Mark Cassidy Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 Folks Calling this done, this is my representation of a bunker on the beaches of Iturup Island in the Sakhalin Chain. The diorama is based on this image https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/amazing-pictures-of-abandoned-soviet-tanks-left-behind-on-shikotan-island.html?chrome=1 How It Was Done :- The build was a 1/72 T-54 tank turret from a trumpeter kit and used tile grout to rough up the surface then used Vallejos rust set to paint it, The bunker was foam board built then plastic rod was used to create the rebar showing the conrete was tile grout with deck tan mixed and and then removed from the rebar, with thinned rust paint and an overall grey wash to bring out the detail in the concrete. The base is a Asda 10x8 inch photoframe , I used tile grout for the base with a fine sand flock, I mixed some sand flock with both vallejo matt black and separately deck tan for the land areas. and /epoxy resin with a couple of dots of tamiya clear blue for the water effect, with AKs water effects gel , white foam and Atlantic blue gel sparingly. The washed up wood is just natural twigs mashed to destruction and the rusty wire pickets were plastic rod and fuse wire. I enjoyed the challenge of this and as always walked away with at least one lesson learned lol Cheers Mark 14 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertie McBoatface Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 Now there's a coincidence, I've just finished writing to you on the sunken tank diorama. This is every bit as good I think. I'm very impressed that you post your reference photo each time. That kinda proves that you achieved exactly what you intended - something that rarely happens to me! It's a shame that the diorama section is so rarely visited, this deserves much wider recognition. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Cassidy Posted September 11, 2022 Author Share Posted September 11, 2022 Thanks thats very kind of you mate. 😊 Yeah its important to me anyways to show people what I was trying to achieve and how close I got to it. My next diorama build is completely out of my own mind so there won't really be a picture I can show lol My follow on to that though will have anl source image , am looking at doing a decaying sunken Japanese warplane at the bottom of a lagoon on paulau in Micronesia l, am trying to gather info on it at the moment. But thanks again for your encouragement and kind words Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col Walter E Kurtz Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 I think this is excellent. To my mind you've caught the essence of the reference picture exceptionally well. It looks absolutely realistic.. i can almost smell the seawater and the seaweed. I've done a couple of dioramas for aircraft posing.. quite simple stuff really. nothing as good as this though! Thanks for showing this. It's exceptional in my humble opinion. Regards, Andy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Cassidy Posted September 30, 2022 Author Share Posted September 30, 2022 On 27/09/2022 at 09:29, Col Walter E Kurtz said: I think this is excellent. To my mind you've caught the essence of the reference picture exceptionally well. It looks absolutely realistic.. i can almost smell the seawater and the seaweed. I've done a couple of dioramas for aircraft posing.. quite simple stuff really. nothing as good as this though! Thanks for showing this. It's exceptional in my humble opinion. Regards, Andy Cheers mate, I appreciate it, where can I find pics of your dioramas? Am sure they are excellent 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col Walter E Kurtz Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 35 minutes ago, Mark Cassidy said: Cheers mate, I appreciate it, where can I find pics of your dioramas? Am sure they are excellent 🙂 My Pleasure Sir! Here's the Link to my P-47 Thunderbolt. in a diorama. I hope you like it! It's quite simplistic compared to your excellent efforts! Regards, Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Cassidy Posted October 2, 2022 Author Share Posted October 2, 2022 On 30/09/2022 at 10:36, Col Walter E Kurtz said: My Pleasure Sir! Here's the Link to my P-47 Thunderbolt. in a diorama. I hope you like it! It's quite simplistic compared to your excellent efforts! Regards, Andy Pfft Andy, I have to disagree mate, if I could produce the diorama you did mate, I would be well chuffed, the attention to details on it are really cool, and am well jealous that you have a knack for chipping that I cant seem to master. Can I ask how did you achieve the shadow at the edges of each paving block, is it pre-shaded or is it done afterwards? Regards Mark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col Walter E Kurtz Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 10 hours ago, Mark Cassidy said: Pfft Andy, I have to disagree mate, if I could produce the diorama you did mate, I would be well chuffed, the attention to details on it are really cool, and am well jealous that you have a knack for chipping that I cant seem to master. Can I ask how did you achieve the shadow at the edges of each paving block, is it pre-shaded or is it done afterwards? Regards Mark Thank you for the compliments on my modest work Mark . For the Rozzie Geth baseboard i did the shadows using 3B soft lead pencil, thinned down Black primer over Grey primer. I marked out each paving 'block' with 3B pencil. and a ruler. Using a wetted finger I smudged randomly some of the pencil block lines. Using the fine 0.4 needle in my airbrush I sprayed the shadow lines using Black Valejo Primer thinned about 75% paint + 25% thinners. i sprayed at 30lbs and tried to get a mist effect spraying close up following the block lines and then a second pass over each line from about 10 cms. also randomly selected blocks had a spry in the centre. i got some thinned down red+ brown poster paint and added this to some lines using a large artist's brush Rubber marks and oil stains i used a 5B lead pencil and smudged them with wetted finger. Final Highlights were oversprayed using Valejo Grey Primer to tone down anything i thought was too dark. It took half a day to make. Glad you like it! The key to the above method is a gradual building up of the shadows and a general 'random-ness' Regards, Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikT Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 I love these little dioramas of unusual subjects, and you've captured the slow, lonely decay very nicely. Overall a terrific little scene! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Cassidy Posted October 16, 2022 Author Share Posted October 16, 2022 Cheers mate, I like the way you described it, lonely decay, thats what I was trying to capture I wanted to try and capture the remoteness of the Kurils, I dont imagine many people will have visited there, in contrast to say bunkers in Normandie or the Maginot Line. Regards Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remus389 Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 The water is excellent, the turret I think needs some more TLC. Maybe a wash to make it look dirtier, it looks very plastic now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remus389 Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 The water is excellent, the turret I think needs some more TLC. Maybe a wash to make it look dirtier, it looks plastic now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Cassidy Posted October 30, 2022 Author Share Posted October 30, 2022 6 hours ago, Remus389 said: The water is excellent, the turret I think needs some more TLC. Maybe a wash to make it look dirtier, it looks plastic now. Yeah i agree it's not quite there, think I should have gone heavier with the grout process to really make it like rough textured Cheers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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