Framed diorama – part 4 – Star Wars themed vignette
During the weekend, May 20-21, 2023, we held a new diorama-making weekend workshop called Vignette in a frame. Over the course of two days, the participants created a stage display of the haustor/entrance according to their own choice from about 10 offered designs, some historical and some fantasy / SF themes. The subject of the workshop was the creation of a diorama with elements of stone, wood, metal, concrete/plaster. In a frame with internal dimensions of 10 x 15 cm, they placed a representation of the entrance to a building. In the next few articles, we will show the steps in creating three designs (historical, sci-fi and fantasy themed).
The last article in this series will describe the creation of SW themed vignettes. We will not repeat the steps we covered in previous articles here. After reviewing the designs and blueprints, we decided to make the door negatives first. We made the negatives from balsa. Then we glued them with PVA glue. If necessary (if you are in a hurry), you can also replace the PVA glue with superglue, just be careful not to put too much glue because the negatives must be able to be removed from the plaster.
Then, we pour plaster up to about half the thickness of the wall.
When the first layer of plaster has dried, we put new "negatives" for details on the walls. We also make them from balsa.
And then the bevels of the wall. We achieved this with a balsa dam.
Then we filled the holes and mistakes in the casting with green stuff (air drying clay can be used too).
While the plaster was drying, we started working on the details. The first step was to press the shape into clay using textured so-called Rolling pins.
Then we cut out the shape of the door from thick textured paper (obtained at a stationery store). We put them in two layers so that they get a SF/SW vibe.
Finally, we added plastic parts from our bits box. Most of them are 40k - that's why we had to remove the recognizable marks of that universe.
Finally, we put the finished vignette into its frame!
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