anyone ever thing of building a model or a whole diorama in black and white ala ww2 phohtos? that might not be as easy as it sounds and would probably look pretty interesting.
it would be very hard to pull off
it would be good with a night vision diorama too
I would suggest a shadowbox for the night vision. Black and white sounds like a crazy hard thing to do! I would just take black and white photographs of it.
I have done a couple in sepia that turned out pretty cool.
I’ve seen a couple in the French mag SteelMasters and both were outstanding. I’ve been dreaming of doing one myself. Would certainly be a challenge, but I’m always up for one…!
Do you remember if they were relatively recent issues? This sounds like a really neat, if difficult, idea, and I’d love to see it done.
I started picking it up just before Christmas, and I’ve found it a good read. I just needed to get my head around some of the jargon first. My day to day use of french doesn’t generally include armor modeling terms.[:D]
there was a model of a b-17 wreck during pearl harbor that was done in black and white, it was in a FSM issue! it looked pretty good!!! (sry i forgot which one…)
An excellent modeller from Michigan, Barry Gaszo, built a diorama of some advancing GIs or Marines along with a Sherman across a bridge. There is a gusher of water from an explosion and the whole thing is done in b/w and shades of grey. He said he wanted to mimic the “feel” of the b/w photos we’re so familiar with.
BTW, the diorama was done to a great degree of skill. I recall its winning a “people’s favorite” at a show or two. It was at the AMPS nationals two years ago, too.
Yeah I’ve seen the pictures and it is a pretty amazing dio, spectacular in its build and then sensationally done in B&W
If you get a chance to look at the book “how to build Armor Dioramas” there is a picture of the Marines crosing the bridge with the sherman. It is deffinetly one coolest dios I have ever seen.
The Dio is entitled “Bracketed” and here’s the link:
http://www.archertransfers.com/Bracketed.html
Simply stunning work!!!
I think to pull this off, need not only to be good modeller, but you really have to know what you are doing with “colors” and mixing.
That is way over my hat.
yep, thats it
that black and white sherman dio is crazy. how were they able to make it look like its actually a black and white photo???
Buff, I’ll see if I can re-locate those picsd and I’ll send them to you
Man, I just saw that link. THat’s freaking crazy. Just when I thought I was getting the hang of this painting thing… [:)]
Very awesome. The "feather " technique with one color. Gray.
ive seen the B&W b-17 model up close its in like a shadow box, it looks great very realistic
Thanks, Domi. I appreciate it.