 Buddho wrote: |
| What incredible work you do, Vespa boy. Your works of art need no object added to them...because you have made what is usually the background or base the main subject...what a twist on things! |
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You nailed it Buddho. Its like using the road to make a colour field painting.
Dupes: The techniques are not very complicated, its all stuff that has been discussed over and over again in Fine scale modeller, model railroad books and in Ken Hamilton's and Shep Paine's excellent books on dioramas. The most important part is realizing that nothing is flat, and that you have to spend a lot of time working out why something looks the way it does...what is it that makes the essence of that thing, whether it is a tree, a brick, a plane's trim tab, a tank's track link whatever, and then thinking about how you want to capture it in miniature. And it all tells a story. Everything is there for a reason, a crack is there because stresses got released, a patch in the road shows roadowrks were there, the utilities mark-outs show that road works are under way etc etc...All stuff that has been outlined for decades. The best part about scratchbuilding is that if something goes wrong you can easily make it again...its not like ruining a part from a kit.
Thanks for all of your comments.