Just want to share this dio.

 The trick, if there is one thing i can suggest that is more important than anything else, is to go out and photograph what you intend to recreate in your diorama. One cannot produce a realistic scene from imagination alone.

Really great dio, Stu. That foliage must've taken a while... commendable effort!

Steve 

Looks like i not the only one making a tiger camo, very good, wish mine was that good, what's the trick of doing such a good camo? I notice even the back of the tiger is painted, I tought they didn't painted the behine of tigers. Whats get about this dio is the foliage ont the vehicule maches the foliage of the scene, if this was seen by aireal view they would miss them.

The diorama is supposed to represent Normandy 1944, post D-Day, and hopefully shows the figures searching the sky for Allied aircraft. Almost all photos of the period show German armour covered in foliage and therefore i felt it nessessary to try and reproduce this.(mistakes! how very dare you?) From the maker of.

davros -

I just wanted to make sure it's clear that I wasn't criticizing the dio in my previous post - I looked at it again today and I realized I never said that I think it's a really good job - I was just commenting on what the discussion made me think of personally.

I like it nice job

Thad

Wirraway wrote:

I couldnt make up my mind on this one.  One half of me thought, "good camouflage, very realistic"  My dark side thinks. "In that the majority of dio's are constructed around a vehicle of some sort, why go to so much trouble building the vehicle to almost cover it with camo"

I'm not saying anything about the diorama here - I think they did an excellent job - but in answer to your question, my first reaction was "well, if I really screwed it up, I could think of no better way to 'camouflage' the fact than with some heavy-duty camouflage." 

Like I said above, I'm not implying anything about the dio being shown - I just know all too well my own propensity for botching a job, and also for being too lazy to start over.  And that, to me, is at least one very good reason for building a tank only to cover it up.  I'm sure there are other, less ignoble, reasons as well.