Largest Diorama?

stikpusher wrote:

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...

Those are insanely wonderful!!

I like the concept of your diorama, but it will be difficult to pull it off successfully. As others have pointed out, the area of your diorama only covers 70 x 105 feet of beachhead in 1:35 scale.

Have you ever visited Omaha Beach? I was there last year and I was surprised at the width of the beach at low tide (remember that the landings began at low tide) and how exposed the area is; it was immediately obvious why the troops were pinned down progress across (and off) the beach was so devastatingly slow. Examine some photos and you will appreciate what I mean. Google Earth is a very good reference source.

Not only is the beach wide and flat, but the slope from the beach up to the crest of the hill where the bunkers were located is long, exposed and shallow.

I doubt you are really going to be able to show much of a realistic story with such a small area of the attack. Good luck with it, nevertheless.

this isn't the biggest one out there.. but it sure nice to look at its in 1/72 (not mine)

http://www.dday-modelling.nl/page0.php

Here's the biggest diorama I've seen:

http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/outoftown/pennsylvania/berkscounty/shartlesville/roadsideamerica/index.htm

Scroll down to see it. Note the 4,000 figures...

We used to go there when I was a kid. Now, I know what you're thinking, maybe this isn't a diorama, but I would call it one, just a diorama telling many different stories at once. I've always wanted to do something like this, just for the cache of it (of course, not at this size, because it took this guy 50 years).

~J

There's a pretty amazing diorama of New York City here: the Queens Museum of Art. I'd love to see that in person. It covers 9,335 square feet.

Here's another very large diorama from a museum in Germany: Maritiem & Jutters Museum in der Ortschaft Oudenschild auf Texel. This one is four by eighteen meters! The scale is 1/87.

Regards,

Another one in the Netherlands is Madurodam

Well worth a visit if you are in the Hague.

http://www.madurodam.nl/templates/mad/global/index.php?lngid=5

Rob wrote:

that one isn''t in germany but in the netherlands

*embarrased grin*

I half suspected that...

Nevertheless, it's a really cool dio.

Lufbery wrote:

There's a pretty amazing diorama of New York City here: the Queens Museum of Art. I'd love to see that in person. It covers 9,335 square feet.

That's the one I was talking about early on in this discussion.

Hans von Hammer wrote:

Biggest diorama I ever worked on was the 1/1 scale diorama of LT George H.W. Bush in his raft after being shot down, located at CAF Headquarters in Midland, TX...

 A bigger dio would be the bunker where five times deferred Dick hid his VP secret memos

vespa boy wrote:

Hans von Hammer wrote: Biggest diorama I ever worked on was the 1/1 scale diorama of LT George H.W. Bush in his raft after being shot down, located at CAF Headquarters in Midland, TX...  A bigger dio would be the bunker where five times deferred Dick hid his VP secret memos

Huh?

Hans von Hammer wrote:

Feeble attempt at political humor...

OUCH!!!

Seriously, don't know if any of you guys have ever seen that Roadside America layout, but it's worth a look if you haven't. (at least, it was 30 years ago)

~J

jthurston wrote:

Seriously, don't know if any of you guys have ever seen that Roadside America layout, but it's worth a look if you haven't. (at least, it was 30 years ago) ~J

 That's relatively close to me. I'll have to check it out. :)

 Regards,