Two Dioramas Started

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Cool

[Terry37]

Here are a few pictures of the early stages of these projects. The walls are all just the cardboard templates but since i took here I have cut the actual wood pieces and will start assembling the actual walls and share updated pictures shortly.

The ship board autopsy. The figure is just to give an idea of scale . I think the windows are too big, so am going to make them lower in height.





The Store Front.





More to follow,

Terry

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I like the plan. 

[d_Guy]

Glad you are back at it, Terry. Appreciate your comment about getting back into hobby mood. I've spent the last several weeks reading one space opera after another and working on almost nothing.  Incidentally, as I refuse to disable my ad-blocker I am required to view your photos through the photobucket watermark. Still, I can certainly see enough to follow your work. 

[Techno]

I like the plan. 

Same here ! 

Cheers - Phil

[Terry37]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the kind words all. The watermark on my photos was a Photobucket problem. After I saw that I contacted them and it is fixed now so you should be able to see the pictures clearly now.

Bill - space operas huh!!!! Need to get you back into HOTT, great rules for space games. I have several armies for that genre. A British one for War of fe Worlds, an alien one based on Hollywood movies, and a Green Man army form John Carter. The GBnUIT theme was alien invasions a couple of years back. here's my British Defense Force to combat the martians.



Terry

[Techno]

Coo !

Those look rather splendid, Terry. 

Cheers - Phil

[sunjester]

 

[paulr]

 

[Terry37]

Progress is slow, as there are no instructions with a project like this - it's all in my head....and that is a dangerous thing because it can get lost in all that empty space! I have been working a little each days so here's some new pics. I've done more since as I took these before I started working today. The smaller one is further along as the larger one is more involved since it is going to have working lights and sound.





More to follow

Terry

[paulr]

A good start

[Techno]

Hear, hear ! 

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Interested to see results, as these look great thusly.

[Terry37]

More work done on both. For the small one nearly finished with the basic building front and the larger one have started cutting the windows - which kill my fingers pushing down trying to cut through the bass wood that thick with a single edge razor blade!


This is the front of the building laying flat as the store sign (the darker piece of wood) is not glued on and will be done after all painting is done. The two cardboard pieces at the top are just stuck there to represent where two windows will go - they will both be the same size though. The wood part of the storefront will be a nice medium bright green with the window and door trim being white. The sign will be white too with darker green lettering and border. I am looking at how to do the wall part above the sign and around the windows as brick, but will need to do it in a different way than the first diorama. But, I've got a thought there and will see how it might look.


This is the ship board autopsy scene from the same book series - "Extinction Cycle". It is actually way more involved, so will take longer and more careful thinking to do. It will be wired so the klaxon will sound and the warning light will blink on and off.

More to follow,

Terry

[paulr]

 

[Techno]

+1 

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

That looks great

[Terry37]

Now it's starting to look like a building front. Yesterday I installed the second story window  frames, made the brick and laid it. So now basically the front of the building is done. Once I have made the side walls I'll start painting it. I'm also ordering the custom decals for the sign, the main window and the little transom window above the door.



More to follow,

Terry

[paulr]

 

[Techno]

+1 (again  ) 

Cheers - Phil