Diorama Group Build and Contest Roster

Bish

bondo, thats sweet. I'd love to see how you did that.

HvH you should award freeway iceplant Clusters to the cheapest base.

I started my project last night. In the spirit of full disclosure, the main subject is/ was a half completed model that I completely took apart and hacked up. It has traces of old paint on it which kind of play into the theme, but it will start from all the same original pieces.

That's me with the blinkers on, on the freeway shoulder retrieving that nice piece of plywood in the median.

I would love to do one of those German flying boats, but could never think of a decent dio. Now you have given me ideas.

Would a piece of would cut from some old funiture i had salvaged be cheap enough.

Sign me up. I've wanted to get back into building dio's and this is the chance

I will be doing Military WW II era

bondoman

Tak for det.

Also, do we all drop our pants at once, or post when we finish? I like the group moon idea myself.

Is drinking permitted/ is it reimbursable?

Can we talk smack? After all 229 days is a long ways away. I might be dead.... no, just thinking ahead.

Here's the last big dio I did.

 

I don' care whatcha do to pass the time, Bondo.. But no, If I wanna see a moonshot I'll watch Apollo 13...

Woulda dinged ya on the dio.. Over-hanging the base borders is a no-no...   It's a great entrant for a "display model" though.. Whar scale is it?

I will be building a Military WWII diorama. Can I do a shadow box dio? I have a real neat idea for one.

Hi to all, I´m returning to modelling after some 20 years of inactivity, And never before has make a diorama, only some bits of terrain to put the models.

My diorama will be german, and in the middle (more of less) of the WWII.

After the introduction I have a question: someone knows the size of the bricks used in Europe?, I need to model some, and don´t like the information I can gather from the photos. And I imagine that there was a "mean" size in every country.

A Shadow-box that's well done, is the ultimate diorama form, 101...

I`m not exactly sure what I`ll be doing yet but it will be something military from WWII.

Kveldulfr

Hi to all, I´m returning to modelling after some 20 years of inactivity, And never before has make a diorama, only some bits of terrain to put the models.

 

My diorama will be german, and in the middle (more of less) of the WWII.

 

 

After the introduction I have a question: someone knows the size of the bricks used in Europe?, I need to model some, and don´t like the information I can gather from the photos. And I imagine that there was a "mean" size in every country.

First of all: Welcome to FSM and welcome back to the hobby! We can never have enough of "our kind"

Just measured a brick in my wall in front of me and it measures 21.5x8x10 centimeters. Had to guesstimate the depth but theyre slightly wider than the heighth. Should be usable for WW2 bricks too. The older (medieval era) bricks are about two thirds of this size if i think about walls i have seen from that time in town.

Hope it helps

Richard

Kveldulfr Welcome back to the hobby, and welcome to the art od the diorama. I am sure you will pick up a lot of ideas.

I just went out and measured the size of bricks in our house, which was built in the 30's. They are 21.5cm longx7cmhighx10cmwide, we had some headers so could measure the width as well. So about the same as Richards.

HvH in response to your question: 1/72.

I've already awarded myself last place, at least in a sense. I just ordered the book, which I lost my original copy of. If I come in last again, would you sign mine?

Going over to the lumber yard to scrounge up a piece of plywood this morning.

This is going to involve lots of water.

I've already awarded myself last place, at least in a sense. I just ordered the book, which I lost my original copy of. If I come in last again, would you sign mine?

LOL... Sure...

But nobody's in last place, Bondo..

Yet...

I've already awarded myself last place, at least in a sense. I just ordered the book, which I lost my original copy of. If I come in last again, would you sign mine?

LOL... Sure...

But nobody's in last place, Bondo..

Yet...

ATTENTION

All participants, please note changes to rules 12 and 13.  

 Due to the fact that some will naturally be larger or smaller dio-builders, I've split the dio categories into larger than 225 square inches,  and smaller than 225 sq.in... You gotta pick which category you want and build ONE dio..  The prizes remain the same, except that they'll be awarded to a winner and loser in each of the categories, meaning I just doubled the number of prizes.  (gulp) I gotta shell out for..

Don't need to post which one you're building in, that info will not be needed until final juding...  Size-limit remains 36" x 36"... (Aplogies to those on the metric system... I don't have a metric conversion calculator)

Hans,

36 inches translates into 91.4 centimetres. So for us metric guys the size limit is 91.4x91.4cm.

Richard

Read and understood.

Got a nice free piece of Birch ply today out behind Ace.

Thanks Bish and Richard for the help, I was close with the size, I was doubtfull because the headers are more squarish (I don´t know if the word exist, but it's the idea) than that of the bricks I know.

Now to make a mould...

kermit

Hans,

36 inches translates into 91.4 centimetres. So for us metric guys the size limit is 91.4x91.4cm.

Richard

Well that's one good thing, i don't think i have any planned that will be that big.

Got my Shep Paine book today. There is NOTHING in there about the subject overhanging the base being a bad thing, but you own the table, you set the rules.

My dio is a version of the Lady Be Good idea.

It's implied in the base selection section, along with cropping..

Hey I know its about two weeks into this build but I was hoping I could join. I just rejoined the boards after a too-long hiatus, and this sounds like a great time.

If its too late, no worries, won't stop me from building!

I've got my bases cut and all my prepatory drawings done, and as a bonus I found some reference photos I thouht I had lost.

Is there going to be a badge for the group build?

Since this is my first attempt at a group build, I'm not sure of the proper protocols. However I thought I would tell what I'm planning to build. The end diorama will look something along these lines

I won't start the base until I get the engine built. I'm in the process of salvaging a glue bomb version of the Monogram 4-4-0 "The General" in 1/25th scale. The original builder used massive amounts of tube glue. Many of the parts are distorted and useless. But I think there is enough there to build a reasonable replica of a Lombard steam powered log hauler. Parts of the original kit are testing in my freezer. Hopefully the joints will seperate without more breakage.

Fortunately the saddle tank will hide a lot of scars

How frequent should I be posting progres pictures?

Thanks

Carl

[edit note- I need a spell checker or a proof reader]

My grandson and I are building dinosaurs. How about a prehistoic diorama?

Hans von Hammer

It's implied in the base selection section, along with cropping..

There's a lot of very subjective stuff in the book, hereafter referred to as HTBD.

But I am an artist first and not much else second except a business guy.

When I made model railroads, which are dioramas, it was always a matter of course to build a 1" to the foot maquette.

Not here, but at one-to-one I get the idea.

In HTBD he talks a lot about mocking up stuff and standing back and seeing if it looks right.

That has me now at 16" by 16" so I am in the second group.

The most striking thing I've learned from HTBD is a tip about how to use photos. The author allows that a good photo is a necessary starting point, but that the modeler should only take away the story, but not the literal image.

This made a big difference for me. I understand that the photo I have conveys a certain story, but that the diorama may have to tell it a different way.

I've done abt 20 GB's, and this is a fine one for me because I will really have to learn new things,

Please sign me up for a prehistoric setting.

Count me in .... I'll do something with this -

Good Modeling,

rb

GeneralDodonna

Hey I know its about two weeks into this build but I was hoping I could join. I just rejoined the boards after a too-long hiatus, and this sounds like a great time.

If its too late, no worries, won't stop me from building!

 

You're good.. 30 SEP is the sign-up deadline...

101stAirborne

Is there going to be a badge for the group build?

Want one?