I have decided that the best way that I can contribute to this Building Dioramas thread and maybe help inspire others to do so,would be to post here my experiences in building my Memories of Flight School diorama.Although the build will deal mainly with the Model Expo 1/16th Jenny,I am sure that my experiences in buliding it will be helpful to anyone wanting to build a diorama now or in the future.For those building the 1/16th Jenny I will refer to pages in the instruction booklet or the plans numbers on occasion.I have already built the Jenny Canuck wings so I will not include any detail on these other than what I have already discussed in my 1st acticle on memories of flight school as posted on the
www.wwi-models.org website.I am however building 2 Jennys one a Canuck and the other a Jn4c so the building of the JN4c wings will be covered in a future article.I have just started on the Canucks fuselage so I will be posting the 1st installment soon.I hope you guys will enjoy this adventure in diorama building along with me,whether you actually participte or not.I hope that I can give you some insight into how a diorama can evolve.When I first started the idea was fairly simple,now due to circumstances I didnt forsee (such as obtaining a 2nd Jenny kit)my ideas have expanded to emcompass 2 airplanes and a sub story line of one airplane being robbed of parts to construct another airplane.This will also make the whole thing more interesting as the differences in the Canuck and the JN4c will be seen in the diorama.You will have to be patient though as I anticipate a good year to year and a half to completion and usually I underestimate the time involved, especially now that I will have to note how and why I did things as I go along.Cheers! John
