Three great diorama's, step by step

I've some progrest on the dio's, The tiger and firefly scene have some grass applied now and sand is place over the plaster cloth for the ALV beach, althought I'm not sure how to do the water for the shore, and the ALV over coat of olive green, just doesn't look right on it.

I post the progress alone hopefully with the figures in place, but I'm having problems painting them, also if the tiger doesn't work I can add a tent at the back of the scene with some assesoires, aswell as the MG nest.

Doesn't anyone know what color are rocks in europe, perferraly Normany or near by there?

Do google images.

David

Here we are, here what they look like today.

The tiger scene has the best grass, notice how one side has lots of grass to show that's it's a natural hill, while the man made hill has small lumps of growing grass in random spots, not in a pattern. there mit be a tent made of styren poles and a drie tissue paper painted in the right color, paper is applied to protect the rocks.

The grass does look really realistique, this is another typeo of static grass that intead of ittle square it's like little hairs that come out, this grass should be use for large scale diorama, mostly larger than 1/48.

The firefly scene has much more, but too much, use a wet brush to wipe out some spot to remove the grass should due the trick.

And here's the beachfor the ATV, made from real sand.

So what do you think?

Your groundwork looks good so far, Magellan!  And your LVT just needs some toning and weathering to come alive, so to speak. 

You're showing good progress; keep it up! 

Your basic ground work is coming along nicely.  I wish I had as much energy as you do when it comes to building models.  LVT's front hull looks like it has a long line right on the middle.  Is that supposed to be that way?  By the way, self claiming your own work to be great diorama (based on your subject tag line)is kind of weird.  I've seen some really good work in this forum and yet, I haven't yet to encountered anyone claiming their work to be great.  Anyway, keep up the good work and keep us posted!

I think my problem for the long delay is that it isn't working out for the scene, the tiger can't fit throught the two hills and the firefly crew can't be idiots, maybe they can swicht scene (tiger goes on cliff, firefly goes between hills) this must be why plans should be done before beginning the dio's.

But I also got a plan c, firefly stays on cliff, but intead of examining the wagon, its examine the tiger who got hit three times by the firefly shell, which doeas make more sense.

As for the other dio, its the kettenkrad moving between the hills (much smaller to fit throught) and is passign a small camp, I don't know.

T-rex wrote:

I think my problem for the long delay is that it isn't working out for the scene, the tiger can't fit throught the two hills and the firefly crew can't be idiots, maybe they can swicht scene (tiger goes on cliff, firefly goes between hills) this must be why plans should be done before beginning the dio's. But I also got a plan c, firefly stays on cliff, but intead of examining the wagon, its examine the tiger who got hit three times by the firefly shell, which doeas make more sense. As for the other dio, its the kettenkrad moving between the hills (much smaller to fit throught) and is passign a small camp, I don't know.

     Now your thinking!!!!

     Boomer...

Its been a while, but now the dios are coming to shape, the firefly scene has tree now, there from woodland scenic, even thought most of there trees are for 1/72 but I found some good ones for 1/35. I've also made fence post made from machtes sticks and rope painted grey and metalic grey, it looks great. I don't currently have photos but I've still haven't painted the rocks, what color would be suited for europend style?

 ...unfortunatly the tiger can't go with this scene, its a early version, and they never met firefly (well the late tigers did) but since my dio is happening after D-day (1944) no early german vehicules can be plane but there still will be a crash/dich vehicule.

   G'day T-rex, welcome back. It has been a while since we have an update. Good to see that things are moving again. Look foward to seeing some pics....

   Just a comment about your fence posts. Do you think match sticks may be a bit thin for 1/35 scale? I would have thought they would be good for 1/72 maybe. I have used square balsa about 5mm thick cut into sections for 1/35 dios before. It may look a little better....

   Boomer...

Hey T-Rex, its looking pretty good actually. Your builds really show potential and your groundwork is also well done. It takes a while to get those two down but it appears to be pretty decent. All you gotta work on now is your composition but thats the hardest part I think. Many of the modellers here still have trouble with composition even though their builds and techniques are good. Your skills will continually get sharper and more fine with practice, many people here have built hundreds of models to get where they are (and still got hundreds more in their stash), Ive only done about 20-30.

Keep it up, take it steady. 

Made some more progress, foliage and some assesories like fences post and bare wire.

The foliage are from woodland scenic, the fence are machstickes paint greay, the wires is thin rope painted metallic grey. Its almost done but the rocks still needs to be painted, and Im not sure about european colors.