Dioramas are invariably associated with scale models, providing a setting or background for a completed kit. The techniques and materials used are much the same whether you wish to create a landscape through which the track of a classic English branch line will run, or a smaller base displaying a Hawker Hurricane being readied for take-off, a Panther tank stuck in the mud of a battlefield or a Monte Carlo Mini in the snow.

This book shows how you can create interesting dioramas irrespective of what you are modelling. It looks at the materials required for building dioramas; tools, paints and glues. Similar skills and techniques are required to create everything from simple bases that contain only a few items, to larger structures that need far more work and effort in their creation. It covers the materials that can be used to create earth, vegetation and water - from seas and oceans, to what you may find in a bucket. It also deals with landscaping, creating a miniature world as the setting for your models. The building of specific dioramas as settings for museums exhibits, architectural and educational projects is explored as are forced-perspective dioramas used to create the illusion of distance.

First published in 2024 by Crécy Publishing.

© Mat Irvine 2024

Printed in Turkey by Imak Ofset

ISBN 9781800352780

8.75" X 11.25" X .75"

Hardcover

192 pages

Casemate Publishing provided this book for review.