This is a diorama I built a long time ago - sometime during the 1990's. I decided to put up pictures of it here before terminating the old web page where they once were hosted.
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This diorama shows a fictitious gorge. In this set of pictures it is obviously located somewhere in North America, since a Chicago & Northwestern train is just crossing the bridge.
The cliffs are made from foam insulation board, roughly sawed with an ordinary carpenter’s
A Below is a closer look at the bridge, which is scratch-built from styrene. The abutments are made of plaster poured in a mold. When the plaster had hardened the stone shapes where carved using a sewing needle, and last the abutments where colored using a light gray water-color wash.
The pines where originally supposed to look Swedish, but perhaps they can pass as North American pines as well. They are made from barbeque sticks in which I drilled holes and inserted wire to simulate branches. After painting the trunks and branches, Woodland Scenics clump foliage was glued to the branches. The forests floor was done using various Woodland Scenics material and natural sticks and stones.
The river was made using Woodland Scenics E-Z Water. The stones along the river bank are natural pebbles, collected just outside my home in Sweden.
A peek from inside the gorge.
A view from high above, looking down at the gorge and the train crossing the bridge.
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