Lesson 36º

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DIORAMA WITH PLANES (1)

 

You can present the aeroplane on its own or you can present it in a situation and give it some life: a diorama.

In the next two lessons you can see a few dioramas, or scenes in which our plane is the protagonist. In another one of my courses, I will show you how to make a diorama.

Diorama of Focke-Wulf (Fw-190 D-9)

The Fw-190 D-9 was one of the last aeroplanes of the Third Reich and of the second world war. It is a pretty model in the scale of the 1:32 and it is made by the brand Hasegawa.

A diorama can tell us a story. In this case we can see an official from the British army observing a Focke-Wulf parked on a runway. This situation could be seen at the end of the Second World War, when the allies were conquering German soil.

The diorama consists of a wooden base (in this case I have used the brand Custom Dioramics in the scale of 1:32, although we can make our own with molding paste, as I taught you in another course) bushes, grass and foliage.

I have made the grass using moss, the type that we use at Christmas to make the Nativity Scenes. I bought the bushes at a florists and the flowers and foliaje I made with the flowers that they sell for the centre of the table in the florists. You have to use your imagination.

This diorama is simple but it also gives impact.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diorama of Stuka (Junkers Ju-87 R2)

In this case the diorama has an aeroplane (the Stuka) which has just landed and which is about to be parked to be maintained and built back to strength for a new mission.

We have used theStuka R-2 by Hasegawa in the scale of 1:48, and a Kettenkrad by Tamiya in the scale of 1:48 , two figures of the same brand, drums, box of amunition, grass and bushes, the runway by Custom Dioramics in the scale of 1:48 and a wooden base.

The diorama has been made the same way as the previous one. Normally, the runway is painted grey, shadowing the panel lines (see the course about tanks on aulafacil.com) with earthy oil paints heavily diluted with turpentine. The lines on the runway are painted with yellow, always make sure that they are not parallel to the surrounding land.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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