Tutorials Archives - Vonvikken Modellismo Statico

Barbed wire

Here’s a brief tutorial about how to make a realistic-looking barbed wire that adds a bit more realism to your dioramas and scale models!

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The barbed wire appears since more than a century in the battlefields, so it could end up in some of our scale model works!

The technique I'm using here is not my invention, you can find it everywhere on the Internet or in specialized magazines. However, for the sake of completeness, I'm putting here my personal experience too! 😉

Zimmerit coating

Small tutorial about how to replicate on a scale model the Zimmerit coating of German vehicles in the Second World War.

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There are a lot of different valid techniques to replicate the pattern of the Zimmerit coating on a scale model. In this brief tutorial I'll describe the one I used on the model I'm currently building.

Paved stone base for diorama

Here’s a brief tutorial on how to make a diorama base that looks like a paved stone road in an enough convincingly way!

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This time I wanted to make something different from the usual dirt road. Thus, I decided to try and make a paved stone base for a diorama.

Painting metal tracks

In this post I describe one of the many possible techniques for painting metal tracks for scale models, like those produced by Friulmodel.

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There are several ways you can paint and weather Friulmodel metal tracks. That's how I did!

Homemade rust

We can make pure rust, useful for painting and weathering our models, without the need of scraping some old iron piece!

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I will explain here two methods, simple and cheap, I used to create a very fine orange rust powder, useful in painting and in weathering. You can use it as a pigment, fixing it with alcohol or turpentine, or mix it with an oil paint (like Burnt Sienna) in order to enrich its hues (thanks to Augusto for the tip!).