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Mr James
Very well done. The weathering is just right. Looks larger than 1/72

Guy Rump
Very impressive. 👍

gorby
Excellent result!

Chris T. An
This is the first time for me to tackle a complete resin kit. And when I look at the individual parts, it will be a real challenge. There is an extreme amount of rework needed on each part. Hope I can get it to work.

Finn
Best of luck, it will be interesting to follow

Michael Kohl
I am in too

Robert Podkoński
I will watch with pleasure and interest too.

Alex K
A 3D-printed PZL Dromader???!!! Following for sure!! (The Grand Models cast-resin kit is perhaps above my skills - and I still wait for the Karaya injection one...). Your ag-aircraft & ground equipment dio will turn... monumental! 👍

Marcel Klemmer
Very interesting project👍 I am in

Villiers de Vos
Very nice progress on an unusual subject.

Chris T. An
Thank you all for watching. Alex, I also saw the Grand Models kit for the M18, but I was frightened from some build reviews, there is a lot of rework to do on that kits. I have now the same or a bit more work, but I got the 3D file for free from Thingiverse.

I am really not a Pro in sratch building but I will try to engrave some panel lines and add some more greeblies to the plane. The 3D file is very poor in details.

Alex K
Nice progress! 👍

Robert Podkoński
Fantastic Dromader! (I wish I had one... I have no access to 3d printing, alas...😭 )

Chris T. An
Robert, you can have a look to the Grand Models resin kits. I am much more disappointed that there is no kit in 1:72 and no 3D file of a PZL 106 Kruk. I would spend some money on that because it would fit perfect to the Dromader and Cmelák.

Robert Podkoński
Actually, that is something that makes me angry too - I would love to see (and buy) decent kits of "Wilga" and "Kruk" (not mentioning PZL M-15 "Belphegor" 😉 )... but apparently no Polish manufacturers are interested in preparing these.

Alex K
Guys... let's look a bit at the bright side: who would have thought a few years ago that one day (today!) there would be kits of the Cmelak, the Dromader, the Grumman AgCat (in both 1:72 & 1:48!!!), the Piper Pawnee?! Some are short-run, some are cast-resin, some are 3D-files-to print - nevertheless, something is slowly moving towards that direction! So, yes, I do hope too there will be someday a Kruk available in 1:72 or a Belphegor! And your buys of such kits and your modelling work proves that there's some interest in such topics! Keep it up! 👍

Robert Podkoński
You're right, Alex 🙂 "Always look on the bright side of life..." 😉

Robert Podkoński
I am afraid there is a spelling error on the decals, Chris... I see "Dromedar" instead of "Dromader"... The plane looks awesome!

Chris T. An
Robert, I can understand that it is confusing, but in the GDR, "Dromedar" was actually used. This is the German translation of the word. Feel free to search for pictures of it, here would be an example: [img1]

Robert Podkoński
I have not known about that, sorry Chris... That's really interesting.

Alex K
Nice trivia... and as Robert said: it looks awesome!

Bernhard Schrock
Dromader: An outstanding result from such a simple kit!

Neuling
Everything top notch here! But what about the excavator? May a combined diorama?

Chris T. An
The excavator is still coming. I haven't dared to go any further yet. Let's see, maybe I'll get motivated again in the fall/winter. 😉

Neuling
👍

Michael Kohl
Very well done Dromedar. Anxious about the excavator.

Villiers de Vos
Fantastic work on the crop duster.

Chris T. An
It is not easy to find out with which lettering the excavator was delivered in the color used in the respective year of construction. I'll have to see which decals I print out.

Ben M
What a great project! You got an amazing result with the 3d printed aircraft.

Mark Sherwood
That's excellent, I operate a CAT M3050 Material Handler at work, very similar. Weathering on the grabs are spot on. 🥸👍

Spanjaard
that is looking amazing, and it is not yet finished.....

gorby
Fantastic work so far.

Chris T. An
Thank you guys. So now I can set all the small projects into place for the final diorama. Think I will need one more figure to show an excavator operator.

Łukasz Gliński
That excavator looks insanely real 👍

Michael Kohl
Just saw one cycling in the Erzgebirge and can only agree with Lukasz. Weathering is spot on.

Finn
Awesome!

Robert Podkoński
Fantastic job!

Bernhard Pethe
Genau wie ich den T174 gekannt habe. Super! 👍

Chris T. An
So I finally finished the complete diorama. Hope you like it.

Ben M
It's wonderful!

Robert Podkoński
Awesome job! Chapeau bas!

gorby
WOW, stunning dio!
Is the digger going to grab the Trabant? 😄

Alex K
Oh my... Deepest respects!

Spanjaard
fantastic!!!

Michael Kohl
Chris, maybe you mentioned it somewhere, but where do figures and Trabant come from? Maybe you can even add those to the project's kit list.

Guy Rump
Very impressive and unusual dio. 👍

Desert Marlin
Gotta watch this one!!!

Desert Marlin
Looks great so far!

Petr Kreps
Thanks Desert😉

gorby
I agree. Very nice work so far.

Guy Rump
Following too! 👍

Rui S
I'm in. Great figure painting 👍

CaptGPF
I agree with Rui - you've nailed the tank, but the figure painting is even more impressive!

Kim Branders
Chipping proces in progress......

