Diorama Ideas/shots etc

[GTX]

I think this could make for a cool diorama:



Regards,

Greg

[Mossie]

I've got to build my An-124 someday.  When I do, I might get hold of three Revell 1/144 Pumas & do a scene somwhere between these two pics.  The Pumas fit in comfortably with room to spare!  Quite a nice scheme on them too.  The Pumas were transported as part of the Boxing Day Tsunami relief effort.

[thedarkmaster]

I've got to build my An-124 someday.  When I do, I might get hold of three Revell 1/144 Pumas

had something very similar planned for my An124   

[philp]

Was going to do something similar with a C-5 only had seen a picture of F-5s packed on trailers to be shipped (Iran or South Vietnam, don't remember). Think there were 4-8 per load.

[Weaver]

Watching a fire engine and an ambulance go in opposite directions up and down the A6 in Stockport gave me an idea. Suppose it was a narrow street: who would give way to whom?

You make the diorama with Oxford diecasts: a narrow street, two lines of parked cars, row of terraced houses as a backdrop, ambulance and fire-engine crews nose-to nose in the middle of the street in front of their respective vehicles, crowds of kids on both pavements. Caption: "A Confrontation for the Connoisseur" 

[rickshaw]

Watching a fire engine and an ambulance go in opposite directions up and down the A6 in Stockport gave me an idea. Suppose it was a narrow street: who would give way to whom?

You make the diorama with Oxford diecasts: a narrow street, two lines of parked cars, row of terraced houses as a backdrop, ambulance and fire-engine crews nose-to nose in the middle of the street in front of their respective vehicles, crowds of kids on both pavements. Caption: "A Confrontation for the Connoisseur" 

Downunder, the Ambulance would have priority.  Life saving over property saving every time.

[lancer]

I've actually built my AN124!!! It was meant for last years SMW but never got there. I also built a 144 KA52 to go with it as I wanted to put the helo onto a flatbed driving up the rear ramp, but I never could find any decent sized ground vehicles to go with it. So, unfortunately, I binned the project.

[Mossie]

I've actually built my AN124!!! It was meant for last years SMW but never got there. I also built a 144 KA52 to go with it as I wanted to put the helo onto a flatbed driving up the rear ramp, but I never could find any decent sized ground vehicles to go with it. So, unfortunately, I binned the project.

I don't know of any 1/144 Soviet soft skin vehicles, but Matador Models do a number of 1/144 resin Albion lorries.  One has with a flatbed semi-trailer, there's a refueller, crane & as GS body.  It probably wouldn't take much to them look Soviet, in a Hollywood kind of way.
http://matadormodels.co.uk/yairfield5%20144%20ground/lists%20airfield%20144%20ground.htm

[thedarkmaster]

Aparantly N gauge railway stuff is within a couple of inches, i believe its 1/140 or some such .

[Mossie]

Depends, in the UK I think it's 1/148 scale so near as damn-it, Germany & most of Europe 1/160 scale & a wee bit of variation between them.  So it depends on whose products you buy as to what scale you get.  I had a quick look for N Guage stuff at the same time I posted the Matador stuff, couldn't find anything specific, but there are almost certainly N Gauge trucks about.

[Weaver]

Two scale charts. Typically, they don't exactly agree with each other......

http://ngaugesociety.com/modelling/scales/scales.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scale_model_sizes

[philp]

In the US:
N = 1/160th
HO = 1/87th
O = 1/43rd

[GTX]

Another idea that could be inspiring - need to get a BV222 model though:



Same aircraft - different angle:


Regards,

Greg

[NARSES2]

Watching a fire engine and an ambulance go in opposite directions up and down the A6 in Stockport gave me an idea. Suppose it was a narrow street: who would give way to whom?

You make the diorama with Oxford diecasts: a narrow street, two lines of parked cars, row of terraced houses as a backdrop, ambulance and fire-engine crews nose-to nose in the middle of the street in front of their respective vehicles, crowds of kids on both pavements. Caption: "A Confrontation for the Connoisseur" 

Downunder, the Ambulance would have priority.  Life saving over property saving every time.

Ah but the fire engine might be going to rscue people from a fire or from a serious rail accident, whilst the Ambulance may be on a non emegency run ? Difficult

[nev]

Oooh, Bv222 - read in a book on the SBS of a WW2 plan to destroy some that were moored up on a lake.  Would make a great diorama, Revell 222 and Airfix commando set