This is my first attempt at a diorama, a 1/35 scale setting depicting ths last days of war in the ETO. The park walls, sidewalks and street are made of various density foam, Silflor matt for grass, tree roots with dried fern leaves for the trees, Tamiya, Nemrod and S&T figures, Revell M3A1, and Volkswagon from CMT:
NIcely done!
very nice. I like the cobblestone pattern.
All around very nice work! all the flowers, grass, trees and such make it the most colorful war dio I’ve ever seen
Nice groundwork and the figures are well done.
This is a first dio?
It looks impressive even for an experienced dio modeler. I really like it, its actually pretty amusing. Did you say you made the walls and cobblestone yourself? These elements are very impressive, can you explain how you did these? The figures are also well done, I like them a lot.
Than you everyone for commenting.
The walls were made from RENfoam, a 40lb density foam that is very stable and carves well. It is expensive and I take scraps from work to build things. The goose is also REN foam. The base is 8lb density foam is is much softer but still stable enough to use. I used a compass to make the circles and then carved the individual cobblestones with a razor blade and metal ruler. The base was soft enough that hollow square brass stock was used to indent and make the sidewalk. The bricks on the wall were scribed with a height gage, scribing .120 for the horizontal lines and turning the walls 90 degrees and scribing .300 for the vertical lines.
Thanks again, Dan
You scratchbuilt the goose???..[bow].
Can you tell us how you did the flowers?
Thanks Boomerang!
I used dried flowers from Michael’s for the bushes and flowers. The goose was carved from foam and painted with acrylics to give the feather pattern.
I love that goose and just the whole concept and execution of the diorama. In a second or so more, those GI’s will change expressions when confronted by that bird. Being on the receiving end of a goose’s charge isn’t pretty.
Mike T.
Very good dio,a good work on the foam,it´s a pleasure to see.
Congratulations
Pedro
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Buddho-
This is fantastic work. The VW looks perfect. The detail involved had me looking all morning. I will go back and stare at it several more more times. Honestly, I would’ve guessed three or four manufacturers on that goose. Never would’ve guessed scratched. You have got several diiferent talents at play here. I am curious to how you made your trees.
I’d like more pics, if you got the time.
Steve
Thanks again, everyone.
The trees are real tree roots, cooked in a microwave for 30 seconds to kill anything and sprayed with adhesive…then coated with dried fern leaves from Michaels.
Great job - very imaginative and entertaining. You’ve got a lot going on in your dio, yet not so much that you feel overwhelmed by activity. I can imagine that if your dio was on a table at a show, you’d accumulate quite a crowd just looking for more and more detail…and finding it…
First up,
Great Dio, its really cool.
However, I find one fig’s pose a little confusing-the guy with the thompson, whats he doing? Were they moving forward and not expecting a goose, and then it charged them? Sorry, just a little confused…
But it really looks great, the figs and the track are awesome!
This might explain things… Its the last days of the European conflict, and a M3 scout car is in pursuit of a fleeing German soldier in a civilian volkswagon. Unfortunately for the latter, the right tire blows out and he runs in to the light post, then proceeds to flee by running through a park gate. The soldiers pull up, dismount and in the commotion, scare a large European goose who begins to get worked up and starts through the gate arch. The squad leader is trying to keep his men back knowing the goose is loose , along with that soldier, somewhere in that park.
I thought they were trying to catch it for dinner.
My mind kinda went there, too.
I might have mislead by having the goose in there. I can see that now…lol. I guess the open volkswagon wasnt a strong enough sign that the soldiers were chasing someone, not something and the title was not about the goose at all! [;)]