Author Topic: Alien Diorama  (Read 3403 times)

Offline Ramba

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Alien Diorama
« on: March 15, 2020, 02:00:58 AM »
The Alien is 1/32 and the soldier is MAIM 1/35 Heavy Trooper. The wall came with the Alien figure. I used a plastic lid I think came from a Pringles potato chip container and filled it with stucco for the base. I then put a layer of Vallejo mud over the stucco. The ferns are real ferns from my garden that I dried/preserved myself. The wall was primed first then I painted it different browns to represent rust but I also used real rust over that. The lighter patchy rust color is the real rust. The real rust I made myself from steel wool that I put in a jar with water till it rusted.












Offline Brian da Basher

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Re: Alien Diorama
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2020, 03:09:04 AM »
Good stuff!
:smiley:
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Re: Alien Diorama
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2020, 03:38:27 AM »
 :smiley:
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Re: Alien Diorama
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2020, 05:43:37 AM »
WoW!  That is certainly capturing a moment in all the right ways.  Impending doom for the grunt by death from above.  Well Done! 
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Re: Alien Diorama
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2020, 03:59:48 AM »
Well done indeed  :smiley:  Great concept and execution but your gorgeous rust technique and those dried ferns really iced the cake  :-*
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Re: Alien Diorama
« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2020, 09:25:03 AM »
Well done indeed  :smiley:  Great concept and execution but your gorgeous rust technique and those dried ferns really iced the cake  :-*
I second what he said.  That's gorgeous work.

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Re: Alien Diorama
« Reply #6 on: March 16, 2020, 10:15:11 AM »
I dunno, not sure the trooper's dead, yet. All that armour may be enough to help him survive the initial attack & fight back, to suffer a longer, drawn-out expiration.

Really good job! :smiley: 8)
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Re: Alien Diorama
« Reply #7 on: March 16, 2020, 02:01:09 PM »
very nice work

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Re: Alien Diorama
« Reply #8 on: March 16, 2020, 03:07:00 PM »
Can't say is realistic.  Can say is fictitiously realistic.  :smiley:   Great weathering effect.

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Re: Alien Diorama
« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2020, 11:45:49 PM »
Very nice dio. Dead Marine walking.
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Re: Alien Diorama
« Reply #10 on: March 17, 2020, 05:01:00 AM »
very nice work

Concur, very nice work indeed!

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Offline Ramba

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Re: Alien Diorama
« Reply #11 on: March 18, 2020, 04:05:36 AM »
Thanks everyone! It was a fun project.