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Do-335 Diorama
Posted by dcaponeII on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 3:22 PM

This is the most recent diorama I completed.  Haven't thought of the next project yet but I was thinking about Black Friday using my 1/48 scale Arrow.

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Posted by kenny_conklin on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:48 PM
looks good but the pics are too small to really see
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Posted by dcaponeII on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 5:06 PM

 

Perhaps this will have more resolution.

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Posted by dcaponeII on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 5:11 PM

If you select the photo the full size image lets to see better.  Here are a couple of close in shots

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Posted by dcaponeII on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 5:12 PM
That didn't work.  Sorry
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Posted by kenny_conklin on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 5:19 PM
its ok i use photobucket for my photos and you can resize them there according to what you want to display from webpage to thumbnail
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Posted by the doog on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 11:57 PM

Well, if you click on them on the site, they blow up so big you can just about see the nose-hairs in the figures! I thought my screen was gonna explode! LOL!

Just right-click on the picture and select "view image" and it comes up fine.

 Anyway....a really nice job on this dio! Good painting and lots of detail! 

What is the storyline? 

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Posted by m1garand on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 1:52 AM

Nice job!

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Posted by SteveM on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:57 AM
 the doog wrote:

Just right-click...

 

(best George Takei voice) What's this foolishness you speak of, right click... ? This PC nomenclature... it doesn't make any sense...

Whistling [:-^]

Steve

 

 

Steve M.

On the workbench: ginormous Kharkov dio

 

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Posted by dcaponeII on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 6:23 AM

I know.  I'm so sorry about that exploading photo thing.  I got them uploaded and clicked on the photo myself and ended up staring at a single rivet!!  I didn't even know the Monogram kit had rivets.

I didn't know how to fix the problem after I uploaded it.  I did like the fact that you could see my 1/48 scale Hershey bar though.

It did pretty well during contest season but only because no one is building many dioramas anymore.  Frankly that one was just a way to get rid of old unwanted kits that had been hanging in my son's room after he went off to college.

Thanks for you comments.

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Posted by dcaponeII on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 6:27 AM

As for the story line, I tried to interweave the recovery of Luftwaffe aircraft as the war came to an end with the great assistance the US Forces gave to the German people, hence the soldier handing a chocolate bar to the small boy.  He's supposed to be pointing to his little sister hiding among the wreckage but the angle of the arm came out wrong I think.

I cheated on the Jeep.  It came from Walmart and I just dirtied it up a bit.  I can't do vehicles because I never know where the wings are supposed to go.

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Posted by mfsob on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:41 AM
I like it. There's a couple of stories going on here and you have to move all around the display to find each one of them. The only think I don't like is the tire tracks from the jeep on the runway concrete ... they just look weird. I know you're indicating that it went from wet mud onto dry concrete, but they just look weird.
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Posted by Moon Puppy on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:34 PM
Anyone who can do a job on an aircraft like that can do a jeep, I know, got one working now.

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Posted by dcaponeII on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:49 PM

Thanks for the feedback.  As for the wheel tracks I was just trying to fill the space with something other than concrete.  I thought of bomb crater but it was all getting a bit busy as it was.  As with all our projects, eventually they start collecting dust to the point where we can't clean them anymore.

This was one of those projects that was difficult to stop working on.  I kept coming up with other things I thought I should add.  I finally just walked away from it to stop with the fiddling.

Some side notes, the He-111 carcass was the results of having built a 1/48 He-111Z the year before and saving all the components from the third kit I scavanged for the fifth engine and the wing roots.  I'll have to dig up photos of that monster.

The two 109's had been hanging in my son's room for about a decade the result of a father/son build weekend when he was about 12.  He's 24 now but I asked his permission before disecting the two Revell 109G's.

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