Hi.
I'm new.My name is Pawel.
My first diorama under way .Sugestions ,ideas about my project would by very welkom.
gr.Pawel
(sorry for my english )

Welcome to Armorama buddy! Looks like your off to an excellent start on your first diorama. Im a huge resin fan myself, and I can say, that is ALOT of resin lol. Well one of the first things I noticed was the open space. Thats definatly a big no no. I say, you squeeze in those building together to where it can fit in with the width of the bridge that you have. I would go to a picture frame store pick up a nice wood picture frame, then go to michaels and pick up some thing peices of balsa wood for sidings. I would take the bridge and slip it perfectly into the picture frame, (no extra spaces on the sides) Then I would measure how tall the bridge is so you can put a top part to it. Put the balsa peices (specifically cut to fit perfectly the height of the bridge) on the sides. Do not glue the buildings down before you paint. Outline it on the picture frame bottom. Your going to need ALOT of rubble for this, so if you want, you can sculpt your own bricks or buy some of verlindens, or a couple other companies bricks and rubble. Youll have to have alot though. So an overveiw:

Size down your base (not such open spaces)
Buy picture frame and thin balsa wood
Make the layout on picture frame
Put everything on picture frame (dont put buildings, or bridge, or water fountain until painted.
Glue some cobblestone down (dont paint it)
Glue rubble down (dont paint it)

PM me if you have any other questions.

one more

Thx. for your sugestions.
Coms second part of bridge and one building more.
I schow you next time.(on way from US)

THX one more .
Gr.pawel

That diorama is very large. Would you consider making smaller dios with a vehicle, a building a few soldiers in each one?

Well I won't hop on the rubble bandwagon, I think we're all in agreement on that. I would scale down the streets. You might want to approach it like you are giving the viewer a snapshot of your story. Are they taking a break, are they preparing for a defense, looking for a way around the bridge?

Engineers assessing the bridge
Soldiers filling canteens at the fountains
A command car with a hood covered in maps

Thats pretty cool for a first dio.

Scaling down the base wouldn't be a bad idea, the rubble has been spoken for and I also think you need to spread out the vehicles more, maybe one on the other side of the fountain, and the guy standing in the halftrack looks like he should be chatting with the rest of the officers.

some of my opinions
-shain

Hello Pawel,
WOw, that is a very big dio...any bigger you can join the 1/6 collectors like me.
Anyway, i like the buildings, i wish i have the space to accomodates big dios. Good luck,

Some thoughts I have.
The bridge head road surface is approximatelly 2" above the base of the diorama. How are you going to accomodate the elevation difference?

The building to the left has only one window frame that has been broken and there is no damage to the bricks around it. Consider reworking this area bit. Maybe some damage to the plaster to mimic the window frame. Even doing some damage to the other frames to even out the damage to the third floor.

About reducing the size - you may consider cutting off the left side about 2" to 3" to the left of the fountain. You could put a schwimmer or kuble in the left open area and add about 10 - 15 figures milling around getting ready or cooling down.

I like the combination of the three buildings, nice visual appeal.

Very, very big for a first dio! Love the buildings and fountain. I think if u have the space to store it, then by all means. But as been said, there too many open spaces. But I'm sure this is very early stage and u may have something else in mind to fill those open spaces.
Those resin bldgs coz a bomb here. I have to resort to making cardboard bldgs.

Hey Pawel
This is something! As suggested already, I would scale it down somewhat (Baby steps;) think that if you work on a smaller dio you will
a) find it far easier to create
b) learn from any mistakes on a cheaper level
c)have a bucket load of stuff left over to make a slightly bigger dio next time!
And as Scott suggested, the bridge (If you are to include it) will need to be addressed- has to be level with the stone paving or a little lower...
Brad

It would be cool if you incorparated a small water pump into the fountain! Do you plan on furnishing the homes or streets? I have some stuff i think that will help http://www.netmerchants.co.uk/product.php/3901/543/
http://www.netmerchants.co.uk/product.php/4242/0/ http://www.netmerchants.co.uk/search.php

Hi!
Looks good. Its seems you've made a good start. Good work. Keep working on it, replace figgies, buildings, details and so on, until you're completely satisfied.

Good luck with it

Simon