Schwimmwagen
By: Bernhard Bäcker
Awarded: Bronze
Manufacturer: Academy
Modifications:
The Driver is a modified Preiserfigur.
Description:
The Schwimmwagen is paintet with Tamiya Acrylic Paint. The Base is made from miliput and the fencing posts are matches. Unfortunately i have no Photos of the construction.
Modifications:
The Driver is a modified Preiserfigur.
Description:
The Schwimmwagen is paintet with Tamiya Acrylic Paint. The Base is made from miliput and the fencing posts are matches. Unfortunately i have no Photos of the construction.
Comments:
Judge 1This looks to be a good effort. The vehicle is nicely mudded up, with some nice painting on the paddle. The pin holding the vehicle to the base is unfortunately very visible. Try pinning through a ground contact surface such as a wheel to make this invisible. The figure looks good as does the landscape, though the transition of the grass to the road surface is a bit abrupt and linear. A bit of granular texture to the road surface would improve the look as well. The overall presentation and title unfortunately really offers no storyline or message that would normally be associated with a diorama or vignette. Good effort!
Judge 2
Very simple composition, yet very effective. While putting a figure of a clumsy goose trying to get off the road, you’ve perfectly outlined that the car is moving. All in all very dynamic scene. Terrain, on the contrary, looks quit and peaceful. Sunflowers, camomiles… we can believe the war is far away. I can’t say anything about how the vehicle is built since there is not preconstruction photo. Painting is even with some attempt of shading (am I right?), mud is also convincing, but mud without dust looks strange. And I’m not sure that the tyre of the spare wheel should be painted grey.
Judge 3
"Honk!" While you have created a fun scene with a lot of character, I'm a little uncertain about a couple of elements of the groundwork, notably the isolated giant daisies, sunflowers and the strange whip-like thing that accompanies them. While these are a nice idea, they just don't look even slightly convincing or natural. Perhaps simpler foliage grouped in a more natural fashion might have proved more effective. Your Schwimmwagen looks nicely built and well painted and the weathering is pretty good, with the possible exception of the mud smears on the wheels which look a bit arbritrary. Your figure too is simply but reasonably effectively painted and I do like your Goose!
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