Mini diorama 'Luigi's ice cream parlour'

Mini diorama 'Luigi's ice cream parlour'

Concept
A late summer’s day in a small German town. Luigi’s ice cream parlour is at its busiest. Takeaway sales is booming and all the chairs outside are occupied. In an elegant convertible just in front of the guests a macho is waiting for his girlfriend to bring him an ice cream. We wanted to place a lot of interesting and funny details but still create a realistic scenery.



We needed:
- hardboard plate ca. 10,5 x 15,5 cm - FALLER ‘Eisdiele Fontanella’ (ice cream parlour) art.no. HO 130931 - PREISER kit ‘tableware, food’ art.no. 17220 - BUSCH Mercedes CLK class convertible art.no. 49405 - different NOCH and PREISER figures (painted and unpainted) - BUSCH flowers art.no. 7358 - dressing material / bandages - polystyrene strips, sheets and profiles - aluminium foil - tablet blister package - soft paper napkin (3 layers), blue - different paints - different glues / cements


	1. Basic plate
	First of all we glued the pavement plate from the FALLER kit onto a piece of hardboard with contact cement and weighted it down with heavy books overnight in order to stick both parts together properly. With grey and earth colour paints we made the pavement look more realistic.

	Finally we painted the street surface grey and ‘dirtied’ it a bit with earth colours. Mud and tar patches reveal that there had recently been road works. We took some photos of real drain covers and gutter stones, reduced them in size to H0 scale with special computer software and printed them. The floor of the ice cream parlour was painted black after we had decided to build the house without an interior furnishing.

	2. Building
	The photos on the package promise a picturesque unobtrusive small house, so we were surprised to find rich turquoise parts inside the box! No problem, we decided to paint them in a traditional white but we had to do that twice in order to cover the bluish plastic properly. That is no challenge as long as the parts are still fixed to the sprue.

	Unfortunately, graffiti taggers have already disfigured one of the bright walls - modellists use a very thin brush to imitate the tags. This is also good for suggesting cracks and dirtiness of the plaster with extremely thinned dark paint.

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