Box Diorama with a Soviet Self-Propelled Gun SU-122

[Steve Jones]

Looks like you had a lot of fun with the weathering JR. Lovely work my friend.

[scottie3158]

John,
Take a bow Sir, that is looking very good indeed.

[Jim R]

As the others have said John, that is excellent. Very realistic weathering. Very believable.

[spanner570]

That is pure magic 453!

It reminds me of the bilge in the narrowboat we used to own. Spot on for sure.

I've not seen better and doubt I ever will, and best of all you are always so modest about your most excellent work. I mean that too, John!

Cheers.
Ron

[minitnkr]

Excellent work Dzohn.

[JayCee]

Very, very nice John. This is looking fantastic. Bring on the rest !
John.

[JR]

Well, that's looking absolutely superb Mr Race :smiling3:
VERY realistic indeed,those last couple of pics,especially, could easily be mistaken for a real component
Excellent stuff!

Thank you very much Andy, vouchers in post !

Now that is really rather good John! Have high expectations of what this will look like when it's finished!

ATB.

Andrew

Cheers Andrew, again very kind of you .

Looks like you had a lot of fun with the weathering JR. Lovely work my friend.

Thanks Steve.:thumb2:

John,
Take a bow Sir, that is looking very good indeed.

Thanks Paul.:thumb2:

As the others have said John, that is excellent. Very realistic weathering. Very believable.

Cheers Jim.:thumb2:

That is pure magic 453!

It reminds me of the bilge in the narrowboat we used to own. Spot on for sure.

I've not seen better and doubt I ever will, and best of all you are always so modest about your most excellent work. I mean that too, John!

Cheers.
Ron

570 , your comment is extremely kind, much appreciated .:blow-kiss:

Excellent work Dzohn.

Thank you Paul:thumb2:

Very, very nice John. This is looking fantastic. Bring on the rest !
John.

Cheers John. Thanks for looking in.

[Neil Merryweather]

Fabulous!

[Valeron]

So much detail and so well made and painted.

[Graeme C.]

Looking good Comrade Race, dirt & oil in the engine bay, looks like it's been used!

[JR]

Fabulous!

Thanks Neil.

So much detail and so well made and painted.

That is very kind of you Mike.

Looking good Comrade Race, dirt & oil in the engine bay, looks like it's been used!

Cheers Graeme, glad you agree with the look I wanted.

[JR]

Today saw the start of the diorama box. I've spent several days doing fiddley bits of painting of kit, ammo boxes, and new wooden support for engine and gear box lifts, so reached the point where the box needs to be made.

You need two boxes, one to house the model and other items, then the outer case to the back of the frame. I'm using a cheaper foam board for all the inner and outer where the removal of the face paper is not required. No good spending money on Kappa Line when dot using the core.

Staring with the frame, the backing and glass are removed.




Backing board to the frame , this will need to be cut down in opening to allow enough space for the model. You still require enough space to be left between the inner box and the outer for a battery box and wiring .


Marked up , ready to remove the surplus inner section.


Final opening. Now I can build the inner box to this size. The outer box will be fixed to the outer edge of the frame. Depth has been worked out, there's enough room under neath for the electric's. More tomorrow.

Thanks for looking in.

John.

[Jim R]

There's a lot more planning involved than I imagined. I suppose your background makes measuring and seeing ideas in 3D second nature. It already looks as if you have everything well in hand.

[Allen Dewire]

That's so true Jim...I just re-read this post and still have no clue about what he's going to do. Knowing John, it will be really good in the end though...

Staring with the frame, the backing and glass are removed.

Sorry Brother, but I've been staring at the frame for over an hour now and nothing has happened as of yet. It hasn't moved, grown legs or changed color either. In fact, the glass and backing are still on it too......................Taxi!!!!!!!..........

Prost
Allen

[JR]

There's a lot more planning involved than I imagined. I suppose your background makes measuring and seeing ideas in 3D second nature. It already looks as if you have everything well in hand.

Thanks Jim, my background does help , luckily I can see the completed idea ahead of actually building it .

That's so true Jim...I just re-read this post and still have no clue about what he's going to do. Knowing John, it will be really good in the end though...



Sorry Brother, but I've been staring at the frame for over an hour now and nothing has happened as of yet. It hasn't moved, grown legs or changed color either. In fact, the glass and backing are still on it too......................Taxi!!!!!!!..........

Prost
Allen

Hopefully you will be right Dude1. It's too dark to cut any boards to size, I usually do that outside under the car port as the bench is full !