Okie Doke Woodsy,
I applied the last dry-brush color and will call this mostly finished. The base as you see it is pretty much done, and I can always tweak it later.
All I need now are some sheets of black foamcore board to serve as backgrounds for when I photograph this.
The ones I have at the house are actually too short and I had to use two sheets per side instead of just one.
Anywho, it all worked out for this particular photo shoot and you guys are the witness to the first landing on the new Moonscape!
From Vegas Base
Ed
I like that a lot!
ReplyDeleteMany thanx Kevin! I'm glad it's done - welll, mostly :-)
DeleteI'm Moonstruck!
ReplyDeleteLOL Thanx Arto!
DeleteNice Ed.
ReplyDeleteFor your starfield, try black cartridge paper with holes punched into it, with tracing paper behind that, and then backlit with a desklamp or two.
I've seen that done before but I'm afraid it's too permanent a solution. I like to swap out the backgrounds to my dioramas too much. Today. it's our moon and orbiting Earth. But tomorrow I may want this to be an alien moon in another solar system with a partial atmosphere and I'll want a different colored backdrop. It has to be multi-world suitable.
DeleteOn a sturdy thick cardboard frame, or, better still, a wooden one.
ReplyDeleteLooks ace Ed! I love those silvery hills! It's worked out really well. I wonder what comes next now that you've successfully landed?
ReplyDeleteThanx Woodsy! The colors in these photos are the result of adjusting brightness, contrast etc. Normally, up-close-&-personal they're more gray-ish. As to what comes next? heck if I know, I'm just winging it! hahahaha
DeleteNice work! Call me a Boomer, but moonscapes take me back to my childhood!
ReplyDeleteYes! and if Elon Musk has any say, today's kids will be growing up with moonscapes too - that is if he goes through with that whole colonizing the moon thing.
DeleteThe final result looks great. Suitably bleak and alien. I am sure we will be seeing this in the background of many photographs in the future.
ReplyDeleteThanx Paul! For years now I've been wanting to pull together some sort of story line using my toys, but didn't have a suitable diorama. Maybe now I can figure something out.
Deletesuper job Ed, nicely lit on the last pic too! I wouldnt mind making one myself, now! Bill
ReplyDeleteThanx Bill! If I would've had the energy or the 'oomph' to do this whole project all at once and not slow-leak it, I would say it would have been a good week's worth of steady work.
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