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                        Back drop pictures for dioramas?

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                        waynec
                        • Member since
                          April 2006
                        • From: Denver, Colorado
                        Posted by waynec on Saturday, July 20, 2013 11:19 PM

                        photoshop would work. easy enough to make clouds or grab some pics and scale to fit. same wiy=th the searchlights. make sure you get the largest picture available. sizing up can lose resolution, sizing down won't. of course you can always throw a blur filter on it.

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                        TomZ2
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                        • From: Washington, DC
                        Posted by TomZ2 on Saturday, July 20, 2013 10:05 PM

                        Google:

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                        [http://airpigz.com/storage/2012-december/A-Higher-Call-Painting.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1355376556025]

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                        ajlafleche
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                          December 2002
                        • From: Massachusetts
                        Posted by ajlafleche on Saturday, July 20, 2013 6:18 PM

                        Google is your friend. If the aircraft in a larger scale, you'll need a pretty large image. What you're really looking at is a boxed diorama with a limited line of sight.

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                        Blackbelt2
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                        Back drop pictures for dioramas?
                        Posted by Blackbelt2 on Friday, July 19, 2013 9:07 AM

                        I am in the process of building 2 aircraft dioramas. The problem I have is I would like to have landscape photos as a backdrop. The first diorama I am doing is a C-47 night drop on D-Day. I would like to have a photo of a night scene with the sky showing the searchlights and flack bursts along with some ground activity. The second diorama is a B-17 and an ME-109G depicting the book "A Higher Call". The background would be the sky and clouds with some view of the ground. Any ideas? Photoshop or google earth? Posters? This is driving me crazy. 

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