You've finished building your latest contest-quality model, and it's a beauty. Now what? Well, you could start work on yet another model kit. Instead, how about trying something a little different�a project that enhances your beautiful model. How about building a diorama that tells a story about your customized '57 Chevy or modern stock car? In How to Build Creative Dioramas for Your Scale Auto Models, expert modeler Ken Hamilton offers dozens of tips and techniques that guide you through the entire diorama-building process... Diorama bases / Modeling terrain and vegetation / Weathering wood and metal / Buiding wood-frame structures / Composing a diorama / Modeling concrete and brick / Making realistic signs / Weathering metal / Modifying and painting molded figures. In addition, the author points you to materials and techniques developed and tested over years of use in other model-building hobbies. When you've finished reading this book and have spent time closely examining the more than 150 crisp color and black & white photos, you too will be able to build handsome displays that show off your model to its best advantage and that tell engaging stories about your prize-winning vehicles. Information, ideas, inspiration�you'll find all of this and more in Ken Hamilton's book, How to Build Creative Dioramas for Your Scale Auto Models. Table of Contents: The art of illusion / What is a diorama? / Getting started / Building a display base / Larger scenic bases / Contoured edges / Wood-frame structures / Composing a diorama / Modeling concrete and brick / Signs of the times / Weathered metal / Working with figures / Painting figures. ISBN: 0-89024-340-9 / Publisher: Kalmbach Books / Binding: Softcover Pages: 88 / Copyright: 2001 / Dimensions: 8+ x 10+ Category: Modeling: Creative Dioramas / Subject: How To Build Creative Dioramas / Contents: Step-by-step instructions, tips, techniques, color and b&w photos and illustrations.

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