Diorama help?

Question

Hi.

Can you please list the materials and procedures that I can use to make a diorama for a school project.

It must include landforms like plateaus, mountains, plains and i can include more if i want but these are the ones that i really want to include.

I am planning to do one like you castle. I want to make a mountain with a castle on top and then on the bottom can be a plain and it can have little shops (it will be the market place) then i want to make a plateau with a little church on it. Can you please list the materials and procedures to make this.

Answer 1

How you'd do this and which materials you'd use would depend a lot on the size of the things you want to make, and how complicated or detailed you'd want to make them!
I certainly wouldn't use polymer clay for most of those things unless you used them for the miniatures just because it would be too expensive and may be too big to fit in an oven to cure..

The easiest thing would probably be to make armatures of wadded newspaper held in shape with masking tape, pieces of polystyreme foam, scrunched aluminum foil, etc.... then cover those things with papier mache and paint them when dry. The castle could be a decorated and painted oatmeal box, and the little shops smaller boxes, for example.

You can find all kinds of lessons for making small dioramas as well as larger ones online, but you'll need to restrict your searches to the size and type of diorama you want to make.

Good luck,

Diane B.

Answer 2

Pick up a large box of Sculpey....plain white polymer clay that is easy to sculpt and bakes hard in your home oven. For large pieces you can use crumpled aluminum foil as an armature and layer the clay over it. The original Sculpey can be painted after it is baked . It can be purchased at any craft store along with the necessary acrylic paints and pick up an instruction book while you are there which will explain how to handle the clay,what type of things can be used to sculpt and how to make simple figures.

Answer 3

You could use a trophy and cover it with colored paper to make a mountain you could take a book with a lot of pages and cover it with colored paper and it could be your plains and you could take a small jewelry box and it could be your plateaus.
Good luck with the project!
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