Atlantikwall Pak Bunker Diorama. 1/35

Early last winter I was looking for some miniature ww2 bunkers to use in a few diorama projects. By chance I came across this company which was shutting down operations and I ended up buying several of the silicon molds from their 1/35 scale bunker range.

After recieving the molds a few weeks later I mixed up Plaster of Paris and poured a test batch.

The bits for the bunkers came out from the forms looking very good so I began playing around with some of the ideas I had for dioramas.

Until mid summer the progress was a bit slow, but then, when I found re-newed inspiration for the diorama it didn`t take too many evenings before I had decided on a scene to make and began cluttering the workbench with all sorts of modelling stash and paints.

The ground was built up with foam boards.

Deciding how to make the insides of the bunker.

It was important to complete the interior of the bunker first, as it would be sealed off with the roof and groundwork.

I found some small bits like a small euro-pallet and an old plastic crate for soda which I had bought from Matho Models, and a few planks and rubbish. In the middle of the bunker floor I made a fire place and I made a little grafitti and tagging on the walls.

In the corners and along the edges I replicated moss by stippling green paint.

Miniature fireplace with some half burnt logs.

Some bunkers are dirty and messy, but some clean, like this one.

The banana box and soda crate are from Matho Models.

When I was happy enough with the insides I could attach the roof and begin the big job with the exterior.

I detailed the outsides of the bunker with the help of washes, oils and thinned paint, trying to make a convincing 85 year old concrete.

The ground around the bunker I had built up with foamboards which I then covered with florists foam soaked with thinned PVA glue.

This was then painted in a dark brown mix of thinned PVA glue and I could begin sprinkling on groundscatter to simulate the undergrowth. For this I used "Forest-in-a-Pot" from Reality in Scale, which I had upgraded a bit.

I also needed bushes, sapplings, ferns and so on, so I began making a small forest of sapplings. This I did by dipping small twigs in glue and rolling them in tiny green rubber granules and setting them to dry.

I also used paper ferns from Green Stuff World, and some 3D printed ferns from H Diorama, the latter looking really good!

I also made other leaf growth and a whole bunch of straws from different dried plants and herbs and set them in place around on the diorama.

Twigs and rubber granules.

Small sapplings.

Paper ferns from Green Stuff World.

I wanted one side of the bunker to be covered in rocks, so I smeared on some glue and poured over it some miniature gravel scored from a local asphalt company.

To complete the dio I wanted to have a couple of seagulls on it, and I found a great pair from a seagull kit made by Pig Models, and painted them with Vallejo Model Color. One of the birds is sitting on the top of the bunker, while the other one is fighting with a food smelling pizza box from a Matho Models set.

The seagull was bought from Pig Models.

This was a very fun dio to make and I am already trying to work out the layout for my next bunker project.

Hope you like it, and have a great week :)