Beyond The Sprues

Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Other => Topic started by: Ramba on March 15, 2020, 02:00:58 AM

Title: Alien Diorama
Post by: Ramba 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.

(http://i.imgur.com/gU7A2BP.jpg) (https://imgur.com/gU7A2BP)
(http://i.imgur.com/pyGRqGA.jpg) (https://imgur.com/pyGRqGA)
(http://i.imgur.com/3Uu1Jj7.jpg) (https://imgur.com/3Uu1Jj7)
(http://i.imgur.com/su0gVi1.jpg) (https://imgur.com/su0gVi1)
(http://i.imgur.com/j1fK6o0.jpg) (https://imgur.com/j1fK6o0)
(http://i.imgur.com/SIBAFX2.jpg) (https://imgur.com/SIBAFX2)
(http://i.imgur.com/l9B7dRK.jpg) (https://imgur.com/l9B7dRK)
(http://i.imgur.com/nSdA4M6.jpg) (https://imgur.com/nSdA4M6)
(http://i.imgur.com/Nd1ptmZ.jpg) (https://imgur.com/Nd1ptmZ)
(http://i.imgur.com/5ccoCZ8.jpg) (https://imgur.com/5ccoCZ8)
(http://i.imgur.com/v0MtoiH.jpg) (https://imgur.com/v0MtoiH)

Title: Re: Alien Diorama
Post by: Brian da Basher on March 15, 2020, 03:09:04 AM

Good stuff!
:smiley:
Brian da Basher

Title: Re: Alien Diorama
Post by: GTX_Admin on March 15, 2020, 03:38:27 AM

 :smiley:

Title: Re: Alien Diorama
Post by: Jeffry Fontaine 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! 

Title: Re: Alien Diorama
Post by: apophenia 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  :-*

Title: Re: Alien Diorama
Post by: elmayerle on March 16, 2020, 09:25:03 AM

Quote from: apophenia 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  :-*

I second what he said.  That's gorgeous work.

Title: Re: Alien Diorama
Post by: Old Wombat 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)

Title: Re: Alien Diorama
Post by: Buzzbomb on March 16, 2020, 02:01:09 PM

very nice work

Title: Re: Alien Diorama
Post by: finsrin on March 16, 2020, 03:07:00 PM

Can't say is realistic.  Can say is fictitiously realistic.  :smiley:   Great weathering effect.

Title: Re: Alien Diorama
Post by: The Big Gimper on March 16, 2020, 11:45:49 PM

Very nice dio. Dead Marine walking.

Title: Re: Alien Diorama
Post by: Brian da Basher on March 17, 2020, 05:01:00 AM

Quote from: buzzbomb on March 16, 2020, 02:01:09 PM

very nice work

Concur, very nice work indeed!

Brian da Basher

Title: Re: Alien Diorama
Post by: Ramba on March 18, 2020, 04:05:36 AM

Thanks everyone! It was a fun project.