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Dioramas
Do you love dioramas & vignettes? We sure do.
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Gundam-Mecha
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England - South East, United Kingdom
Joined: August 05, 2009
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Posted: Friday, May 21, 2010 - 02:02 AM UTC
Just beautiful, really great composition and painting!

I think the change to the tree really suits the diorama and works very well!

I have a question, on the edges of the exposed water how do you seal the resin while it dries? I tried a few times to get hard water edges like this but I always found that my crystal resin leaked through and wouldn't fill the area properly.

P.S I agree with Claude! Best of show for sure! Will you go to Euro militaire this year?
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Thessaloniki, Greece / Ελλάδα
Joined: February 01, 2006
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Posted: Friday, May 21, 2010 - 03:17 AM UTC
Callmehobbes, HONEYCUT,Roudeleiw,Gundam-Mecha,thank you very much for your comments.
Claude,the dog comes from Alpine set 35080 British Armoured Crew Set (2 Figures and Puppy).



Jon,for the masking I used simple cheap masking tape,and the secret of success for hard edges of the exposed water,
is to fill with crystal resin up to the edge of the masking tape.Don't leave tape excess.Mask it up to the limit where the water want to end.
With masking tape you have no leaking among the tape and the wooden base.
To avoid air bubbles,something I did wrong here,you must cover all the rough surface as the depth here NOT with varnish that I did,but the same clear resin you will use,firstly with a paint brush in order to fill up all the hidden places and make the air to come up.Then you can pure the resin.











P.S I would love go to Euro militaire this year like I did it last year with my bronze awarded tricycle ambulance,but still can't say yet due to duty.
If I manage to take a 5 days off then,I will see you there for sure!
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