Working on a diorama of the Martian War Machine. What I need help in is figuring how to do a force perspective.
What I am trying to accomplish is having the MWM in the fore ground with trees. In the background, smaller trees and a swath of destroyed trees from its path.
I know you have larger trees in the front with the trees getting smaller as you get to the rear of the diorama. But I want to put hills to give it depth and such. Not clear in my head as how to pull this off.
In order to carry out forced perspective effectively, you will need a box diorama to limit the viewing area. Using Philip’s idea above, each ridge line will allow you to use a smaller scale. Think of looking over a series of ridges. Each vista is significantly farther back, hence the details look smaller with out a continuum of visual shrinkage something like this:
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Where each underscore represents aridge.
You have the idea.
And don’t make the hills the same height difference as you move back, would look unatural.
I also wouldn’t do too many. Stick with between 2-4.
The nice thing about a box dio is you can really put these almost right together at the back and still have a lot of room for your main dio.
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H T
H H
H H T
H H H T main action
Pardon my rough attempt here. This would be looking at your dio from one end with the back of the box to the left. The T stands for trees and the H for hills with the main action (tank, building, artillery, etc) taking place at the right (or front of the box).