The Energon Pub

by **KnightAero** » Sun Feb 22, 2015 9:41 am

Hello!

My first attempt at creating a diorama. Basically using the following.
- Foam
- Aluminum Foil
- Glue
- Tape
- Sharpie
- Ruler

For the amount of time I put into this (2 hours) and costs... I am fairly happy with the results. Still more to do with it in getting it a bit more realistic, but for a first go ill take it...

Anyways here is the results... (Link below with a step by step...)

Whats neat about it is that light reflects all over the place when lit different ways. (Ill have to do another tutorial on this.) When lit with a single light source it really goes into a nice darker feel. (Last couple pictures show my custom sword I made for Superion also. Still waiting on my CW Superion to arrive...)

To read the complete tutorial on what I did go to: http://bruticus.net/2015/02/cybertronian-metal-diorama/

Plan to paint this and add more details. Along with trying a few more glues, and methods for laying the aluminum foil down. As it tends to bubble and get creases very easily.

Thanks for reading!

by **KnightAero** » Sun Feb 22, 2015 4:08 pm

Ok so I got a lot of free time this weekend. I was able to paint one of the panels.

Mostly did several different colors just to see what I could do. So its a bit messy, however with that I think I can do several different types of scenes here very easily.

- Yellow / Oranges making a more G1 Teletran-1 / Ark.
- Grays / Blacks more metal like
- Purples / Grays Decepticon base...

Goal is to be a bit more realistic than cartoony.

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Sun Feb 22, 2015 4:13 pm

Very cool, Sir Knight. Very very cool. The light does do some neat things.

That sword is really cool too! What is that made out of?

I like that you started the diorama it's own thread.

by **KnightAero** » Sun Feb 22, 2015 5:06 pm

Sword was a 3D Print... You can read about it on my blog. I had this specific one printed in alumide which is basically like plastic, but with some aluminum dust added. White Plastic would probably have been better, but it works...

http://bruticus.net/2014/11/custom-superion-sword/

Its about 181mm tall (18CM) so its pretty dang big. I wanted something that was more in-line with ROTF (Energon) Superion styling so I had to make one...

Tempted to remove the Autobot emblem though as it really distracts a lot and it was a pain to paint... (Probably should considering Hasbro owns that as a Trademark emblem...)

by **donny1975** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 7:30 pm

This is really kewl, I am diggin the foil idea! Mostly because it seems like doing panel lines would be so much easier than scribing them in styrene...

I like the paint also what kind did you use on the foil?

I wonder if what the foil would be like if you could do some sort of acid wash on it to get it oxidize to get a weathering effect??

by **donny1975** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 7:31 pm

This is really kewl, I am diggin the foil idea! Mostly because it seems like doing panel lines would be so much easier than scribing them in styrene...

I like the paint also what kind did you use on the foil?

I wonder if what the foil would be like if you could do some sort of acid wash on it to get it oxidize to get a weathering effect??

by **KnightAero** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 3:35 pm

donny1975 wrote:This is really kewl, I am diggin the foil idea! Mostly because it seems like doing panel lines would be so much easier than scribing them in styrene...

I like the paint also what kind did you use on the foil?

I wonder if what the foil would be like if you could do some sort of acid wash on it to get it oxidize to get a weathering effect??

Hey sorry didn't get a notification on this post... :BANG_HEAD:

The paint I used was just an Acrylic I use "Americana". Which is relatively cheap, but works pretty good so far.
I wrote a little bit on it here http://bruticus.net/2015/02/cybertronian-metal-diorama-part-2/.

Acid Staining hmmm I need to read up on that... That could be a really good idea. I need to also look into a more "rustic" concept also. Being its a metal based long as it dries it should be fine.

by **KnightAero** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 3:37 pm

One benefit of using foam though is that you can use this technique also that might help with creating a bit more "depth..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o70x9s5kpg&feature=youtu.be

by **donny1975** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 8:11 am

KnightAero wrote:One benefit of using foam though is that you can use this technique also that might help with creating a bit more "depth..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o70x9s5kpg&feature=youtu.be

That's a really cool technique for rubber foam.