Dioramas I would like to build.

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.

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.

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.

SafferScale

..shes been nagging

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

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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.

STOVK

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

Now that would be something! 

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.

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

 

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

Ah !

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

OOOOH ! Great Peter !

 Very Neat ! A Steam-Punk Trojan Horse !

Okay ;

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

Justinryan215

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

Thank you Justinryan215 for the link.

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

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

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.

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 

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

A nifty one would be Lulu Belle from Sahara.  Sourcing the figures would be interesting, though.

 

If you build it based on the remake, Master Box makes a figure set...

A nifty one would be Lulu Belle from Sahara.  Sourcing the figures would be interesting, though.

A simple one that would be a cool build would be "Lulu Belle" from Sahara.  Sourcing out the figures would be interesting.

PeterPan

Someone suggested this. I think it would be a great diorama.

 

This one was done in a FSM article many years ago.

bstarr3

...An Avenger ditched in the ocean with crew escaping to life raft

An aircrew in a life raft being rescued by a PBY...

Like these?

http://172scale.blogspot.com/2014/06/tbf-1-avenger-ditching-in-sea.html

http://modelismoymodelistasdiorama.blogspot.com/2012/11/amaraje-esc-172-by-pufucu.html

http://www.shipmodel.com/models/snafu-snatchers---rescue

Someone suggested this. I think it would be a great diorama.

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.

PeterPan

Here is a small, simple diorama possibility, using a small motor for the prop and laser pointers for tracers. I think it looks neat.

 

 

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!

I have several good ideas. 

An in-flight B-17 using the monogram visible B-17 kit

An Avenger ditched in the ocean with crew escaping to life raft

An aircrew in a life raft being rescued by a PBY

An IL-2 swooping down to blow up a Panzer