HOW TO BUILD AIRCRAFT DIORAMAS

[JohnReid]

Back to the Jenny!

[JohnReid]

Well this is about where I left off with the Jenny itself.I just left the figures and stuff in the pic for interest.I will empty the hanger and work on completing the model and setting it finally in place in the diorama.
Please note: Because my Photobucket allows me only a 1,000 pics I will be deleting everything in it that does not directly connect to the Jenny build as it will be in its final form.I will be doing this starting with the Albatros and Nieuport
diorama pics previously posted.This will unfortunately create a lot of empty posts in this thread.If anyone wants to copy any of these pics I would suggest you do it now .Otherwise please contact me in the future if you require any of these pics for your modeling research. Some of these pics are also available over on World War I Modeling Page
Cheers! John.

[JohnReid]

Photo courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society.

[JohnReid]

Now wouldn't this make a wonderful diorama! This will be going somewhere right to the top of my "to do" diorama list.

[JohnReid]

While in this sort of "filling the well " period that I am going through ,I ran across this great pic from 1910.It is now running neck in neck with building a Bleriot diorama or this.I think this will win out and really has me very excited.Building a Bleriot is obvious but this pic sort of captures the whole spirit of the era.I call it "In pursuit of his Dream" .What do you guys think?The pic shows a fellow,22 year old J.E.Mair outside his Chicago row house building his dream airplane.To me it says so much about the enthusiasm of people who build things whether they are modelers,replica builders or whatever.I love the kids looking over the fence in the other direction as much as to say "Oh that is only John and his silly old airplane"
The laundry on the line,the whole composition is just wonderful.While I would be doing something from the 1910 era ,this idea could be adapted to any era and still tell a powerful story that just about anyone could relate to,building a dream.

[JohnReid]

Sorry wrong post!

[JohnReid]

[JohnReid]

While I know this is not WW1 it does give you guys some idea of how I go about planning any of my future dioramas ,from ideas or images that appeal to me.I won't be posting this build here on this thread but probably over on the Pioneer Aircraft section.The planning stages apply to any diorama in the making and I thought that you may be interested.Otherwise I have no problem in moving it to the other section right away if this proves to be too confusing.

[JohnReid]

This seems to be about the minimum size to get everything in.My dioramas tend to grow over time so it will be interesting to see what the final size will be.I plan to use the wing ribs from a 1/16th Model Expo Wright Flyer that I bought a few years ago.This will save me a lot of time cutting out all those small wooden parts that have already been done for me, by laser ,in the kit.The rest will be of my own design ,as I transport myself back to 1910 and think of what I may have come up with if I had lived at that time.Essentially this will be a scratchbuild other than the ribs.There are companies such as Arizona Models who will do this for me but why bother if I already have the Wright Flyer to work with?
What I really like about this project is that I am completely free to do as I want and it doesn't require a hangar!
Well now I can put this brief interlude aside and get back to Jenny with re-newed enthusiasm .

[JohnReid]

In order to save a lot of confusion I have decided to open a "how to" build thread over in the Pioneer section of this website.