After the Storm ( last of the Tractor dio's)

[dptydawg]

This is the last of my tractor dios. It is a winter scene set up to to display the Jeep Grand Cherokee and other models that would look at home in a pile of snow. The Massey is one of Ertl’s kits that I acquired at a toy show somewhere as a built up glue bomb. The sled is a Perry’s Resin kit, The Jeep is a Tamiya kit and the Ford pickup is an AMT kit. The blower is scratch built. I hope you enjoy it.
Thanks
Carl










And an overview

[Muleskinner]

Now that is a fantastic use of materials and imagination. Almost give you the shivvers just looking at it. Grand looking dio!!!!!!!

William

[calscustoms]

That is real cool, love the ideas you come up with!!! Cal

[rnagle]

First and third photos are especially well done - if they weren't posted here you'd swear they were taken outdoors of 1:1 folks.

[slurrydog]

Nice job Carl. That is just some outstanding workmanship.
Dave

[tufftin]

Okay! Cut to the chase. What did you use for snow?
Mike

[dptydawg]

Thanks Guys for all the kind words.
The snow is a base of blue Styrofoam with white bead board foam broken up to form the banks. I used drywall compound to fill in some of the gaps. The foot prints and tire tracks were cut in with a hot soldering iron. The snowmobile tracks were pressed in by running a gear along the track. The whole thing was painted with white latex paint as the base colour. I then used various shades and textures of white paint to high light various areas. I used a bit of glitter on undisturbed areas to simulate frost. finally I used window decorating spray snow fogged on from about 3 feet away.
This is what the base looked like before any paint.

I also discovered that one should not use water based markers to layout designs under white latex paint. It bleeds through many layers of paint

Thanks
Carl

[Ryan Rønning]

I love this. It is my favourite out of all of them.

[gator]

Really cool dio! makes me real happy that I live in Florida!!! But then again.... we get Hurricanes!!! They are no fun at all!! been there done that and got the t-shirt! For way too many..

be Well
Gator

[jfisher]

another great job!! looks real! do you go to model contests?
those are winners to me!

[bluemule75]

awesome work Carl

reminds me of home (Maine)

[ap40rocktruck]

Just outstanding! Like the scenes played out around here almost every winter. Great job on replicating the snow!

Ap40

[Robert Myers]

This is awsome! Besides being built so well, it tells a story.

[trailking120]

Lots of imagination here great job.

[bluemule75]

love the snow in this build it's just so Killer!!!!!