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Originally posted by DonnyW@Sep 13 2004, 10:07 PM
[b] I looked the meaning up in a dictionary and it was described as something like ..looking through an opening into a scene .. originally different paintings hung in 3d .. different lighting effects etc.
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Like most words, "diorama" has gone through changes in meaning, in this case from being something similar to theatrical scrims, to what the American Heritage English dictionary defines as "a miniature scene with painted modeled figures and background". I would expand the definition to say one doesn't necessarily need figures in all cases! Years ago, Shep Paine made a diorama of a B-25 rotting away in a scrap yard and as I recall, the only "figure" was a rattlesnake hiding in the shadows- but it was an effective and evocative scene.
Just a flight crew in a Caproni may not be a diorama, but if they're doing something interesting- go ahead and call it that.
I reckon you're more the flying kind of guy and that's a world I've been out of for decades....everything I ever built crashed.......
Build a bunch of Capronis, fly 'em around and call it a moving diorama!
RK
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