Ladies and gentlemen, hello everyone. There will be a lot of letters, but I hope you like the result.
It’s been quite a while since the first Subaru garage diorama was built. Now that garage is no more, and the models are not with me … but the desire to build something new has not gone away. I decided to postpone the idea with a garage for the time being and create a location. Painfully banal, but for me, who grew up in Japanese car culture, “D” is not just a story (by the way, a sequel called MFG is coming out now)… and so. This is Fujiwara’s tofu shop (by the way, it no longer exists, and the place where it was located is now a very elite area in the suburbs).
Yes… to mainstream, probably. But I did not find ready-made tofu shop in 1/43 scale (or was i looking badly) and I decided that I should create my own! Throughout the manga and anime, the location has constantly changed (house, decorations, size of the house). I don’t care for the movie; it’s terrible. For reference, I took this frame from a Google search.
As well as in the photo, I decided that Fujiwara’s house alone would not be enough, and the location should be recreated as much as possible. Now it has been completed to a reasonable limit, but it can still be extended to the left and right by 1 building.
Scale 1/43 (my favorite). I struggled with the size of the house. From the third time, I finally got it right.
For construction and base, I used Foamboard 5mm as the base. It does not deform and is easy to cut. Foamboard is the perfect material for a diorama.
The windows are made using 3mm foam for the window frames. A cut-out square of transparent plastic from a cake box is inserted between the two parts of the frame. The partitions on the frames are made of 1-2mm thick plastic. The bars in front of the windows were difficult to make. I cut out 1mm plastic into small thin stripes and glued everything together with superglue.
Other elements of the house and decor such as the door, shelves, window sill, pallet, ladder, and the pipe on the side of the house are made of 1 and 4mm wood. The flat signboards have 1mm wood as the base, with the print on paper and a signboard frame made of PVC.
If you are interested in translating the signs on the green building: the large one says “cleaning / laundry”, vertical to the block says “Nomura’s Garage”. The sign on Fujiwara’s house needs no translation.
The main sign for Fujiwara’s house is made of 1mm wood frame with semi-circular bases for paper wrapping. It was printed and glued.
For the interior, I went a little crazy with creating interiors for the second floors, which for some reason I hung with curtains in the photo. The first floor of Fujiwara’s house was also covered with wallpaper resembling tiles, and I put up shelves with tofu and some jars (to be honest, I didn’t have enough here). There are also posters and shelves in the garage, but they are not visible. I made 2 versions of the gate, one closed and slightly open. I chose the second one for the first photo.
All houses stand on a 3mm wooden base to create a difference in height from the road.
The road is made of mere skin. Probably too black… apparently recently laid new asphalt.
The parking space at Fujiwara’s house is a bit of sand on concrete, with grass growing around the perimeter. Grass and wood are the only things I bought in the store (well, wooden MPF sheets).
As my cherry on top, for filming in the dark, I decided to put a light in the house. Unfortunately, the diode on the second floor of the main house burned out a little right after turning it on.
After three weeks of intermittent work, voila, in the end… it turned out to be easier (in terms of not as cool) than expected. With a 3D printer, of course, you could do a real business!
Since there is no access to my Subaru Legacy and SVX collection now, I used the available models. Namely, the same Carrot Trueno AE86 from the era when King Keichi Tsuchiya drove in the ring (after all, he served as the prototype for the creation of Initial D). I also included the stopped by Fujiwara, Koenig 512BBi (selling tofu brings big profits), and for dessert, part of the new Porsche collection. The photo shows the 718 F2 of the 60th year (generally off-topic, just for fun). For this diorama, I will soon start creating a new one, which will most likely be a studio instead of a diorama. I want to try it. And for this diorama, I will try to get the 22B and panda 86.
The photo was taken on an old Pentax K30 with a stock lens. The sky has a filter from Xiaomi. The lighting is natural.
Thank you all for your attention
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