Hello!!!
Once upon a time, a picture fell into my eyes a long time ago. In the interior of the office, a round aquarium with fish, a dead ship, a living piece of nature is made in the wall.
So I wanted to make myself something similar. It is easy to argue when you have a private house, or a large room where you can make a mock. And, when you have a prefabricated house and a room of 12 sq.m, you will scratch the back of your head.
But, after thinking, I decided what should turn out.
At the entrance to the office, I made sliding doors. Here is the niche from wall to false - the wall where the door goes and decided to use to place my ocean. Naturally, there was no question of living creatures here.
Space is very small, only 90 mm. If I added an overlay from a bar of 30 mm, so that it would be possible to use a cardboard corner and wall panels for decoration, which will imitate the wooden lining of the ship, then you get about 120 mm. I figured it on the wall, it seems it turns out.
In order not to torment the readers further, I will say bluntly - I decided to make a diorama of the ocean floor with a sunken sailing ship.
The entire structure will be mounted on this wall.
Found on the Internet a natural ship porthole, ordered. And, he already began to use the sizes in work. From the children, in toys, I have preserved a shark figure. And from the old aquarium, an aero-sprayer in the form of a scuba diver. All of this went to hell. I went to the aquarium store bought seaweed.
The assembly naturally began with a diorama case. He made from everything that was at hand for that period. The body made tapering to the back wall. At the beginning I wanted to make the back wall in a semicircle, but at the same time the sunken ship in the picture was also deformed. And had no natural appearance. He settled on the direct version of the back wall.
The backlight was made from above under a minion incandescent lamp. He made holes in the lid for heat to escape from the lamp.
By falsity - the wall passed from floor to ceiling, the prepared bars and sewn with wall panels to the installation site of the diorama case. On the finished case, the dioramas made a cut in the wall. And he connected the power to the lamp, which was previously let down.
I will open one more secret in this design. The backlight of the diorama does not burn continuously, but only when a person approaches it. To see what is there in this window. Simple human curiosity. The backlight turns on when a person approaches and lights up for about 1 minute, then turns off. If a person moves, she turns on again. I have long been convinced that I correctly bet on the effect of surprise.Everyone who showed curiosity was simply delighted. The motion sensor, including the diorama backlight, is located under the shelf, at the bottom and it is naturally not visible. After connecting, naturally tested.
It remains to make the diorama itself beautiful. In the background, I used a picture of a sunken ship, widely distributed on the Internet. I downloaded it, increased it to the size I needed and pasted it. The picture shows sunlight very beautifully breaking through the water column. I found a lot of similar pictures, printed and cut out the transmitted rays for pasting the backlight cone. It is only necessary to ensure that the rays fall correctly.
I made the foreground of the diorama from polystyrene, giving it the shape of the seabed and then painting it with acrylic paints. Well, the purchased seaweed served as an addition. In the upper right corner, I made an overhanging cliff from the foam. Dotted it also with small algae and water mud made of cotton wool and painted in dark green.
I attached a shark figure at the top left.
Scuba diver, located on the right and a little on the left side, he does not see the shark.
Everything together looks like this.
While fiddling with the diorama, the porthole arrived in time. I sawed the panels at the installation site. Made a trial installation.
Next, I already mounted everything completely. So the porthole looks like in the afternoon. Agree mysteriously.
And so, when the backlight is on, from far away (though here in the photo the sidewalls of the imitation of ship skin are not yet taken away by corners).
Ah, so close.
And the last secret. I did not plan it, it happened. But, I decided to use it. The bottom line is that the purchased plastic algae glows for a while when the backlight is turned off. Only now the sunken sailing ship is almost invisible in this case. Then I found a fluorescent colorless acrylic paint and applied it to the main contours of the sailboat and its sails.
The effect is amazing, but unfortunately I can not show the photo. I can’t take such a picture, the camera matrix unfortunately does not perceive such light.
That's it.
Porthole ordered
The rest is all in the household and pet shop.
A photo crafts did for myself, not for publication. Now I would have removed everything more specifically.
All that showed was done in January 2005 and still pleases the guests. At night I use it as a temporary night light, so as not to smear my feet in slippers.
That is all I wanted to share.
Watch, criticize, advise.