Rebels diorama

Adding bits and bobs. Turns out heating plastic wasn’t good enough and peaces haven’t stick too well. I took it a part, sanded all. I also added corners framing it to make it look more like a table top.

I played with some raised surfaces but with the figure it looked to tall and it somehow did not looked like star wars to me. I imagine flat surfaces when I think of star wars electronics.

I have one hour before work . Kids are asleep. Let’s experiment.  I got a good heat gun for paint stripping for house works but I wanted to check how well it will work for free plasticard sheets.

It will take time to learn or finfmd sweet poolint as I started to change some plastic in to paper like softness. Not wot what I am looking for now. So patience and lower settings.

You can see on bottom panel I have applied heat directly. Not a good idea. It all curved and warped.

This looks like industrial pipes but I want it to maybe be exposed, cut bit out an have wires in.
I also want to have console next to it.

This is imperial network with important data so it’s more like ethernet more than WiFi and it’d disguised as gas pipes. Rebels are here to break in to console to steal data. I may drag some wires to the ship too.

Plastic card purchased. Windows fixed ( I hope) today was a good day.

Only after I got plasticard and started bending it in to shape and gluing it with a bit of difficulty I realised I could do it faster and cheaper using yougurt pots.

Body of the ship is done.. I have idea for a bit more of narrative . Rebels team have extracted something that was the goal of the mission and now trying to escape . Unfortunately now they are facing imperial chase.

I found using phone I s much easier to upload and to reduce size of pictures I am using one I upload on WhatsApp but when I looked on project page on pc turns out that pictures are huge! Just poor resolution.

Anyone have any simple and good advice for none tech experienced person that don’t want to waste time?

My second attempt to type it. Fingers crossed.

This was a mixture of techniques. My goal was to paint it quick in one day but make it look decent. After heavy dry brush ibused inks and washes first to paint it quickly and have general vibe. I wanted to make them look unique like rag tag, bits and bobs gathered together to create some sort of military uniforms that person created from own budget. I have limited number of inks and washes in browns, greens and beige -ish and I wanted to avoid repetitions. Next step was filling all remaining unpainted parts of uniforms with water down air range paints to wet blending when speed painting wasn’t what I was looking for. I knew I will still return to to them when I will have permanent decision on diorama set up. Dusting and varnish and maybe some light source.

And yes Sundancer you guessed correctly on your stream on twitch I was going for fallout look. I didn’t thought it was that obvious without paint bu hey. Great if I don’t have to explain it. You get golden button from me for that !

Here I am playing with the set up and general story I want to tell.

Story so far is

It’s some special force landing on beach/ jungle in star wars empire times. Something went wrong and instead SAS style suddenly there is a full on battle. It may be a trap situation that they are trying to burst trough or crash landing and they are trying to set up premier still with the goal of the mission in mind. Mission would be typical gorilla fighters take like blow something up or steal something.

Im just back from craft shop so next step is work on space ship. Unfortunately we have storms in UK and turns out windows in my kids bedrooms haven’t been built / installed properly by previous owner and we have leaks. This will have to take priority for next few days.

I hope I can come back to this project before I’m back to work on Saturday.