Topic: RCWCreations diorama's

[Tamer]

Wow, leave for a few days and I see you are already hard at work on a new one. I like it. Off to share.

[RCWCreations]

Thanks Shawn and Ron.

I'm exhibiting at the local comic con on 8th October, so I'm trying to get as many pieces done before hand.  I'll provide photos of the event and my stand afterwards (not nervous at all lol  )

[Tamer]

That sounds fun, I look forward to seeing your images. Folks are gonna love your work.

[hemble]

I really like the direction you are taking this new dio and can't wait to see more.

Ron

[RCWCreations]

Thanks Ron.

I wanted to try and make the outpost as close the the original as I can, to do this I needed to create sandbags the surround the front of the structure.  Using Apoxie Sculpt I have individually created each sandbag a placed them around the front of the outpost, building it up until it reaches below the gun emplacement.  This has been left to cure for the next 24 hours.

[RCWCreations]

Next a coat of aluminium paint was applied to the roof of the outpost.

Moving onto the scenery, I used filler to build up contours onto the landscape or otherwise the terrain would be unnaturally flat.  While it is drying I have gently rubbed down the surface to smooth out the terrain.

[RCWCreations]

Last 4 pictures, I found myself painting the sandbags, gun, wall and touching up the Outpost. 

Next step is to sand down the terrain and building that up.

[RCWCreations]

I'm not going to be working on this for the next couple of days but I wanted to share with you these pictures of the Outpost and wall after the paint and resin has cured and can be put together.

https://richardscreativeworkshop.co.uk/tiger-force-outpost/

[Tamer]

Wow, this is looking great. I could sure see folks liking this one at your dio set up this weekend. Even if its not done it would sure show the process and how things come along. Love that gun emplacement. Looks perfect in my opinion.

[RCWCreations]

Thanks Tamer, luckily it's the weekend of 8th October so I still have a week and a bit to get this one done.

The gun emplacement is from a spare Roadblock gun, thought it would look great there and now its got your seal of approval, I know it has worked  . I am really pleased with how that has turned out, just need to weather the complete outpost.  If I don't get this finished in time the Outpost itself works on its own.

[Tamer]

I agree. It would be a great stand a lone emplacement for pretty much any genre.

[RCWCreations]

After sanding down the filler, I made up solution of water down PVA glue (7 parts glue to 1 part water), mixed with ordinary dirt from the garden because it’s free.  A heavy coating is applied to all the fillered area’s and a lighter coating over the rest.  Further dirt is applied to enhance the raised areas, the wall was put into place to bed into the scenery.  Foliage, twigs and root were dotted around in areas and modelling stone ballast was sprinkled over areas to give the impression of a track and down the centre of the lowest level (in case I wanted to use that as a track also).

[RCWCreations]

After 8 hours, a few washes of different tones of blues were administered to lower level.  A rippled River water sheet was mounted on top, turning it into a stream.  I’ve place the Tiger Shark on top, impressed with how it looks.  The next part will be removing the excess dirt and administrating a coat of glue over the rest, adding more foliage to the top mound.

[Tamer]

It all looks so awesome, but wow on that water work. Very impressive.

Off to share.

[RCWCreations]

Wow, thank you so much for the kind words Shawn.

Using a combination on tan brown and black washes, I weathered both the wall, sand bags and the Outpost.

Please excuse the upside down picture..

https://richardscreativeworkshop.co.uk/tiger-force-outpost/#Part5