Diorama/Shelf Display Tutorial First MOTU Style

[passiondesigns]

Recently I have chatted with others on diorama building. Here is a small tutorial you can do to spice up your MOTU customs/figure displays. And the best part its easy and cheap!!!!!!!More Updates soon!
Boring Shelf right!!!!!!

Using blue foam from lowes/home depot, measure out your shelf to create the walls/floor

Then using a marker & ruler map out your brick/stone/floor designs

Using a foam cutter, trace out the outline of my brick design to give it 3d look. IF you dont have a foam cutter you can use the tip of a glue gun or solding iron.

After cutting your bricks, at the top of my walls i going with a slight crumbling look, i cut out a jagged wall look, after that i use my fingers or pliers to break off pieces to improve the broken look.

Now your surface is still smooth, so taking an actual rock, use it to pound impressions into you foam , this help give your bricks the texture and more real look

 

[passiondesigns]

Here you can see the difference before and adding texture.

NOw with all of that done, placing the foam back on the shelf you can start to see your dio start to come to life.

Stay tune more is coming!!!!!!!

 

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[Kable24]

That's really cool.

I'm looking for actual shelves to put all my Legends up, which isn't the problem. it's getting them to stand in one spot without falling. I need to find foot holders like the old GI Joe figs used to have.

 

[lars573]

ML have holes in their feet right? Well HTS sells 40 packs of SW figure stands. You'd only get one foot on it but it should work.

http://www.hasbrotoyshop.com/ProductsByBrand.htm?BR=495&SBR=78&ST=SO&ID=20108&PG=1

 

[spideyboy_1111]

sw have smaller pegs dont they? and not all legends have foot holes.. most of hasbro and about 15%-20% of the toybiz ones dont.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

That's really cool.

I'm looking for actual shelves to put all my Legends up, which isn't the problem. it's getting them to stand in one spot without falling. I need to find foot holders like the old GI Joe figs used to have.

save bases.. thats ur best bet... i can't tell you how many times the toybiz bases have saved my figs

 

[lars573]

sw have smaller pegs dont they? and not all legends have foot holes.. most of hasbro and about 15%-20% of the toybiz ones dont.

True. I'll check laters......

 

[Roughneck]

Mcfarlane has some pegs similar to the SW ones....they fit MLs.

http://store.spawn.com/detail.aspx?ID=297

Actually they are much better then the SW ones....because they don't say Star Wars and are much more Flush to the 'ground'

 

[Kable24]

I am going to give the McFarlane ones a try.

 

[Spider-Jay420]

Don't waste your time on the Star Wars stands, they pegs are too small.