Continued from Castle Diorama I – The Base…
The first area of my Castle Diorama to receive serious attention was the dungeon below the castle in the corner.
For a while now, I’ve been wanting to create a diorama that would allow me to photograph my O-scale narrow gauge vehicles. Especially the cute litte industrial steam engine deserves a nice base to be photographed upon.
After many weeks of wondering on how such a diorama should look, I finally made up my mind yesterday when I was modelling with my old friend KC.
Along with the beautiful little locomotive from Fleischmann I bought a number of freight cars as well. As with all other railroad models, they were made of ugly shiny plastic, and were just begging to be weathered. 
I finally had some time to work on the monastery diorama again. I spent a couple of hours on this beautiful sunday to sow a lot of grass, plant flowers and even a tree, all in 1:48 scale. Continue reading »
Besides building dioramas and military models, one of my interests are model railroading. I’ve modelled in H0, N and even 1:35, but now I’d like to try O scale for the first time.
Time for another update!
Since I left off last time, I’ve had time to build a lot on the monastery diorama. It’s both a fun and easy project. Since the diorama is so small, about 58 x 28 centimeters, makes the construction quick and leaves lots of time for the most fun part IMO, adding all the little details. Continue reading »
My vacation continues with lots of time to work on the monastery diorama. I’ve decided to focus on the diorama, so it be able to function as a photo backdrop for when I finish some figures and vehicles. Continue reading »
After preparing the wooden base for the diorama, I started working on making the basic groundwork.
One of my hobbies besides building scale miniatures of all kinds is photography. Having moved to O scale recently, I decided that one of my first priorities would be to create a small diorama that could be used as a display base and as a background for photos.
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