During my many stays in Normandy I was able to photograph a great number of things, of objects and take photos on the fighting sites on the landing beaches and inland Having the desire to make a typical barrier I was able to approach some still in place! Here is a series of photos of this wooden gate.. I made lots of detail photos to reproduce at most just my portal.However I must cheat for its length because otherwise on the diorama a part would have been in the void outside.
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The diorama is therefore 60 cm long and 40 cm wide. Its base consists of a 40 mm thick Styrodur plate. The floor is shaped by portion with a mixture of tile-making glue and filler. So the plaster hardens less quickly… I soupoudre in this still fresh coating of the ground and small stones. The frequent passages of vehicles, drive the pebbles into a soft soil because very wet in Normandy I have restored all this by working in the fresh plaster with a paint roller. I repeated this operation until complete covering of the ground. Cows entering the meadow are marked by numerous hoof marks in the ground. I reproduced these impressions by creating a “stamp” in a square of wood balsa shaped hoof. before pressing it into the soil still wet. For the following some pebbles will appear here and there without exaggerat
ion.
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Unlike 1/35 vegetation does not exist at 1/16… Manufacturers will be interested in this very soon I am convinced. But for now, you have to look for and be imaginative. I don’t know if these types of stores exist in your country? There is a group of stores specialized in “culture” the brand name is Cultura… There is everything: paint, brushes, glue, felt-tip pens, books, music, scrapbooking material, fine art material and lots of small objects and curiously flowers and plastic plants
By prospecting in stores like this, I manage to find objects that I will divert for my dioramas. This is the case of these plastic flowers.There are different shapes and colors that often serve as decoration!
This is how I was able to create the creeping ivy on the wall. The dead branches are small roots glued to wood glue
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The ingredients used to make the field on the side of the diorama. Small grass picked up in a forest during walks, plastic flowers, a log and tall.
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I will conclude this topic on my Stug III with this last photo and the spare rollers… The connecting axes must be considerably refined. I will soon post one of my dioramas on the Ausf Panther. Dragon happened a few years ago, when my eyes were still accepting the 1/35!
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You did a fine job there. I like the cow imprints and the way you managed to make ivy of those horrible plastic “plants”!
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