MixvsMinimax

Hello, today I made my first cast of the deep intake for the Platz/Italeri X-47B in 1/72. The parts are rebuilt parts of the original kit with an additional fan for the F110 engine. They need only little work for removing the casting seams. Orders can be done via, PM or facebook. PS: The next item will be the Nozzle and the APU exaust. cheers Alex

New item! Epidexipteryx hui in 1/72 If You sculpt the smallest known dinosaur (skeleton lenght) in 1/72, You get the smallest known dinosaur model in the world. Epidexipteryx sits in a big brachiosaurid track pond and takes a bath. Beside a dramatic scene happens somewhere in the direction of the track. A Theropod of the size of a Yangchuanosaurus followed the sauropod (track upper right).

Salute! The next items are: Dracorex hogwartia in 1/72 looking for Mr. Potter in the rocky terrain of the Rocky Mountains. The kit has 15 parts. 1 base, 1 body, 1 foot, 2 arms and a couple of spikes. Stygimoloch spinifer in 1/72 Stygimoloch is probably identical with Pachycephalosaurus and Dracorex with Pachycephalosaurus as the adult stage. I have chosen the Muskox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskox) as paintjob reference. The kit has 15 parts. 1 base, 1 body, 1 foot, 2 arms and a couple of spikes. Microraptor gui in 1/72 inspecting a nest hole. Because Microraptor is quite micro in this scale, it is sculpted to the tree. The kit has 2 parts. 1 base and the tree trunk. cheers, Alex

Thanks a lot!

And once again a new "beast" has left my production garage. Protoceratops andrewsi, 1/72, Mixvs Minimax ..is watching its nest. Its again a small 2-parts kit. One base (with casted legs) and the body. Paintjob-reference is the Springbok (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springbok). BTW, this kind of camo (bright downside, sand/brown upside with contrast-stripe between) seems to be witespread in the recent fauna. Hi everybody, Last weekend I looked at my Velociraptor and thought: Thats a damn boring base! Thats a predator and let's place it's kill under it's feet. What a luck, that I have finished Velociraptor's prey (Protoceratops). cheers, Alex

Hi everybody, the mentioned kits of Coelophysis and Velociraptor are finished and ready for production: Velociraptor mongolensis, 1/72 - Preparing for attack. (The fingers have to be cutted to lenght from the provided wire.) PS: Painting refers to Maned Wolf. And now it becomes nasty: Coelophysis has the eye of a Placerias....in its hands. PS: Painting refers to Spotted Hyena.

Here we go with the finished master of Placerias gigas, 1/72 - a late triassic Dicynodont. The next one will be Protoceratps.

Hi hi hi my drugies! There is a new item in the portfolio: Coelophysis bauri, 1/72 Coelophysis pulls an eye from a shortly passed by young Placerias.

@Roktman: I think I will have done it at the end of the year. In the moment I need to clear my modelling table from other models. But Velociraptor is almost ready. The bases are already done. Velociraptor stands in dry stram bed and Proto takes position to defend his nest. Unfortunately they lived in very dry areas, so there are not so much choices to desing the base. Proto needs some more work at the legs and the head.

My Velociraptor is on his way. I had to make a break. But I also start modling its main prey-Protoceratops. There is a found, where a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops killed each other. My scene will show the 1st stage of the fight: Checking each others strenght. @Paul: Thanks. :-) Purple dinos go home!

The next step: Meanwhile I start fill the nose shape with with Milliput.

Here we go: The main problem was in the first step to find something like a pipe with the right diameter which can be used for the fuselage. I took me some time to it find but finally I found the matching thing in the warehouse. A duster. It has the right diameter and is glueable. The wings and fins are made from 2 mm hard plastic (also from the warehouse, but unfortunately its not offered anymore) which where sanded to get the profil for the later covering with sheet or PE. The "random" is a cast from a F-104G. The formers are done and some of them will be cut out for the nose wheel bay. The first 2 formers from right will disapear in the fuselage to help to get it straight. The 3rd has the same diameter like pipe outline. The next problem is the intake. The outside is the inside of the wheel bay. That can be get tricky when I start to detail it. Before that I can't close the intake with engine parts ( intake scratch, noozle Eduard). The intake is inside formed with formers and miliput and the colorfull plastic-thing is taken from a yoghurt cup. I heated it up with a soldering iron to get it in shape.

