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

I'd love to do a bunch from Apoclaypse Now

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/

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......

 

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.

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

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

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."

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. 

The Fly 1958.

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

^ 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. 

GHOST SHIP

Love the shock-waves.

Are they laying down a smoke screen?

Hi,

I was think of something like this

or this

PF

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

 

PeterPan

The Philadelphia Experiment

 

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

GUNS OF NAVARONE

FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE

stikpusher

...Yes, in reality he was at Juno and had an Alsatian Mastiff dog I believe. The filmmakers took a little artistic license...

In reality, the Alsatian is a German Shepard. The name change over happened at the start of WWI to protect the German Shepard from fearful prejudice. Alsatain points to a place in France (Alsace). 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.

GMorrison

I do think it was Juno Beach. Colin “Mad” Maud.

 

Yes, in reality he was at Juno and had an Alsatian Mastiff dog I believe. The filmmakers took a little artistic license...

The Philadelphia Experiment

I do think it was Juno Beach. Colin “Mad” Maud.

stikpusher

the Sword Beachmaster, with his dog,

And a stalled Universal Carrier getting a bash.

French Commando pausing for a troop of nuns, too.

Lord Lovat in his turtleneck, with a piper following--or perhaps this snippet:

There sure has been some really good diorama ideas being shared here.

They all are very challenging in their own right, which makes for the highest satisfaction in model making - in my opinion.

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Here is another one I would like to build.

Searchlights on the Rock of Gilbraltar.

I always wanted to do a diorama of U-217 being "blasted" out of the water by a TBF Avenger off of the USS Bogue.

But the "forced" perspective of having the sub, with the Escort carrier, and the plane overhead, ... well ... the dio would have to be about five feet square !

How about a dio of one of us.... working on a dio ?

I wold love a 1950's moonlander being assembled in earth orbit with a spacestation in the background.

PeterPan