nightshiftmodeller
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Base, terrain & vegetation!
🕑 Added 2021-02-15 22:38:55 +0000 UTCMy friends, today was a nice change from yesterday's epic fail with figures. Creating a terrain must be one of the most relaxing things! (As usual, photos are in reverse order)
Now if you feel like the vegetation feels somewhat "dead" (the trampled grass, just a few tufts here and there), it's no coincidence. This time we're going for a scorched earth vignette! Now it's probably more understandable why I wanted that sad tired soldier in the scene.
I'm actually recreating a photo, but not a historical one, it's actually a picture of some car driving through a rutted dirt road, while the grass around it is burned. My original idea for this model was a scene with corduroy road, but since the suspension is straight, I'll keep that for another model. Scorched earth was a frequently used strategy on the Eastern front and I haven't seen many dioramas or vignettes depicting that... I can't think of any actually!
So the photo I recreated was just one of several reference pictures for burned up land. I'm not completely done with the construction, I want to add a few small dead bushes and some twigs on the ground. Painting will be interesting... I have a rough idea on how to replicate the burned ground, but if it's gonna work... we'll have to wait and see 😁
I also tried AK's crackling terrain paste, it works great but takes forever to dry and crack. I hope the texture will remain visible once it's all painted up!
Comments
Night Shift
Well it's not gonna be a dio anymore, so we're going back to the "decorated display stand" 😁
Night Shift
Thanks!
Eric
Damn those figures would have looked great . Well good thing is another dio means another video 😃so happy days and I’m intrigued to see the scorched earth effect.
O D
I really like that way of displaying the kit.
