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Diorama Group Build/Contest

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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 2:27 PM

Hans, the only way i could come on board is if i could do a Dio for a kit thats already been built. I have about 7 built kits, all done for GB's, ones that have finished sometime ago, and the kits are waiting for Dio's. Ashides from my current build and the 2 other GB's i am commited to, there's no way i want to be starting any new kits for at least a year.

If you allow it, it's only the kits that have been built, i haven't started the Dioramas yet.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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  • From: Rothesay, NB Canada
Posted by VanceCrozier on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 12:01 PM

Re: RE:Diorama Broup Build/Contest

 

uhhh Hans.... what's a "Broup"? Embarrassed Wink

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:57 AM

Depends on how cool the badge is...

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Posted by BaBill212 on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:25 AM

I do like the sound of this one Hammer....  dio's are my favorite!  I've had a great diorama scene bouncing around in my head for a while,, which I will build when I get a chance.       Unfortunately I'm presently committed to 2 other GB's and I wouldn't want to get to the point of overload.

BUT, I'll sure be watching,,,  sounds like fun

 

Bill

Enjoy the ride!

 

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:08 AM

I could go for a 10-20% "fudge-factor" in size... I'm not actually going to come to your house and measure it, after all... 'Cept maybe if Bish joins...Stick out tongue

I really kind of want this thing to go from "Zero" though, since there IS a real and tangible "prize" to be won...

The 229-day limit is nogotiable though, I only threw that in as nod to Von Manstein and his groupies.... Could go for a year, but that's the upper-limit...

My goal is to get into the GB forum with this idea and pop a few "Dio-cherries" as well...  This is still a "feeler" after all, and nothing is solid until there's enough "Diorama guys" signed up... But we're really close...

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • From: Surrey B.C. Canada
Posted by Subhuman1 on Saturday, August 13, 2011 8:49 PM

A bit of leway on the size would be kind of nice,but I can survive either way. Found a kit I'd like to use but it is  a hair, ok maybe a mustache, over the limit, but nothing a razor and some ingenuity couldn't solve.Smile

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Posted by shoot&scoot on Saturday, August 13, 2011 8:01 PM

I'm in the same boat as 101stAirborne.  Been working on one literally for the last 3 years and this just might be the push I need to finish it.  Any chance of upping the base size a little bit?  I may be a wee over the 11 X 14 inch size.

                                                                                             Pat.

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Posted by 101stAirborne on Saturday, August 13, 2011 7:37 PM

Can I enter a diorama that I had started and never finished? Or would that give me an unfair advantage somehow?

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Posted by kermit on Saturday, August 13, 2011 3:53 PM

Not for any contest purposes (as i probably will end up with last place looking at all the talent on here) but i do like a dio every now and then and 229 days is more than enough time for me. Count me in sir!

That is, provided a theme if there is going to be a theme (i say keep it open) is something i can relate to.

Richard

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Sir Winston Churchill

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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Saturday, August 13, 2011 2:52 PM

Damn, theres no way i can join in on this one, i just can't commit to any new GB's at the moment, and probably not until 2013.  But i will certainly be keeping a close eye on it. And maybe if its a hit, maybe a Diorama II GB in a couple of years.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

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Posted by Subhuman1 on Friday, August 12, 2011 6:19 PM

Ok sign up one more, maybe this should be enough to get me actually building after a year of lurking on the forums here Smile

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Friday, August 12, 2011 12:42 PM

Ok, that's two... Need to get five more. If I get close in here, I'll post it in the other hoochs... That'll probably snag one or two more..

 

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Posted by vespa boy on Friday, August 12, 2011 11:03 AM

This sounds like a great project and if I included figures or vehicles or obvious narrative in my dioramas, I would be in, but its not something I can do, sorry. I'm looking forward to seeing this take shape.

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This ain't no Mudd Club, or C.B.G.B.,
I ain't got time for that now

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Posted by K-dawg on Friday, August 12, 2011 10:59 AM

This sounds like an interesting GB. The last one I was in was a Panther GB back in 2002 or 2003 I believe. I was gearing up to start on a diorama fairly soon anyway.

 

Kenneth

Kenneth Childres, Central Arkansas Scale Modelers

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Friday, August 12, 2011 10:40 AM

3000 days might be a fizzle...

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Posted by SteveM on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 6:06 PM

This sounds great, but I don't think I will be done with my current dio WIP in time to finish one for this group build.

Howabout a 3000 day building time frame? then I might could...

Steve M.

On the workbench: ginormous Kharkov dio

 

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  • From: Iowa
Diorama Group Build/Contest
Posted by Hans von Hammer on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 10:50 AM

Anyone interested? I'd like minimum of seven (7) dio-hards... Any scale, any subject, any era... Shadow-boxes too...

Building time-frame is 229 days from start-date, probably next month, near the or on the 1st.

No, I say again NO WIPS, crossovers from other GBs, or pre-fabs (i.e. die-cast).   This is a "start from Zero diorama build. No common "Theme", unless it's decided by the group that a theme is wanted (i.e. WW2 or Vietnam-era, Home-front,etc).

If it's decided that a theme is wanted, it will be voted on and must pass by 2/3rd majority or better. 

Bases may NOT be bigger than 11 x 14 inches (230mm x 356mm). 

No "vignettes" or diplays models sitting on landscaped bases.  This is a diorama-build, and the diorama tells a "story".   If a figure is the main subject, there must be at least two (2) of them, and they need to be "doing something"... Show the kit's main subject "doing it's thing"...

Full set of rules will be posted ONE WEEK prior to the start-date.  Before you ask though, yes SOME nudity is allowed, but it MUST be of a nature that can be published in FSM or posted in the forum... Manny...Wink)

WIP photos are encouraged, but not required...  Personally, I would limit photos to WIP-shots of the models, structures, vegitation, painted or re-posed figures, etc, and NOT the story or layout... This will keep "Idea Theft" to a minimum... 

There will be two prizes:  First Place will receive a classic Monogram kit originally featured in one of Shep Paine's outstanding Monogram dioramas... Will be either 1/48th aircraft or 1/32-1/35 AFV (your choice of genre, my choice of kit)...

Last Place will receive a copy of Shep Paine's How to build Dioramas.

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