EXPLODING BRIDGE DIORAMA | For Whom The Bell Tolls

#diorama #bridge #scratchbuild
In this video I recreate a scene from Ernest Hemingway’s, For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Materials:
Balsa Wood
Bass Wood
Wood Glue
.040 Styrene
.020 Styrene
Plastic Cement
PVA Glue
Super Glue
Hot Glue
Styrene Rods
XPS Foam
Toy Car
Plaster
Supplies:
Hand Drill
Utility Knife
Hot Glue Gun
Soldering Iron
Ruler
Pencil
Wire Cutters
Sand Paper
Tweezers
Paint Brushes
File
Candle
Paint:
Rust-Oleum Flat Grey Primer
I used a variety of Vallejo paints and some cheap acrylic hobby paints for the rest.

[@NorthoftheBorder]

I've been looking at making some little scenes using humvees that I want to "blow up" and I've been humming and hawing over whether to buy them or not. You've convinced me--time to just make some of my own! Outstanding work, as always.

[@TheNorwegianBadger]

Love your tiny nerdy things as well. Don’t think I’ve seen the “blowing up” project… maybe the dragon?

[@TheModelorian]

Are you kidding me? You scratchbuilt a WWI soviet truck? You're living the dream!!! If I could, I would give you 10 likes for that video.

[@mr.pissedoff1903]

Not Soviet if this is before ww1.

[@pochoroque]

When doing explosions like that, I recommend fiber optic fibers at the end of each smoke tip, some cut closer and others long, it gives the effect of embers/burning debris flying

[@philRminiatures]

Awesome job, the explosion effect adds a lot...nice tribute to Hemingway!

[@Boylei]

Thank you!

[@jastudios1233]

I think I have watched almost all your videos

[@darrenpinnegar5740]

your LED and cotton ball skills have come a long way since this one.

[@manlymanyo2511]

Man. I just stumbled across your channel today. And my God. I havent got any work done cause i been binge watching. Your work is incredible. Absolutely incredible. Keep em coming.

[@EinfachArni]

All those LED art in your models... just great! I would love to see more of those cotton led things in future models 😍 i start to get happy like a little child every single time YT highlights a video of you 😁

[@karstonchristensen3236]

Now that is what I'm TALKING about!

[@tonywatson4019]

Your skills and ability to visualize what you build completely amazes me outstanding talent I just discovered your videos and now I find myself watching everyone that pops up keep up the great work

[@primus1873]

“If it had been a hot wheels” like it!

[@luizdelsoto]

This scene from the book! So good!

[@wallabaatar]

This is excellent! So good, in fact, that it inspired me to post this quote by John Donne: No man is an island, Entire of itself. .. Each man’s death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.

[@Boylei]

Great poem!

[@Shatterpath]

The cotton work is excellent and I think you did well with what you had in those LEDs.

[@scraniel8431]

It’s shame watching you during school I don’t get to full story. Atleast I get to witness you build masterpieceses

[@susanellis1849]

You’re really talented and art

[@diyhometheaterguy]

Very well done for a scratch build and I liked the story as you were building it. Well done!

[@hazonku]

I know you wanted an epic movie explosion but as someone who's thrown quite a few grenades I'd say this is way more accurate & the strings of shrapnel flying out look great!

[@PyrozPlayground]

I friggin love your channel! The work is so detailed, and the whole thing is just so calming. ☺

[@monsterforge884]

You did a fine job, lad! The scratch-built truck really inspires me! I think the explosion looks great!

[@alienracer3391]

Don't beat yourself up about it, it is superb, the explosion from grenades would not have made a massive one, it's all in scale and believable 😎. 👽

[@dontevenworryaboutit6962]

never thought of using fiber optic tubes as sparks, very clever!

[@timothyewing]

Masterful Job Sir!! AND so much of the diorama was scratch built!! Extraordinary talent!!!

[@mikelarry9044]

You did a great job

[@davestinyworkshopotherprojects]

Nicely done. I tried that same flicker LED + cotton wool idea for a crashed and burning X-Wing diorama that I built. I had the same trouble with realism, ended up thinning out the cotton a lot, especially inside, making it a little thicker outside than inside. It worked.

[@ironmike8227]

So much details, great work.

[@AshesWorkshop]

Great work, ¡No Pasarán!

[@jacooper]

love that you scratch built the truck! looks great!

