Bull Run 1861 WIP

[Lacc]

Hello Hobbiemates,
I'm going to show step to step how I make one diorama, specificy "Bull Run 1861".
I'll go to use the Massimo Costa' set inspired in a beautiful painting by Don Troiani.




As the job more difficult for me is the base, my idea is make firstly the ground and more late the figures, slowly. The biggest enemy of our hobbie is the hurry, in my opinion.
I will use for modeling the ground this epoxy mix and for to imitate the corn field and wheat field, these kits of railway modelism.






I intend write one post in the forum once a week to show my advances.

Alfredo

[Cryns]

Nice initiative, Lacc. I look forward to your development.

The biggest enemy of our hobbie is the hurry, in my opinion.

I agree. I keep telling that to others myself.
Before I joined this forum, some members wrote many tutorials about how to do a quick wall, how to do a quick tree. I did not understand the philosophy behind it.

modelism

You must be a Latin language speaker. Such a nice word. I run into this word every time I visit Italian websites about building model ships. It might be an English word too. But in Dutch it does not excist

Good luck with your project.

[Kekso]

Excellent. I can't wait to see work on that scenery.

[Peter]

Isn't there a week passed by now???

Can't wait to see next steps!

[santifernandez]

This looming is a good thing, good figures and good painter ..... another great work of the lacc brand.
I hope to see these live works soon.
Santi.

[Lacc]

Hello all, hobbiemates!
How I writed, I'm going to show my advances of this week.
Firstly, I have painted the base using the airbrush(colors: desert yellow and brown earth)


Next, I made lights and shadows (shadows with dark paint very watered, I dont know the exactly right word ; lights with dry brush, desert yellow with white).
My idea is to imitate the lights and shadows of the terrain of the picture .. dark near the viewer, luminous in the center and little by little darken until get the earth color in the base of the corn...


More late, I bended the corn and I painted it with airbrush(down with color kakhi and a little olive green, up with desert yellow)


The same plantes with "pardo van dyck" oil very diluided.This gives a 3D effect and a "more organic" aspect, I think.


Wheat painted with "yellow ocre", using the airbrush


Finnish, with the oil very diluided

It's all, at the moment...
I hope enjoy with this post, thank's for reading
Alfredo

[Susofrick]

Looks very interesting! Right now your base looks like a cheese and I sincerely hope I am wrong, it will start to smell after a while!

[Lacc]

Looks very interesting! Right now your base looks like a cheese and I sincerely hope I am wrong, it will start to smell after a while!

I haven't words

Alfredo

[daikaigan]

Dear Alfredo,
just a question : who is possible buy the mais field ?
thank
Massimo

[Lacc]

Hi Massimo,
There is a rail modelism shop in my town and this is their link to buy in the Internet:

http://www.modelismodeltren.com/

If they have some problem for sending abroad, tell me and I buy and send you it.

Alfredo

[Lacc]

Hi all you,
I couldn't work too last week in my project.
I show below, the sticks for make the fence, the base without protection paper, the first step to painting skin and a quickly presentation with corn and some figures.

I hope that the next week I can make a post more interesting,

Alfredo

greetings

[Lacc]

Hi all hobbiemates!
I can show more advances that the last week,
I hope you like and any questions or critics will are welcome.

Alfredo

[Traveller1865]

Nice work!

[Kekso]

Figures are a bit too small but they seem really nicely painted as much as I can see.

[Kostis Ornerakis]

Marvellous painting!

[santifernandez]

Great paint as usual,Lacc.
and nice idea the wip.
But the photos are regular
go mate,go.
Santi.

[MABO]

Massimo will love it I think...

[Lacc]

You are right, Santi. I will try to make better photos the next week.Also, I will make them more big, Kekso.
Thanks by yours comments, friends.With them I can to improve my job, thanks very much!

[Ben90]

Fantastic so far!

[Peter]

Marvellous painted figures and nice base so far! Looking forward to the next steps!