Hello guys,
A few weeks ago I started working on a new diorama. I wanted to visualize some Tigers from the advancing ‘Kampfgruppe Peiper’ in the early stage of the Ardennes offensive…
I choose 1/72 scale to reduce the size, time and costs of the project.
The dio is designed to fit in my bookcase, about 52x28cm.
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BASE
I made a base from MDF,
I put some foam blocks inside to shape the hill and road…
Then I covered it with a net (hor) to support the plaster in the next step.
Then I mixed some (wall gypsum) plaster and started sculpting rocks and hills.
After a few days I started adding color with paint. This is always trial and error for me, I just keep mixing paint until I like it.
TREES
For me the Ardennes is all about pine trees, so I needed a lot of trees to get the feeling right. I looked in my stash for trees but they felt unrealistic to me so I gave it a shot and started making trees from scratch.
I took a few wooden sticks, drilled some holes in them, cut wires etc
Then I added glue and fibers to get sort of a pine tree.
I made 22 trees...
I sprayed them brown and later added green with the airbrush.
After all that I drilled holes in de dio and carefully sorted them in place
I made 22, but could use 40 I guess :D
I went outside to get me some sand, baked it in a pot on the cooking-stove and then sorted with sifts.
I used the sand and stones for the river. The water was done with ‘Vallejo Still water’
All sorts of flocking stuff were used.
I made a small wire fence from matches and the smallest wire I could find in my scrap box
At the moment it looks like this, but it’s not done yet.
I will add some pics of the Tigers in a moment
Cheers
Steven
A few weeks ago I started working on a new diorama. I wanted to visualize some Tigers from the advancing ‘Kampfgruppe Peiper’ in the early stage of the Ardennes offensive…
I choose 1/72 scale to reduce the size, time and costs of the project.
The dio is designed to fit in my bookcase, about 52x28cm.
-------
BASE
I made a base from MDF,
I put some foam blocks inside to shape the hill and road…
Then I covered it with a net (hor) to support the plaster in the next step.
Then I mixed some (wall gypsum) plaster and started sculpting rocks and hills.
After a few days I started adding color with paint. This is always trial and error for me, I just keep mixing paint until I like it.
TREES
For me the Ardennes is all about pine trees, so I needed a lot of trees to get the feeling right. I looked in my stash for trees but they felt unrealistic to me so I gave it a shot and started making trees from scratch.
I took a few wooden sticks, drilled some holes in them, cut wires etc
Then I added glue and fibers to get sort of a pine tree.
I made 22 trees...
I sprayed them brown and later added green with the airbrush.
After all that I drilled holes in de dio and carefully sorted them in place
I made 22, but could use 40 I guess :D
I went outside to get me some sand, baked it in a pot on the cooking-stove and then sorted with sifts.
I used the sand and stones for the river. The water was done with ‘Vallejo Still water’
All sorts of flocking stuff were used.
I made a small wire fence from matches and the smallest wire I could find in my scrap box
At the moment it looks like this, but it’s not done yet.
I will add some pics of the Tigers in a moment
Cheers
Steven