The purpose of this book is to try to help any of you who have difficulty in reproducing the great outdoors in your dioramas. The method I have adopted is to model, and take step-by-step photos of, a number of areas of different kinds of terrain - in most cases, as 6in x 8in vignettes - to illustrate the way I work. This size suits the popular scale of 1/35th, and saved me from the impossible pressure of making a couple of dozen fullsize dioramas specifically for the book. At the same time I have included photos of some already finished dioramas; and also a few outdoor shots, which I hope will inspire you to gather your own useful references for future projects. Obviously, in a book of this size and with the time available, I have not been able to show an example of every type of terrain that you might possibly wish to model, but I hope I have been able to cover many of the main subjects. The methods used are, I believe, fairly simple and don't call for any painfully expensive tools or materials. Virtually all the materials I've used here are readily available in the UK, and I have included an Appendix at the end of the book which lists where I obtained the various brands and products. The chapters are organised in a roughly logical sequence; but the method of working through a series of vignettes has prevented me from keeping each aspect of terrain rigidly in its own section.
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