I can still remember the days when I, as a modeler , had to spend hours and hours running through a scrapbox, my wife's sewing-box or my son's playthings to find useful items to construct those badly needed diorama accessories. Those days are gone (although not yet completely) since Verlinden Productions entered the model market. And although a lot remains to be released the vast range of available accessories makes it easy to make diorama-"Variations on a theme". This diorama is an example. The MDA German Village Ruin has been used in a previous setting, although in a different function. The "German Commercial Signs" (n°24) offers some 10 different signboards to change the location of the MDA ruin. This, with a variation in accessories, will give the same diorama a totally different look. Note how some attention is devoted to the inside of the ruin. Basswood is perfect to simulate the planking on the first floor. A dark wash with oil paint and highlighting with Humbrol HM8 will bring out the structure of the wood. The wall paper (n°277/Two patterns) has been applied the same way as the real one as well as the peeling effect.
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