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This is my first full on attempt at a diorama. I’ve had the idea of doing a street scene for quite a few years & scratch building as much as I can. I was in the shed scratching my head as I often do after forgetting what I had gone out there for, when I looked straight at my 3-foot bow fronted aquarium doing nothing & thought that would make a very nice display case for a Dio! The bow front giving me even more width to take advantage of. So it all went from there.
The houses are made from balsa sheet & the odd bit of card & ply.
The cobbles, bricks, tiles etc were made with air clay. Bricks were stamped out individually with a piece of brass tube hammered into the shape and size of a brick & the same was done with the cobbles.
The brickwork on the red brick house was air clay rolled out into a sheet then the same was done with the brick stamp & aloud to dry (use cling film between clay & board you roll out on. It will stick & you will spend another 1.5 hours punching in the brickwork again.) Trust me! I then stuck the brick sheet to the balsa with aliphatic & cut out the window and doors.
The roof tile stamp was made with a piece of plastic sheet & shaped into a rough tile shape then stuck to a piece of balsa.
The buildings stonework was made with balsa mould & air clay.
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Balsa moulds were made for dragon’s teeth. Then a mixture of silver sand & tetrion filler was poured in.
I’ve used about 3kg of air clay.
Paints used Humbrol enamels, Tamiya acrylics, Vellejo matt & gloss clear acrylics, Daler Rowney water colours, System 3 acrylics (for figures flesh tones over white primer) & Winsor Newton oils for washes
The figures, armour etc is Tamiya except the seated figure, which is by Stalingrad
The barbed wire is by Aber.
The aquarium is light with a 120-led white strip light through sanded Perspex with a sheet of tissue paper. Which defuses the light beautifully & gives a even light across the aquarium.
Sorry about the quality of some of the photos.
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The houses are made from balsa sheet & the odd bit of card & ply.
The cobbles, bricks, tiles etc were made with air clay. Bricks were stamped out individually with a piece of brass tube hammered into the shape and size of a brick & the same was done with the cobbles.
The brickwork on the red brick house was air clay rolled out into a sheet then the same was done with the brick stamp & aloud to dry (use cling film between clay & board you roll out on. It will stick & you will spend another 1.5 hours punching in the brickwork again.) Trust me! I then stuck the brick sheet to the balsa with aliphatic & cut out the window and doors.
The roof tile stamp was made with a piece of plastic sheet & shaped into a rough tile shape then stuck to a piece of balsa.
The buildings stonework was made with balsa mould & air clay.
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Balsa moulds were made for dragon’s teeth. Then a mixture of silver sand & tetrion filler was poured in.
I’ve used about 3kg of air clay.
Paints used Humbrol enamels, Tamiya acrylics, Vellejo matt & gloss clear acrylics, Daler Rowney water colours, System 3 acrylics (for figures flesh tones over white primer) & Winsor Newton oils for washes
The figures, armour etc is Tamiya except the seated figure, which is by Stalingrad
The barbed wire is by Aber.
The aquarium is light with a 120-led white strip light through sanded Perspex with a sheet of tissue paper. Which defuses the light beautifully & gives a even light across the aquarium.
Sorry about the quality of some of the photos.
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