NO?!!!! yes.

I am actually building a *tank*. Just to know how it's done you know, I am very bad at tanks.

It's not that i don't like them it's more that I have only a couple of tank related ideas while when it comes to sea and boats I have 3 lifetimes worth of ideas and dioramas to do.

Anyway, I choosed a dog of a tank, the Russian T-26. Indeed I don't think all tanks can look well in a diorama, the eye slips on those that are too low methinks.

T-26 is quite high and not very gbig which suits my needs. if I am lucky with the model, it will end up in a diorama whose setting lies confortable inside my head.

a T-26 from Zvezda

So well how's Zvezda's kit? errrr,

Tet's start with the wheels, they are all done, it took me a week worth of evenings to trim, add some Grandt Line bolts a few photoetch bits left from the king Child to do those

T-26 wheels

T-26 wheels

I have been spending an evening looking at pictures of the Dniepr on Google Earth, fascinating tool and place..

Anyway, after albatross and seagulls I had a try at herons, the tip of the wings are done of CA glue coated paper, while the wings and body are in Green Stuff and Magic Sculp. The grey shades are Mr Surfacer.

herons

1/35 herons

I had one friend home telling me some nice icy effects didn't render too well on my pictures, so here is a video. Music by Thomas Köner, first track of the Teimo record.

As you may have notice the website changed dramatically. Actually I built the CMS all by myself, but with the amount of stuff growing it became unstable as well as buggy -so much that I didn't had any pleasure at all to work on it.

So I have been transferring everything on Drupal with -halas- a few things missing which means here all the old step by step I have been filling through the past 4 years.

I still have the files and might transform those in downloadable pdfs here on this very website.

To make for this change, I have been adding a new video page and already started to upload on Youtube the 2 first parts of a Galilée SBS video. The completed movie should run around 80mn once I edited it.

I also removed the Spacemen 3 diorama which I consider being a failure and added that very old Helium diorama in the gallery page

Helium diorama from 1993

 I promise next time i will detail a bit more the build process. I grew lazy on that one. Anyway, after 6 month of work that new diorama is finished! Thanks for visiting as always Pamyat Azova / The king Child finished