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Originally posted by karrart+Sep 16 2004, 10:10 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (karrart @ Sep 16 2004, 10:10 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-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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Hi Karrart, Thanks for the additional info on the meaning of Diorama. Im not all a flying guy as I make models of all sorts. My interest in this thread is as stated in my opening post. I believe that a modeler can improve his / her work by taking an interest in all modeling disciplines. This thread has already given me the inspiration to "create a scene" for an R/C model. Imagine this senario.
A 10ft span Caproni is sat on the grass beside a 70 yard runway. The audience are standing behind the flight line. The adults are looking at the aircraft and wondering if that strange creation could possibly fly. The children are looking at the little figures pulling a trolly loaded with bombs and at the gunner leaning over the front of the aircraft, pointing at something unknown. Next minute the Caproni starts off down the runway and takes to the sky. An assistant places an Austrian "target" on the runway and the bomber flies in low, aiming for the target. Suddenly everyone realises what the gunner is pointing at, the bombs drop and the target is hit. The children laugh with delight and the adults are amaized by the sight of such a strange aircraft flying... the modeler now feels the 10 year old lad in himself.
A dream ? Perhaps but I will try my best to fulfill that dream.. and no.. I wont call it a moving diorama. I wont call it anything .. Ill let the audience decide for themselves what it is. But if someone asks "where did you get the idea to do that?" I'll happily reply .. from a thread on the net about dioramas !!
