Ok, a clan mate of mine has commissioned me to build him a Diorama based off one of the games we play together. "Left 4 Dead" is the game, its by the company 'Valve.' The commision itself is a diorama wherein 'special infected' (infected humans that mutated more then the common infected) are ambushing a lone survivor.
Before I go into the wip ill give some background and base on the game and the specific characters I am going to use in this dio.
The 'lone' survivor. While the game is 4 player co-op and has 4 seperate survivors I felt that using 4 would clutter up the dio and reduce the tension that just one would cause.
This is Louis, he will be the lone survivor.
Example of Common infected (storming survivors held up in a child's bedroom inside a farmhouse)
Smoker
Witch
Hunter
For those who dont play or never saw the game before Ill explain a bit of it. Zombie Apoclypse, starting 2 weeks after the first infection. The infection is a mutated Rabies Virus. Some infected mutate more then others, there are 5 of these.
The hunter which can grip walls and can launch themselves with a high velocity to pounce and tackle their prey.
The smoker has two abilities, one passive one active, The passive is a cloud of smoke that he emmits that chokes survivors, the active is a long tongue it can use to snare and pull in survivors.
The Boomer which has an extremly large stomach and vomits up a bile onto survivors causing a horde of common infected to attack as well as blinding those hit (they explode on being hit, spraying the bile everywhere as well)
Then there is the Witch, she sits in one place, crying. If you avoid her your fine, but if she is disturbed (walking to close, shooting, shining your flashlight on her, looking at her) she will get angry, start screaming, then attack. She incaps a survivor in one hit and it takes her a few seconds to completly kill one before running off.
Last there is the tank, the upper body of this infected looks like it took 500 times the dose of steriods, just a mass of muscle (semi funny because the legs are normal) and it is missing it's bottom jaw. One punch can send a survivor flying yards. It can also pick up hunks of rock and cement from udner it and throw them as well as hitting objects like cars, logs, dumpsters, and others, sending them flying at survivors to instantly incapisitate them
There are 4 survivors, Zoey (a college student) Bill (Vietnam Vet) Louis (middle managment type) and Francis (Biker gang member). They are the characters you play as, they are immune to the infection, you follow them through 4 campaigns which play like movies without narration. Any information you get about the story line comes from dialouge between the characters and graffiti scrawled on the walls though not all advice given there is correct
There are also some quite disturbing ones, the main one being when you have to hold out in a church, every inch of the walls are just scrolled with RIP messages
And something that always made the game super freaky to me. It takes place close to home
Now that the background on the project is out of the way, onto the WIP and the details.
At the moment he has left it open to exactly what he wants, giving me some creative content, He just knows that he wants the hunter pouncing off of the church wall.
For the base, he chose this. While it is large, I love the mini art dios and will have alot of fun building it up, though the cleaning it up is a pain.
for the figures he has chosen, though, when it is finished, they will bear no resemblance to what they were.
I just got the supplies today and have started work ASAP.
Ontop of the figgures he purchased I may use a few from my own stash to beef up the dio a bit, hes a friend I dont mind using my stash for it.
I also got the package of milliput in the same day. What a stroke of luck they came on friday too. I have all weekend to work on this.
Now, with this wip officially started I wanted to ask a Q, with these hollow vacuform bases, how can I reinforce the bottom so they wont ever sag?