discussion 1/35 Workshop diorama / display base

[Guest]

I made and fitted the handrail today and started some of the painting.

The interior walls are definitely WIP, I'm finding them quite tricky. I guess I should have sealed them up better as they are just absorbing paint. Still early days though :smiling3:

The floor came out quite well I think. It had a wash of the grey mixed with burnt umber and while still wet I blobbed various browns, black and green here & there and wet blended them in. I may give it another round of that tomorrow.

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[Tim Marlow]

That’s looking good Andy.

 

[Steven000]

Great work Andy, looking good :thumb2:

 

[Guest]

Thanks Tim and Steven. A long way to go yet but starting to take shape.

 

[Neil Merryweather]

excellent stuff Andy

 

[adt70hk]

Looking very special indeed already Andy.

ATB.

Andrew

 

[scottie3158]

Andy,
That is cracking work mate I really like the texture on the walls.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for the continued support gents.

I'm currently tearing my hair out painting the blocks one by one lol. Nobody warned me about that! :smiling5:

 

[Tim Marlow]

Flat brush the same size as the blocks....should do then in one stroke then.....still a really tedious job though. Rough stone is worse, can’t use a flat brush so each one takes ages :loudly-crying:

 

[Jim R]

Hi Andy
As always neat and well thought out. Really starting to look the part. As Steve said earlier the amount of detail - clutter and odds and sods - you can add to something like this gives scope to really go to town.
Jim

 

[Guest]

Tim, I think you underestimate how ham-fisted I can be with a brush :smiling5:

Thanks Jim. For a change I have loads of ideas in mind for this, I just need to keep focussed and not get distracted by shiny new kits!

 

[Gary G]

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Thank you for the continued support gents.

I'm currently tearing my hair out painting the blocks one by one lol. Nobody warned me about that! :smiling5:

If you stuck up some signs and posters you only have to paint what you see :smiling:

 

[Guest]

That's part of the plan Gary, but I haven't found quite what I'm looking for just yet.

 

[GerryW]

You'll 'need' a framed picture of Adolf - think that there was a law that his picture was to be displayed in all work places?

 

[Guest]

Getting somewhere with the walls. I'm doing it in stages so that it doesn't drive me up the, erm, walls. A bit of artistic license rather than realism, but I like it so far

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I scratched a ladder for access to the toilet roof / junk storage area

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Built an additional workbench with similar dimensions to the kit one, and assembled the shelving racks, bending/sagging a shelf, because there's always at least one.

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And I've made a start on the toilet area, scratching a door and using scribed plasticard to simulate tiles. Flooring to be decided.

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[Tim Marlow]

Coming on well Andy. Detailing is making this come alive.

 

[scottie3158]

This is seriously good mate.

 

[minitnkr]

At LEAST one. Excellent, a wood bench for "dry work" & a metal bench for "wet Work". PaulE

 

[adt70hk]

Andy

Great work as always.

ATB.

Andrew

 

[Guest]

Thank you all for the great comments.

I'm having real fun with the extra bits and feel like I've only scratched the surface so far. Plenty more to come I hope.