Modeling Poetry 301

[StephenLawson]

Or the effort put into painting the wood paneling.

[StephenLawson]

Understand that both of these image displays use the elements of a diorama, but are not typically what we would accept as a subject for diorama class entries.

See also Albatros panel lines ...

Pop Quiz: what is 'Directional Flow'?

[topgun56]

Beautiful models. But something is missing?

I got it, wheres the bear?

[RLWP]

You know, that image of Stephens workbench has been haunting me, until I looked at the spoof garage diorama. Now I realise that the workbench is obviously a diorama too!! Naughty Steve..

Richard.

p.s. Thought you might like to see what a REAL workbench looks like

[StephenLawson]

Well class another day in dungeons.

No one has yet directly confronted the Pop Quiz. *Lets look at Richard's contribution. It appears that someone has had a little accident. *Yet even this swirl of modeling upchuck has a directional flow. *While I tend to think it is tweeked a bit (set up for the shot) I must confess that I did remove the reference pictures I was working from with my last builds before I took the shot of mine. *

While it has been widely believed that one should have a focal point in a diorama, that is not the whole story. *Directions tell the viewer where to look and builds the anticipation of the final image.

When one has a desk to work from it is a reflection of their own personality. *Richard, you have my deepest sympathies. *'Directional Flow' allows you to get from point A to B and enjoy the trip.

Homework assignment is to read the ciriculum text "How to Build Dioramas" by Shepicus Painius.Pages 2-13. *Pop Quiz: What diorama commissioned in 1798, who commissioned it and what is it of?

[RLWP]

Stephen,
"tweeked a bit"! OK. I admit I did pull the fuselage out from under one of the piles before taking the shot, but otherwise I'm afraid it usually gets like this.

At least it does until just before painting, when everything miraculously gets put back on the shelves to reveal the upside down desk planner and mixing tile. Then order and harmony reign until the saw and files come out again. Except on the mixing tile of course, which ends up looking like an explosion in a paint factory. Funny old world isn't it.

Richard

p.s. Having to share (compete) with my two sons for modelling space doesn't help though...

[StephenLawson]

Richard, Hopefully your bigger than either of your sons. You are a man who needs a space. Maybe our next 'Cause can be a Space-a-thon for Richard. How about it folks!

[NeilE]

Us poor destitute souls from The Institute think Richard should use his ill gotten gains from the Dymphna lawsuits to build a bigger modelling room..... :-X

All the Best

Neil

[NeilE]

Prof Stephen;

You must be referring to "The Grand Diorama of 1796". I guess the most famous account of this is in Hans Eduard of Prague's 1798 travelogue, "Travels through Europe With My Great Aunt's Scullery Maid".

From what Hans Eduard says the diorama consisted of a fully working guillotine scene, featuring (of course) the Guillotine, a couple of executioners, a fully workable Louis XIV, Marie Antoinette, Dante, and host of snivelling aristocratic figures with detachable heads, pigs blood bladders for those realistic spurting effects, and range of detachable wigs.

It is thought that the guillotine played the Marseillaise whenever it was cranked into the "up" position.

Also part of the diorama was the obligatory knitting and cackling old crone (To this day no-one knows how they got the cackling effects), a crowd of poseable Sans-Cullotes figurines with interchangeable pitchfork and rotten fruit accessories, and a number of revolutionary guardsmen. Apparently there was also a Robespierre figurine but this was stolen in 1797, when the famous diorama was exhibited in Bognor as part of the "Bognor On" Grand Exhibition. It is now thought the Robespierre figurine was stolen by a mysterious woman known only as "D_____".

"The Grand Diorama" was exhibited throughout Europe and inspired such early classic dioramas as "The Christians and The Colloseum" ( UK 1799), "Bedlam" (UK - 1801), "The Inquisition" (Sp. 1804), and "The Great Pogrom" (Russ. - 1806).

Somewhere along the line this penchant for nasty dioramas died out, to be replaced by those in which few people are dead, and if they are, they have a neat little hole in them and all their limbs are all in the right place. Why in some of them, the SS seem to be quite nice chaps even!

Still, given the modern age's prediliction for giving birth to horror after horror, its a wonder that the age of the nasty diorama does not return....

All the Best

Neil E

[StephenLawson]

Neil_E: See The Last Meeting of IPMS Ragwing postings under this modeling title.