1:35 Various Factory Building elements

Various Factory Building elements in 1:35 scale

Diorama elements of industrial architecture from the German brand RT-Diorama in 1:35 scale. These are not a model of a vehicle or a figure but building accessories from which the modeler puts together a factory setting of their own. It is partial elements like these that usually give a diorama its credibility - a finished building on its own looks static, while accessories give it a sense of being lived in and of purpose.

What the subject represents

Industrial architecture has a language of its own, different from residential building: wide spans, repeating window bays, brackets, passages, technological additions and transitions between masonry and steel structure. Repetition and modularity are typical of factories, so a set of partial elements matches the way real halls were built. The subject suits scenes of fighting in industrial conurbations and civilian views from the end of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century.

Placing it in the scene

The elements can be used in two ways: either to complete an existing diorama building or as separate fragments from which a set piece arises in the background of the scene. It pays to work out which elements will be in the foreground and which at the back - the more detailed pieces belong at the front and the simpler ones behind, because that creates the impression of depth. Vehicles and infantry in 1:35 work well with the elements, and that is the most widespread scale for these subjects.

Who it is for

• Modelers who put a factory scene together piece by piece to their own design
• Anyone interested in industrial architecture in a diorama
• Competition modelers who are missing partial elements for a scene under construction
• Collectors who are extending an existing 1:35 diorama arrangement