost all that hard work you put in on those details I have had things happen that I wasn't expecting too I think we all have but you did a good job saving it
Thanks Joshua
this vid came up as a recommendation. great work. What wire do you use for the trees and where did you source it? thanks in advance.
Thanks. It was just random wire that I bought from a local art shop if I remember correctly. I can't remember the gauge, sorry.
Brilliant work of art mate! Looks class👌
Thanks Steve, I'm glad you like it
Sehr gute Arbeit! 👍
Thanks Thombie.
Nice dio and nice save on the water too . Regards Gav.
Thanks Gav. Yeah - not as nice as it would have been, but lesson learnt!
Nice vignette.
Cheers Mike.
Nice save.
Thanks Clayton.
Love this video, love listening to you talking about what you do and not only music. Love that you didn’t give up on the resin problem.
Thanks mate.
Good work
Thanks Norman.
Nicely done. Great video.
Thanks John, I'm glad you liked it.