Party Headquarters

looks really cool very impresive
how did you paint the backdrop?

Great one Russ, nice job on the building! Shroomy, the backdrop is just a couple pieces of blueish construction paper that our club Photographer Steve Bamford uses.

ah i meant the walls etc on the dio sorry for not making that clear lol

May I say that different sizes of dowling were used to ornate the walls a little. I wanted everything to look uniform so the building was hand brushpainted a creamy beige colour and washed with a burntumber. The decorative party flags were leftovers from a set of paper air recognition flags in various sizes,soak,drape and ripup as one sees fit.
Sorry the manufacturer escapes me as I`ve had them quite a long time. Pastels were used to blend everything together.

Just a quick tip here guys,next summer when you purchase your next little square of strawberries in that little green plastic basket,save the basket,makes great wrought iron fences,gates and window work!

Looks great as usual. Thanks for the tips and keep 'em comin'. You, know, you show do a book on your diorama's. You have to be one of the most prolific dio builder I've ever seen. Every one of them gets better too.

Keep it up!

Great dio as always the building is very impressive work indeed.

Ron

This is a great impression scene. The emphasis on the ruin, the extra work on the rubble, the really well-done tattered flags, really speaks loudly.

The uncharacteristic weathered and worn look of the equipment and people drives home a definite downfall and crumbling of the Nazi regime.

I really, really like this image!

Thanks very much guys, never thought of doing a book but yeah guess it would be fun at that. I have taken a bit of time away from the diorama scene since the show in September to concentrate on building and converting individual Allied vehicles. There is however a dio right around the corner using some of the new vehicles and frankly I`m chomping at the bit to get started but want to have a variety of vehicles to choose from.
There will be lots to look at!

How did you make the flags? It looks great.

The flags are from an air recognition set that I recieved quite sometime ago,they are printed on paper and have been treated so that all one has to do is soak in a mix of white glue and water and drape and shape. If you print some out on your computer make sure you seal the colours or you will have a mess!