Alps Diorama part 1
In the next two articles I will cover the making of the Alps diorama. The main “actor” of the diorama is a 1/87 scale oldtimer bus. In addition to it, the package also included a few figures (but more about them in another article).
The idea of the diorama is that the bus stopped at a rest stop somewhere in the Alpine serpentines and the crew of passengers got out to enjoy the view. To get the height, I used 5 cm thick polystyrene. In two layers (with the second layer just being the background).
After drawing the road, positioning the elements on the base, I cut the elements and got something close to the final relief look.
I rearranged the elements in the diorama to check if everything matched the idea.
The next step was to imprint the stone texture into the Styrofoam rocks. I used pieces of tree bark to imprint them.
Then I mixed in a thick mixture of modeling plaster to add to the embossed texture and to protect the soft Styrofoam a bit.
Once the plaster had dried, I started painting. First I painted everything in a gray base color. Then I added darker shades of gray, black, and brown. The colors I used were very diluted so that they would blend more easily on the surface. When I was done with the darker layers and they were dry, I repeated the same with the lighter tones (gray and beige). This time, the color was not as diluted.
The last step was to add asphalt to the road. I used the effect from Ammo.
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