Diorama for ships

[kgstakes]

Not sure whether this is the right category to ask this but do any of you done a diorama where the ship is modeled in resin or some other “water”.

 

 Have you ever modeled a ship sinking or under attack maybe like a torpedo in the water just about ready to hit the ship or has and then you’ve done other effects to mimic a direct hit?

 

 I’ve seen some one do this and didn’t know if anyone here has done anything like that.

 

 Found this on the web for an example of what I’m talking about.

 

[ccoyle]

23 minutes ago, kgstakes said:

I’ve seen some one do this and didn’t know if anyone here has done anything like that.

 

The way to find out if anyone has done this is to use the site's built-in search feature. I did and found 26 topics tagged as dioramas.

 

https://modelshipworld.com/tags/diorama/

[Jack12477]

@hollowneck describes in his HMS Sphinx build log his technique for building a water diorama,  it starts around Here 

[wefalck]

I have done this repeatedly, using different techniques, adapted to the scale and how 'rough' the sea is:

 

- sculpted the sea in plaster of Paris, then sealed and painted, varnished with acrylics and use of acrylic gel medium to create surface textures; breaking wave crests modelled with acrylic medium filled with 'micro-beads' (= microscopic hollow glass-spheres).

 

- coarse water-colour paper with props underneath to simulate swell, then sealed and continued as above

 

- sheets of acrylic glass with surface texture added using acrylic gel medium; playing with gloss and satin varnish allows to simulate subtle textures, as you would see when a gust of wind comes in.

 

- some 45 years ago, before acrylic gel medium appeared on the art materials market, I used a mixture of wall-paper glue (because it contains fugicides) and crystal sugar to sculpt breaking waves - it held until today.

 

BTW, strictly speaking we are not talking about dioramas, but scenic settings. A diorama is a box that forces the view-point, involves perspective shortening and has a backdrop or otherwise limits the visible space.