No mistakes, only happy accidents
So I bought the Netflix Zaku, weathered the heck out of it, and . . .
The arm broke off. Sucks, right?
Nope. Opportunity, right there.
I used it as an excuse to do my first diorama! For the most part, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
The baseboard is MDF, and I stacked together layers of thin self-adhesive foam to create a basic terrain. A little bit of work with a dremel and some rocks, and then I gave it a top coat of brown paint.
I made fenceposts from cocktail sticks, and the fencewire is just unleaded solder. Got some terrain grass from the local hobby shop and stuck it down with PVA, as well as some little tufts for character.
The tractor was a resin print I found on ebay, and clumsily painted up myself. Not the best, but I think it does the job.
Then I got the Netflix Gundam, weathered that up a bunch too - took a soldering iron to the shield to make it look like the Zaku had put up a fair fight.
And voila!
I'm pretty happy with the results, though I think I should have bought the tractor first so I could scale things a bit better - the country road look I was going for is a bit more of a country six-lane motorway. But I'm pretty proud of myself for my first attempt! Hopefully we'll be moving soon, and then I'll have more room to experiment with dioramas, and my next one can be even better!
(Here's a bunch of other random shots)
