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    February 2005
Baseball field diorama question
Posted by JerB on Saturday, March 29, 2014 11:39 AM

Hi Guys,

I have a question this is a bit different but seeing as I belong to this forums ( and the trains.com ) and also that it would include modelling I thought I would ask here.

My primary hobby is model railroading but lately have been playing alot of the board game strat o matic baseball and It got me to thinking how I might be able to construct my own baseball field in place of the cardboard board they give you as a playing board.

I have a ton of model railroad scenery products by woodland scenics and scenic express so making the field wouldn't be a problem, trying to figure out a scale might be.

Has anybody here done a baseball field diorama with dugouts and grandstands? and would anybody have any tips?

Again I know this might not fall in the "modeller" category but It still would basically be a diorama.

Thanks for any help and tips you might be able to suggest

Jeremy

  • Member since
    September 2012
Posted by GMorrison on Saturday, March 29, 2014 6:02 PM

Oh I love baseball!

Well it all depends on figuring out what you are going to build.

For the field only, 300 feet down the foul lines would work well in N Scale (1/160 for non- railroad modelers).

A huge advantage there would be that as you know there's a world of stuff readily available.

And your dio would be around 2 feet square which is plenty big.

The next choice would be 1/192, or 1/16" = 1'-0". There you'll get 40 scale feet all around the field on the same base. Enough for some bleachers and a press box.

At that scale you can find a fair amount if stuff from architectural or ship model suppliers.

A full sized ballpark like AT&T which I helped design is over 1000 feet on a side. On the same base that's 1/500 scale or smaller. Doable if complicated and time consuming, but then a curiosity comes up- the diamond will only be 1 3/4" on a side, unsuitable for your purposes.

I'd love to see this come together!

If you go the other way with scale, remember it's the law of squares. A 3' x 3' base is 9 square feet and 125% bigger than 2' x 2' therefore that much more work. But I suppose most of it is grass so it's just more plywood and bags of grass.

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

  • Member since
    February 2007
Posted by mitsdude on Saturday, March 29, 2014 11:09 PM

My brother is a huge baseball fan and he travels a lot on business, as in several times every month he goes somewhere.

Anyway he has a collection of classic baseball stadiums, they are probably about 1 to 1/2 feet square. Don't know where he got them, who makes them, or the scale. They are very nicely done. These have all the things you mentioned. From comments his wife has made they are pretty high dollar!

They look like something you might see from the Franklin or Danbury Mints.

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