Hello all,
Here's a small 1/35 diorama I started yesterday. Due to limited movement, after me and my bike parted company on Saturday, I've kept the model simple. It only took me a day to complete, but I did work at it more or less all the time. I'm not bragging or ow't, I did it as a sort of exercise to see how much could be done going at a steady pace....almost like a day job!!
It involves a building, a tank (ready built) and bits and bobs....
Here's the wrecked building. I usually get an idea and then draw the building plan on paper, but this time I drew it directly onto the polystyrene and cut the shape out. I know I always suggest build the whole building and then smash it up, but I had this in my mind's eye that this one had been gutted of all usable materials - wood for the fire etc.
Here it is stuck to the base.
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Weathered using children's acrylic paints....Slap it on and let it run where it wants!
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See how the paint ran down and did what it wanted?
[ATTACH]116845.IPB[/ATTACH]
Into the green house for some sweepings. Normally I would sieve the stuff, but I wanted a good jumble of all sorts...a sort of scavenged look. I covered the whole base with a good thick coat of PVA...then..
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I smashed up some small stones from my drive and added those to the mixture....Some fence posts were added and a bit of ploughed field.
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Here is the result of just tipping what I had straight off the dust pan onto a good soaking of PVA....Just what I hoped would happen....Scavenged!
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That's it for the construction....A short and sweet one dayer build. Just the tank to show and something else! But I'll leave all that until I post the finished dio.
Thanks for looking in and any comments or suggestions well received.
Ron
Here's a small 1/35 diorama I started yesterday. Due to limited movement, after me and my bike parted company on Saturday, I've kept the model simple. It only took me a day to complete, but I did work at it more or less all the time. I'm not bragging or ow't, I did it as a sort of exercise to see how much could be done going at a steady pace....almost like a day job!!
It involves a building, a tank (ready built) and bits and bobs....
Here's the wrecked building. I usually get an idea and then draw the building plan on paper, but this time I drew it directly onto the polystyrene and cut the shape out. I know I always suggest build the whole building and then smash it up, but I had this in my mind's eye that this one had been gutted of all usable materials - wood for the fire etc.
Here it is stuck to the base.
[ATTACH]116843.IPB[/ATTACH]
Weathered using children's acrylic paints....Slap it on and let it run where it wants!
[ATTACH]116844.IPB[/ATTACH]
See how the paint ran down and did what it wanted?
[ATTACH]116845.IPB[/ATTACH]
Into the green house for some sweepings. Normally I would sieve the stuff, but I wanted a good jumble of all sorts...a sort of scavenged look. I covered the whole base with a good thick coat of PVA...then..
[ATTACH]116846.IPB[/ATTACH]
I smashed up some small stones from my drive and added those to the mixture....Some fence posts were added and a bit of ploughed field.
[ATTACH]116847.IPB[/ATTACH]
Here is the result of just tipping what I had straight off the dust pan onto a good soaking of PVA....Just what I hoped would happen....Scavenged!
[ATTACH]116848.IPB[/ATTACH]
That's it for the construction....A short and sweet one dayer build. Just the tank to show and something else! But I'll leave all that until I post the finished dio.
Thanks for looking in and any comments or suggestions well received.
Ron
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