Northern Model Show 2011 - Page 5

Jimbuna · 07-18-11, 05:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I love a good diorama. The best I ever saw in person was when the IPMS national US show was held here in Salt Lake City. The centerpiece was this model which now resides in the Smithsonian Institution's Air-And Space Museum. It represents the 1924 around-the-world flight by the US Army Air Service, with four Douglas World Cruisers.

The diorama represents the planes making a fuel stop at Seward, Alaska in April 1924. The people were all converted from flight figures, and include a soldier strolling with his girl and the crew of a fishing boat who came out to see the planes.

The second picture is a close-up of the boat and crew. What you can't see is the detail, most wonderful of which is the cards laid out on the boat's galley table, left there when the players heard the planes landing.

I just wish there were pictures I could show of all those details.

Yep, you can't beat a decent diorama and that one you've posted definitely looks top drawer.

The overall winner of the show I attended was a 3' long diorama of a German WWII armored train travelling to the front, full to the hilt with every piece of ordnance you could imagine.

The crazy thing is nobody seems to have taken any photographs of it because those of us who attended the show are busy asking one another on another forum if anyone has any photos

Jimbuna · 07-18-11, 12:23 PM

Sailor Steve · 07-18-11, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

You found it! COOL! I love that sort of thing. That one reminds me of one of my all-time favorites. The link is to Shep Paine's book on diorama-building, which has a lot of good ones.
http://books.google.com/books?id=tge...ilemma&f=false

Jimbuna · 07-18-11, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

You found it! COOL! I love that sort of thing. That one reminds me of one of my all-time favorites. The link is to Shep Paine's book on diorama-building, which has a lot of good ones.
http://books.google.com/books?id=tge5LXsoGQIC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=diorama+ the+elefant's+dilemma&source=bl&ots=ebxCNOotTm&sig =qDjnhdfcsNH29LWSi9IBTEhdGM0&hl=en&ei=x4IkTvutF4Pg iALSnuikAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1& ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=diorama%20the%20elefan t's%20dilemma&f=false

Yeah...spent many an hour looking at his work with a great deal of envy and admiration.

Didn't realise I had photographed the diorama

I've eight more photographs to convert before posting but two of them are of a diorama which IMHO is arguably better than the armoured train.

Sailor Steve · 07-18-11, 04:46 PM

If anyone looks at the book I linked, I recommend looking at the pictures long and hard. The fun isn't in the modelwork, but in what the picture is saying.

Jimbuna · 07-20-11, 12:24 PM

Last of the bunch...

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ImageShack has decided it is time to become a PITA so I'll upload the last couple in about an hour...hopefully

Jimbuna · 07-20-11, 02:11 PM

CaptainMattJ. · 07-20-11, 02:34 PM

jesus. that alot of models. great work too.

Tigers, panthers, panzers, Some Flakpanzer Ostwinds, half-tracks, Corsairs, mustangs, F-16s, i think i saw an M1 Abrams, hurricanes, spitfires, German tri-planes, bi-planes, Surveilance aircraft, neat bombers, panzerkamfwagens, STuGs, T-34s, shermans, BF109s, FW-190s, A-10 warthogs, harriers, I think i saw a Leopald, Panzer IVs, jeeps, Japanese Zeros,Japanese Oscars, Pershing tanks, Stukas, beauteous destroyers and heavy cruisers.

Yeah, im a military nerd. I can tell from first glance what each of these are. Some new modern jets i havent seen though. I do, have a huge poster that my uncle gave me hanging above my bed with some of the biggest and baddest modern jets from all parts of the world.

edit: how could i forget to mention the KING tigers, South Dakota battleship, Buffalos, Apache Attack heli, Catalinas, APCs, Priests, and the best of all, the reason were all here, the VII class subs and beautiful nuclear subs. I dont think i saw an I-400 though.

Jimbuna · 07-20-11, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by CaptainMattJ.

jesus. that alot of models. great work too.