Salve! Maybe someone has already ssen this. But anyway, 4 years ago I finished my 10 years old scratch built projekt of an E-10 and the scratch-building kept going the freaky way with the diorama. The tank is scratch built with a little use of kit bashing and has a complete interior, scratch of course. The freaky thing with the diorama is, that the leaves are printed on (60-80 g) transparent paper and scissored piece by piece. It took me severeal month to cut the at least 3000 leafs out and I don't think, that I will cut so much leaves again piece by piece, but the result looks too cool. Here we go: The interior: The granades are from Tamiya, the floor is an etched "channeled sheet" from Aber. The canon: Grey parts are taken from Dragon's Hetzer. Completed Interior: Note the back side of the seat. The roof: The yellow resin part is a cast from Revells Jagdtiger. Its matches perfectly. The scmall resin parts are casts from Dragon's Hetzer. Details outside: Again the yellow parts are casts. The wheels are casts from Revell's Jagdtiger. They shall show that it might be easier to use existing material instead of developing new wheels. The small supporting wheel is a taken from a late Panzer IV. The "turning wheel" is from Friul. The Drahtgeflechtschürzen are taken from a flat sieve, which is used to cover the pot to prevent fat drops messing Your kitchen. PE-Parts are taken from Abers late-Hetzer Set. The tracks are from an Dragon Panzer IV track-set. The Notek-Scheinwerfer is a Tamiya part. Painting: The finished tank: The Figures The turtle is a stud, the fishes and bird are scratch built. El Commandante (all men are from Dragon) Diorama Acer platanoides (left) and Acer pseudoplatanus (right). in summary around 3000 leaves and around 50000 times shnipshnap with the scissor.... It took me 3 months. In that time I watched 200 episodes of a broadcast where a german astrophysic-professor explains the universe very cleary. Effekt of single cutted and assembled transparent leaves Here are some pics, showing the whole ensemble. Its not under sunlight, but it looks pretty damn like that. Salve!

F6U? That fits! The landing gar wheels could be taken from a F-84.

Salve! I am planning to scratch the elegant Regulus II. I couldn't identify the wheels yet. I guess that the wheels where taken from existing planes. The nose wheel looks like an early F-8A nose wheel. Does anyone knows more about? (the pics linking to primeportal MQM-15)

Thanks. There are definetely Drameosaurids. Velociraptor will be one of my next projects. Its quite tiny in 1/72 because in origin he was only 2,0 m long. I already collected sceletal drawings abot Your first pic. I guess its the american Therizinosaur Falcarius. In case of museums I know a small but really great museum in France. Oui, oui.

@ghodes: I washed the wooden parts with burned sienna and after 1-2 days I sanded the parts a bit. Lime wood (Tilia) is the best wood which allows that method. It has a smooth surface, which sucks the color. The plastic wooden parts are in the first step painted with R314 and then washed in several steps with burned sienna with a rough brush. The men at arms are of course painted by myself. But for the shields, the flag and the eagle on the standard I made decals. @ BryanKrueger: I put some drops on the ropes and so they "fall" naturally. I press them a bit to the ground and ready.

Salve! Some of my works from the last 2 years regarding medieval Trebuchets. All scratch and in 1/72 (exept one). The Stone-thrower machine or Pierriere of the 11-15th cent.- the 1st step to the Trebuchet. Meanwhile I brought the ropes with the help of water to hang around naturally. Built with wooden strips. The Bricole of the 12th-15th Cent.- the 2nd step to the Trebuchet. Built without details at one evening. Meanwhile I brought the ropes with the help of water to hang around naturally. Built with wooden strips and plastic for the metal parts. The Mangonel of the 12th-15th Cent. - Rebuilding the Zvezda-kit. I added some beams (wooden strips) and scratched a new counterweight (100% plastic). Its scale is more 1/35. I want to build a 1/72 version. Maybe with a bogie wheel. The Trebuchet of the 12th-16th Cent.- with moveable counterweight-under byzantine flags around 1161-81. The dio is named "The last restauration". Built without details in 4 days and with wooden strips. The details and the rebuilding of of the figures from Preisers Tank-soldiers to byzantine soldiers took of course more time. The knights are from Zvezda and were only a bit rebuilt. The Couillard - The last step in the evolution of Trebuchets. In Service from 14th-16th Cent. Built with wooden strips. The metal parts are plastic.

