discussion Dont blow the br ........ Dohhhhh ......

[toto]

My placemaker for my first diorama attempt.

I'll get a couple of photo's up of my initial progress and then update as I go. I have a few idea's as to what I want and some of the techniques that I will use but go easy on me ..... I am only an enthusiastic beginner. Things can only get better.

Anyway ..... to set the scene .... blighty and the americans have only really started to progress into Nazi occupied terittory and are progressing towards Berlin ...... somewhere in Europe. And what better a way to move forward ...... than to blow a bridge out ..... before you get the chance to cross it ..... this is the stuff of carry on films.

Be sure to follow.

Toto

 

[toto]

So .... this weekend .... once I get home , I will hopefully be carving some foam in order to get the height commited for planting a couple of blown out bridge sections from Fields of Glory.

As it is the central theme, then once it is sort of placed, it will allow other features to be worked into place. Think cobblestone roads and buildings and vehicles.

I will try and geta couple of progress photo's up on the forum maybe by say saturday evening. Things are in their infancy so dont go expecting too much just quite yet.

Toto

 

[toto]

A little more progress tonight.

Received the missing part from my Fields of Glory blown out bridge kit. So first job was to get that assembled .... or should I say .... glued together using " sticks like shit " another form of " no nails ".

Meanwhile .... whilst waiting for that to set " tomorrow sometime " I started on the canal bank walls.

I'm jumping between mediums here because the bridge is cast plaster kits, the canal banks are scribed polystyrlene and my cobble roads are going to be using plaster cast moulds.

There is a little bit of lost time as you move berween mediums, waiting for things to dry before you can start on another etc but I'm finding it slow but therapeutic.
Ineed to get my Diorama Debri street paviours out in order to cast my canal paviours. The downside of this is that I only have one such mould to it will take forever to cast enough slabs ... unless I buy another couple of moulds. ....... booooooooooo. We'll see.

I Will as stated before, try and get a couple of pictures up tomorrow ......

Thats my plan.

Hope you can stay awake long enough.

Cheers

Toto