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I can't read the kanji, but I'm guessing it's a sake stand.  Such a fun diorama!

My favorite)

I wonder how it didn't end up in the Over Achiever category. The tree, the tiny stand, the drunk tanukis... It's hard to find anything wrong with this model. Great job!

On 6/5/2022 at 11:17 AM, Kurtboard said:

I can't read the kanji, but I'm guessing it's a sake stand.  Such a fun diorama!

Well I am not entirely sure what it says, but I painted whatever google said was “ramen”. Looking back on it. Sake would have been much better! 

6 hours ago, DemiMurgos said:

I wonder how it didn't end up in the Over Achiever category. The tree, the tiny stand, the drunk tanukis... It's hard to find anything wrong with this model. Great job!

Thanks for the nice words! If you want I can list all of the flaws I see on it lol. 

8 minutes ago, ItsyBitsyFighter said:

Thanks for the nice words! If you want I can list all of the flaws I see on it lol. 

Don't be so hard on yourself.  The painting on the diorama bits is a little bit textured, but I assume that is because of the material used (it actually fits the flag really well as they are usually made of heavy clothing). Did you make the tree as well? O_O

6 minutes ago, DemiMurgos said:

Don't be so hard on yourself.  The painting on the diorama bits is a little bit textured, but I assume that is because of the material used (it actually fits the flag really well as they are usually made of heavy clothing). Did you make the tree as well? O_O

Yep, the tree is made from two different gauges of wire wrapped together, then covered in filler that I textured. The flags are dried baby wipes with super glue on them (I don’t recommend this as they have a really funky chemical reaction).

19 hours ago, ItsyBitsyFighter said:

Well I am not entirely sure what it says, but I painted whatever google said was “ramen”. Looking back on it. Sake would have been much better! 

For future reference, Japanese people never use kanji for ramen - it would be in hiragana or katakana - so it would look like this: ラーメン or らーめん *just for knowledge support - I've been living in Japan for the last 12 years and I've passed the highest level of the Japanese language proficiency test, so this isn't a random anime lover trying to drop knowledge *  I think the sign in the back says, "Village Tanuki", but the left radical on the first kanji is hard to make out. 

Anyway! This is a really great setup. The tree is amazing, the narrative is really funny with the placement. The paint job as well is stellar. All in all a great piece of work! Well done!

3 hours ago, Shock & Awe said:

For future reference, Japanese people never use kanji for ramen - it would be in hiragana or katakana - so it would look like this: ラーメン or らーめん *just for knowledge support - I've been living in Japan for the last 12 years and I've passed the highest level of the Japanese language proficiency test, so this isn't a random anime lover trying to drop knowledge *  I think the sign in the back says, "Village Tanuki", but the left radical on the first kanji is hard to make out. 

Anyway! This is a really great setup. The tree is amazing, the narrative is really funny with the placement. The paint job as well is stellar. All in all a great piece of work! Well done!

That's actually the kanji for tanuki 狸.  The stand is called 'Tanuki Tanuki', which is oddly fitting and cute for a bunch of tanukis.

I'm trying to make out the kanji on the gourd but I assume it should read sake (the first 酒 is definitely sake, but what's the rest? I see a bit of of "strength" and maybe a bit of "earth", but can't put 1+1 together for this one).

It's so cool to find a fellow Japanese speaker, albeit I only speak a very little of it as of now.

5 hours ago, Shock & Awe said:

For future reference, Japanese people never use kanji for ramen - it would be in hiragana or katakana - so it would look like this: ラーメン or らーめん *just for knowledge support - I've been living in Japan for the last 12 years and I've passed the highest level of the Japanese language proficiency test, so this isn't a random anime lover trying to drop knowledge *  I think the sign in the back says, "Village Tanuki", but the left radical on the first kanji is hard to make out. 

Anyway! This is a really great setup. The tree is amazing, the narrative is really funny with the placement. The paint job as well is stellar. All in all a great piece of work! Well done!

Thanks for setting me straight! I knew someone would be able to help with that. I’m going to repaint the writing soon. 
 

when I was painting it really was a moment of “Google take the wheel”! I can’t blame it all on Google as I also have bad handwriting! Lol! 
I really can’t even remember what it was supposed to say. I know ramen, tanuki, sake, maybe earth and strength? 
thanks again. It is always nice to learn something!

I love it. Such a great concept and so well done!