http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/8.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/380144/3016052.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/380144/3016052.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/380144/3016112.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/380144/3016112.page GMT How to Build Dioramas by Sheperd Paine. It is AMAZING. Make sure you get the second edition though. The first edition is excellent, but the second is that much better. Anyhow, he goes over EVERY detail of planning, creating, detailing, lighting, photography and whatever you can imagine and even things you did not think of, for dioramas. I just bought the book earlier this week after drooling over my library's copy of first edition. Yes, almost everything he deals with in the book are World War II or other historical genres, but 99% of it translates quite well.

My favorite is the one with the broken tank and the soldiers digging a trench underneath and using the tank as a fighting position. Copying that but with a Rhino and some space marines could be tricky, yet awesome.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/380144/3016281.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/380144/3016281.page GMT wargames, regardless of time period).

You can find plenty of tutorials around for specific painting, modeling, and terrain-making techniques, so it's mostly a matter of planning what you want, then finding out how to make it. I'm sure there are articles somewhere on general composition that would give you enough good tips to turn a general concept into a distinct plan. From there, search for your specific elements - converting vehicle kits into wrecks, weathering, reposing models, dynamic lighting techniques, etc.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/380144/3019378.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/380144/3019378.page GMT SM Drop Pod, the plan is to have the Drop Pod behind the ruin, almost like it's smashed through (you can see enough through the shrine windows) and have a marine squad through the door/on the roof.

It's just finding ideas for a base/colouring etc that's the problem]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/380144/3026799.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/380144/3026799.page GMT