I found some shots of the dio that I made for the jungle camo biker scout that I did prior to the elite corps troopers coming out. The first two shots show a couple stages off the dios construction. As with some other dios that I did, this one started out as a plastic figure base where I drilled in and superglued lengths of epoxy coated tie wire to form a larger framework. I then cut and glued 1/4 craft foam cut from a sheet around the figure base and onto the wire framework that I had made. These craft foam sheets are covered on the bottom with a layer of paper, otherwise, superglue would not work as styre foam and super glue don't like each other.I had left some vertical spires of the tie wire sticking up and cut the base foam around it so that these spires were protruding up from it. Then, I ripped and glued chunks of styre foam and glued them onto the base where the spires were with white glue. Next, I covered the base with tissue paper soaked with a mixture of water and white glue.
In the first shot, the chunks of foam have been glued onto the spires and the craft foam/figure stand base.
In the second shot, this dio, in the upper right hand corner has it's tissue covering. ( I was making 3 at the same time here)
After a base color of paint, I applied some woodland scenics fine turf and some talus (fine rocks) which was held on with the white glue and water mix, I then drilled some holes and glued in some sticks of the same companys fine leaf foilage, added some more fine turf to this to make it more leafy and of a more varied color, sealed it with another layer of the water/white glue mix, more paint touchups,and there you have it.
I still have this one as well, in the basement somewhere.
