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I recently put myself down for a diorama challenge on
the official Infinity forum with the theme being ice and
snow. This is what I came up with.
It was my first play around with snow and ice type products
and I am very pleased with the outcome.
Basically its a 1 x 1 foot board with styrene used to
create the ice shapes. To create the snow and ice I used Soft
Flake Snow from Woodland Scenics and the ice is WS Water
Effects. I added a few bits of left over parts to create the
small jetty at the bottom right and a scratch built power source
for the radar. The radar is a £3.99 ebay special.
The Panoceania Fusilier has been slightly converted so
he is holding a range finder and I scratch built some skis
and sticks to give the impression he is on patrol.
The hardest bit for me was trying to blend the diorama into
the photographic backdrop and make it look seemless.
I will take some more pictures shortly to show more of the base
and a close up of the Fusilier.
The model warrior 
That is fantastic stuff! I’d say all that’s missing are some footprints from the skis/poles to where he’s stood, but that is some stellar work there!
Yes I did think of that but never got round to it. Foot prints coming up.
Nice job. Made me want to put on my sweater!
Thanks. The reason I attempted it was because I wanted to do some 15mm Russian terrain and I needed to see how easy snow and ice are to model. Seems nice and simple at the end of the day.
The results are very convincing. I’ll look forward to seeing the cheerful environs of winter on the Russian Front.
All I will say is, gorgeous!
I think getting the backdrop 100% right is the key to it. It took me ages to find a picture I was happy with and then blend it into the diorama. Thanks for the comment 🙂
This is very nice! K. has been pestering me for ages to start a project with winter terrain… I might steal some of your ideas.
No problem, I trawled the net before I attempted mine so I could work out how to do ice and snow. Turns out there are loads of methods. I want to give crackle paint a go next time😀
Very nice work indeed. The scene is very evocative and the snow looks convincing, so doe the icicles. If you have photoshop or gimp handy you could try to slightly increase the brightness of the background only,as I think this is all that is needed to make it appear seamless. As of now the background is a tad too dark. You could also try to take some blue out of the background in photoshop to make it look more like the foreground. A solution might be to built it up close to a window and reflect some light back onto it with some whiteboard, so you can achieve a nice even lighting.
Thanks for the ideas. I think I will also try a mat finish to the backdrop as opposed to gloss.