Salve! Hui! There are suddenly so much posts here! The dinosaurs above are all made by David Krentz, avaiable at http://www.urzeitshop.de/37-Bausatze-Zubehor or http://stores.dansdinosaurs.com. Mr. Krentz changed to 3d-sculpting. Acrocanthosaurus (the grey/brown one) is a 3d-print. Unfortunately the layers can be seen. I would appreciate it, if Mr. Krentz would returned to sculpting by hands and Milliput. I have my own lable, named of course MixvsMinimax, which I haven't published here yet. I see I should do it now. The following creatures are sculpted by myself in 1/72 and can be ordered by writing me a PM. There are others creatures waitng for painting and so completing the kit: (but there are avaiable too) Deinonychus (legs are thinner now and the "wings" a bit more narrow) Mammthus Pteranodon Quetzalcoatlus There some detail work left to do: Dracorex Stegosaurus Stygimoloch Here we go: My first model (yet avaiable at urzeitshop) Therizinosaurus cheloniformis, 1/72 (1st edition) Kelenken guillmeroi, 1/72 The terrorbird of Patagonia with a 70 cm long skull in 1:1. Don't mess with him! In the kit are: 2 types of bases 2 types of wings 1 foot 1 body Gallimimus bullatus, 1/72 The fast runner known from Jurassic Parc 1, where Mr. Goldblum & Co. had to hide behind a falled tree. The kit content: 2 types of bases 2 arms 1 claw set 1 foot 1 body And one of the smallest dinokits of the world: Conchoraptor gracilis, 1/72 ..stealing an egg. The kit: There are only 2 parts: base and body. A short discription and the assembly instruction are printed/glued to the inside of the box. Mononykus olecranus, 1/72 while he examinates a termite dome. The kit: There are only 2 parts: base and body. A short discription and the assembly instruction are printed/glued to the inside of the box. and a Caudipteryx zoui, 1/72 facing a crab on its beach walk. The content iof this kit. 1 base 1 body 2 sheets with alternative feathers for the hand and for the crab: 2 scissors and 2 types of wire for eyes and legs A short discription and the assembly instruction are printed/glued to the inside of the box. The upcoming kit will be the Woolly Rhino Coelodonta antiquitatis, 1/72, walking through the Taiga. cheers! Alex

Just to do something for Dinosaurs and other animals in 1/72: Achelousaurus vs Styracosaurus (Kit by David Krentz) Achillobator (Utahraptor-kit by David Krentz, . But too small for a Utharaptor. Achillobator is better) I gave him new fingers. Afrovenator attacks Jobaria (Kits by David Krentz) Jaobaria hips are in front view 30° ou of angle. The legs have to be cut of and assembled in the right angle. Apatosaurus (Kit by David Krentz) Chalicotherium, painting in Tapirstyle with single cutted leafs. (Kit by David Krentz) Gryposaurus (Kit by David Krentz) Saichania walks in desert Gobi (Kit by David Krentz) Tenontosaurus (Kit by David Krentz) Corythosaurus (Kit by David Krentz) Triceratops (Kit by David Krentz). The head is not symmetrical. The colouration is based on Bonteboks. The blooms of the flowers are really small blooms, collected in the nature. Tyrannosaurus (Kit by David Krentz) stepping just in the flowers. other will follow soon

Salute! Greetings from Germany. I decided to enter this forum, because there You can find a lot of quality. I hope I can contribute in good matter. My fields of interests: nearly everything. From trebuchets, to Dinosaurs, from planes to tanks, from rockets to submarines. cheers Alex