Garage Diorama?

[Turbo Monster]

I wanted to make a diroama of a garage to take pictures of my models in, but I'm clueless as to how, like what materails to use. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

[pre98zetec]

Foam board for the wall's, Then find a pattern of brick's and such, Print it out, Paste it on the wall's.

That's all I did, If I had my camera here now I'd take some pic's for you.

[JTRACING]

i used a piece of wood for the floor, covered in with a grey rubber tile, like you use on you stairs, the walls are just some plastic, my mom brought home some big sheets of plastic from work. i just stapled the walls the to the wood base. and printed out a design for the walls, pretty simple

[mike@af]

Masonite.

[Turbo Monster]

Cool, thanks for all the replies, I was going to go with the foam board anyways. How could I maybe get toolboxes (big, stand up ones) to scale? I know I could build them but...

I wanna scratchbuild a car lift too, and maybe a garage door.....


Thanks!

[PRIVATEER]

Check out this link http://www.seltd.net/index.html they have everything from floorjacks to urinals. If you want to build a garage....this is the place to go!!! No pun intended!

[mike@af]

Originally Posted by Turbo Monster

Cool, thanks for all the replies, I was going to go with the foam board anyways. How could I maybe get toolboxes (big, stand up ones) to scale? I know I could build them but...

I wanna scratchbuild a car lift too, and maybe a garage door.....


Thanks!

I'd suggest against the foam board. Its weak, flexible, and overall not very good. I would suggest something harder such as masonite, or some 1/4" thick styrene.

I have seen toolboxes both in resin and scratchbuilt.

[Turbo Monster]

ok.

Thanks so much for the link privateer! It was very helpful! Still haven't been able to find a darned floor jack yet, just jack stands.....

Thanks again!

[pre98zetec]

I use foam board for the wall's and it work's fine..

[mike@af]

Just for some inspiration:

[Macdaddy4738]

http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljpage.cgi?FUJ11032

theres some of the stuff you want...jack...car jack thing..big tool boxes.

[Turbo Monster]

Thanks Macdaddy!

I appreciate it, onto the garage building. Building.

I think...

[MrMikey83]

LOL, love that fish on the wall Mike! Nice touch!

~Mike

[mike@af]

Originally Posted by MrMikey83

LOL, love that fish on the wall Mike! Nice touch!

~Mike

Not mine, somebody elses. I just found it. Looks great though.

[willimo]

Estes (the rocket company, can you beleive it?) sold a little diorama kit for a short time. It had 2 walls and a roof of plexiglass, and 2 walls and the floor of some opaque plastic. It had posters and stuff. The beautiful part was all the shop stuff it included - desk, tables, shelves, hanging shelves, hanging lamps, jacks, tool boxes, tools, compressor, oil bottles, cans, welders.... so much stuff! The molding was decent, too, I imagine they bought the tool from someone. And dirt cheap. I think I found mine at Micheal's but I doubt they are even at stores anymore. You can look, and check Ebay. That thing was a total score.