Matt
amazing work on the figures and the chipping and paintwork are also fantastic

gorby
Incredible figure painting!

Marius
Followin another one of your beautiful works.

Ken Kolenovsky
Incredible painting on this diorama. I absolutely love the modulation on the tank. Quick question: are you still perfecting the rubble? The reason I ask is that all the bricks are pristine. They distract from the excellent tank work you have done. IMHO some bricks should be broken to achieve the "destroyed building" look. Sorry if I have offended in any way with this comment but I am really looking forward to the finished production!

Kim Branders
Thanks ken, good remake about the bricks. They are already glued to the base but I will see what I can do 😉

Michael Razz
Hey Kim, U werk gaat er echt op vooruit knap gedaan met die modder onderaan.

Kim Branders
Thanks Razzie 🙂

Mr James
Lovely work. Beautiful figure painting excellent 152.

Rui S
Great figure painting & Dio, indeed 👍

Doubtingmango
Agree with everyone above! Great dio, and the vehicle and figures would be fantastic as stand alones. Where did you get the figuree? I love the story there!

Kim Branders
Thanks Doubtingmango, The figures are from Stalinggrad and Evolution.

Kim Branders
Adding a little bit more details between the bricks.

Olivier
I like this one. And as some fellow members pointed out, the figures do stand out.

Guy Rump
Looking great, following. 👍

Stefan Schacht
nice 👍

Dave Burgess
Was going to take some pics of it lit up, but I can't find the right power brick!

Torsten
😎 👍

Mr D
👍👍 Nice.

The Airfix ones just look right, well done... nice model 👌

Guy Rump
Very nice build. 👍

Mr D
Very smart 👌👍

Guy Rump
Very nice build! 👍

Tim
NIce

Villiers de Vos
Steady progress. Did you light the stern?

Thomas Wirsching
Great job so far! I would love to get an explanation about how to do these LED lighting in detail as I have no idea about this.

Hang Li
Thanks Tim, Villiers, and Thomas. I did put a led for the trolled sonar bay back at the stern. It is apparently not bright enough to be really visible. Probably not noticeable after finished.

I prefer to use Led tape light as it has build in resistors so I don't need do calculation to figure out the resistor value. Once that is sorted, what left is just connect the led unit with a battery and a switch. I think it is better to ask a trained electrician as the circiut I built don't last long and I don't really know why.

Michael Kohl
I expect modelling of the highest quality from your bench. So far I am not disappointed. 🙂
Keep it up.

Treehugger
Hm, how long did it take to make the nice looking ocean surface? It certainly looks like a fun project.
I wish I knew how to make such ocean surfaces, as it really seem to complete a model with such a diorama.

I am no expert on led's but my impression is that one has to be careful that the voltage to the led's is controlled to specs, so they don't burn out shortly after and end up being un-repairable inside the model. Also, something about connecting led's in parallel, pattern iirc, to avoid one dead led blacking out all the rest of the leds in a serial connection, iirc.

Thomas Wirsching
Your build is already mindblowing; 漂亮]!

Tim
Your sea base is looking really nice.

Hang Li
Thanks Treehugger, THomas and Tim.
As for the sea base, you can check a YouTube channel called ''studio blue ocean'', I basically followed his videos. And treehugger did a pretty good summary for LEDs. The voltages is very important and it is always needed to put some resistors in series to potect the LEDs. The size of the resistors can be calculated with ohms' law. There are small circuit boards for LEDs which can be used to make everything easier.

Rui S
Impressive work 👍

Villiers de Vos
Fantastic work with all the photoetch parts. Your attention to detail shows.

Thomas Wirsching
Getting better and better; can you please show us a detail picture from the inside of the hangar? Did you build this from scratch?

Hang Li
Thanks, Rui and Villiers. I just masked the hangar as I am going to paint the outside. I will get better hangar photos once finish. The trumpster kit comes with the hangar and the ceiling is in good detail (I only add LEDs to the ceiling). Only the walls need additional work to add details, like handrails, supports etc.

Ingmar Stöhr
Wow! Fantastic detail work and great job on the weathering and the base!

Gary Victory
Really nice work Hang. Looking like a great build.

Villiers de Vos
Fantastic finish.

Ingmar Stöhr
@Hang Li: For the 'oil canning' effect. Did you have accurate plans for the frame spacing or how did you come up with the pattern you used? I have to say that is look really convincing after some more weathering effects are applied on top.

Hang Li
thanks Ingmar, Gary and Villiers. As for the 'oil canning' effect, I found some photos which are somewhat visible for this effect as reference for the pattern and I have to simplifie the pattern to make it practical. So it is not quite accurate. I got some pre-cutted masking paper in 1mm, 2mm, and 3mm and I just picked one that I believe is most suitable.

Ingmar Stöhr
Thank you for the explanation! It looks convincing to me! Keep up the great work!

Michael Kohl
That oil can effect worked really great.

Miguel Vaquero
Amazing build!! Did you use resin for the sea base? If so, how did you manage to make that rough sea surface? It looks amazing

Jörg Schäfer
Great job. 👍

Thomas Wirsching
astonishing build and breathtaking seascape. Hats off to your talent!

Guy Rump
Looking great, following. 👍

Ricardo Reis
Following!

DuperScale
Following with interest

Guy Rump
Following. 👍