DW135 Posted May 27, 2021 Report Share Posted May 27, 2021 Being retired and hunkering down for this covid isolation gave me a lot of time to work on figures. Here is an unfortunate 82nd Airborne trooper making a bad landing somewhere in Normandy. The two figures outside the pig pen are Nemrod resin figures. They are very nice figures. The sergeant in the mud is bashed together from the parts box. The pigs are Britain’s soft plastic farm animals. Everything else is scratch built from bass wood, spackle, craft store crushed terra cotta and tissue paper. I’ll post more progress photos at the bottom. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DW135 Posted May 27, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2021 I started with a bass wood structure for the walls. I then glued the crushed terra cotta that I found at the craft store to simulate stones. Using one of those inexpensive micro wood choppers I chopped up wood and shingled the roof. The mud is spackle mixed with some fine sand to give it some texture. After all that set up and dried I added the parachute. I cut tissue paper in to triangular panels just as real parachutes are made. After the bottom layer I added the shroud lines using silk thread. Silk thread is expensive, but it’s thin and it doesn’t have all the fibers that cotton thread has. The paratrooper's harness and reserve chute are made of strips of paper and a few photo etched buckles. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DW135 Posted May 27, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2021 After the bottom layer dried up I gave it a coat of thin yellow green paint. I then added the top of the chute. I wet the tissue with thinned white glue and then kept lifting it and gently blowing some canned air to keep the billowing shape. It took a while but the glue dried up pretty quickly. I painted the chute with very thin watered down paint to keep the parachute from looking solid. It was a fun project, thanks for letting me post. Dennis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Deliduka Posted May 28, 2021 Report Share Posted May 28, 2021 Brilliant job Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradley25mm Posted May 30, 2021 Report Share Posted May 30, 2021 Very interesting concept and execution Dave. Very nice!! Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thevid Posted June 7, 2021 Report Share Posted June 7, 2021 Now that is making a silk purse from a sow's ear. Excellent diorama by any standard. Well done sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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