"The Cellar" is the working title of a shadowbox project, depicting General Urquhart's HeadQuarters during The Battle of Arnhem in 1944.

You might remember the scene from an earlier update I posted. Just to remind you the scene that stood model for my little project :



Below some pictures of the scene as it is today.

The Floor


The Ceiling apart from the room


The Ceiling on top of the room


The Cellar


I hope you like it. As always is constructive critisism very welcome !

Excellent work so far danny,

having been there myself too i can appreciate your efforts!

Are you kit bashing the figures?

Nice update.... Is the back wall textured the same way as the side wall?

Danny its looking fantastic again, your floors and ceiling are great. Cheers Kevin

Excellent job Danny, could you throw a fig. in there for better scale ref., so we can see the cellars height and area etc.
Oh and you also built the tables and all , heck throw them in too. Lets see them.
Cheyenne

Its coming along very well Danny. Elaborate work from the ceiling structure to the nail holes for the floor. Very nice.

Danny,
The floor and ceiling details are excellent. Did you scribe the detail in the floor and ceiling? Look forward to future updates

Nice work
Jay

Hallo Danny,

Nice and exact work for the ceiling and the floor. Did you use Plasticcard for the floor too?
I have some doubt if the wooden traverses(sp?) on the ceiling could be to thick, but you certainly payed attention to scaleness.
I admire the cleanly cut out doors also. Looks easy , but certainly it isn't.

Cheers
Claude

very good progress Danny..please keep us posted .
bestest regards

Hi Danny
real nice build very clean with very nice detail like the floors and the cieling joists and braces will be following this with interest.
Cheers Chris

It is nice to see some more of your masterful creations. This one will be really something to behold when you finish it.

Can you hear my hands clapping? I cant wait for this to finish. Good luck man.

Impressive . Especially walls are great . A little question : What will the lamp made of ?

Friends,

thanks for the overwhelming number of replies....it's always very rewarding to see that quite a lot of people are interested in the progress of a diorama.

@ Joe (greatbrit)
Nope, the figures will be quite out of the box. I'm glad that my dioramabuilding efforts came out nice a bit..... my figure building and paining capabilities is something else.... Still a lot of areas to discover before that turns out to something acceptable

@ Scott (slodder)
Yup, the walls are all textured like in the real cellar. They only have the primercolor right now. They will be off-white in a later stage. On the walls will be spots of smoke and coal... those will be done with pigments.

@ cheyenne
I'll add some reference goodies in the next update. You're quite right to ask for it, since it's very hard to determine the size of it all.... good thinkin' !

@ Jay (Minuteman)
Jay, yes, I scribed the individual floor and ceiling panels by hand. after that I used a rough sanding paper to create the woodgrain in the planks.

@Claude (roudeleiw)
Both the ceiling and the floor are made from plasticcard. You could be right about the traverses, but if they are too large, it's only a fraction.... they do look overwhelming on the pictures. Tonight I airbrushed my ceiling in a brown base colour.... right now the traverses are much more toned down.... I think adding color did the trick.

@ Murat (modelci2000)
Murat, the lamp will be made of plasticcard or very thin aluminiumfoil.... I'll have a got at plasticcard first... 0.1 mm should do the trick I hope.

Guys, thank you again for forming an overwheling audience....you don't know how much I appreciate this...after months of having the modelers blues, I finally am back and it's oh so great to be able to share it with the bro's and sisters over here !!

THANKS !!

Hallo,

@Murat,

If you are interested in a "How to do a lamp" here is a very easy way to do it.
I will link you to the site of our friend Michael Bishop from Monroe P. . He makes a lot of things with Eyeballs and has some nice other tutorials.

http://www.monroeperdu.com/Eyeballs.jsp

Cheers

PS. I hope that i willl not interfere with Danny's thread with this link, if so, excuse me.

Claude,

absolutely not !! Armorama is all about sharing modeling techniques and the more tips and tricks we share with eachother, the happier I get As long as we more or less stay on topic in forums there's absolutely nothing wrong with it !!

As a matter of fact....that's quite an excellent page you pointed out... I didn't know that one and it's great.