“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 American website I found some information about how to create an interesting diorama. Later on I found a free e-book on diorama / black box design from Sheperd Paine, who builds mostly military diorama’s.

First of all I started to describe my theme:

After this I described how to design the diorama in the APA-box.

Below the main scene of urban scene. I would call this diorama Nice Street now.

More about Nice Street in a later entry.

Main scene.