Bunkerbarge

Nope, I'm sitting in my boiler suit !!!

Johnny

There are also card dioramas.I have made 2 and constructed one myselves.
It's more like scenes, I'm not sure diorama is the right word.
If you have seen the pics of the Horch, it's placed in a couple of them.
And some pics in the gallery also have the bombed out building diorama and the half bridge diorama.
The site http://www.scalescenes.com/ makes dioramas of a very high quality, and they are going to make war dioramas later on.

Johnny

First of all....I'm not sure what this part is called in English....but it's some part that connect the drive axel to the belt wheels.

First the drawing. Hmm that looks easy enough......


And so I looked at the parts....23 pieces to cut out and edgepaint......took about eight hours to get theese two parts done....


I started with the inner part.Made of two circles of 1mm karton and the paperstrip rolled around them.


And so the fun began.....on each "wheel" I should make 7 half pipes with a front cover...
First the seven pieces.....and suddenly I thought my fingers was very large....


So I used a 1,2mm drill to bend the parts into shape.....


And put the halfpipe onto the "wheel" and put on the tiny front end.



The finished part, and the place it belongs.


And glued in place it doesnt look to bad at all

Johnny

Started to work on the inside.


The wall between the personellcabin and the engine also will contain the instrumentpanel.All of it is not in place yet, but I'm working on it.
Have to customize the instruments a bit...

Johnny

teeringwheel.

Drawing.



And the parts to use.


Parts assembled.


And the steeringwheel is done.Just some edgepainting to be done.

Johnny

Hello again!

The work on the interior continues.
I have mounted the wall in front,made the drivers seat, made the bench,glued the steeringwheel,mounted the two covers over the holes to the drivers feet.

squiffythewombat

I think this is one of the most amazing models ive seen in ages, as im sure has been echoed many times recently:

The amount of detail you can produce from some 2d paper is outstanding!

Johnny

Thanks for your kind words Toby!!

Some progress made....
The second front seat,the "mailbox" on its back, the back of the bench and the cylinder besides the front seat that maybe is a gazmask or something.
Also glued the outer skin on the right side.





And the outside

Bunkerbarge

Johnny, can you tell me a bit about this edge painting.

What type of paint do you use and do you have to match up the colours by eye etc?

Absolutely stunning model, I can't wait to see the final diorama.

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Johnny

Edgepainting is basicly to color the edges of the paper so that there is no white edges to be seen.I'm colorblind , so the painting is very difficult for me....
I have to ask my wife and kids what colors to use.I have painted a big sheet of paper with all my Humbrol colors and marked the colors with the paintnumber, and I have them to choose what color to be used.
For the Greif I have used plain coal pencil, the one we used to use in school to color the grey edges, and some Humbrol paint for the other colors.And the colors have to be matched by the eye.I'm not sure if the colors are correct, but it's the best I can manage....
And of course to edgepaint the tinyest details is not easy....so there might be some white edges here and there if the model is examined thoroughly