So it happens that Nicolas Cabaret is too busy and will probably stay for a few months, so he left me the keys to carry on a project half begun by him.

Remember his latest? the Crash diorama used one part of the model, this special blog will concern the other half of the "car".
Now don't get me (us) wrong. neither of us don't much like plastic models nor are we enthused by military vehicles at all. But it is always good to go outside once path every now and again if only to prove oneself that yes, you can do it.

okay let's build that thing.

let's DESTROY that thing

The follow up when I can..

Let's rebuild what's been destroy, a new rood done with soft metal.

Lert's secure the whole build y pressing some green stuf on the underside of the roof

Okay here is the new roof, time for a bit of putty and sanding

Does this represent a folding canvass roof, or a crushed metal roof?

Crushed metal Torn more like actually. Now please don't say that it was actually a canvas on top of the Gaz

Well, let's remove the tires from the wheels

priming sanding etc

new woman head

finished!

Oh la la , are you doing a sensibilization campaign for the french ministry of transport?

The posture of the woman looks good. Well , considering she's probably dead she does not look so good after all, but you get my point :-)

Claude

Will be interesting to see what you do. I loved Nicolas' 'Crash' scene.

Hey Nic,

Great start so far, I will be following this as I have been toying with the idea of a dio of the aftermath of a IED explosion on a hummvee in Iraq. Looking forward to your next update!

Hi Claude! oh no she certainly ain't dead at all, she's up and standing , somewhat leaning too.
Yes could be an advert for some sort of ministry of transport, but a Russian one as the ground will be somewhat oily and muddy and then that's a Russian vehicle..

Thanks Christopher, yep I also really like Crash, that one showed direction. Actually Rocket Girl is the last of the "blonde barefeet girl" series after Baba and Crash.

Thanks Alex, really not fearing of really tearing of the plastic is the trick. You know Piotr Gladki? Polish modelmaker, he is amazing at that game, the very best IMHO.

So I have a friend who tells me "you should put pictures with the material you actually use", oh well nothing fancy, no Mig Interactive stuff. I'd even say that even though I have the 2/3 of the Mig pigments collections, the 2 that I use the most are Windsor and Newton's, namely "VanDyke Brown" and "Burnt Sienna" which speaks more to me than "Ghoulish red" or "Chaos Black"
oops, that was games Workshop

Weathering.. to heck with that bloody camera, it looks like nothing, the final result should be more pleasing than this greenish pixel lump


here is a sort of preview of what the diorama should look like (sort of)

I got everything right then

I prefer to better shut up then and not speculate what she is doing with the rocket

Have a nice weekend

Claude

Well Claude she doesn't do much with the Rockets really

And thanks for the nice week-end (how long was that?)
Well Nico is back because JBA didn't have more time than I do to fill this blog -but then the "hard coded" SBS will stay on the jbadiorama.com instead of mine.

On for the base! This is some car repairing mastic, quite smelly stuff that I fluidified with Acetone. You can't see much as the white sort of crushes the contrasts but the ground is designed so that it looks like a mud pool with plenty of rills coming out from the vehicle.
Problem: it already bent the plastic base I used -I know it was a quite stupid move from me to use a simple plasticard base for such an aggressive product to use on top, but well.. I feel pretty tired these days


Roots and a view from behind; Cthulhu fhtagn I say

Nicolas, I've recently seen one of your jobs published on an Italian magazine. It was about a Russian aerosled

As usual, it was an impressive and really inspirational job as well as this one

Congrats indeed

Thanks Mauro, really that's JBA who did the Aerosled diorama, there's quite a bit of difference between the two when it comes to inspiration, here it is really of a darker kind, more centred on figures etc. hat being said, I know this Italian recognition pleases him quite a lot!

Well first a general picture of the layout, the colours are once more terrible

Fredericus Rex Ivy! Great stuff but I feel fed up of paying 9€ postage because their packaging is at least 50 times heavier than the actual lasercut leaves!! And the sheet I show is pretty small too.


First, let's paint them direct on the sheet, lots of diluted colours so that the paper gets really damp, then let it dry. you may observe quite a few nuances of green.

Very engaging work Nicolas- I'm looking forward to seeing what the finished piece will look like.

OUTSTANDING WORK

I always love to check in to these threads. The approach to these obtuse subjects is always refreshing to ma after looking at 5 million dios of panthers and tigers.
J

Voila! suscribed.
Always a charm to follow your tread NIcolas.

Philippe.

Hey Karl, several weeks (months) later and here is the completed work just like magic

Thank you Bill

Jerry yes i am pretty happy that I can still manage to get a little bit of interest even though the style is well, special

Thanks Philippe!! I am just afraid that the subscription didn't last too long


well that's it, completed diorama. it has been lying around completed for weeks, but I was still waiting to get my decent base for it. the greenish colour of the white dress where the sun doesn't shine is on purpose, so is everything on it.

keep well everybody and happy new year

Wow! Amazing work!

Not bad ! :-)
Colourwise very good work but i am still not sure what the woman is doing? Just looking inside?

I know you like being challenged, so why is she standing on the tiptoes at all? It really looks like she could see everything she wants without standing on the tiptoe.
The hands raised like that to hold herself... something about the position does not work for me in this scene.
What am I missing?

Greets

Claude

I must agree with Claude. The meaning of the scene is not readily apparent to me.
J

Thanks Thomas!

Aha Claude, truth is I don't know myself! I got the idea when waking up a morning this summer, I thought the picture was sort of cool so i decided to do it. It's the final diorama of the series of three about bare-feet girls in nightdresses: Baba Yaga, Crash and now RG. But kep on gessing! You are perfectly right in assuming I love the perplexity some of my scenes might induce!

Jerry, like said one of my friends today in another place where I display dioramas (about another diorama I completed) "There are a million and one 'stories' attached to this vignette, and they're all personal to the beholder"

You wake up with thoughts of bare footed girls looking at rockets?

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