Anybody game?......

Sure, as soon as Dragon or Verlinden comes out with a "Sudanese Refugees" kit. And I can afford to buy a hundred of them.

Cool pic, though.

Mansteins revenge wrote:

Lewis Preneau actually did one several years back that looks almost identical to this pic and it was one the cover of a FSM...

I remember seeing it though and thinking it looked like a figure painter's nightmare! 

I hope they don't hit any turns in the road!

  Hey Manstein, you sure have a good memory! When i read your post, i did recall that diorama. I went way back through my FSM collection, and sure enough, it was in the issue of May 1990 as an FSM Showcase titled 'Standing Room Only'. It features a bus with Cambodian civilians. The article says Lewis used 104 figures. 100 of them are in or on the bus (as there are only four on the road). It says he spent $1000 and nine months on the diorama.........hey, he won gold!

  I think it's time i browsed my issues of FSM, never know what gems i have forgotten about.........

  Boomer.....

I have actually seen a diorama depicting something like this before. I don't have the slightest memory where I saw it though.

Boomerang wrote:

Hey Manstein, you sure have a good memory! When i read your post, i did recall that diorama. I went way back through my FSM collection, and sure enough, it was in the issue of May 1990 as an FSM Showcase titled 'Standing Room Only'. It features a bus with Cambodian civilians. The article says Lewis used 104 figures. 100 of them are in or on the bus (as there are only four on the road). It says he spent $1000 and nine months on the diorama.........hey, he won gold!   I think it's time i browsed my issues of FSM, never know what gems i have forgotten about.........   Boomer.....

...I think I still have that issue...I'll scan it if I can dig it out...Lewis is a friend of mine who taught me fig painting In MO so my memory is good with this one...he has done some other awesome dios: he scratched a B-52 in 35th scale then added it to a tarmac w/ figs!!! I believe that was also in FSM or MM...

Mansteins revenge wrote:

...he has done some other awesome dios: he scratched a B-52 in 35th scale then added it to a tarmac w/ figs!!! I believe that was also in FSM or MM...

Don't have that issue any more, but I remember it being featured in FSM. There was a pic of him carrying it. That was one huge model.

ruddratt wrote:

Mansteins revenge wrote: ...he has done some other awesome dios: he scratched a B-52 in 35th scale then added it to a tarmac w/ figs!!! I believe that was also in FSM or MM... Don't have that issue any more, but I remember it being featured in FSM. There was a pic of him carrying it. That was one huge model.

...yeah, and standing on the finished wing to show how strong it was: I think it was fiberglass or some composite...he also did a 35th scale E-Boat dio with a destroyer sinking that it just torpedoed; that was in a VLS publication...

  Hey, i remember that B52 also. It was HUGE!!.

  Maybe we should retitle this thread as 'trip down memory lane'......lol. I really must go through all my back issues of FSM......one day when the weather permits....lol.

  Boomer..

Boomerang wrote:

Hey all. I came across this pic accidently. Thought i should post it for a laugh.....   I was thinking it might be a great subject for a check point diorama........maybe some soldiers at a check point throwing there hands in the air in confusion, wondering where on earth to start....lol..   Anybody game to try?............I'm not...lol.   Boomer...

...finally got around to scanning this from May 1990 FSM:

   Fantastic work there by Mr Lewis Pruneau. That man has an awful lot of patience!

   Thanks for posting that up Manstein......

   Boomer...

Boomerang wrote:

Fantastic work there by Mr Lewis Pruneau. That man has an awful lot of patience!    Thanks for posting that up Manstein......    Boomer...

...I am honored to count Lewis among my friends...he's a great guy and innovator in the modeling world...his major influence came around the time of Verlinden and Letterman (mid 80's to mid '90's)...he actually scratchbuilt a 120mm StuG III to go with the 120mm line of resin figs put out by VLS...it was used as the mold-pattern and eventually released as a full-blown resin kit...the guy will take on anything and is the most humble Master Modeler I have ever known...

Honey!! looks like our new neighbors are moving in next door.