Dioramas I would like to build.

Tojo72

like to team it with a DAK Kubel wagon and figures.

Which is tricky, no Kubels in the movie   The "german scout car" is an M2 (I think) Halftrack with the continuous skate rail MG mount.

There's also been considerable debate on just what LuluBelle is/was.  Which, I think, adds to where the fun in this dio would be.  I think Lulu Belle was a modified M2 Medium tank, which  would explain the suspension, and the lack of an armed TC cupola, or fixed bow MG--all those eements of an M3 Lee.  See, rather a lot of fun stuff to go dig up. 

CapnMac82

 

 

Tojo72

like to team it with a DAK Kubel wagon and figures.

 

 

Which is tricky, no Kubels in the movie   The "german scout car" is an M2 (I think) Halftrack with the continuous skate rail MG mount.

There's also been considerable debate on just what LuluBelle is/was.  Which, I think, adds to where the fun in this dio would be.  I think Lulu Belle was a modified M2 Medium tank, which  would explain the suspension, and the lack of an armed TC cupola, or fixed bow MG--all those eements of an M3 Lee.  See, rather a lot of fun stuff to go dig up. 

 

yes,I know,thanks,would just be having fun with it.The people who did see it would just say it looks cool 

CapnMac82

 

 

Tojo72

like to team it with a DAK Kubel wagon and figures.

 

 

Which is tricky, no Kubels in the movie   The "german scout car" is an M2 (I think) Halftrack with the continuous skate rail MG mount.

There's also been considerable debate on just what LuluBelle is/was.  Which, I think, adds to where the fun in this dio would be.  I think Lulu Belle was a modified M2 Medium tank, which  would explain the suspension, and the lack of an armed TC cupola, or fixed bow MG--all those eements of an M3 Lee.  See, rather a lot of fun stuff to go dig up. 

 

IIRC, the Belushi remake was filmed in Australia. And used one of their M3’s. M3’s sent to CBI for Commonwealth use often had the cupola removed, among other changes. Looking at this shot here, it’s defini a M3.

PeterPan

 

 

Justinryan215

...Check out user 'Ivan The Terrible' on YouTube...he is also on Facebook...he just posted a video of a diorama with forced perspective , with, I think it was, the battle of Brittain.  He didn't use laser pointers or a motor, but it looks badass!

 

 

Could not find. Please post a link.

 

Sure thing! Here ya GO!

https://youtu.be/jyFNL6z7QVw

https://youtu.be/jyFNL6z7QVw

Justinryan215

...Sure thing! Here ya GO!...

Thank you Justinryan215 for the link.

Very interesting video. Learnt a lot from it. Thanks.

Okay ;

 I give in , if it was to be done that way . T.B.

OOOOH ! Great Peter !

 Very Neat ! A Steam-Punk Trojan Horse !

Ah !

 But the Eldridge could be frosted Plexi with all this light radiating from behind her .

PeterPan

Show us a picture of a scene you would like to make a diorama of.

Or, if there is no picture deptcting the scene, tell us what it is.

Please, no pictures of a diorama already built.

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1) I wouldn't mind making a cutaway view of a tunnel from the movie "The Great Escape". Tunnel underneath and prison camp on top.

2) I think this scene of the Titanic sinking, with all the lights and drama, would be quite intense:

 

 

My wife wants me to do the sinking Titanic one.......shes been nagging and nagging and nag.....oh crap Hi Honey

SafferScale

1) I wouldn't mind making a cutaway view of a tunnel from the movie "The Great Escape". Tunnel underneath and prison camp on top.

2) I think this scene of the Titanic sinking, with all the lights and drama, would be quite intense:...

My wife wants me to do the sinking Titanic one.......shes been nagging and nagging and nag.....oh crap Hi Honey

 

Interesting topic. I find the historical dios people do, pretty amazing. However, I have a different approach on "dioramas". The dioramas I would like to tackle would be famous scenes from movies. I've been kicking around some ideas in my head and have started gathering resources. My short list of ideas, in the early planning stage, are:

1. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: "Nice try, Lao Che" scene.

2. Kelly's Heroes: "Showdown with a Tiger"

3. Kelly's Heroes: "That's paint!"

4. The Great Escape: The escape through "Harry"

5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Planting dynamite on bridge.

