Me and a fellow poster (ChoirBoy) have decided to make a special diorama based on a scrapheap. We have taken inperation from a post by James Tremblett. He recently made a should we say not so shiny car and me and Sam were amazed at the finished model. We are looking for any actual help regarding, Weathering techniques, Cars to use, Rusty paintjod ect. We will love all help giving and as soon as we start the peice we will keep you informed. Also a special thanks to James for the idea here is the link to the original thread please take a look and say thanks to James.

James Tremblett is a legend

Hopefully we will gain a lot of tips from u guys on the forum so post, post, post!!

Also we have Mal coming to our air cadets squadron soon so hopefully we will be able to gain invaluable experience from that!!

Thanks again to James for the inspiration, and i hope u will all support us in our bid to make our first ever diorama!

Thanks,

Choirboy

Quote Brock: Over and out.....

Hey - sounds like great idea. Ask any questions you need there are a bunch of members who will help.

Looking forward to it.

thanks for your support slodder, and spread the word lol!!!

Does anyone know where we could buy any old, used tyes for models ???

Also i was wondering what people would reccomend for the base of the diorama and what should cover the 'floor' as it is a scrapyard......?

Anyone have any links to other similar dios or real life scenes to help us plan it and any tips on how to start a dio in general, like what to plan would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks guys.....Spread the word!!

wow cool!!

im not much on making bases etc.. if you look over in the armor section you can pick up some ideas there.

as far as weathering the cars i like to use pastels

The base - it would look pretty cool to start with a nice metalic picture frame and fill the 'picture' part with a piece of MDF (wood). The floor could be some moch asphault - that could be fine grain sand paper glued to the wood. If you want a southern junk yard it would be red clay dirt.
Do a google search for junkyard car and go to images and you get a bunch

here are two from other sites.

What a great idea guys. 1/24-25 scale i asume.

I think I have a fair amount of tires in my sparebox, if need be.

Hey thanks for the tips guys, erm just two questions:

James what type of 'pastels' do you use and in what way???

Jesper I want the get tyres to create the following image.

Wow - that many tires - that's a party

Couple of thoughts - bakable clay for the whole lot. Make each one and bake a whole. You can customize each as you go which could be cool.

Second thought - make a master or two out of clay, make a mold (or two) and pour some resin copies - Or make a mold of a kit tire.

Third thought - AM after market
Freds Resin

Check out this site -tons of stuff.
Scale Equipment

I've never ordered from either so ring them up to check them out first.

Forgot the plastics question -

The plastics I use for diorama building are sheet styrene in various thicknesses usually Evergreen or Plastruct. I use some pieces of clear styrene sometimes.
I will use platic from toy blister packs or food containers.
These would be good for large panels, boxes, etc.

One thing you'll probably need with this project is foil - not kitchen foil (well maybe if you're careful). Foil from the neck of a wine bottle or AM stuff, you can also resort to other food packaging, yogurt tops, some coffee sealer layers. This would be good for sheet metal work - especially on the fender benders.

Tube or solid pieces are probably going to be handy again plastruct or maybe coffee stir rods.

Awesome job and immensely creative. That's something you don't see everyday! I really like your weathering and the choice of car to model.

And a northern U.S. would be a tan clay, turns to a nice gummy brown ooze after it rains and you go walking through it searching for that one particular car part that is no longer in production. Ask me how I know........ :-) :-)

If you could afford it MIGs front end loader modified with a set of lifting forks instead of the bucket would be cool in the yard. All the scrapyards use them to move and stack the autos. There will definately be tire tracks all over the ground from them.


Good luck.

Dave S.

How big are you thinking to make?? Seems like you would need quite some space to incorporate a lot of the stuff you are wanting to do... Seems like a great modelling adventure!

Good Luck and Cheers!!!

Cheers Brian,

I'm not sure on the size yet, we are beginning planning after christmas!! The old Xjs Jaguar kit is 1:43 scale or suomething strange like that so this will probably affect how big we make the diorama! Any tips on how to size it would be appriciated!! if any moe info is needed just ask!

Cheers,

I use chalk pastels and use a brush to apply the dust from them