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Diorama questions
Posted by scalemodeler148 on Saturday, January 19, 2013 12:11 PM

Just a quick couple of questions.  Working in 1/48 scale, I have two diorama idea's and would really appreciate feed back, as to realism and such.

  1. Creating a winter scene, I would like to include two models, the first being GWH's Fw. 189A-1 on skiis, and the Tamiya  Fieseler Fi156C also on skiis

  2. This will be a meeting of 1/48 scale planes and armour.  Using either the Verlinden 1/48 Treadway bridge system (#2338), or the Verlinden Stone Bridge (#2408), I would like to depict an fighter crashed into the water near a bridge - with an armour vehicle crossing the bridge, perhaps stopping out of curiosity .  I am not sure if the Stone bridge accurately depicts the damage caused by fighter plane crashing into it??  Or would the Treadway bridge be better, as it would be set up beside the crashed plane...

I would really appreciate thoughts and suggestions...... 

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Saturday, January 19, 2013 12:23 PM

These sound like they will be rather large dio's. Both sound like good ideas to me.. The only thing i would say about the first one is spacing. Aircraft tend not to be parked to close together. But i think its doable. 10 feet would be a reasonable distance in the real world, that scales to just over 2 inches if i have done it right.

As for the bridge, looking at a pic of it, it been cut in half and i can't see how a plane would do that. If it was flying on its side and clipped the wing on the bridge, the plane would probably spin off a long way but i doubt it would do that. You could still use the stone bridge, i take it your bridgeing the gap, but the plane would need to look like it had come parrel to the bridge not into it.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

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  • Member since
    March 2010
  • From: MN
Posted by Nathan T on Saturday, January 19, 2013 7:39 PM

I would suggest posting this in the Diorama forum, being as this is forum is for site help, etc..

 

 

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    January 2014
Posted by Silver on Saturday, January 11, 2014 2:10 PM
Diorama is a form of modeling.
  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Saturday, January 11, 2014 2:26 PM

Silver, sorry, not sure if your asking a question or making a statement lol.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

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  • Member since
    January 2014
Posted by Silver on Saturday, January 11, 2014 7:54 PM
LOL.
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