6. Flight of the Phoenix (1965): The C-82A Packet being dis-assembled.

7. Casablanca: Ricks Café Americana interior.

STOVK

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6. Flight of the Phoenix (1965)...

Now that would be something! 

I usually don't do anything but dios. the onei'm working on now isthe KLM Scharnhorst and Z-thirty seven destroyer (my three key isnot working) in the Baltic.
another one that's in progress but stalled at the moment is the USS Johnston at the Battle off Samar.

and then maybe an AFV stuck in a little puddle.

Finally, any ditched AC is of intrest to me.

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SafferScale

..shes been nagging

Well, obviously, you've been waiting to find a reduction gear to make the one screw turn over slowly.  QED

STOVK

Casablanca: Ricks Café Americana interior.

I believe those figures are available.  Crafting up the rest of the clientele could be some work--unless you figure out a way to vignette it right.

Germans versus the French singing would be cool--other than the 40-soemthing figures to craft.

Rick, Louis, and th eGerman at the phone box at the airfield would be cool.

PeterPan

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There's a winner.
There's a really nice model of the saucer.  Which would be really cool laid out with the preimeter field, and the dismounted blasters. 

Dr Morbius' house would be cool (if a pain to draw out) even if only as an excuse to have a tiger in the dio.

CapnMac82

...There's a winner.

There's a really nice model of the saucer.  Which would be really cool laid out with the preimeter field, and the dismounted blasters. 

Dr Morbius' house would be cool (if a pain to draw out) even if only as an excuse to have a tiger in the dio.

Great choices of scenery.

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I've been thinking how to create Dr Morbius' Id in the particle beams.

George Gay.

Royal Australian Air Force using hololens experiment with augmented reality.

Hi,

I just saw this photo this morning and thought it could make for an interesting diorama.

Pat

Pat,

That would look great.

OR

GMorrison

  George Gay

Ens. George Henry Gay, Jr, USNR, Taxas Agricultural & Mechanical College Class of 1940.

Commissioned in USN (before actually graduating with a degreein Mechanical Engineering).

Reocvered the day after Midway by a PBY.  After recuperating from injuries, served with VT-11 through the Guadalcanal campaign.  Rotated stateside to become a flight instructor after award of Navy Cross.
Stayed in Naval Reserves until retiring in 1958.  Flew for TWA after the war, retiring after 30 years in 1975.  Passed 21 September 1994.

A soft-spoken man who spoke with quiet authority.  It was my privelege to meet him once.

GMorrison

George Gay.

George Henry Gay, Jr, USNR.  Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College Class of 1940.
Commissioned in USNR (before actually graduating with a degree in Mechanical Engineering) September 1941.

After being recovered by PBR the day after Midway, and recuperating from injuries, he erved with VT-11 during the Guadalcanal campiagn.  After being awarded the Navy Cross, he was rotated stateside as a flight instructor.  He remained in the Naval Reserves until retiring in 1953.

He flew for TWA for thirty years, retiring in 1975.

Passed 21 September 1994.

He was a soft spoken man who spoke with quiet authority.  It was my privelge to meet him once.

STOVK

 

7. Casablanca: Ricks Café Americana interior.

 

STOVK, if you order the DVD FSM did of their earlier issues, or can find a hard copy, Rick's was done in either the first or second issue if I recall correctly. It had a single figure of Bogey in his white dinner jacket smoking a cigarette. Should provide a good starting point.

I have several ideas for a dio, the only one I think I could pull off would be the salute between Waldo and Kessler at the end of The Great Waldo Pepper. There are some ideas in Bill Mauldin's Willy and Joe cartoons, but the easiest ones have been done to death. The one I'd like to do most is the end scene of the movie Wind with both 12 meters heeled over and making for the finish line. That would be a big dio in 1/35.  The hardest one would a scene from GI Combat, my favorite comic book growing up. My favorite story is I, Tank. Instead of being told from the crew's viewpoint, it is told from the tank's. The story starts with the Haunted Tank barely making it to the repair depot before a tread breaks and falls off. The story proceeds with the overhaul of the Haunted Tank as the crew is on leave. Towards the end, the Germans break through the lines and the Haunted Tank and crew are sent into battle on a tank transporter because there were no available treads at the depot. Just as the last round has been fired and things are looking bleak, Jeb, the commander realizes that a Calliope had been installed at the depot and fires it to save the day. It would be hard to pull off convincingly because unless you knew the story, people would wonder what was going on.