Town Square

[cdavenport]

Here is another of those little vintage French dioramas I have been building. This one is different because I have been watching and listening to the Lord of the Rings deluxe DVD set which inspired me to try something a bit different.

The original scan I downloaded from the Pilpat's Flikr site on the internet is missing one page which means I needed to create additional elements to finish the scene. This included three buildings and several elements for the town square. So, I thought, why not just repaint the whole thing, which I did. As a result each building is comprised of several individual elements and represents a photo realistic rendition of the real thing. For the facing store fronts, I combined upper and lower elements to build one store. Each of the store fronts features movie posters or advertisements suitably sized.


To populate the town square I added a juggler, an organ grinder and a stack of wine casks using images taken from Google Images all of which had to be precisely sized to the original plan. Each wine cask has a unique vinter's label.


I repainted the town square itself with a cobblestone pattern. And a new center garden. The statue in the garden is a real statue suitably detailed for this model.

I found a vintage French bus with passengers in B&W and repainted it.

The horse drawn wagon in the rear is a replacement also taken from the internet.

It's all printed at FedEx Express on 110lb semigloss cardstock...about $1.25 per sheet, less if you do it yourself.

I have well over 35 hours of design and build time into the little thing that measures a mere 8 inches across the front of the base.

[Jan Kytop]

Beautiful and very well done.

[thomaswg48]

Very nice job on your diorama. This is my first post here, but was inspired to try and show what I had done in this same vein from models also available at Agence Eureka blog. She is the undisputed ruling Queen of Paper, always has such interesting esoteric vintage models.

[Vermin_King]

That is very nice, also. There is always something to find at her blog

[Kevin WS]

Very nice Charles!

[cdavenport]

Originally Posted by thomaswg48

Very nice job on your diorama. This is my first post here, but was inspired to try and show what I had done in this same vein from models also available at Agence Eureka blog. She is the undisputed ruling Queen of Paper, always has such interesting esoteric vintage models.

You are right. Agence Eureka is Pilpat!

[mauther]

Great work of restoration, cdavenport. Thanks for these really beautiful images!

[Don Boose]

Wonderful town square scene, Major D!

Thomas's vintage French locomotive and diorama are terrific, too.

Don