PeterPan

 Many German town names, in English colonies, and anything else related to Germany got changed at the start of WWI. For instance, the Great Dane was originally called a Boarhund. A nearby town, where I live, (NSW Australia) was called German Town, and was replaced with Empire Vale. 

Then there is this famous family in the UK who, during WWI, changed their family name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor

PeterPan

The Philadelphia Experiment

 

EdGrune

 

 

PeterPan

 Many German town names, in English colonies, and anything else related to Germany got changed at the start of WWI. For instance, the Great Dane was originally called a Boarhund. A nearby town, where I live, (NSW Australia) was called German Town, and was replaced with Empire Vale. 

 

 

 

Then there is this famous family in the UK who, during WWI, changed their family name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor

 

Hi,

I was think of something like this

or this

PF

Love the shock-waves.

Are they laying down a smoke screen?

GHOST SHIP

^ Retired in Kalifornia, that would make an epic diorama.  I don't know if the Devestator, the 5 inch gun, or the ship as a whole would be best.  Any such way, it would be an epic diorama.  This team found the Indianapolis and the Lexington, and they deserve the gratitude of the United States for it. 

Mail call!
I think this one would be funny, but I do have a Tree-Phrog in my stash. 
normal_Vietnam-Bases-Danang-1694 by Christopher Ridle, on Flickr

The Fly 1958.

Bakster

 

 

PeterPan

The Philadelphia Experiment

 

 

 

 

That would be cool.. 

 

 

I too love this idea. I'm not sure if you could paint the USS Eldridge some odd colour, maybe with glow in the dark paint or do something smaller scale and cast it out of translucent plastic or just have some weird lighting effect with LEDs in a shadowbox. 

Or even the alleged flying saucer crash at Roswell, NM. 

Frankly I think both are a load of balderdash but they'd make interesting dioramas in any case. 

Way out of my skill level but just throwing this out as an idea. https://www.pancanal.com/eng/history/history/locks.html Apparently the control board was a working representation of the lock.

"A control board is a waist-high working representation of the locks in miniature. Everything that happens in the locks happens on the control board at precisely the same time. The switches to work the lock gates and the other system mechanisms are located beside the representation of that devise on the control board. To lift a huge oceangoing ship in a lock chamber, the operator has only to turn a small chrome handle. Another ingenious part of the system are elaborate racks of interlocking bars installed unseen below the control board to make the switches mechanically interlock. Each handle must be turned in proper sequence or it will not turn. This eliminates the possibility of doing anything out of order or forgetting a step."

PeterPan

Love the shock-waves.

Are they laying down a smoke screen?

 

Hi,

I think that's just the smoke producced when the ships of that era were at full power.

Pat

this may be more ScaleAuto related, but here goes: my Dream diorama would be based on a photo I've seen from the Porsche factory, an army of mechanics and engineers  working hard to finish the twenty-five Porsche 917s required by the FIA to race in 1969.

Only, I would need 25 917 kits, preferably the fuld-detail multi-media kits from MFH iN Japan.....

So maybe not......

Gamera

... I'm not sure if you could paint the USS Eldridge some odd colour, maybe with glow in the dark paint or do something smaller scale and cast it out of translucent plastic or just have some weird lighting effect with LEDs in a shadowbox. ...

Could use holography. There are some modern doable methods. For example

http://www.litiholo.com/hologram_kits.html

So one minute it is there, and then it is not.

You could add other bits in background, like you mentioned with LEDs in a shadow box, and could include rotating prism, with LED lasar pointed at it, flashing beams of light through a thin film of smoke...that was my idea for the Arc of the Covenant.

HHscale

this may be more ScaleAuto related, but here goes: my Dream diorama would be based on a photo I've seen from the Porsche factory, an army of mechanics and engineers  working hard to finish the twenty-five Porsche 917s required by the FIA to race in 1969.

Only, I would need 25 917 kits, preferably the fuld-detail multi-media kits from MFH iN Japan.....

So maybe not......

 

PeterPan

 

 

Gamera

... I'm not sure if you could paint the USS Eldridge some odd colour, maybe with glow in the dark paint or do something smaller scale and cast it out of translucent plastic or just have some weird lighting effect with LEDs in a shadowbox. ...

 

 

Could use holography. There are some modern doable methods. For example

http://www.litiholo.com/hologram_kits.html

So one minute it is there, and then it is not.

You could add other bits in background, like you mentioned with LEDs in a shadow box, and could include rotating prism, with LED lasar pointed at it, flashing beams of light through a thin film of smoke...that was my idea for the Arc of the Covenant.

 

Hmmm, hadn't thought about holograms- interesting!

It did jog my memory to remember the Pepper's Ghost effect. It would require either a small model of the Eldridge or a very large shadowbox though.

http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Peppers-Ghost-Illusion/

I'd love to do a bunch from Apoclaypse Now

Anyone care to "re-create" one of Shep Payne's diorama's ?

Can anyone confirm that these guys are Marines, or US Army?

GMorrison

Can anyone confirm that these guys are Marines, or US Army?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If that photo was taken at Makin, they are Army. The Marines were not at Makin. A lack of camo helmet covers is also indicative of soldiers as opposed to marines. But that is a variable.

Thank you, Stik.

stikpusher

...a very involved one of the Sword Beachmaster, with his dog, a Churchill AVRE...

Commodore Colin Maud, with Winston!  King & Country produced a figure of them a couple of years ago, in their D-Day series.

Wasn't he on Juno beach, though?

the Baron

 

 

stikpusher

...a very involved one of the Sword Beachmaster, with his dog, a Churchill AVRE...

 

 

 

Commodore Colin Maud, with Winston!  King & Country produced a figure of them a couple of years ago, in their D-Day series.

Wasn't he on Juno beach, though?

 

Yes he was on Juno in reality. The film took an artistic liberty with him (among a few) being in Sword instead of Juno. As well as the dog breed. 

I have a figure of him with the dog and plan to use it for the diorama whenever I do get around to building it. I still need to pick up a few figure sets for other individuals I plan to add. 

What about the L-4 Cub pilot and observer shooting down a Storch with .45's in April 1945 Germany.  Or the C-47 "Missbehaving" losing both engines over the Bastogne dropzone, and coming in for a crashlanding when it hits a deuce and a half on a road and flips it around.

DAM BUSTERS

I’d like to do something along these lines...

I would love to do this, given the figures