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 diciplines. Especially the information from Sheperds Paine was of great use for my.

One of the things I noticed was that when I came in to the room where the diorama is standing you can see the whole scene at once. The viaduct and the railway arches where the first things that take the attention. In this way the viewer will loose his attention in a short time, without seeing the details on which I spend a lot of attention.

I’m fascinated in the way Sheperd’s Paine discripes the realisation of a black box.

So I dedided to give that a try. I made a tryout and did some experiment with the viewing opening. These resulted in the final desing. With this viewing opening it is possible to see the whole diorama, when you look around.

By my art supplier I found black presentation card, suitable to create the front of my black box.

I have to add some glass behind the opening. Just from a cheap photo frame.

This is the way it looks when you are looking to the central scene.

regards,

Job