Cigar-Box Dioramas: A "How-to-do-it" Handbook

A practical handbook provides step-by-step guidance for constructing miniature scenes inside cigar boxes, beginning with box preparation, painting, and background mounting. It lists essential and optional materials and tools, then explains how to shape foreground blocks from balsa or styrofoam and position figures and accessories to blend with the backdrop. Detailed techniques cover paper-mâché mixtures, modeling rocks and caves, forming bushes, ferns and trees, and producing water, smoke and snow effects. Practical tips on adhesives, dyes, natural armatures and finishing touches help readers adapt methods to various scales and materials.