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Dioramas
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Just a small dio. advice?
surfboard66
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Posted: Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 02:30 PM UTC
I built this dio today it only took me a few hours and its one of my better ones. Anyone got Suggesting. THANK YOU


slodder
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Posted: Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 03:25 PM UTC
Well, I would look to add a bit of a wash to the fence. Stain it with household stain for furniture. If you don't have that or access to oil paints, then try coffee grinds (used). Let some water sit in them for overnight then use the water to add some color to the fence.

The figure would really 'pop' if you could add a wash, shadow colors in the creases. Washes are done with very dilute paint dabed in the creases and folds. I use oil paints for my paint, but you could use other types. A nice dark color would be good.
roudeleiw
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Posted: Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 06:47 PM UTC
On top of what Scott said already, you may want to paint the ground some brown colour , unless you want your older run on the ashes of the Vesuvio volcano.
Than you take the rest of the wash mix from the fence painting and you poure it over the painted ground. No joke!

Claude
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Posted: Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 07:11 PM UTC
Matthew, thanks for sharing this small diorama here.

What you show us, is (in my humble opinion) a base to start from.

The wooden fence : a good idea, it gives an impression of the heat of a battle that's going on, the running German completes it in a nice way I can almost smell the .50 machinegun fire.
The way the damage looks is too similar I think, you can add a couple of bullet holes too, it takes seconds to make them by drilling.
Paint work : as said by Scott, a wash would give the fence something extra, more depth.

I'm looking forward to seeing this one in a next stage !

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Posted: Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 07:20 PM UTC
When doing bullet holes in sheet wood it splinters, the gun needs to be painted black and then dry brushed with gunmetal or similar colour, you do have the makings of a good dio going here I will look to see what you can do to improve it further good luck.
surfboard66
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Posted: Friday, February 13, 2009 - 07:51 AM UTC
I just finished staining the wood and i put a jerry can in it too. I think im going too fast is there anything that should be fixed.


AJLaFleche
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Posted: Friday, February 13, 2009 - 09:23 AM UTC
Here's what the machine gun should look like, though a black buttstock is appropriate as well.
Ironmike
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Posted: Friday, February 13, 2009 - 09:57 AM UTC
Some shading is needed for the figure. Good work on the fence. Soil is needed and perhaps some stray items laying about. You mentioned a 'jerry can' but what you have is a 55 gallon drum. The Jerry can was a five gallon container with built in handles.
Keep working on it, it takes practice and experimentation.
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surfboard66
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Posted: Friday, February 13, 2009 - 01:49 PM UTC
One problem how do i shade figures
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