A Tutorial For Making Military Dioramas And Models Vol 4

This book is no 4 in the "Dioramas and Models"series by Bjørn Jacobsen in which he presents his models and dioramas. The book has 157 pages, 490 pictures, and numerous tips and guidance that will help you create and improve the building of your military diorama. All the books from Bjørn Jacobsen have been written with one goal in mind: To give the readers ideas and impulses! He uses his world-renowned dioramas as examples and explains in text and pictures how they were made and points the reader in the right direction and urges you to use your imagination and creativity to the fullest! He tries to keep everything as simple and straight forward as possible and are not making things unnecessarily complicated. Real events are the inspiration for most of the dioramas in this book which make them even more interesting.

This is book no 3 in the "Dioramas and Models"-series by Bjørn Jacobsen.The book has more than 500 pictures and numerous tips and guidance that will help you create your military diorama.All the books from Bjørn Jacobsen have been written with one goal in mind: To give the readers ideas and impulses! He uses his world-renowned dioramas as examples and explains in text and pictures how they were made and points the reader in the right direction and urges him/her to use their imagination and creativity. The intention with the books is not to create the best model or diorama but to encourage model builders to seek new adventures and to expand their ambitions in model and diorama building, but most of all, to have more fun than ever before with this great hobby!He tries to keep everything as simple and straight forward as possible and are not making things unnecessarily complicated.This book presents an understandable way the tips and tricks to differentiate your work from the productions of the masses in our hobby.Building dioramas do not get the same after you have read his books!As one modeller put it: His books should be on all modeller's wish list - yes, it's that good.

This is book no 2 in the "Dioramas and Models"- series by Bjørn Jacobsen. For all model makers who want to expand their hobby into making dioramas and for all who wish to improve their diorama building technique, this book is a wellspring of ideas and techniques. The author describes in detail how he built some of his world-renown dioramas. The dioramas span a wide range of themes, from aircraft crashes to rescue operation and armour vehicles in action The book is not about building the perfect diorama; it is to show that with creativity and imagination, you can make any diorama you want. The options are endless and fascinating! The book has more than 800 pictures and numerous tips and guidance which will help you build your own military diorama.

This book is made for all who would like to make a military diorama and for all those who already are making military dioramas. Many have been building scale models and now want to put them in a diorama context. This book is full of ideas and describes the way the author has made many of his world-renowned dioramas. This book is not about building the perfect model or diorama. It is about creating a snapshot of history, to freeze a moment in time and, about all, to tell a story.The beauty of building a diorama is that there is no right or wrong way to do it. It is entirely up to your creativity and imagination. The options are endless and fascinating!This book describes more than twenty-five different dioramas and gives you a fantastic insight of how these were created. With more than 800 pictures and in-depth description, it gives you numerous tips and guidance which will help you building your own diorama. The Autor, Bj�rn Jacobsen, built his first scale model in 1957, 15 years old. Since then he has made numerous models, mostly WWII planes, but also many extraordinary dioramas. After years of modelling, he found it more and more rewarding and challenging to make dioramas, because it required not only modelling skills but also a sense of realism and a lot of research and scratch building to get it as realistic as possible. It also gives him the opportunity to let the models tell their story - and a story, they always have.For years, he has posted his work to the many model groups around the world and he often has been asked to publish some of his amazing work.He has now taken those requests seriously and has written this book.His hope is that his models and dioramas might inspire some to try out this exciting hobby.

- In this book, the world-renown modeller, Bjørn Jacobsen reveal all his "secrets" in making true-to-life explosions and fires in a military diorama. - He takes you through the process, step-by-step, in building dramatic fires and explosions. - Sixteen explosions and fires are explained in great details - Using of LED in creating lights - 88 pages and 259 colour pictures

This edition of Real World Photoshop is more tightly focused for the needs and demands of the professional digital photographers. From acquiring images to using an efficient processing workflow to maintaining image quality and final output quality all within the powerful feature set of Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop Extended CS4. Coverage of new features includes: live, non-destructive corrections in the Adjustments panel, re-editable, feathered, density controlled masks, enhanced auto-align, auto blend, 360 degree panoramas, and more. The book's new focus helps readers understand the core workflow tasks, main print and web output options as well as the commercial printing information necessary to hand off images for prepress. Essentials information on file formats, color settings, image adjustment fundamentals, sharpness, detail, noise reduction, and image storage and output is also included. Photoshop Extended is covered where it relates specifically to photographers.

Duncan Howarth has been modeling military vehicles for years. But he started to find the range of models offered by the kit manufacturers restricting - there were so many unusual and interesting prototypes that he wanted to model, but couldn't. So he began to use ordinary kits as the bases of increasingly adventurous conversions. With the help of drawings and photographs, parts are made to create new variants of existing models and, sometimes, almost completely new models, using just a few components from a donor kit. This book guides the reader through a series of increasingly complex conversions based on readily available kits of World War Two types, and culminates in a magnificent model of the Vomag self-propelled gun built entirely from scratch. Each build is accompanied by drawings, prototype photographs and photocopyable templates which will allow you to build the conversion yourself. The book also gives you the know-how to undertake new and different conversions of your own.

Aimed at modellers of all abilities, this lavishly illustrated book presents a step-by-step guide to figure painting and modelling using traditional techniques. From the multipart hard-plastic 28mm miniature to the metal and resin models common in all other scales, this book provides wargamers, collectors and gamers with a wealth of information to achieve the best results. It demonstrates a variety of modelling and painting techniques at different scales; it provides step-by-step guidance on building, converting and painting models; it covers working in plastic, resin and white metal; it explains dry brushing techniques, the three-colour method, multilayering and shading with washes and, finally, it considers basing techniques and maintaining the compatibility of miniatures between different gaming systems.

The step-by-step building and painting guides in this book illustrate figures in scales from 1/150 to 1/32, which equates to wargame figures sizes from 10mm to 54mm. There are painting recipes featured for twenty- five uniforms covering the main branches of the Wehrmacht. These are: Afrika Korps; Fallschirmjager (parachutists); Feldgendarmerie (military police); Gebirgsjager (mountain troops); Heer (army); Panzer (tank crews); Waffen SS and U-boat crew. Preparation and assembly of white metal and plastic figures is covered in detail, and tutorials include techniques for building a wargames army quickly. Foreword by Rick Priestley it will appeal to all historical wargamers, particularly those interested in WWII and those interested in diorama making and figure modelling. Gives painting recipes for twenty-five uniforms covering the main branches of the Wehrmacht. The latest materials and techniques are covered which will benefit beginners as well as experienced modellers. Superbly illsutrated with 291 colour images.

This book concentrates on the making of realistic damages to a plastic model.Most of the contents in this book are from different world-renowned dioramas, described in detail in some of Bjørn Jacobsen's other books.The difference is that all the damage-making parts are highlighted in this book.The book gives examples from twelve different dioramas, all with various damages, but, as always, it's your creativity that makes the difference!And, best of all, this book gives you a lot of inspiration and ideas to make spectacular dioramas!