The Ship Model Forum

The old DML Soviet Air Cushion Landing Crafts set has some cool box art:

...but it's hard to replicate that with the small models built right out of the box. So, I decided to try a diorama setting, to capture some of the feel of the box art.

I added some extra helos, Mig-29s, and Nanuchka-class Corvettes, also from DML.

Sweeet!!!

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Drawing Board:
1/700 Whiff USS Leyte and escorts 1984
1/700 Whiff USN Modernized CAs 1984
1/700 Whiff ASW Showdown - FFs vs SSGN 1984

Slipway:
1/700 Whiff USN ASW Hunter Killer Group Dio 1984

That's great!!!

The first pic has some feeling of forced perspective, and it has a real action atmosphere. The beach and sea look excellent too. What techniques did you use for them?

Cheers,

Marijn

Thanks! Yes, there is some compression of scale - the ships are unrealistically close together - but I wanted this all to fit on a base about 12 inches deep, not three times that.

The beach is Celluclay, the sea is ModPodge covered with Future. I got a bit too much turquoise in the water, so it looks a bit more tropical, perhaps, than I originally intended.

Paul