Zinnfigurenfreunde Leipzig e.V. Big dioramas with flat tin figures

The well known collectors of the Leipzig-tin-soldier club (Saxony) shows on 40 pages with lots of coloured photographs, how they made their spectacular dioramas for museums and collections. In best luxury painting, with thousands of 30mm flat tin soldiers, they made a napoleonic diorama of the battle of Leipzig 1813. They also present dioramas of the 7-years-war (Kolin), civilian and medieval scenes. The authors explain step for step how to plan and built a very big diorama with buildings and trees and how to place several armies on the table. Big size, paperback, german text, coloured photographs, 40 pages.

Contents:
The history of the diorama
Brief introduction
The Battle of Kolin on 18 June 1757
The special significance of the participation of Saxon troops in the battle
Heinz-Müller's thoughts on the diorama
Diorama and construction documentation
The revised concept of the diorama
The figures
The test set-up
The terrain
The placement of the figure units
The diorama case
The lighting
The background
Materials used and
Auxiliary materials for diorama construction
Diorama construction in detail
The diorama structure
Base plate construction and terrain design
Figure construction
Modelling the ground structure
Colour design of the ground
Designing the vegetation
Depiction of trees
Assembling the element plates
Building backdrops
Concluding view of large dioramas