How to Build Creative Dioramas for Your Scale Auto Models (Paperback)

by Ken Hamilton (Author) "For our purposes, we're going to divide the field into three categories..." (more)
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Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing Company (September 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0890243409
• ISBN-13: 978-0890243404
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,645,344 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Make Your Models Come To Life!, October 3, 2001

By	Dirk P. Johnson (Sterling, VA USA) - See all my reviews

Finally,a diorama book that doesn't focus on battle scenes (but those guys can learn a LOT with this book).

Instead, Ken shows how to spice up your automotive subjects, from simple display base scenes to complete, contained scenes.

Rust, mud, grime, and slime. Beaten, dented, worn out, used and abused. Ken shows you how.

Also, there is plenty about texturing, photo-reducing and sign-making, as well as an excellent primer on figure posing and painting.

This is a book that has been long overdue for model car builders, but as I said, anyone who works with scale models of any sort will find this to be a gold mine.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars how to build creative dioramas, December 26, 2001

By	joe a. scheibel (marissa, illinois United States) - See all my reviews

I have read the book in the last 3 days, all I can say, is that this book is excellent, it covers everything from the simplest to the more difficult ideas, yet making them all look simple. a very satisfied customer. Joe Scheibel

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great source for cars dioramas!, August 31, 2001

By	"hrmodeler" (Osijek, Croatia) - See all my reviews

Great book which will help you to build your cars or trucks dioramas.
There are very nice examples which take you step by step in building nice dioramas. It can help and begginers and expert modelers to improve their models.