1:35 Printed Accessories: Marble black Floor Nr.4

Black marble floor for a 1:35 diorama

The set 1:35 Printed Accessories: Marble black Floor Nr.4 belongs to the numbered subrange of floors within RT-Diorama's printed accessories. It carries a black marble pattern in 1:35 scale and serves as a flat surface under an interior scene. It is not a kit and not a model, but an accessory that deals with the floor of a setting you have already built.

A dark floor as the background of a tableau

The floor takes up the largest continuous area in an interior scene, and it therefore decides how the tableau comes across. Dark marble works as a background: figures, furniture, crates and gear stand out against it and the viewer's eye goes straight to them. It is also the floor of grand buildings, so it can be used for meaning as well, and broken dark tiling covered in render and glass says more about the course of a fight than any other detail. For a dramatic scene this motif is therefore the stronger choice over light stone.

Usage tips

• Fix the surface to a stiff flat board, as a dark surface reveals every unevenness.
• Suggest a broken floor by cutting an opening into the surface and filling it with rubble.
• Concentrate the dust in the scene along the walls and in the corners, not evenly over the whole area.
• Suggest bootprints and tire tracks with light dust where people have walked in the scene.
• Even the sheen out at the very end with a single coat over the whole area.

Who the set is for

• For builders of interior dioramas and cutaway buildings in 1:35 scale.
• For modelers who want a dark surface with strong contrast against figures.
• For makers of vignettes where the floor carries a large part of the composition.