Family home construction site

Family home construction site

Concept
A peaceful German housing estate on a beautiful afternoon in spring. While washing his car Mr. Krause watches his future neighbours who are obviously enjoying the sunshine in their building pit. One can imagine that his petty bourgeois tidiness will not have much in common with the unconventional way of life behind the bright picket fence…



We needed:
- wooden plate approx. 20 x 20 cm (we took a laminated cork tile) - BRAWA baseboard set 'pave road surface' - art.no. 2805 - various PREISER figures (unpainted) - polystyrene strips and plates - rigid-foam board and styrofoam plates (packaging material) - moulding plaster - various paints - black plastic bag - landscaping materials from the 'Scenery-Kit' by NOCH - Art.Nr. 98900 click here to read our test - wire, 0.3 mm - small wooden profiles (pine tree, lime tree) - NOCH ballast, brown, art.no. 09372 - debris container, garden shed from the KIBRI-Set 'Hinterhofmilieu' (backyard environment) - art.no.8313 - FALLER fence assortment - art.no. 526 - BUSCH 'flower and planter set' - art.no. 1211 - RIETZE Audi A2 (special edition made for Audi AG) - PREISER kit 'waste containers, dustbins' - art.no. 17202 - PREISER kit 'tableware, food' - art.no. 17220 - three ply tissue napkin, yellow - various glues/cements


	1. Basic plate
	Making this diorama didn’t cost us much money because we could use many things other people would have thrown away and fortunately we were able to take some spare parts from modelling kits we had already bought earlier. First of all we glued a piece of styrofoam onto an old laminated cork tile (20 x 20 cm) and with a sharp knife cut out a hole that would become the building pit. Apart from that we carefully took off some material where the entry to the pit would be situated.
The grey area in front of the pit is not meant to be a street but the paved driveway of the neighbouring house where the Krause family lives. We took the BRAWA baseboard set 'pave road surface' which is quite suitable for this purpose. The white polystyrene strip marks the border between the properties. When we had covered the whole construction site area with a thin layer of plaster we shaped the edges of the pit with a chisel (a very cheap one from the discounter).



When the typical traces of a backhoe shovel were visible we allowed the plaster to dry completely.



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