First diorama - The Choice

[minitnkr]

You're really cook'in now. The "home stretch".

[Jim R]

Looking very good. Spraying the static grass black and then painting it has worked well.

[PaulinKendal]

That's real neat Paul. Will there be more foliage added?

Thanks. There's more rock work to go on the barren side, and probably some bracken on the higher slopes on the green side.

[PaulinKendal]

Boxing in with balsa sheet. Some big gaps to fill. I think maybe I should have done this earlier.

[PaulinKendal]

Looking very good. Spraying the static grass black and then painting it has worked well.

Thanks Jim. Yeah, I'm really pleased with how the grass came out. At first it seems mad, but gets better and better as you work up the colours. Slow, but good fun.

[JR]

Paul that really is good, nice undulating ground work which always adds interest. Love the tree, roots very nice , the fern really adds to the look .:thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2:

[PaulinKendal]

Using Deluxe Materials' Model Lite lightweight filler for the substantial gaps. Just added some bridging filler to begin with to stabilise the sides, then filling in with more Model Lite once the bridging has gone off. The filler can be tinted with inks, which makes it a bit runnier, but well worth doing for this application I think.

[Tim Marlow]

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Using Deluxe Materials' Model Lite lightweight filler for the substantial gaps. Just added some bridging filler to begin with to stabilise the sides, then filling in with more Model Lite once the bridging has gone off. The filler can be tinted with inks, which makes it a bit runnier, but well worth doing for this application I think.

Great to see all this back on the bench Paul. It is excellent work and deserves to be finished…..

[PaulinKendal]

For better or worse, this is finished. Unfortunately I can only see its many weaknesses. Compositionally I almost couldn't have got it more wrong. I was trying to create tension between the three figures, with The Beast wrongfooted by the two warriors giving him a dilemma of which way to turn.

Unfortunately it also means that all three face in to the centre of the piece - there's no way to see their faces easily, even one at a time, much less all together. This means there's no comfortable primary view - hopeless! I mean, by all means make it interesting from multiple angles, but the lack of one dominant viewpoint is SO frustrating! Still, I learned a huge amount in its construction (chiefly that I should've reined back my ambitions for a first try). I'll put a few more images in the Completed dioramas section.

[spanner570]

Excellent stuff, Paul.
Why reign back ambitions? Feet first, I say.....
You write you have learned a lot from this model. That is the idea. Everyone has something to learn from all their 'attempts'

I'm not one to criticize either. I leave that to others.

Great work.

Ron