crazyrichard

sorry for not checking in for a while but great progress ! the whole atmoshere now is spot on ...and those raised buttons ...yes that really brings it to life and makes it look real

thnx guys ! and yes the leaves are not ment to come from the dead tree ..i figured just outside the dio are trees that have lost their leaves .. i saw lot of abandoned car and junkyard pictures where i noticed leves collecting on and around cars with no tree directly beside it .. i have thought about making smaller branches on the tree and gluing brown leaves on it .. but i think that would not come out that great and the wood i found looks exacty like dead trees

started to add some misc. parts , i will add some small stuff with color later and jesse if you look at the pics i did your idea of a black haze around the gass cap

just finished the first section of the barbed wire .. added the spikes , i have choosen a simple version from all the types i saw on google

thnx mike .. and yes i do .. so much fun .. i never make a plan , i just sit and build and try all sorts of materials ... i did learn that when you can use the real deal material wise its always better then trying to make someting look like it ..

thnx jesse ! and yes its so much fun and yes i could do dark haze around that gascap earea ... will try some

starting to come together .. the puddles i filled yesterday are not turned clear completly .. i think they will be all clear tomorrow ... alsmost there started making barb wire on poles today ...turned thin steel wire in the drill , drilled holed in wooden sticks .. placed the poles with one broken one .. the fed the wire through and gave it all a first wash ... now to make it look like barb wire i will add separate pieces of wire wrapped around the steel wire banding 2 points outside ... also i will add soe loose wire on the ground where the pole is broken

oohhh that looks gorgeous !!

thnx tony ! yes i know resin works but i want to try micro crystal clear .. dont really want to order resin especially .. that said i think it came out really cool > i just did the rest of the deeper parts , looks weird now all white will be clear tomorrow if all go well overal shots .. needs a lot of detail still

just added a li to the tree , then changed the tyre for a scuffed up white wall .. looks better and the wite in the puddle i a test with krytal clear .. curious if that will look like water ! i did not research trees .. i ussed the wood i found ...i just googled dead tree and found this > how cool

thnx guys ! its harder with smaller surface i'm used to ake bigger dioramas put up the base for the tree ..and glued a extra lim to it ... and a nother lim , just used superglue to glue them on and that is now rok solid some smaller side branches later with a busted fence behind it and some barb wire on poles , some puddles (wet) and some misc. stuff i think it will come to life more

yes looks cool and please do its so much fun to do

it dry and matte now .. some cracks occured during drying , but thats looks great .. perfect base to build on now

thnx guys !!

gorgeous !!!!!!!

thnx joe !! this is called done .. and continued in the diorama section where i started this thread > http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/113818-abandoned-69-dodge-charger-dio/

i started on a small dio for my abandoned 69 charger i just build .. build thread is here > i started with superthin mfd wood as a base and glued on some cork plate this way > then i went outside and collected real dirt from my backyard , aplyed this to the cork and mdf with woodglue , real mey load of woodglue and smearing on the dirt by hand .. a bit like in the childhood days .. playing with matchbox or tonka cars in dirt i knew thi works because i tried thi on my gasstation dio with a mall strip of dirt on the side and real materialss beat faking it .. the glue dryes ad leave no marks , nothing beats real dirt to replicate dirt right ? now on the pic it was just aplied i did the corc to beble to create puddles .. i want to make real watery puddles later , a small piece of fence with barb wire , going t make my own barb wire and rust it .. also some mud will be covered with dead vegetation .. i'm not going to buy anything for this so i will have to be creative .. i still have some moss like stuff and i have some dead mo in the garden i want to use idea for a dead tree .. also scavenged out of the garden ... now i have a abandoned dodge van .. i wanted to put them both on the base .. but it looked to staged ,, its quite a bit van and not a lot of room .. so the idea is when this is done to make a same size base plate for the van and put maybe a car shell beside that and that way i can build several base like this in the future and put them all together to make like a junkyard or foresty terrain with abandoned vehicles .. and still be able to put it in the cubbord .. on thi one i might do a small wonky shed ?? some loose parts here and there .. we will see no set plan

whow !!! awsome idea and execution !! , love it ! will be looking out for more versions did they release the first hotwheels in several colors or in the colors like on the pic you posted ? wondered about that because your color are different from the pic .. oh and you have the real hotwheels ? would be cool t shoot pic with the small car beside the 1/25 that would really be cool

very very smooth !! I LIKE IT

whouw indeed looks great and in that scale !

i love it ! color are awsome and that said while i seldom like black and red on a car , in fact mot of the time i think ugghh .. on this i love it , perfect balance .. the wheel are of one of those ( i can find the name ) ready modelcars right something with zoom ? i used them on a pick up

its really not a hard thing , just carefully cribe the door/trunk etc line a bit deeper and sand the edges smooth again .. but if you dont feel comfortable just leave it

that came out great .. that purple really does it .. but what step ? weathering ??

that front looks spot on , awsome job on this !!!

i like it !!