Hi Guys,

This is my very first attempt to make a dio. Just need some advise on how to permanently fix a tank, armor and figures on to the dio groundworks. Any links or tips will greatly help

Helppppp

Thanks

Well the way that I nail down a tank is to drill a hole in the bottom of the hull then I take a wood screw drilled into the base wood to hold the tank in place . For figures I drill a hole in one of the feet and use a peace of wire and drill a hole in the base . I hope this helps .

for figures, get a little disk of wood called a 'biscuit' or some other thin wood chip, glue the figure onto it, then set the wood chip in your base material with a small screw or tack and blend it in with the ground...
now for your armor piece, i really dont know....any1 else have experience with setting armor in??

Hi there Warthog. This is what Shep Paine recommends & what I usually do when I fasten tanks in my dio. This is from his book "How to build Dioramas'.

Hope this helps.

I use safety wire (thin, very strong, cheap - kind of stuff they use on racecars/airplanes). You can't see it thru road wheels (or tires either). Makes great raido ant's also.

Much easier to drill a hole into a figure's foot, or both feet, and CA glue in a short piece of music wire or a straight pin. Drill a hole into the base for the wire and secure with glue.

The wire/pin also allows me to mount the figure in a pinvise for painting.

With this method, you can wait until the ground work is done before affixing figures to the base.

Ken

Thanks guys, all of you gave me very good ideas.....that would probably do for now

Cheers