blaster
A Fixture
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Call me Ishmael, maybe....
I had just finished watching the iconic movie starring Gregory Peck and decided to do a diorama on Whaling as I have not done a seascape before. As I am not aware of any zinnfiguren sets on this theme, I started surfing the web for suitable pics. My scannfiguren approach.
As a seascape is generally featureless, the main actors, the whale, the longboats and whaling ship would have to dominate the scene. To create a sense of movement, I designed the background with a jaunty curve and decided that the waves would have to be modelled in 3-d..
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I had just finished watching the iconic movie starring Gregory Peck and decided to do a diorama on Whaling as I have not done a seascape before. As I am not aware of any zinnfiguren sets on this theme, I started surfing the web for suitable pics. My scannfiguren approach.
As a seascape is generally featureless, the main actors, the whale, the longboats and whaling ship would have to dominate the scene. To create a sense of movement, I designed the background with a jaunty curve and decided that the waves would have to be modelled in 3-d..
Following the usual fit of background to the diorama box, I created a curved base and covered the gaps with plaster paste.
Once the sky background was smoothed over, the main pictorial elements were test-fitted inside this diorama. The sperm whale was cut into two, with the tail turned upwards as I wanted a counterfoil to the head.
Wave cutouts were created from card and glued onto the base. Thick plaster paste was used to create waves and to simulate a sense of motion.
The progress so far.
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