Tigers, panthers, panzers, Some Flakpanzer Ostwinds, half-tracks, Corsairs, mustangs, F-16s, i think i saw an M1 Abrams, hurricanes, spitfires, German tri-planes, bi-planes, Surveilance aircraft, neat bombers, panzerkamfwagens, STuGs, T-34s, shermans, BF109s, FW-190s, A-10 warthogs, harriers, I think i saw a Leopald, Panzer IVs, jeeps, Japanese Zeros,Japanese Oscars, Pershing tanks, Stukas, beauteous destroyers and heavy cruisers.

Yeah, im a military nerd. I can tell from first glance what each of these are. Some new modern jets i havent seen though. I do, have a huge poster that my uncle gave me hanging above my bed with some of the biggest and baddest modern jets from all parts of the world.

edit: how could i forget to mention the KING tigers, South Dakota battleship, Buffalos, Apache Attack heli, Catalinas, APCs, Priests, and the best of all, the reason were all here, the VII class subs and beautiful nuclear subs. I dont think i saw an I-400 though.

It's funny you should say that because the guy who was showing the submarines definitely had one on the table iirc....looks like I didn't take a shot

Osmium Steele · 07-21-11, 07:49 AM

Was that Bailey Bridge scratch built, or can you get a kit?

TLAM Strike · 07-21-11, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Osmium Steele

Was that Bailey Bridge scratch built, or can you get a kit?

I think its from a kit:
http://www.scalehobbyist.com/catagor...12/product.php

Gerald · 07-21-11, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

I think its from a kit:
http://www.scalehobbyist.com/catagor...12/product.php

A good price for these products,

Growler · 07-21-11, 07:58 AM

I've been watching this thread with great interest since Jim posted, but now I'm totally geeking out.

Dioramas are what I'd do if I had talent - I wore out copies of Shep Paine's books on dioramas and armored vehicle modeling; the fact that he was an armored trooper (at first like I wanted to be, and then like I was) only made it more interesting to me.

Some amazing work here - the larger scale armor models start to give a viewer a sense of just how beastly tanks are.

Jimbuna · 07-21-11, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Osmium Steele

Was that Bailey Bridge scratch built, or can you get a kit?

Quote:

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

I think its from a kit:
http://www.scalehobbyist.com/catagor...12/product.php

I couldn't say because there were no details alongside the diorama.

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07-20-11, 02:34 PM	#68
CaptainMattJ. The Old Man Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Sin City Posts: 1,364 Downloads: 55 Uploads: 0	jesus. that alot of models. great work too. Tigers, panthers, panzers, Some Flakpanzer Ostwinds, half-tracks, Corsairs, mustangs, F-16s, i think i saw an M1 Abrams, hurricanes, spitfires, German tri-planes, bi-planes, Surveilance aircraft, neat bombers, panzerkamfwagens, STuGs, T-34s, shermans, BF109s, FW-190s, A-10 warthogs, harriers, I think i saw a Leopald, Panzer IVs, jeeps, Japanese Zeros,Japanese Oscars, Pershing tanks, Stukas, beauteous destroyers and heavy cruisers. Yeah, im a military nerd. I can tell from first glance what each of these are. Some new modern jets i havent seen though. I do, have a huge poster that my uncle gave me hanging above my bed with some of the biggest and baddest modern jets from all parts of the world. edit: how could i forget to mention the KING tigers, South Dakota battleship, Buffalos, Apache Attack heli, Catalinas, APCs, Priests, and the best of all, the reason were all here, the VII class subs and beautiful nuclear subs. I dont think i saw an I-400 though. __________________ A popular Government without popular information nor the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives - James Madison Last edited by CaptainMattJ.; 07-20-11 at 02:50 PM.

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Growler A long way from the sea Join Date: May 2005 Location: Iowa Posts: 1,913 Downloads: 21 Uploads: 0	I've been watching this thread with great interest since Jim posted, but now I'm totally geeking out. Dioramas are what I'd do if I had talent - I wore out copies of Shep Paine's books on dioramas and armored vehicle modeling; the fact that he was an armored trooper (at first like I wanted to be, and then like I was) only made it more interesting to me. Some amazing work here - the larger scale armor models start to give a viewer a sense of just how beastly tanks are. __________________ At Fiddler’s Green, where seamen true When here they’ve done their duty The bowl of grog shall still renew And pledge to love and beauty.