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Jim Scott
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Hi all just wanted you to have a look at the my second attempt at a diorama, I call it the autumn diorama as i haven't thought up another name yet and being a true Scot I try to do as much as I can at zero cost or minimal impact to the wallet (a lot of recycling).
The base is an old unwanted picture frame, the foundation started life as a block of styrofoam packing that had been cut and shaped to the frame. I used pva and wall filler to cover the styrofoam, when dry used a mixture of pva and sieved soil from my garden for the ground cover. The rocks for the river had been collected from the nearby beach. I did attempt to make the trees from wire, but had been unhappy with my attempts and I had accumulated a small wire forest before turning to seafoam.
The tree foliage is a mixture of dried leaves put through a coffee grinder and sieved to the desired size, the bushes are made from dishpan scourer and covered with coriander and parsley.
the diorama is to 1/76 scale and the land rover will be part of a 5 vehicle convoy
Thanks for looking and any constructive comments would be welcome
Jim
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The base is an old unwanted picture frame, the foundation started life as a block of styrofoam packing that had been cut and shaped to the frame. I used pva and wall filler to cover the styrofoam, when dry used a mixture of pva and sieved soil from my garden for the ground cover. The rocks for the river had been collected from the nearby beach. I did attempt to make the trees from wire, but had been unhappy with my attempts and I had accumulated a small wire forest before turning to seafoam.
The tree foliage is a mixture of dried leaves put through a coffee grinder and sieved to the desired size, the bushes are made from dishpan scourer and covered with coriander and parsley.
the diorama is to 1/76 scale and the land rover will be part of a 5 vehicle convoy
Thanks for looking and any constructive comments would be welcome
Jim
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