Work continues on the Lancaster diorama,
and as I am due to hand it over to the charity volunteers in the first week of
October, I need to be getting to the final stages of the build. The Lancaster
itself is almost finished, the ground vehicles and ground crew are finished,
and now the scenic base itself is finished.
The base of the base – if you follow me –
is a 50cm x 60cm offcut of MDF, provided very cheaply by my local branch of
B&Q. This I sprayed black. On top of this is a sheet of brown mounting card
to serve as a basis for the scenic materials to stick to. I avoided putting the
actual scene directly on to the board in case it went wrong and had to be
reworked, in which case I would have wasted the board: it’s safer to stick the
scenery to the card, which could always be replaced if necessary.
I used Woodland Scenics scatter material
for the grass, stuck down with diluted PVA glue and with Spray Mount craft
adhesive, then over-sprayed with Humbrol olive green acrylic paint to add some
variety to the colour tone. The hedge is made of Woodland Scenics foliage
material, broken into pieces and glued down with PVA. The farm track was
created by adding brown scatter material, and the boundary fence is made of
short pieces of cocktail sticks glued into place as posts, with fine black wire
used as fencing wire. To add some interest to the hedge, I added some small
twigs from the garden to represent tree trunks and branches, which perhaps would
have been felled a few years ago when the airfield was commissioned.
Next jobs: finish the Lancaster and add all
the components to the base, creating the diorama.
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