This one has been in my mind for years now and I finally had a little time on my hands again. I was wondering why there was so little coming out of my hands but I am afraid it also is a matter of scale. The 1/96 Saturn is put aside, the halfway finished model of Planck next to it. I made two small fun builds for friends as birthday presents, one of which is to be seen here (or here), the other will be shown somewhere after Friday (after I gave it to him). But Suddenly I had a little spirit and took to building this duo-diorama.
The almost eerie similarities between certain aspects of Jules Verne's "Voyage to the Moon" and the real Apollo project were the inspiration for this build. The idea was to make two small scale dioramas of the Verne projectile and the Apollo CM after splashdown in the ocean. I chose 1/200 as scale for some reason and started gathering the pictures I needed and after that, the models.
I used Bryan Tan's rendition of the Verne projectile, Gary Pilsworth's Sea King and a heavily reduced version of Surfduke's Apollo capsule (the weathered version, of course). I compared the sizes of the CM and Verne's projectile a bit and went for something that was close enough to 1/200 for my taste.
The diorama needed base plates, of course. The idea was to keep the Verne diorama completely in black and white, like the original copperplate illustrations in the book. So I took a bird's eye view photo of the sea surface and abused it in Photoshop with a halftone filter. I also did the same with the projectile. Also, the flag on top of it was researched and the 1867 - 1877 version was used. It all went quite fast and I was in a great flow. I didn't take a lot of photos during this. Sorry for that. But the end result is here in this first post. The row boat is 100% scratch built.
The base was covered in transparent acrylic paste in which I made nice choppy waves to get a little wet effect back in the diorama.
And I made the projectile lean over to one side a little.
Up Next: the Apollo diorama.
The almost eerie similarities between certain aspects of Jules Verne's "Voyage to the Moon" and the real Apollo project were the inspiration for this build. The idea was to make two small scale dioramas of the Verne projectile and the Apollo CM after splashdown in the ocean. I chose 1/200 as scale for some reason and started gathering the pictures I needed and after that, the models.
I used Bryan Tan's rendition of the Verne projectile, Gary Pilsworth's Sea King and a heavily reduced version of Surfduke's Apollo capsule (the weathered version, of course). I compared the sizes of the CM and Verne's projectile a bit and went for something that was close enough to 1/200 for my taste.
The diorama needed base plates, of course. The idea was to keep the Verne diorama completely in black and white, like the original copperplate illustrations in the book. So I took a bird's eye view photo of the sea surface and abused it in Photoshop with a halftone filter. I also did the same with the projectile. Also, the flag on top of it was researched and the 1867 - 1877 version was used. It all went quite fast and I was in a great flow. I didn't take a lot of photos during this. Sorry for that. But the end result is here in this first post. The row boat is 100% scratch built.
The base was covered in transparent acrylic paste in which I made nice choppy waves to get a little wet effect back in the diorama.
And I made the projectile lean over to one side a little.
Up Next: the Apollo diorama.
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