Diorama Plans

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wintersrainne

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I have this really cool idea for a diorama (well I think so anyway) but I have a few planning quirks to work out...any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. ??? ??? ???

Diorama Idea: The 4 Elementalists from Reaper (2560/2561/2562/2563) summoning the 5th Element of Spirit inside an ancient stone circle.

A Few Guidelines: I only have two lines available to me in NZ as far as minis go - Reaper and GW - so preferably stay within these two lines - although if something really cool belongs to another line I would consider importing. Secondly - I have NO conversion skills - so it pretty much needs to be as is....

Questions:
1) What to use as the creature being summoned - right now I am leaning towards the water elemental from the lesser elemental pack (2538). It needs to be neutral and probably not demonic - I mean summoning a fully armoured knight isn\'t the lok I am going for...

2) How do you make a metal figure look translucent (one idea) or like a being of light (second idea)? I want it to be forming - mist, light, transparent...something to show it is not fully formed...

3) What should the creature be summoned from - splitting earth, a vortex, a circle of light, a cauldron, a pedestal, something else??

4) How big should the whole thing be as a display piece - I have a bit of wood - cut in a 20cm circle? Too big?

5) I want the ground that each summoner is standing on to reflect their using their own elements power - ideas other than sectioning the ground into quarters and filling with a representation of their element?

6) Standing stones - I am going to carve Runes into the stones and want to create a glowing effect from them - easiest way to do this?

7) Last question - what do you think of the use of miniature lights - like fiber optic lights or laser light (as in the ones you can buy for fishtanks) to give the impression of more light around the summoned figure?

Okay I know it is a lot to ask - but it means you can pick and choose parts to answer...Thanks in advance.....

Winter\'s Rainne - \"If you\'re gonna plan - think big...\"
 
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DELTADOG

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ok lets see

Nice idea !
First I have to say that you will have one problem if you mix the two minilines (reaper/GW) because reaper have another style in their minis more small not so clodhopping the GW minis are.So they don`t fit so well together.

Answers to your questions:

1) an elemental is a good choice for the theme of the diorama!

2)depend on how well your painting style is! I paint translucent part like air etc. in pure white shaded with a very light blue. making a mini glowing is extremly hard!!! you have to paint all outerparts of the mini more lighter than the the core and have to paint the lightreflections on the surounding area like victoria lamp do it.

3) try cotton wool like fog aroud the feet of the elemental (cover the cluepoints of the elemental on the base!)

4) 20 cm is ok keep in mind that there will be some stones around the circle.

5) I would carve a pentagram in the circle an each cornerpoint one mage paint this carved pentagram for every elemental in a different representative color, mix around the elemental so that it looks like a consulidation of the different powers.

6) Try insolationfoam like styrodur cut in the right form and carve the runes with a hot needle inside the stones. ink the inner part of the rune in the color it should glove and blend around the rune this color in the grey the stone have = gloving.

7) only my opinion but I think electric stuff in a well made diorama make look it nasty like \"made in taiwan\" cheap and with no soul. ( no effort against taiwan people!!)

hope this will help!
 
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wintersrainne

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Thanks

Thanks for the ideas - I can see where you\'re coming from on all accounts - now lets just see if I can pull it off....any more good ideas guys?
 
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SoulFire_pt

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diorama

1) Seems like a good idea, you could also try cheching out the Racham elementals.

2) Either cast the model in transparent resin or paint some part of the model in the \"true colour\" and others still in white/blue/whatever to show the summoning process.

3) What about a pool of transparent water with symbols in the bottom? Or even painting these between layers of resin (or whatever material you use for the water).

4) Hum... depends on how many cenic elements you want, but for someting simple 20-25cm would sufice.

5) maybe a circle of fire, verdant vegetation, myst and raging waters (circles of water ) around each if the four elements.

6) Pretty much what Delta said...

7) Those look good on sci-fi models, but I have yet to see a good fantasy diorama that used light for the effects (altough the clear resin cast balrog on a recent WDwarf does spring to mind... ;)

Cheers,
 
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t_haye2

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I was thinking about the transparent resin thing too. You can make a hlaf-and-half mould out of plasticene and pour cold-cast resin in it.... you will need to file the half down to the right thickness and gloss the thing over, but I\'ve done something similar in the past and it does work, as long as the original you\'re using doesn\'t have too much undercut.
 
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