Hi everyone, I hope you are all keeping well!
It's been a while since I've produced a new diorama, but for anyone who's been watching the Custom vehicle forum, you'll know that I've been customising an assortment of Alliance craft recently. Well that's not all I've been doing, there are a pile of custom figures and droids all waiting to be posted here, but I want to finish off the whole project before showing off the fruits of my labour.
For those of you who have been following the X-Wing Alliance Web-Comic, you'll know that the last chapter saw our hero Ace Azzameen get into some serious bother. In fact it is a dark time for the Alliance too as they've just suffered the defeat at Hoth and the Empire are relentless in their search for their remaining fleet. Well, without giving too much away, let's just say that in a short while the story moves away from the Azzameen Family base and into the heart of the conflict between the Empire and the Alliance, and in doing so I need to create some new dioramas and sets for the story. One of the sets is the Calamari Cruiser Liberty's main Hangar Bay.
Many of you may have realised by now, that I take simplest approach to creating my dioramas, I mainly use sheets of Mount Board and decals to create large sets as it's far less expensive than using polystyrene sheets and scratchbuilding. I also need to fold everything away for storage, as having a 5ft diorama spread out in our living room is not going to go down too well with my long suffering Star Wars wife. Most of the time creating the dio is spent on the PC designing the decal sheets, once they have been done the whole thing usually takes a couple of nights to put together.
This diorama is possibly going to be my last large one so it needs to have some extra ooomph, I want to create more wall greeblies and ledges, so there will be some foam-core attachments fixed on using Velcro. I will also make this available for everyone to download, so anyone can create it if they've got a printer. So watch this space everyone, cos the Liberty is on it's way!!!
For those of you who haven't seen what can be created using mountboard, here is a refresher...the images below are the other hangars and sets I've created using the Mount-board. Everything you see below folds totally flat and is still stored behind my kids sofa in their playroom. The Death Star and Yavin 4 are actually the same diorama, the panels simply reverse.
Death Star
Azzameen base
Yavin4
Coruscant Underworld
Palpatine's Holochamber (Coruscant)
