Bridge and Boat Diorama

Glued some crinkled aluminium foil to some cardboard.
Gave it a coat of blue teal enamel paint. Several hours later I gave the bottom half another coat.
I think three coats will do the job nicely.
What are your honest thoughts about it?

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G'day Peter.
It looks okay-ish, but if I have to be completely honest, I would say, it's NOT good enough and may spoil your amazing diorama. My vote is do not use it. Keep to plain painting, it's safer that way.
Thank you for trying it mate. Much appreciated that you took your time to experiment with it.
Havagoodweekend
Greg
 
Peglegreg said:
G'day Peter.
It looks okay-ish, but if I have to be completely honest, I would say, it's NOT good enough and may spoil your amazing diorama. My vote is do not use it. Keep to plain painting, it's safer that way...
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Thanks Greg for your honesty.

I did apply a third coat and it did smoothed out the ridges, and looks better as suspected.
I am still experimenting, to see it I can improve on it.
 
G'day Peter again
Years ago, I did a diorama for a model I built and placed into an old tv cupboard. I placed LEDs lights on top of aluminium foil and about 90 mm above I placed a blue translucent perspex with a cut-out for the ship's hull. I put about 6 tubes of clear silicone over the perspex to form waves and the wake of the ship. When the outer edge of the silicone was touch dry, i squeezed and pull the silicone to make white edges on top of the waves. It was quite effective.
Unfortunately my model was broken quite badly in our move and it is put away until I get the motivation to repair it.
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Also there is no place for the old tv display cabinet and I would have to do a lot of remodelling to place it into our new home.
It's now in the garage waiting for me to work on it. The whole display will be done after I finished with the RC that is what I'm doing now.
I would say, I could start that old project again in about 5 years.
Well here is the display with no model as it has been packed away to stop any further damage.
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And a close up of the bow break and the wake.
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Havagooday mate
Greg
 
Lovely water affects. It looks like rough seas with a touch of winter cold.

If the old TV cupboard cannot be installed in the house, then just build a stand and perspex cover for the model as they do in museums. It's a lot less space.
 
That's is what I planning to do, but I've also lights effects at the top that simulate night and day. At night there's a full moon and stars on the milky brown mirror and lightning flashes in the background. To do all that I havta build a unit similar to what I've got, but with now glass cupboards on the side. There's a wire from under the sea thats content to the model and internal lights come on with a flick of a switch.
You can see 3 switches at the bottom of the glass at front, which are the controls the lights. Not as fancy as your electronic marvel.
Havagooday
Greg
 
Thank you @Uwek for the video clip.
My German is not so good, but I understood about 75% of what was said.
Very impressive method. I will experiment with it.
 
Thank you @Pathfinder65, @Peglegreg , @piter56 , and @Uwek for your 'likes'.
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So much for the foam.
Though some parts were a bit of a headache to fit into place, they all eventually fitted in snugly.
At first I was quite apprehensive. Now I think 'its a piece of cake' as they say.
 
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Thank you @Pathfinder65 , @piter56 , @Peglegreg , @Uwek for your 'likes'.
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Wood puttied the foam, and added two coats of PVA - water mix.

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Peglegreg said:
Now the hand painting begins!
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But not the real painting, which is almost an 8 x 4 feet oil painting on canvas of the background scenery.

Painting of the landfill will be mainly dabbing different shades of earth colours.
The earth is wet and muddy along the riverbank. It is a darkish brown mud colour, especially where the mangroves grow.
On some of the mud surface, where it is without shade, are dry patches of much lighter colours.
Further up the bank, where the grasses, shrubs and trees are, the ground seems to have vaious shades of brown-tan to green. The lower depressions will be darker due to more moisture, and the higher ground will be much lighter.
Well, that is how I am thinking about it. Naturally, much of this will be covered with wood debri and grass.

Have spent last few hours playing with acrylic paints on the landfill.

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Still have one or two lighter shades to do upon the higher ground.
 
G'day Peter
You're doing amazing work AGAIN. Isn't there anything you can't do?
The muddy wetlands looks do realistic and I don't think you'll need anything else.
Havagooday mate
Greg
 
Hello Peter

You are doing a fantastic job on your Diorama. So very much detail that I love so much. You sure are making it very realistic, great job on the Led Lighting that gives your project a very special look, WELL DONE, and keep the pictures coming, ENJOY.

Regards Lawrence,
 
Peglegreg said:
G'day Peter
You're doing amazing work AGAIN. Isn't there anything you can't do?
The muddy wetlands looks do realistic and I don't think you'll need anything else.
Havagooday mate
Greg
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:D:D:D Thanks for the compliment.

We never know what we cannot do until we experiment. Especially when we do so again and again, until we get some sort of resemblance of success.
Greg, it is evident from your modelling that you know what I mean.
We modellers are, in a way, are experimentalists. Otherwise we would not have a model of anything.
 
zoly99sask said:
Very nice an realistic,you put in a lot of time and effirt ,not like me ,I am still stuck with the barbeque and the crew is starving.:D
Zoltan
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Thanks Zoltan for compliment.

I'll tell you a secret. I don't watch TV or listen to the radio. Have not done so for over ten years. My productivity rate skyrocketed.

I am starving too. I'll come over and give you a hand with the BBQ
 
Thank you @Canoe21, and @Pathfinder65, for your kind and encouraging words. Thanks @Uwek, and others, for your 'likes'.
 
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