Largest Diorama?

capnluki wrote:

www.yahoo.com search images for "stuart normandy".  Quite a few are just random Normandy images, but there are several that include pictures of Stuarts bogged down along side the road and a few at the beach head.  Sorry, I don't have the url. saved.  However, there are several excellent pictures of Normandy and the beach head.

OK I did that.  Still no pictures of M-3 Stuarts in Normandy.  M-5 M-5A1 Stuarts yes, M-3 / M-3A1 Stuarts NO.

capnluki wrote:

OH lol.  mussles.  sorry, I had a very persuasive lady trying to get my attention when I was writing that.

 Is she also a magazine publisher?

i think i see the problem, he cant tell apart 2 different variants of stuarts.

oh and what magazine are you going to be in huh?

capnluki wrote:

OK breaking up my Omaha Beach dio to create a few smaller ones.  If I attempt another "largest" think I'll use a combonation of 1/72 and 1/48 to give it a sense of depth.  Sure I can either find a large photograph for the back drop or paint one myself.  Thanks again, gives me a lot to consider.

Your forced perspective dio from inside a landing craft sounds like a pretty cool idea.  I'm looking forward to your progress pics.  Hans' suggestion about acetate with flat on it for fog is  a pretty good one.  Again, I'll be interested to see how you progress on that.

As to your interest in building the 'largest' dio ever, I'd have to ask - what about model train layouts?  Would you consider those a dio (obviously, a debatable point...)?   Some of them are pretty darn large...

capnluki wrote:

As for the tank, I have seen pictures of Stuarts bogged down just past the beach head, but could only assume that they had been part of the landing.  No, I don't intend to "thumb my nose" at anyone.  It's just that a couple of members seemed to be a little touchy that their "expertise" was only credible and not from God to their ears alone.

Or the fact that some of us have studied what you were asking about for many, many years and you don't want to accept the fact that you are wrong in what you think you are seeing in the pictures.  You still haven't produced any evidence to the notion you seem to want to insist on that there were US M-3 / M-3A1 Stuarts in Normndy, either used in the invasion or bogged down after the invasion.

or that you are just a *** that can't do a image search by yourself. Stuart M3A1 at Normandy

#2Stuart at Normandy  #3Stuart at Normandy(in the background and not an M5 version) #4Stuart near Normandy shall I continue?

I do not understand this post. Why did it turn to name calling when someone is passing along good information to correct an error. If you feelings get hurt when someone corrects your  post....dont post.

Thad

capnluki wrote:

or that you are just a *** that can't do a image search by yourself. Stuart M3A1 at Normandy #2Stuart at Normandy  #3Stuart at Normandy(in the background and not an M5 version) #4Stuart near Normandy shall I continue?

Back to the dioramas if we please can...

What about the guy who had built an 1/72 aircraft carrier with 25 airplanes, f4f or f6f I think, and some 400 figures? That one has to be pretty big, eh?

castelnuovo wrote:

Back to the dioramas if we please can... What about the guy who had built an 1/72 aircraft carrier with 25 airplanes, f4f or f6f I think, and some 400 figures? That one has to be pretty big, eh?

1/72 scale USS Enterprise, CV-6. Over 11 feet long, 50+ aircraft, 7000 man-hours to build.. Featured in Fine Scale Modeler, January 1992 issue.. It was a joint effort of about 40 modelers, with sponsorship by the USS Enterprise Association, aircraft built by the Richard I. Bong Chapter of the IPMS in Milwaukee, Military Miniatures Society of Illinois did the 204 figures, and numerous other folks donated time and money..

Basic hull with one of the builders:

It's on display at the EAA Headquarters in Oshkosh, Wisconsin...

figure freak wrote:

When i was a few years younger, (like 6) i would nail a 2x4 and another2x4 and draw windows on it and make aairplan and a little diorama on the garage floor with my little army men and my "bombs" made from water bottles, good times, good times, that dio you posted is freakin crazy

few years younger? man figure freak you have some serious talent then, ive seen your figure painting its fantasteriffic! especially those faces

calvin_ng wrote:

figure freak wrote: When i was a few years younger, (like 6) i would nail a 2x4 and another2x4 and draw windows on it and make aairplan and a little diorama on the garage floor with my little army men and my "bombs" made from water bottles, good times, good times, that dio you posted is freakin crazy few years younger? man figure freak you have some serious talent then, ive seen your figure painting its fantasteriffic! especially those faces

stikpusher wrote:

That one is nothing less than spectacular. Although as a kid I always tried to do that with my folk's coffee table and the old Monogram 1/48 F4F, TBF, and SBD kits...

Same here..USS Living Room, lol.. Out in the yard, my folk's picnic table became a carrier for my rubber-band powered balsa planes too...

Hans von Hammer wrote:

stikpusher wrote: That one is nothing less than spectacular. Although as a kid I always tried to do that with my folk's coffee table and the old Monogram 1/48 F4F, TBF, and SBD kits... Same here..USS Living Room, lol.. Out in the yard, my folk's picnic table became a carrier for my rubber-band powered balsa planes too...

When I was a kid, the apartment we lived in had adjoining living(?) rooms which became a drag strip for my cars. Thedrop from one rug and the rise from the next made for somne spectacular crashes!

I know some would argue whether these are dioramas or not, and they are not exactly to scale. But these minaiture replicas made entirely of Legos at Legoland California are pretty big and very impressive to see in person. I know when I first did I marvelled at the amount of work put in to these

http://z.about.com/d/themeparks/1/0/p/k/Lego26.JPG

Washington DC

http://www.timeoutofmind.com/images/legoland_122403/legoland_16_122403.jpg

Sydney Opera House (it's huge!)

http://www.randomsandiego.com/images/luxor-legoland.jpg

Las Vegas (note the standard size chain link fence in the background for a size comparison)

http://i25.tinypic.com/2a5zriw.jpg

And New York City...

I think if you count these as dioramas (non museum and perfectly scaled) they have to probably be considered for "worlds largest".