Bison hunt shadow box diorama (1 Viewer)

[blaster]

My friend asked me to put all his commercial bisons and Indians into a diorama. I was to also incorporate an old Indian piece that I had done previously as well as two homemade heavy metal cast bisons.

To cut down on costs, I managed to source a crate box and a suitable ikea frame for this project. The pcs show the basic elements for this project.

 

[Horus]

Look forward to seeing this one progress :salute:::salute::

 

[paxtoysoldier]

Cool display already!

 

[Grey Heron]

Excellent Victor so far on this project.

Cheers,
Grey

 

[blaster]

Hi Grey, Paddy, Steve and all,
thx for yr nice premature comments and likes. I’m really feeling the heat right now…. Hahaha. I chipped away and removed my crow figure with upraised hand from its base. The metal cast buffalo is heavy! I note that the commercial buffalo are resin cast and are much lighter.

 

[Grey Heron]

Nice close up on the vignette. Good pose on the figure. Looking forward Victor to see what your brushwork on these two will look like.

Cheers,
Grey

 

[Horus]

Great little vignette all on it's own that figure raising his bloodied hand in thanks to the godss of the Buffalo and of the Hunt !:salute::

 

[blaster]

Hi Steve and Grey,

thx. I’ve stained and varnished the box for this project.

 

[thebritfarmer]

Looks great so far

 

[blaster]

Hi britfarmer,

tx for yr nice comment.
I ve constructed the bkgd for this piece from cardbd. Nicely gesso primed. The gesso provides tooth for ptg the bkgd

 

[blaster]

I’ve just knocked up a simple wood base cut to the correct length. Played around with a few options to place all the proposed figs. This is more or less what my friend and I settled upon.
He also wanted me to remove all the bases to fit seamlessly into the scene.

 

[Horus]

Your dry run looks is bringing all sorts of visions into my imagination Victor well done.:salute::

Just a thought, but rather than remove the bases, build up the areas surrounding their bases so as to keep them more secure making little dips to slip the models in and a bit of ground cover to cover up any gaps around the bases !?

 

[Grey Heron]

This scene is looking great Victor. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Grey

 

[blaster]

Hi Grey n Steve,

thx for yr inputs. I’ve ptd the bkgd n base in acrylics. Will overpaint in oils. Will use yr suggestion to retain some of the bases for attachment.

rgds Victor

 

[blaster]

I posed the figures on my proposed base. Then I found that the figure base was made of very hard diecast metal. Not easy to cut. So I levelled off parts of the large base and epoxied the figures with bases onto the large base. Then added more putty to cover the joints and repainted the whole base.

I also painted the sky bkgd in oils. Moving along with this now

 

[blaster]

I raised the base on stands and added groundwork, then foliage and finally a tree branch and rocks. More figures were now epoxied in place.

 

[Louis Badolato]

Looks phenomenal, Victor!:salute::

 

[blaster]

Hi Louis,

tx for yr kind input. I posed another two more bisons to be added to the scene. These are cast in metal so are pretty heavy. I’ll have to strengthen the stands.

 

[Grey Heron]

This hunting scene Victor is really coming together for you. Good work and thank you for sharing.

Cheers,
Grey

 

[blaster]

Hi Grey

tx for yr inputs. I decided to “warm” up the scene. I ptd the grass an ochre tint and used warm white led lights. I tk that this really lifts up the scene. The lights were fixed to a strip of wood. The frame mat was cut out and magnetic latches were added. Finished!!!