How To Build Creative Dioramas For Your Scale Auto Models

Learn how to use your imagination to design a scene and then bring that scene to life with this exciting book of step-by-step projects. Ideal for automotive modelers who want to present their car, truck, and motorcycle models in active, fun settings.

Virgil Suarez (aka Dr. Cranky) brings you this 120 page book about weathering civilian vehicles contains over 200 photographs and numerous old and new weathering techniques.This is a very useful book to modellers who are interested in modeling civilian vehicles but is not limited to them.The tips and techniques in this book can easily be applied to models of any scale or subject.This book will get the wheels in your head turning.Beginners, novice, and even up to professional modelers will find the contents of this book very valuable.Dr. Cranky covers painting rust, dust, rain, mud, and other techniques that will bring the quality of your models to the next level.This book also includes a gallery of Dr. Cranky and other world renowned modelers work providing inspiration for all modelers.

Learn everything you need to know about making your dioramas look real! This fantastic revised edition will show you how with new projects, new photos, and expert tips. Includes painting, weathering, and detailing tips for figures, aircraft, vehicles, and more! By Sheperd Paine.

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.

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.

The Art of LEGO Scale Modeling displays amazing, fan-built LEGO recreations of real-life vehicles, showing off every amazing detail with high-quality photographs. You'll love poring over dozens of models, including Formula 1 racers, construction vehicles, ships, trains, airplanes, and all kinds of trucks. Authors Dennis Glaasker and Dennis Bosman share their own impressive LEGO models as well as highlight models from builders around the world. The Art of LEGO Scale Modeling also includes tips and tricks that describe the design and building process.

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 unique take on diorama building will show readers how to build compact dioramas of large scenes by combining several scales of models to force perspective. Scale modelers will learn the tools, tricks, and techniques of the diorama builder with some interesting solutions to re-creating specific aspects of scenes, such as using breath mints to imitate ice and crayons for adding shine to sea surfaces.

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.

Science fiction is more popular now than it has ever been, as seen by the number of interesting and imaginative science-fiction books, magazines, movies, and television shows produced each year. The scale modeling world has embraced the science-fiction phenomenon by offering a number of detailed and creative scale-model spaceship and diorama kits. In How To Build Sci-Fi Model Spacecraft, author Richard Marmo guides readers through a number of step-by-step buildups of styrene and resin kits. He offers helpful advice on subjects from basic kit assembly to more advanced methods like combining kits and customizing kits with unique, scratch-built pieces. Readers will learn the creative methods that allow them to add a personal touch to their kit and increase its overall detail, quality, and accuracy.