For Northall Dock I try for the first time to create the scene inside out.
I asked myself the following questions:
- What is the story behind Northall Dock ?
- What will be the mean scene ?
The answer to the first question will be answered in another entry.
The answer on the second question is: a loading scene by a warehouse.
First some background information about the used model:
In the late 1940s production of the 'Jen-Tug' began. It was a 3 ton articulated vehicle, available
After Nice Street my wife asked my to design something with water again.
I had done that before on my first attempt with the Scalescene factory and an Inglenook shunting puzzle.
So I decided to build Northall Dock.
Quit a challange in an APA box. I want to build something more than just a quay and a ware house.
My starting point for the design were two pictures.
One from John Atkinson from 1890 and one from Edward Hopper (not published here)
The information on Northall Dock I fo
I started Nice Street (Urban Scene) as a diorama.
With a new build model and some models from Bridge Street I made a muck up in the APA Box
Non of these models was used on Nice Street.
During building the diorama I start to do more research about how to build a diorama. I already accepted the rule of thirds for the planning.
Also read some interesting things about how to design an urban scene.
Most information about building a diorama is to be found in other modeling dicipl
“My aim in creating a diorama is to capture the essence of an urban, railway “connected”, scene in the late 1950’s”
After building building Bridge Street I covered it with plastic against dust. This meant that it wasn’t visible any more. I also have to keep my hobby/work room as much as possible dust free because I’m very allergic.
After a visit by Ikea I saw the APA box. After reading the user guide I decided to buy one to see if it was possible to build a convincing diorama in it.
On an
Today I finished the painting and weathering of my first British Railway Road Service wagon.
Used just for 4 acrylic paint colors for painting the loading: raw sienna, burnt umber, ultramarine and lemon yellow .
Also used some metal gun and black paint and fineliners for detailing the load.
Further weathering was done through dry brushing with: dirt grey paint and a chalk pastel mixture of: black, brown and white (my general weathering mixture)
Below some picture of the result
Hope you l
I had some days off. So I decided to write the introduction to the Northall Gazette.
In the Northall Gazette articles I will try to give some background information to the diorama's.
I see my diorama's as three dimensional pictures. So every person, car & building on the diorama is "real" and has his purpose for that moment.
I will publish the Gazette pages as a picture. If you also prefer an PDF that posible too.
And also a picture of the Eastern Pub in full color out the
This blog records the development of diorama’s of Northall a fictional neighbourhood in a large industrial city in England.
The time setting is in the late 1950’s. The switching point to the modern society with live in now.
The diorama’s will all have a relation to British Railway practice in Northall .
All diorama's will be build in APA boxes as a black box.
The idea of building Northall came when I build Bridge Street. Unfortunately not build in a APA box and the victim of the cleara
