My first Diorama

[javathehut4]

Hello All, I've been threatening to do a diorama for a long time, so one night I just started, this is what turned out. its 30in across, 24in deep. it took about 4 to 6 weeks to complete. any comments are welcome.

[diymirage]

very impressive for a first try

cant really think of any tips to give you on this one, you nailed it

[disabled modeler]

Hey Scott....WOW!!! Thats a first try? You did real good on it! I hope mine comes out half as good....

[Eshaver]

Darken the cedar shake shingles with acrylic an call it done , nice work ! Ed Shaver

[dptydawg]

Great work, Scott

This diorama is very impressive for a first time effort. There are lots of interesting details and weathering.

Carl

[Railfreak78]

I think the only thing I have to complain about it is...... It's not mine! I love it. Great job on this. Something to see everywhere.

[Tony T]

Wow, nice job on that! Tons of stuff to take in!

[Sixties Sam]

Excellent work! Amazing details everywhere, and great weathering on the Chevy!

Great diorama!

Sam

[tuffone20]

Wow for a 1st try that is awesome!!! Lots of stuff to check out and it all goes together well and just looks right!!

One of these days I'm going to try my hand at something like that.

[javathehut4]

Thanks a lot guys, after seeing all the other great Dioramas here these complements are nice to hear. You’d be surprised to see what this started out to be. The more I did, the more I wanted to do. The original idea started out with a base of 12in. sq. it ended up 30in by 24in. when I started looking at a full sheet of plywood, I slapped myself and said, down boy.

I found out I really like doing the ground work. It’s too bad there’s no one around here that likes just building the models. I started another one and will post pictures soon. And to one and all, thanks again.

[Guest Gramps-xrds]

It looks like you didn't miss a thing. You got it all there. For a first try, you've done a lot better than some ppl have after several tries. That's the trouble with dios, the more you do the more you want to do. I can see only one thing that might be a little off and that's the shingles. They could use some age and the amount of shingle that's exposed it is 5 1/2 to 6 in. on 1:1s

[Brizio]

Love it!!! Great job!

[javathehut4]

When I started this, I started making scale roof shingles, but very quickly I realized I'm not that much of a masochist. So after looking at other dioramas and seeing I'm not alone in this thought, the shingles got bigger, and I got to keep my sanity. I recently found this stuff that might age the roof easily, will be testing it soon.