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Historical Dioramas And Figurines. - Nack - 08-06-2006
Very cool.
One tip I know for winter battle scenes, you dig up roots from a bush, small tree, etc, and invert the roots to make them into trees without leaves on them. You can also take braded non-synthetic rope (which is brown) and cut it into small sections to make tufts of dead grass/etc.
Historical Dioramas And Figurines. - Taz - 08-06-2006
Esteban,
Starting to look good
Way back i used to make model tank kits although at that time the selection wasn't as large as it is nowadays and i converted a lot of standard kits to make variations using plasti-card, plasti-rod and other availiable materials.
Radio Ariels i used to make from lighting plastic and stretching. damage mudguards with a hot knife etc.
Most was the small 1:72 scale though.
regards Eddie
Historical Dioramas And Figurines. - Dolf - 08-06-2006
Esteban_cool Wrote:Hello gents,
since everybody is showing their projects and dioramas, I thought I´d also give it a try.............. but there are some unfinished details (like the mud on boots, buttons and leather straps) and I can´t find the stuff necessary for building the scenery, like trees, soil, walls, extra equipment and that kind of things.
Esteban,
Try a good modeling store in your town.
You'll find everything you need there.
I guess your models are 1:35 scale.
Anyway, for the grass, you can use artificial grass that is used in those HO scale dioramas for miniature trains.
Same for bushes, they exist in different colors, green, yellow.
Trees also exist, but for a 1:35 scale model it's better you built it/them yourself.
In a good modeling store you'll also find different sheets featuring different kinds of soils, such as roads, etc
You can also use real sand (the smallest type the better), from a piece of a real brick, that you smash into small pieces until you obtain the right size for the scale you have wreckage from destroyed buildings.
Tamyia, Esci, Verlinden and a lot of other manufacturers have a lot of these accessories you need for your dioramas. That includes destroyed walls, with red bricks at 1:35 scale, houses, ruins, you name it... as well as guns for all countries involved in WWII (and for any other war, btw), decals, road signs, sand bags, etc...
And anything you can't find, you can do it yourself (as for the wreckage mentioned above).
The bridge on one of my dioramas shown above was entirely home made with plaster. The windows too, with matches and transparent plastic.
Most of the sand bags used on the second diorama were also home made, as you can make them look better than those you buy, I use Miliput for that.
Use wood white glue for gluing all your wreckage, sand, road sheets, etc, to the base of your diorama. You may have to use plaster and/or polystirene (spell?!) to give shape to you base, depending of what you want to do, if flat or not, etc.
Esteban_cool Wrote:So, tell me, how would it look better? in the field or in the middle of a city ruins? Are the rust spots on the tank applied correctly? Let me know any kind of thing you`d like to say, please.
Before you start your diorama you should know exactly the scene you want to have in the end, planify it first by drawing the scene on paper, then decide the size you need for the base, where every single piece (houses or ruins, the tank, the exact position of each soldier) will be in the diorama, then you can start building it.
Your tank would look nice in a street fight (like Stalingrad) but you'll need at least some ruins, wreckage... It's harder to do than if you make it in the field, obviously easier for a first attempt.
Now, the rust you applied to your tank: imho you put too much rust, and in some places there shouldn't be any. A tank still in action would have almost no rust at all, except maybe in some parts of the tracks.
In most of the corners, what you should do instead is to use the dry brush technic (no thinner at all, just a strong solid dry brush) to apply some as dry as possible pigments of silver mixed with black (put some pigment of paint in some sheet of blotting-paper and let it dry), to give it the metalic look, see what I mean?
Finally, if you do some research on the Net you'll find lots of sites dedicated to this hobby, where you'll find advice, technics, materials and every kind of good hints.
Hope it helps,
Dolf :thumbsup