abandoned '69 dodge charger dio

[crazyrichard]

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

[crazyrichard]

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

 

[Renegade]

Very realistic. I like it.

[disabled modeler]

Me too...looks great...!

[crazyrichard]

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

[crazyrichard]

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

[GTJUNIOR]

Looks very convincing Richard. Check out the model railroad forums, they have a resin that they use for creating water effects.

[crazyrichard]

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

 

[crazyrichard]

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

 

[JTalmage]

Looks great! I always wanted to do an outdoor dio when I was younger, never got around to it. Also a shop dio like yours that you build. Great work as usual.

I noticed on thing the car should have... a dark stain from the gas cap where fuel had been spilled over the years.

[crazyrichard]

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

 

[Badluck 13]

Richard you have some awesome talent on your dio's and work,so realistic....you must be having a blast when you do these creations.

[crazyrichard]

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 ..

[crazyrichard]

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

 

[crazyrichard]

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

 

Edited May 27, 2016 by crazyrichard

[72 Charger]

I like what your doing Richard . One little thing though A dead tree would not drop leaves.......?

[Xingu]

Leaves can blow in from the diorama next door

Excellent work Richard.

Edited May 28, 2016 by Xingu
Public School Spelling

[crazyrichard]

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

[crazyrichard]

added 2 signs i made a while back .. to add some color and see how that turned out , next week i will buy a new printer .. this one broke down .. so i had to use these for now ..

old for sale sign

oil sign , maybe change this for a more vintage serious oil sign later

i found a 1/25 sink in a small bag in a modelstore a while back .. and bought that .. now i weathered it with some green and put a waterstop in it .. then a ford hubcap and a test to make cheap water ..

did a small layer of superglue and then filled it with velpon glue , real cheap clear glue , untill now it still clear and not sinking in .. could be a cheap way to create water in stuff ... that crystal clear i used on the puddles is expensive , small bottle and wont apply in one thick layer

Edited May 28, 2016 by crazyrichard

[crazyrichard]

 changed some stuff , removed the oil sign .. and barb wire and went for a wood fence , gave it a first wash

 

[crazyrichard]

so i gave all the puddles a wash with green , that reall worked well .. looks great , also added a muffler with drilled open pipe .. i cracked the pipe a bit so it looks busted

 

on te right i will continue the fence .. if i would have placed the charger more in the front i could have build a shed ... maybe i can build a small shed on the right upper corner and run the fence onto that...

[Yahshu]

That is so cool. Thanks for the cool ideas for my Mad Max Dio

[crazyrichard]

thnx phil

 

[crazyrichard]

so i bought some gras at the train department ... loose stuff in a bag ...it looked yellow in the store , especially next to the real green gras ..

but when i applyed it on the ground it looked to green and alive .. it looked horrible ... so i took some light yellow rust color pigment powder , its almost yellow and started to brush the gras .. man it went from alive to dead grass in a instant .. after some finetuning i got the result on the pics .. worked better for the look and feel ..

it also went a tad more matt (the gras)

 

also added 2 ribbed rusted panels , 2 sides of a truck bed behind the tree and a old lantern in front of the tree

 

Edited June 4, 2016 by crazyrichard

[Tommy Isbister]

Great job on the dio. All the small details really make it pop.