I've started a little diorama for the CCC Rastetter's Mill. First step is to get a notion of placement. Then I transferred the rough outline to the paper, and used that paper as a template for styrofoam. Next I cut chunks of styrofoam, working the contours into them with a serrated edge bread knife. I'll the mill side first, then put the wheel and its support, before cutting the filler chunk and positioning the dam.
dave
Question - Is that Zip Foam that you're usin'? :D :D :D
Quote from: gnatshop on February 15, 2015, 04:47:34 PM
Question - Is that Zip Foam that you're usin'? :D :D :D
No, I think that's the green florist foam that Mike Rose has been discussing:
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dave
The dam's starting to take shape.
dave
Dam that's nice. ;D
Well, the plaster I used for the rockwork has started to crumble, plus some of the other plaster wasn't coming together correctly. So I set this aside for a while. At Timonium yesterday I got some of New England Brownstone's "Special Dirt" that's a nice New England beigy/gray granite color. I have 2 projects to use that on, including this one. So I need to recast the rock walls, and get back on the mill.
I'm also working on another diorama that's designed for photos of car kits. It has a flat factory background, two tracks, and a long sloping foreground that will fill the camera frame
dave