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Believe it or not, painting a stone wall is one of the easiest (but messiest) things you can paint because there’s no right or wrong way to do it. Here’s one technique on how to create and paint a stone wall for your diorama or gaming terrain. Painting stonework is all about layering on the …
Yancy Street is an older neighborhood that hasn’t had their sidewalks redone in a while, so I needed to rough them up a bit. The initial gray base color was achieved with black and white spray paint applied in a random fashion. Some areas are darker than others. Once the paint was dry, I carved …
Most action figure dioramas are built using high-density styrofoam. While styrofoam has many advantages, I have been using MDF (medium density fiberboard) for my dioramas because they are rock-solid and can take plenty of abuse, which can happen after repeated photo shoots. I have devised a way to make these MDF dioramas modular by incorporating …
Creating a stone or rock wall for your diorama utilizes many of the same steps as making a brick wall, but a stone wall is much more forgiving since the lines don’t need to be precise. In fact, it’s almost impossible to screw this one up! Start with a piece of 1″ thick insulation foam board. …
There are plenty of tutorials online about how to create brick walls for your diorama, but I found that I wanted a more realistic result for my action figure photography. Most of the examples I’ve seen have bricks that are way too large and are the size of cinder blocks or larger. A standard brick …
