Hello there, in the next few days I am building one of those shadow box dioramas, its not anything special, it will be a quick build, and basically this is the plan, I would like when this is finished, for as many people as possible to write a ''caption'' that can be anything that will briefly explain the diorama, at the moment, there's not a great deal to see, but in the next few days, this should begin to take shape, I began this somewhat strange idea yesterday.


This is what I call a split level diorama, the base is made from anything I can use to keep the weight down, tissue paper, plastic card and so on, over this I have used scatter (railroad) cork and even very fine stone, finishing off with filler, I then give everything a spray of paint, sticking with a WW1 subject, I quickly made up the road block, this will become a major part of the diorama.

Today can see the row boats going in among the rocks made from cork.

And while the other troops recieve their coat of paint, these few only just dry have found their way onto the rough landscape.

The WW1 figures from Airfix and lady which along with the road block will add to a little fun.

So far so good and making a speedy progress, the first few figures are in, some washes and touching up of paint here and there, even a bush or two.

Day 4 and up all night painting these solidiers.


Fingers crossed I'll have this finished by the weekend, please remember this is more a bit of fun then a serious build, and while the construction of this diorama can be adopted into any situation, I've decided to make this a little bit on the fun side, and I hope to be calling for captions.

The backdrop has now gone in, the last figure (still wet paint) and masking off the print which will show as the fixed backdrop.