You might treat this as a diorama model, as things stand: it is in fact intended to help set up the composition for a planned painting (when time permits) and as such is not needed to be up to competition model standards; just a reaonably accurate shape to ensure that lighting in the painting is as convincing as possible and not just guesswork (I will use models for the aircraft as well). So please forgive the odd wobbly edge or wonky window... these can be tidied up in the final painting.
I shall coat the thing in a mixtiure of acrylic paint and polyfilla to even things out a bit before painting and give it a more realistic texture, so from that point on it will probably cease to look like a card model. The plan is to include a part of the steep, cliff-like "Erpeler Ley", behind this eastern end plus part of the bridge superstructure which would, I'm afraid, probably be made from balsa and plastic. I don't plan to build the whole thing, since only this side of the bridge will feature in the painting.
This was never intended to be a "paper model", it's only that this seemed the quickest way to get the diorama done, so perhaps that disqualifies it from this forum.
07-16-2015, 03:05 AM
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