Diorama for the little CCC mill

[deemery]

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

[gnatshop]

Question - Is that Zip Foam that you're usin'?   

[deemery]

Question - Is that Zip Foam that you're usin'?   

No, I think that's the green florist foam that Mike Rose has been discussing:


dave

[deemery]

The dam's starting to take shape.


dave

[oldbloodhound]

Dam that's nice. 

[donatode]

Dam that's nice. 

Youre dam right it is .... 

[deemery]

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