[@VC27]

Awesome job done there! You are a very gifted scratch builder.

[@loganburke3083]

Do another explosion diorama. And blow it out of the water. You almost nailed it.

[@-RM-]

Very nice. This reminds me of the movie "Bridge on the River Kwai". Recreating the Kwai River bridge as a diorama would also be cool!

[@mistac5050]

Another awesome build

[@lestermcgroogster7193]

Incredible...truly incredible

[@justinhealey2408]

Great Job!!! since covid jump started my past love of modeling I have been acquiring stuff* and you have become my favorite teacher!

[@slartybartfarst55]

Incredible work!

[@_PROXIMITY_MINE_]

This is awesome

[@LovJinxx]

Wowie the details of the bridge are super impressive! Then you went and made the vehicle FROM SCRATCH!?! Crazy awesome and some mad skills there my friend

[@willthorson4543]

Now this is different. Lol.looks like the one from the movie. Definitely Check It out. The bridge blowing up was pretty awesome for 1939. And on the armor? It was mostly Russian and German from the 1930s. Both those countries used the Spanish civil war to test out equipment and tactics.

[@anidiytech4265]

Good of dioramas

[@Coleslaw-qr9gl]

Bro matchbox started 31 years before HOTWEELS But for real nice job it looks great

[@droduez1]

Bro! Come on, freaking awesome!

[@johnband3]

MAD SKILLS, MY FRIEND.

[@Chewbacca6334]

Great work as usual, but Matchbox is not an "off brand". It is a much older company than Hotwheels.

[@j0sph]

Matchbox is made by matel which is the same owner as hotwheels. Fun fact of the day. I'm just a year late 🙃

[@linesiosouza9057]

Trabalho incrivel

[@karengilchrist9774]

I thought the explosion effect was really good but maybe just a little small. That might be why you didn't like it? That troop transport was awesome!

[@Maxstam.]

I think it's actually really good I'm kind of disappointed that you didn't paint the size of black 3.0 and I think you definitely should have put something under the bridge like maybe epoxy resin or something

[@adriengadson3544]

May not have turned out as you would like , but nice thinking outside the box with the tuck and exploding bridge.

[@thejamesbondshow9754]

Van you please do a diorama of the exploding bridge Afghanistan scene from the James Bond film The Living Daylights, including the big plane that flies over and drops the bomb 😁🍸

[@billrogers6256]

Am no expert much less novice...but will say it looks fandamnedtastic!!....n yes that novel should've been read in jr. high.

[@j3054]

One more thing.....YOU MADE A TRUCK!

[@Josy395]

Nice build! Would have been fun to see a disco explosions 😂

[@Boylei]

Thanks, man! Maybe next time I’ll do some sick light effects.

[@patrikhjorth3291]

"Disco Explosion", wasn't that an album by Taste of Honey in 1979?

[@staib25]

Time marches on...

[@spadexalon5385]

This is really cool ! Perhaps the problem with the painting of the car is that the light of the explosion isn't represented on it so it feels like the car is not apart of the scene (excuse my poor French English, sadly I'm not Hemingway !).

[@sclogse1]

I'm imagining a diorama from Nightmare Alley.

[@jorgaliasbubu_ontour6117]

Super

[@destinycaptain247]

You called Matchbox the off brand… there was a time when it was the main brand and another time when it was neck and neck with Hotwheels…

[@paulguthrie4857]

Now it's the same company.....lol

[@allenmutschall4080]

I was going to say just that, Matchbook cars have been around long before Hot Wheels.

[@j3054]

Ok. I’m convinced you are Adam Savage. We’re gonna need some I.D. Your work is on a whole other level than I’m used to seeing in this topic. It’s like an MLB player showing up to a little league game. I’m going through your channel and loving all your stuff! I know diddley about how to make money with KZbin, but you should be. I’m going to be spreading your channel name around to hopefully get you more views and subs.

[@Boylei]

Again, thank you so much for your encouragement. Adam Savage is, not surprisingly, a huge inspiration of mine. I wouldn’t compare the quality of my creations to his, but honored that you would!

[@kpc7744]

u shouldve played “for whom the bell tolls”

[@wildbillsworkshop3410]

Basswood is Bass as in the fish. Feel free to google "Basswood Pronounce". You do some stellar work. Keep up the great hobby work.

