Diorama Clervaux 1/35 scale, building a castle and more by Claude Joachim

La construction du château étant assez satisfaisante, j'étais hautement motivé à continuer cette aventure et je me suis lancé dans la construction de la première partie du village. Il n'est bien sûr impossible de reproduire tout le village en échelle, mais en utilisant toutes les référence historiques possibles et en rétrécissant les espaces , je vais néanmoins essayer de recréer le look du village de Clervaux comme il aurait pu être il y a 70 ans. Ce module aura lui aussi une taille de 1,50 m x 0,70 m et il m'a fallu une année pour le finir.


During the painting process of the hill.	The windows are all scratched with plastic stripes	The stair rail is made from brass profiles	An alternative design for the roof tiling.	The author at work.
Big dioramas means big stocks of plants and materials.	Scratched pine trees and hundreds of plants are placed.	A cobblestone road made of 3000 pieces of cork	They told you not to park there!.	The backyard of the houses!.
With a little bit of photoshopping, this looks almost real.	With a little bit of photoshopping, this looks almost real.	The last civilians in the town are brought to the castle.	View from above, i am satisfied about this result afterone year of work.	The castle put next to the village looks even more impressive now.

A l'attaque de la troisième partie!
A droite et juste devant la court extérieur se trouvent deux bâtiments faisant partie intégrante du complexe du château. Je voulais absolument incorporer cette petite tour, appelée "Tour des sorcières" dans mon diorama. Pour que cela soit possible, j'ai du légèrement changer l'angle de disposition envers le château. J'ai en plus imaginé une destruction plus grande que réelle pour la maison annexe à la chapelle, pour la réduire de taille et aussi briser (littéralement) son architecture assez banale.
Faisant office de portail d'entrée dans la court extérieur, l'autre bâtiment a beaucoup de particularités. Posée sur différents niveaux, en courbe et en plus disposant d'un toit très spécial, la planification ressemble étrangement à celle du château même>. Ce module aura lui une taille de 1,40 m x 0,70 m.


On the right and to the front of the castle, those structures were on the Menu now	A better view of the square house and the chapel	In the thirties these were already tourist destinations	The base, still subject to changes.	Building procedure as known from the castle.
The height of the roof is defined by feeling and according to photo perspectives.	I destroyed the house a bit to limit the geometrical look. This of course means detailing the interior-	I filled the interior with remaining's of a Youth Hotel what i supposed it was prior to the war.	The roof is planked with Balsa stripes.	Covering with tiles as usual but with a special finishing on the sides.
Crashing the sides of the roof and detailing.	I'm building the tower using a new method of stone making.	The roof of the chapel with individually rounded tiles, a few thousand!	First look at both parts of the first building.	Mock-up of the next house, the front gate, 50 x 30 cm itself!.
Good progress here already.	The same procedure as every time.	Easy tiling work, but a big surface to cover .	Completely tiled and primed already.	I need to climb on a box to reach every part of the dio!
Des pièces de plâtre pour le mur.	Mise en peinture .	Plus de peinture et commencement de la plantation de verdure .	Three parts together.	Very difficult to make photos
A lot of work ahead to adapt both parts. Picture taken during the local expo	The entrance gate to the outer court yard.	Scratchbuild horsecart and horse with rabbit's pelt! .	A Sherman, my first tank in 5 years! .	I still need to finish the figure .

On continue avec une extension du village!


The Hotel Central, renamed by the germans.	The "Café Hunnegschmatts", a typical architecture of the Ardennes.	A former Garage or similar.	The originally planned layout with the houses.	I organized this reference picture from a textile shop who had just celebrated his 140 year anniversary. .
I arranged my layout to fit the textile shop in the row.	The nearly finished facade, compare with the original!.	Everything scratchbuild !


This is 1/35 scale!	30000 tiles individually cut and tiled.	The whole interior detailed after reference pictures.	A sniper firing from the apertures	The Inner Courtyard is one meter long.
One of the first artillery hits caused great damage.	60 figures included in the build!	Stonework made out of plaster.	A lot of attention during Euro-Scale 2007 in the Netherlands.	Attentive bystander the castle at Euromilitaire 2007 in Folkestone (GB).