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The nicest scene i modelled so far

Started by Daniel, September 12, 2022, 12:36:02 PM

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Daniel

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IMG_0051 (31) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

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IMG_0070 (20) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

Now you already know this process from my first posts...

IMG_0126 (12) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0125 (11) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0001 (119) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0002 (107) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0003 (108) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

You see some tiles are 'broken' here and there...

IMG_0004 (107) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0005 (101) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0007 (94) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0009 (82) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0008 (101) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0012 (81) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0010 (84) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0011 (89) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0006 (96) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0002 (103) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

... then a little weathering...

IMG_0093 (22) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0094 (24) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0095 (25) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

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IMG_0013 (75) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr




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Daniel

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IMG_0132 (7) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0133 (13) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0134 (11) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

All the stuff before the bazaar front is still being prepared so no final colors visible yet. The long delay is because i want to get done the inside and also add and hang more at the outside...

IMG_0006 (15) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0003 (114) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0135 (13) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0136 (15) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0137 (10) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

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... yes, the electricity arrived to the village not long ago but is being re-installed after a couple of fiascos...

IMG_0139 (15) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0140 (14) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0007 (102) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0006 (107) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0003 (116) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0001 (129) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

... so still everything keeps changing...


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IMG_0005 (117) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

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finescalerr

The lighting is better in the last several photos. Lighting is critical to making your models look as they should. -- Russ

Daniel

Thank you, Russ.

Yes, it looks better.
I don't know why or how it happened but, fortunately, is not the first time that happens so may happen again one day. :D

Meanwhile i'll try to learn from doing but don't expect much.

Daniel




Bill Gill

Daniel, I hope you don't mind my experiment...
After looking at some of the historic photos that you posted I was curious to see how your diorama photos would look with a similar appearance.
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Daniel

Bill,

How dare you?

I mean, only three?

 >:( You didn't like any of the other photos, eh? >:(

 


 :)  :D  ;)



No, now serious, you've made my day.

For the first time i regret i didn't put more figures!

THANK YOU.


Daniel






Stuart

I certainly agree with Russ. Lighting can make a huge difference in creating a realistic photograph of a finished diorama or model.  You might take a look at the photos Chuck Doan has made of his finished projects.  I believe many of them were taken outdoors in natural sunlight. I am not a pro by any means but I have had some experience in photography.

Stuart

Daniel

Thank you, Stuart.

Of course you are right as is also Russ.

Yes, i am aware of Chuck Doan's, Marcel Ackle's, Gordon Birrell's and many other great master's work. I followed them all for years so i get what you mean: their exquisite mastery in both, the building and the presentation.

I would like to give you a good answer but the point is that i have been facing a strong resistance to take photos of the dioramas for more than three weeks so actually Russ' and your comments feel as signals from the outer world concerning something happening still not really clear in my inner world.

I will give you a better answer as soon as i get it!

Sorry.

But i really thank you and Russ for the interest and good hints.

Daniel







Ray Dunakin

What is the purpose of the black/silver undercoat on the tile roof? Is that to keep light from showing through?
Visit my website to see pics of the rugged and rocky In-ko-pah Railroad!

Ray Dunakin's World

Daniel

Ray

I assume you mean the barrel roof tiles. If so, there is no silver undercoat at all: that is just the 0,6mm thick aluminium of wich the tiles are made.
The black primer has a double purpose: at first, it must create a better chance than aluminium for the paint to adhere. The other function is accemtuating depth everywhere by making darker the deeper spaces of the up-side-down tiles between the top layer of tiles as seen at the left in the image below...

IMG_0002 (103) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr


If you wonder 'why that is not happening also at the right side?'
Well, no idea, but as usual, i don't even try to get everything in rational alignement so it is for me enough as here or there a bit of that effect remains. At that stage is am just doing what i do whithout an idea of what will be done later. If you check the other photos showing the roof done and weathered you will notice the whole concept has almost vanished. Among other things because i wanted the too neat terracotta layer to be eaten by the weathering so used a lot of pastel powders for the weathering.
Let's put it this way: at work, i 'hear' ideas flowing in all directions but i just follow what the hands are doing, without 'rules'. What remains is not the rendering of a previously worked out thing but just the stack of traces of what has been done. (A bit as the traces of my shoes in an a bit muddy path.)
Control during the process? Control and joy are as oil and water.
That such an approach can go wrong?
Of course. And often does. But then i have a chance to learn more from the unexpected so, still if the result gets spoiled, the joy of the intent remains shining and i have learned how to deal with it.
Yes, of course, then, afterwards, the clown (my ego) has much to say about including several 'i warned you' and the such. I just pick from the ego's blah-blah the little truths that every now and then shine at the middle of it's alphabet soup.

Daniel
 


Daniel

#73
Talking photos but from my 'dear chaos' point of view: yesterday before sunrise the toilette called me. Underway i noticed there was still totally dark outside but the soft light of the corridor was pouring nicely on the layout.
The layout grew up, unintentionally, in what happens to be my main workroom. Poor beast, unprotected, it is constantly suffering, apart from the usual known Amsterdam's superfine and invasive finedust, the dust from the small and sometimes also the big Proxxon saws, milling machine, airbrush, pastel powders, sanding jopbs and all the rest. Last time i cleaned it was before starting the first of the three ungoing dioramas so a layer of time & Co. dust is covering it all, waiting for some vacuumcleaner's piety.
Nevertheless, here a few shots done my undisciplined way:

IMG_0048 (324) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0052 (303) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0046 (315) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0036 (385) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0037 (349) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0039 (361) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0040 (343) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

IMG_0043 (329) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr


I do regret one thing: the elaborated work on the reflecting water under the dust coat... but, o.k., we all had some hard times and so also the layout. To compensate that i will give it soon a rebird staring from a radical cleaning and working out the water front scenes and some specific scenes...But now back to the dioramas.

Daniel

finescalerr

The four photos preceding the one with your fingers show promise. For best effect you should include only your best three or four shots in each post. In so many things we do in modeling and art (and what you do is clearly art), less is more. -- Russ