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Modeller Build Logs
Firefly IC Diorama |
| By James Wechsler | | Started: | Jul 15, 2007 | | Updated: | Aug 31, 2007 |
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This blog is intended to be a bit different than most in that a big focus will be on the diorama aspects. The focal point will be a Firefly IC (a welded hull M4 based Firefly). This will be built using the new Dragon Sherman III kit and the following Formations sets:
F079 M4 Conversion for the Dragon Sherman III
F022 Low Bustle Firefly Turrret
F018 Sherman Pioneer Tools
F050 Sherman Headlights
F046 Sherman Siren Assortment
F047 Sherman VVSS Track Skids
F013 US Cables and Clamps
The diorama is going to show the Firefly driving over a temporary bridge with a wrecked Panzer I command tank partly submerged in the river below.
I intend to include a number of chapters on making the ground work and also on how to make the water.
Up next: The M4 Conversion |
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| Shaping the Base | Aug 17, 2007 |
With all of the pieces of the diorama ready to go, it’s time to carve up the polyfoam. For this dio I decided on a deep but not too wide river (conveniently just the right size for a Treadway bridge). So I simply used the electric carving knife to cutout the basic shape and then I went on to shave it to the final shape. It took about an hour and this is definitely a job to do in the garage with some newspaper laid down as it can be messy.
The holes I punched in are to give the groundwork something to ‘bite’ into so it doesn’t pop off the polyfoam.
Up next: Boxing in the base |
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