Its coming along!

Well, made good progress! First the set of 1:32 figures had to be cleaned from flash:

You see they have a lot of that:

After that they needed some basic paint, in my cads

Painting:

And drying:

Testfitting the wooden base in the box:

And the figures dried well. These will be painted:

The dioramabox will need som light. I choose a simple ledstrip from a shop called Action. They are well known in Europe for cheap products. This strip is 3 meters long, only white leds and has a batterybox. Very usefull on exhibitions where you don't need extra power for it:

I cut those to fitting pieces, need 5 of them. They have self-adhesive backs but I put some extra dots gel superglue with that to fix them:

For in place:

In between I painted the hill on the base a dark brown which I mixed from different acrylic colors:

Time for soldering the wires to the strips. Onlyconcern is to keep track of the polarity. Where you wire them doesn't care, all are in parallell:

First test, they work!:

Temporary fit with light:

With the front attached, looks good to me!:

So, lets mix some paint! I do that with simple cheap acrylic paint colors. For beige I need 4; red, yellow, white and green:

4 equal dots:

Mix them with a paletknife:

Dark brown, to dark:

Yellow and white to lighten it, more yellow for the beige:

Thats the one I need! This color is for the sand part in front:

And painting:

And ready, its the look I want:

Testfit after drying, with the 5 strips of light it is what I had in mind:

And with the figires in base paint. Can you envision my idea?:

More to come!

Greetz, Ronald.

Painting the background!

 Painted the outside and inside yesterday:

Then I made a sort of paintframe around the opening. Now it will be more smooth to look at:

After that dried I painted thes also gray:

Draw the outlines of the hills:

And started some painting:

Well, I'm pretty satisfied. Some hill, trees and artillery smoke:

And with the baseplate in it:

All it needs is toning down with some white. First it has to dry thoroughly! Now I will start some landscaping on the baseplate. See you later!