Steady, wait 'til he's right on the bridge!" A 1/72 diorama

[yak face]

thinking now boss

[Guest]

Thin plastic rod attached to a base plate so they are just touching. Lay foil on top and with a pointy, but not sharp thing, run a line down the foil between the lengths of plastic rod. This will create one corrugation per two plastic rods. When you get to the end, put the last corrugation into the first of the grooves formed by the plastic rods and repeat for however wide your fol is.

Here is a link of a video I did for 1:48. Just replace the cocktail sticks with finer plastic rod. Apologies for causing enormous boredom with this, the first ever tutorial video I did as G.O.M (Grumpy Old Man) Productions.

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[yak face]

Just off the top of my head ron, what about trying this. Get a couple of plastic hair combs and put a 1" x 2" strip of wine foil between the two sets of teeth ,then press them together in a vice. Hopefully the teeth will intermesh and create a corrugated effect in the foil, who knows , it might just work !!!! tony

[spanner570]

Thanks boys for putting your thinking caps on.

Graham, I'm happy with making the sheets...I've done loads, but not in such a tiny scale - 3" corrugations equates to roughly 1/2 of a mm - I don't know, but I suspect plastic rod that size would be hard to find and then difficult to glue in a straight line and keep the contours free of glue. This dilemma will apply to anything so small glued together, so care will be needed. As you know, with the larger scale corrugation making 'machine' this problem doesn't occur.

Tony, excellent suggestion, but I think the comb teeth might be too big....We are talking mega diddy here!!

However your idea has sparked summat mucker. Hows this....

Instead of a couple of combs, substitute these for either two sets of Andy's panel pins or sewing needles glued as you would the cocktail sticks, then adopt your vice method. This might, just might work. The problem is the tiny size.

All great suggestions and thanks for offering up all your ideas.....Time to try them all, me thinks!

Cheers,

Ron

[Guest]

right then.

glue some sewing needles on a flat bit of wood at the required distance apart.

do the same with the needles on a round bit of wood to make a roller.

for the sheeting use two layers of kitchen foil with a thin layer of pva glue between.

lay sheet on flat wood base and roll the round jobbie over the top to get the corrugated effect ... the glue will set overnight and keep the shape.

I'm making one of these tomorrow to see if it works and to have one ready in case I need one

[spanner570]

Now that should work old lad! I would think to get the right scale the needles will have to abut one and other..

I would have a try myself, but sweety pie and me are off for a few days on a Sh*****gs cheapo coach trip with the 'Blue Rinse Brigade to Ilfracombe, Nth. Devon tomorrow, so I look forward to reading your test report on my return.

Good luck Colin, could be the ideal solution and thanks for posting....

Cheers,

Ron

[Guest]

Haha Ron, dont forget your knotted hanky, kaggy shorts. whilte knee lentght socks and bible kreepers hehe.

Andy

[spanner570]

Cheers Andy, got back last night.....Sorry mate, I bought you a stick of rock, but I left it on the coach!

Colin, how did your 1/72 tin corrugation experiment go? Any good?

Cheers,

Ron

[Guest]

well i'm afraid, to my shame, i haven't been anywhere near the plastic all weekend ... i had the "fossil" bug manifest itself and needed to get out and about with me little trowel and brushes.

I've managed to pop on here the odd time using the phone but thats it ...

i shall take a ten biscuit dock in pay for my actions

[spanner570]

No problem Colin, I hope the 'outbreak' has been contained.

I presume your biscuit is the gorgeous, made in Scotland 'Tunnock's Caramel' wot I have just scoffed as I type this....(Other biscuits are available!)

I might have a play with your tin method soon, but there's plenty of things to do to occupy my time with this dio.

Cheers,

Ron

[Guest]

got to be the plain one ron, not the other one, that caramal bar looks like its been rolled in sawdust and the bits get stuck in me teeth.

[Centurion3RTR]

I can't believe how beautiful this is looking Ron, keep the pix coming matey.

Have fun, John

[Guest]

the out break resulted in finding some mosasaur, plesiosaur and 50,000 year old sand shark teeth and vertebrae mate .... well chuffed.

anyway I digress from your wonderful build .. so ill shut up.

[spanner570]

Andrew, surely you've got things wrong....The caramel bicky is bootiful, covered in chocolate and all!!

Thanks John, glad you like it thus far matey.....

Colin, good result!!

Right, here's a quick update:-

Two things....

One, I've done the ground cover. I do this by carefully spreading diluted PVA just where I want the 'Dust' to stick. However, don't be too fussy about the sticky creeping up the base of the walls, this gives a nice 'Muck up the walls' effect. Then I simply sprinkle the sweepings I've collected, over the PVA, then turn the model upside down over a piece of paper...Where it's stuck it stays, where it isn't, it falls onto the paper...Job done! Because it's a natural colour, the ground doesn't need painting.

Two, I've done most of the work on the damaged building. This is just scraps of stirrer, polystyrene, cotton and hardened floor adhesive semi-crushed, all finished off with a good coating of dust.

Bit of a tip regarding damaged buildings. Initially, I always make the four sides of the building complete, and with the full amount of roof tiles, then create the damage. This ensures the right amount of rubble/tiles are strewn about......Sounds arse about face, but so often I see trashed buildings with just a scattering of rubble and they just don't look right somehow. Doing it the above way gives you a better chance of getting the proportion between the damage and rubble something like...I realise it's different with Miniart buildings, but I think it's still worth while making loads of matching rubble when using these kits.

I will probably add some more bits to the damage, I'll see how it looks after a fresh blimp later on.

That's it for this stage. I hope you like it so far and thanks for looking in chaps.

Just realised after seeing the pictures, I've forgot to darken the diddy garden wall!

Cheers,

Ron

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[papa 695]

Looks so real