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Constructing a diorama consist of phases while painting of the various models and figures can proceed in parallel. There is no single path to follow. Creativity, improvisation and ingenuity come along your journey of modelling with joy. Attend to an original image is just a direction, but don’t fear to diverge. Neither did I. I would rather say that the results became even better than was planned.
Sometimes a goal can't be achieved because of missing the resources or it just doesn’t work out the way you want it and for the sack of time... Everything is adjustable afterwards at later point in time. Although after placing the plastic soldiers for instance it would be harsh to accomplish.
Duration
So far with the other scenarios it was possible to keep up with a certain timeline, but this project not even close. Q1 2023 was the initial aim of completion with the preparation already commencing in Q4 2022. Q2 was already feasible due to serval reasons as the weather’s coldness (no room inside) and next too hot, or private family occasions kept me occupied if ti was not work. The tranquil Corona period is definitely over.
Frankly, also the motivation is less. In previous years completing 5 models in 1 week was easy done and today 1 only over multiweek period, with same standards. This also counts for painting the figures, however here I increased the detail level a bit. Although a lot of models were complete don time, the detailing of the decoration demanded a lot more of thinking and energy.
Phases
What has been a real challenge and demotivating fact is the art of the building which ad to be demolished. Building from scratch would take many more months each, but also a huge concertation span. Knowing myself, not feasible, hence checked on Ali for some prefabricated ones. Found them under resin and as they could read my mind. Expensive though, but suitable for the job.
However, not enough and all of them were half of a dilapidated or damaged building after shelling, except the church ruins. In a corner suits fine, but not in my setup as centered, mean either a lot of debris or more. The latter I solved by using clay to duplicate and mimic the resin parts. This process including painting was exhausting in every sense. Not my specialty as I realized. I’m more nature landscape person. The previous scenery with jungle challenged me, but this 10x more.
Process
The coverage was clearly from beginning with snow and mud. However, what to cover and what not I’d like to see already the end results and in this case difficult to do as not clear what will be located and reallocated perhaps. This act took months as not clear where the prepared building would be settled. At some point frustration kicked. Once a setting was accomplished, the week after changed again. Finally agreed to the right setup by elimination some constructions or expectations. All in is not always a good approach. After quarters further in time the last set of finished figures goes per the last mile is longest proverb.
Results
Frustrating all over until a consensus level was reached to proceed it was fun of course. What got me most is the lack of a good place to create, build, think and have all material, models, figures at the same place instead of grabbing everything from different places and relocating the stuff. This affects the mind as after a while idea fades away (notes won’t help with a true artist). This won’t happen for the next 5 years. Next project must be than on a much smaller scale.
After these months of sorrow, that's how it actually feels, and the joy was defintly less adjacent as witht eh otehr scenarions, happy of course that this snow landscape finally has come to a finish. For sure, learned a lot new things and modelling approaches.
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