Halo Diorama – How to Photograph a Diorama This video looks at a basic set up to photograph a diorama indoors. The easiest thing to do is to take a diorama outside to a location with a great suitable backdrop but that’s not always possible. If you need to take…
Photo of the Week – New York Summer I’ve visited New York twice, once for 3 hours, once for 12 hours. In that time I’ve managed the Empire State Building, the Staten Island Ferry, Central Park, two railway stations and a multitude of subways, a diner, the High Line (a…
I don’t know about you but my life seems very busy! At the beginning of the year I set myself some goals, partly around what I would model for my YouTube videos and partly around what else I needed to do. In 2022 I’m running the NMRA National Convention in…
Halo Diorama – Jungle Plants In the final week of our Halo diorama, we look at how we add that final layer of vegetation. Much of what I am using is from the Brother Scanncut videos. You can find them here: My Halo diorama is very large scale, around 1/9,…
Photo of the Week – City Canyons III Hong Kong is a city of hills; it’s built on the side of a mountain. Man has built as high as he can but they are still dwarfed by the Peak… Looking down one last canyon, you can see the market stalls…
Halo Diorama – Lichen and Moss Lichen and moss is in most forests and jungles. It’s often overlooked and easy to model and add an extra layer of detail to a scene. This video covers techniques which should work in any scale. if you are working in N or HO…
Photo of the Week – City Canyons II At the bottom of Hong Kong’s city canyons, are streets full of amazing sites. There are temples, shops selling items I have never seen before, restaurants serving food I’ve never seen before and all manner of people walking along and partaking. It’s…
Halo Diorama – Ground In the next instalment of the Halo diorama we’re on to the ground. It’s easy enough to add a base, use two or three products and then paint it to get a realistic jungle floor. The only thing to note in a jungle floor is that…
Photo of the Week – City Canyons I Hong Kong is a city of tall skyscrapers, busy streets and a multitude of people living at every level in between. Every inch of space seems to be used with the ever familiar air conditioners plastering the sides of the older tower…
Halo Diorama – Painting Trees We’ve got the basics together with the trees and creepers which are the basic structure but now we need to paint them. I started off with a brown but changed to grey after I’d lived with it for a while. Tree colours are so hard…