[@Thertra70]

Yeah I think the leds just needed to be brighter

[@breakbuildrepeat4571]

What technique/material did you use in the truck canvas to make it fall like it had a good weight to it? I'm working on a quilt for a bed in a book nook and that part had been the biggest hurdle. Thanks.

[@Boylei]

I pressed down gently in the middle of each span and right along both sides of each arch. I did this while it was mostly dry but still slightly malleable. Send pictures of your project when it’s done!

[@breakbuildrepeat4571]

@@Boylei what type of fabric/material did you apply the mod modge to?

[@Boylei]

Break Build Repeat oh sorry I missed the “material” part. I used a dried wet-wipe.

[@TheGrayfrog100]

OH I SAY!! Matchbox is not off brand! LOL

[@PtrOBrn]

Looks good... challenge- the demolition of the hogwarts bridge .

[@seb12game9]

do an edible diorama

[@nizarreto4069]

try making a diorama for the movie fast and furious five. at the time of car theft on the train.

[@lauradunham4508]

Is this a rail bridge or a road bridge?

[@agamzxhv11]

3:52 Did he just say matchbox is the off brand company? It’s not, it started it’s own business but then hasbro wanted to take their idea so they manufactured the same cars, but matchbox couldn’t find a way to make the wheels spin smoothly on the cars so hasbro took their advantage, and they used plastic strings as the axles holding the wheels. Soon everyone thought they were original and matchbox was basically forgotten.

[@johnphilippatos]

I grew up with Matchbox back in the late seventies. Hasbro and Mattel were nowhere to be found here in Greece at the time. So, while technically matchbox is not the parent company nowadays, it seems to me that it really is in terms of concept.

[@barracudalake1607]

how much foam do u have

[@alexvanansem7806]

When is the next Wild west vid i need it ❤

[@coloradotrader7202]

Clicked for Metallica stayed for Hemingway 😂

[@BritishBeeMan]

Wait... was it actually a Matchbox car or just a cheap brand? Matchbox are the original.

[@flyingmako]

This may be the first time you didn’t ‘call it good.’ It was good though😊

[@Christoph-sd3zi]

I never knew that Hemingway wrote a book based on a Metallica song.

[@johnphilippatos]

When you cut the bridge NOOOOOOOOO!!!

[@jt.creation_yt]

This is so cool to look at. But if you don’t like it why do you remake it now! 2 years later

[@SomthingMachine]

3:50 Just casually roasting Matchbox. lol

[@UnitSe7en]

Is Matchbox an "off-brand" miniature car producer? -No, no they are not. He was not roasting Matchbox, you fscking numpty.

[@SomthingMachine]

@@UnitSe7en lol, chill dude... he literally says he cut the wheels off a matchbox car, but wouldn't have done that to a hot wheels. "But the offbrand was ok." He was quite literally roasting matchbox.

[@UnitSe7en]

@@SomthingMachine Did you not read what I said? Matchbox is not an offbrand. Those are also not Matchbox wheels. _"lol, chill"_ Fuck off, you moron.

[@SomthingMachine]

@@UnitSe7en hahaha. Not sure why you're so angry, pal. He's the one that called them offbrand, and I was pointing out that he was roasting them. It's at the 3:40 timestamp. My original comment was just time stamping the last bit.

[@UnitSe7en]

@@SomthingMachine Not sure if you're _actually_ as dense as lead or if trolling.

[@firstnamelastname9444]

MAKE HIS FIGHT ON THE HILL IN THE EARLY DAY CONSTANT CHILL DEEP INSIDE SHOUTING GUN, ON THEY RUN THROUGH THE ENDLESS GREY ON THEY FIGHT, FOR THE RIGHT, YES, BUT WHO’S TO SAY? For Whom the Bell Tolls, right? From Ride the Lightning? Metallica? Lol

[@user-ku7rg9ml9q]

YOU DO KNOW THAT HOT WHEELS IS THE OFF BRAND

[@Dontwlookatthis]

This reminds me of a video from the Ukraine war where Ukrainian commandos went far behind enemy lines to blow a railroad bridge that was crossed by trains transporting tanks and other weapons of war into Ukraine.

[@m0ssy_]

I thought basswood was pronounced like the fish

[@dy9955]

Matchbox cars predate Hot Wheels by 15 years. Hot Wheels are the "off brand".