My first Diorama.

[Guest]

Thanks chaps!

I'm learning so much on this build and can't wait to finish this one and start the next, though I don't know what it will be yet.

Any ideas as to what I can use to create a 1/35 scale telegraph pole?

cheers BB.

[yak face]

hi joolz, good to see the dio back . Try using the round bamboo skewers you can get for making your own shish kebabs,they come in packs of about a hundred for around £1. I tend to use them for stirring paint but they look about perfect diameter for a 1/35 telegraph pole too, I think I got mine from home bargains or wilkinsons but theyre available anywhere really. hope this helps,cheers tony

[Guest]

Hmmm Telegraph poles.

Thanks for the idea Tony, but unfortunately with this bad weather and my disability the shops seem like they may as well be in Australia .

So I had to try and improvise, adapt, overcome, (to quote Clint Eastwood). How to turn square lengths of Balsa wood into round ones? Hmmm?

First I tried too whittle it with a craft knife, but ended up with loads of kindling / debris. Doh!

Thought about trying to make a mini lathe with my dremmel ,but had a vision of this ending in disaster, you know bits everywhere and craft knife blades embedded into flesh!

Then it came too me. Why not use the vegetable peeler to get the shape as round as possible, then finish off with sand paper?

And you know what? Eureka! It worked a treat and I was able to control the pressure and cut depth, I even managed to taper it.

BB.

[Centurion3RTR]

Good old Heartbreak Ridge, can't beat it. Now then Gunnery Sergeant Highway, sound idea will give it a go on my next project.

Thanks BB, you're a genius.

This is the AK-47 assault rifle, the preferred weapon of your enemy; and it makes a distinctive sound when fired at you, so remember it, i'm off lol

[Guest]

Thats Class mate, I would have sent my team of helpers out but they still would have not come back with anything !

[Guest]

Well having had a sh1t few weeks I'm getting back to feeling half human again

So built a telegraph pole from balsa, styrene, wire and the insulators made from sprue that I turned in my dremel and shaped with the heal of a craft knife to create a decent shape.

Finished the radiator, and bed ends,scratch built a drop leaf table, a chest of draws with slight damage and a wardrobe.

Started to paint the furniture by building up thin layers of oak colour too add a grain effect and try to create a sort of walnut/mahogany colour scheme. More layers needed.

Also scratch built a couple of dinning chairs from styrene.

Next I painted the Rizla overcoat and hung it on the coat hooks under the stairs. Hollowed out a pair of boots from a 1/35 figure out of the spares box to represent a pair of wellington boots. Also added a shooting stick propped against the wall and a walking stick, hanging on the coat hooks.

I thought I'd try something that I haven't seen before, using Mica to create broken glass in the windows. Got this bag for 50p, and although the sheets are thin being Mica it is easy to split, thus each sheet can be split into 3, maybe 4 sheets, resulting in very thin pieces indeed.

This sheet can in fact be split into 3 or 4 more sheets.

This is the Mica in the window frame.

Added all the windows to the house, and filled the tiny gaps around the frame.

Hinges and handles added to the upstairs windows.

Well thats it for now and hopefully I will be up to full speed again.

Thanks for viewing and comments/feedback welcome.

BB.

[Guest]

Stunning work as ever BB! I think most of what you've done so far could be incorporated into a mastercase of small-scale building! And that rizla overcoat is brilliant! Where is that mica stuff from? I wouldn't mind some.

Patrick

[Guest]

Stunning work as ever BB! I think most of what you've done so far could be incorporated into a mastercase of small-scale building! And that rizla overcoat is brilliant! Where is that mica stuff from? I wouldn't mind some.Patrick

Hi Patrick,

Thanks again for the kind words!

I used this site for loads of stuff, not your common modelling shop, but hey to miss-quote the stones "you CAN always get what you want", you just have to look!

Have a browse, loads of goodies.

http://www.mutr.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=543_544&products_id=1009505

BB.

[Guest]

lol you shouldn't have put that site up-I can see far too many things that I'd buy, if only just to mess around with!

Patrick

[Centurion3RTR]

WOW!! BB, top work bud. I'd best not show the wife this thread because she'll have you making us a new dinning table and chairs.

Can't wait to see this all together as one, John

[Guest]

Truly great work, I can't believe it's your first attempt, it's so realistic. Reminds me of our house the day my home brew blew up, ha ha, Can't wait for future Dios. This is Museum quality, excellent.

[yak face]

this just keeps getting better BB, truly exceptional work ,keep it up ,cheers tony

[Guest]

Truly remarkable , I take my hat off to you BackBreaker , your attention to detail is totaly professional and as Geoff said museum quality , I can`t wait for the next stage .

Keep them photos coming mate

Richy

[Guest]

Many thanks for the feedback chaps, its really appreciated .

BB.

[Guest]

This is superb mate the amount of scratch built detail here is mind boggeling superb mate.

scott