fmethorst
Command Sergeant Major
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- Feb 18, 2008
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Hi all,
We've started work on our latest ground work and it's the most ambitious yet. I thought I would share our progress here.
The gist of the concept.
I had a 6' x 4' piece of plywood laying around that I wanted to use for a new diorama. Our last effort, battlefield with trench, was 4' x 3' for comparison. One thing I've found with photographing scenes is you can never have too much depth.
I had bought a couple sections of 1 gauge railway track some time ago that I'd wanted to incorporate into a scene so the scale of this project suited leveraging the track.
The concept is simple, two factory work halls with a railway track running between them, a road crossing the track perpendicularly and a couple minor roads running parallel to the track. Everything should be set at an angle to facilitate compositional photographic interest.
The ground work would all be fixed to the plywood while the factory work halls would be removable for storage.
1 Gauge track sections
Priming
Positioning the track
Laying the track on a celluclay bed. Due to our experience with celluclay shrinkage, which warped the previous base, we left gaps with the idea that each smaller section could contract independently as opposed to the entire length pulling at the ends.
Adding ballast to the track
We've started work on our latest ground work and it's the most ambitious yet. I thought I would share our progress here.
The gist of the concept.
I had a 6' x 4' piece of plywood laying around that I wanted to use for a new diorama. Our last effort, battlefield with trench, was 4' x 3' for comparison. One thing I've found with photographing scenes is you can never have too much depth.
I had bought a couple sections of 1 gauge railway track some time ago that I'd wanted to incorporate into a scene so the scale of this project suited leveraging the track.
The concept is simple, two factory work halls with a railway track running between them, a road crossing the track perpendicularly and a couple minor roads running parallel to the track. Everything should be set at an angle to facilitate compositional photographic interest.
The ground work would all be fixed to the plywood while the factory work halls would be removable for storage.
1 Gauge track sections
Priming
Positioning the track
Laying the track on a celluclay bed. Due to our experience with celluclay shrinkage, which warped the previous base, we left gaps with the idea that each smaller section could contract independently as opposed to the entire length pulling at the ends.
Adding ballast to the track
