HOW TO BUILD AIRCRAFT DIORAMAS

[StephenLawson]

Actually DonnyW that part is ok. This machine had the pie slice wedge cut out under the Vickers that was attached to the firewall/ upper forward deck. Nice build by the way tell us about your piece with the wooden pilot.

[DonnyW]

It part of an ongoing project Stephen. Its the cockpit of a Caproni Ca3 bomber and Im making it from the drawings in the Albatros Publications Datafile. The model is based on the one on display at the USAF museum (shown in attached picture) The original aircraft was approx 72ft wingspan and my model has a 10ft span making it 1/7 scale. I cant get "bought" pilots for it so will make wooden bodies and perhaps give them bought heads, so it should be relatively easy to position them (assuming I can get their proportions correct )I have a thread here on the models "history"
http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/in...howtopic=15324
Looking at the attached picture..I suppose the museum has made a diorama out of theirs B)

[StephenLawson]

Aaahhh but what story does it tell? Figures a diorama does not make.

[sperry]

Here are a couple of story ideas, though they may loose a little in the execution.
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RK, "Dark recesses" is right so I suppose a shadow box is appropriate

[sperry]

And the other one
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[StephenLawson]

I have always enjoyed sperry's sense of humor!

[JohnReid]

Donny W. ,Stephen is right.But I understand that this is a flying model and your options are more limited.Could I suggest maybe a few well placed bullet holes and your observer looking to the ground as much as to say ,now where the hell did that come from?or you could have your aircraft serve two purposes ,that of a flying model and part of a diorama when it is not in the air.I imagine that you transport your airplane to the airfield in a container of some kind?.Make that container your diorama.Just imagine the possibilities of taxiing away from your own diorama I would love to be there to see the look on the other RCers faces. Cheers! John.

[karrart]

Originally posted by sperry@Sep 15 2004, 05:25 PM
And the other one
[b]sp

and this other one....a true "p*ss*ng contest"?...or great minds think alike?
And John- yeah- I'll try to keep up with the thread and dribble whatever I can on it!
RK
karrart.com

[sperry]

I said they were story ideas , not original ideas

As for great minds thinking alike , I think it's more like blatant copying is the sincerest form of flattery Robert, I just loved this piece when I first saw a photo of it. My old Pit/Lab Ralph is bad about anointing things so i was ROTF when I first saw it.

Dogs, at least well behaved ones, are great for dioramas because everyone can relate to them and so to whatever humans are portrayed in the diorama, even if they are "The Bad Guys".
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[Ross_Moorhouse]

One of my all time favorite dioramas is Robert Karr's The 94th Aero Squadron. http://members.aol.com/karrart/avart/gal11.htm also featured in "WINDSOCK INTERNATIONAL," November/December, 1997, Vol. 13, No. 6.

It is May 17, 1917, Gengoult Aerodrome, Toul, France. That morning, while diving on a German Albatros, the fabric stripped off the upper right wing of Lt. Rickenbacker's Nieuport 28.