Thank you for your kind words, Bluefalchion, Carlos and Marvin. They encourage me to continue forward with my projects.
I always have a lot of ideas boiling in my mind on new works. My inspiration is continually in action. This is the first phase of any project.
The second step is to realize the idea into real elements: appropriate base, figures to be used, conversions to be made on them, other elements to complement the scene, overall distribution on the base, etc. This is the phase represented in the pictures above (conversions don't appear still, but are already present in my mental designs).
The third step is the most difficult and slow for me: the painting of the figures. It takes me a lot of time to complete every figure so, obviously, the most figures the diorama includes the most time to see it finished.
The last stage is quick and easy: varnishing all the painted elements and placing them in their respective places.
Bearing in mind that my summer holidays aren’t eternal (unfortunately
), I think that I’m going to begin with the Gordon-Mahdi project. This is the one with less elements and, therefore, with more probabilities to be finished in a reasonable term.
I will continue posting pictures of its progress in this thread.
Great project. I got only one question. Where do you get those great looking wooden bases?
In answer to your question, Emperor, I usually get the bases for my dioramas in model shops in my city, Madrid. Sometimes I have acquired any of them online from Andrea Miniatures website (
http://www.andreaeurope.com/es). Sadly, many models shops have being closing in the last years, making harder and harder the task of finding the appropriate base for each diorama.
Thank you again for your support, dear friends, and cheers for you all.
Santi.