Dioramas I would like to build.

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

Ozmac

...So all I need to do is figure out how to build it, especially the Art Deco theatre. 

What gets in the way is that my diorama building room is my garden shed, and during an Australian summer you don't want to spend much time at all in my garden shed if you want to live. Way too hot! Autumn is now here, our mild winter is approaching, and the diorama season is upon me once more. No excuses now. Must get to work!

So, I hope to see your diorama build log thread in the Diorama sub-forum.

No excuses now! 

I have the bus, a 1/72 Opel streamlined bus from the 1930s (built from a kit), filled with happy Berliners. 

I have the car, a Tatra T87, also 1/72, built from a kit.

I have the people (going to the movies)

I have the basis for the Art Deco movie theatre they are all going to ...

And I have the movie posters I need to cover the walls outside the theatre

So all I need to do is figure out how to build it, especially the Art Deco theatre. 

What gets in the way is that my diorama building room is my garden shed, and during an Australian summer you don't want to spend much time at all in my garden shed if you want to live. Way too hot! Autumn is now here, our mild winter is approaching, and the diorama season is upon me once more. No excuses now. Must get to work!

sharkbait

Re a Dambusters diorama: When I was working in Iran I ran into a modeler who wanted to build a diorama. His plan was to use 2 transparent glass/plastic rods to support the model positioned where the lights were installed meeting on the water base with a light to replicate the two beams meeting on the water. He also planned to have the bomb just entering the water (partialy visible with appropriate splash.) in the immediate background. Neat concept ...never found out if he competed the project.

He had a son with moderate mental/physical challenges who helped with all his projects. Apparently his son was an artist with an airbrush. 

 

Shark bait, check out my build of that Dambusters raid, it's in the dioramail Section!  I didn't do the clear rod for the targeting lights, as they were switched off after release of the bouncing bomb,  but I did kick around the idea! 

Thanks for sharing sharkbait, that is a neat idea. Even using clear plastic rod / tubing will fill with light. 

Re a Dambusters diorama: When I was working in Iran I ran into a modeler who wanted to build a diorama. His plan was to use 2 transparent glass/plastic rods to support the model positioned where the lights were installed meeting on the water base with a light to replicate the two beams meeting on the water. He also planned to have the bomb just entering the water (partialy visible with appropriate splash.) in the immediate background. Neat concept ...never found out if he competed the project.

He had a son with moderate mental/physical challenges who helped with all his projects. Apparently his son was an artist with an airbrush. 

Justinryan215

 

 

PeterPan

 

 

Like you other ideas too.

 

 

 

 

I've found that building a model, and then just putting it on a shelf is somewhat boring, and lacking context.   Even if it is just putting it on a small base with some groundwork, or in the case of,my Tamiya Zero WIP , a small base with a small sliver of flight deck, gives it that context that it needs to make it a bit more interesting.

 

 

 

I forgot to add that I am also planning a pinewood derby car for next year's derby with my son's pack for the "outlaw" class -for parents and siblings-it will be the painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware river, but as a derby car....

Justinryan215

A forced perspective scene with an American Helldiver beginning his dive on the Japanese fleet 

Many years ago there was a diorama just like that in a hobby shop that I used to visit. It was with the old Monogram kit that had been dressed up, and had a 1/700 IJN ship, a destroyer if I remember right...

One other diorama idea that I have had in my head for many years is based off a bit of combat footage that was shown in Victory at Sea, during the battle for Manila in 1945. US tanks and infantry are shown fighting in the baseball field clearing out the Japanese in the dugouts and stands.

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h5-GJfhbJUQ

PeterPan

 

 

Like you other ideas too.

 

I've found that building a model, and then just putting it on a shelf is somewhat boring, and lacking context.   Even if it is just putting it on a small base with some groundwork, or in the case of,my Tamiya Zero WIP , a small base with a small sliver of flight deck, gives it that context that it needs to make it a bit more interesting.

Wow, Justinryan215, I am looking forward to seeing your diorama.

Please lets us know, and provide a hyperlink, when it is posted in a new thread.

OH, I just found it. For those that are wondering about this, here is the link to this wonderful diorama:

For some reason the hyperlink does not work. Try copy and paste in address window.

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/19/p/178308/2006275.aspx#2006275

Like you other ideas too.

I have actually been working on this scene for the past year, and have just completed it.  I will make a new post, and refrain from posting a picture here, as was requested in the original post....

I am also kicking round a few other ideas in my head, in the planning stages are a follows:

A scene. (Similar to the Dambusters raid, seeing as though George Lucas took the final scene in starwars right from the movie Dambusters!) With luke's x wing bombing the exhaust port of the deathstar...

A forced perspective scene with an American Helldiver beginning his dive on the Japanese fleet

Also, the USS Constitution in rough seas...I may practice that one on revell's pirate ship first...

I may also do a mid air refuel scene (as a ceiling hanger in my son's bedroom) between a KC135 and another aircraft...

The maximum release point calculated by Barnes Wallis was 3/4 mile, the minimum 3/8 mile.

His notes show that it was anticipated the bomb would skip at least three times and pretty much hit the dam wall.

Thats the Mohne Dam in the painting. 

Both AJ-A and AJ-J scored direct hits, with both Gibson and Martin flying alongside to draw fire.

Apparently the painting is of AJ-A with Gibson beyond.

The fire is from AJ-M’s mine, which bounced over the dam and hit the power house.

The question I would pose to myself would be how do so more than recreate the painting and a lot like it, while bringing a fresh perspective to the event. And doing a nightime diorama means a controlled display.

But a pretty cool subject.

That is not necessarily so.

First of all, I see nothing wrong with the bomb bouncing along towards the dam wall, as it is shown. The lancasters have already ascended a fair way in such a short distance. The fire below the dam is a bomb that bounced over the wall from the previous attempt. The triangulation lamps ought to be off, but out of all the excitement the bombardier was delayed in switching it off.

Besides, it does not have to be precise as in reality. For a diorama, it needs to convey some story and drama. All the elements for a drama is there in the above image. Even you said it looked cool, and that is all that matters. An image that holds in mind as to what happened at that time of busting the dams.

This is a doable diorama. It could look exactly how it is portrayed in the paining. IMHO

PeterPan

DAM BUSTERS

 

ygmodeler4

I started working on one years ago. ...

Great story. I hope you get back into it and share your progress with us on it. Would like to see it come together.

I started working on one years ago. Lt. Baldomero Lopez going over the seawall at Inchon. Soon after he was killed after jumping on a grenade and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor

PeterPan

DAM BUSTERS

 

Or something like this from the Marianas Turkey Shoot using different scales to force perspective

I would love to do this, given the figures

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

DAM BUSTERS

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.

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. 

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?

Thank you, Stik.

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.

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