Thanks GM. I’m watching that auction.
I don’t know if he ever did it, but someone I knew was talking about doing the scene where MacArthur comes ashore in the Phillipines, but widening the scene to show the cameraman in the diarama. If you think about it, there are many famous photos like that to use as a basis for a diarama.
John
Pretty do-able in 1/35.
In the dozen or so “landings” MacArthur did, it was from an LCVP (although, one might hae been a Mike boat [LCM-3]), which can be had in 1/35. Mac is available in the Tamiya Famous Generals set in 1/35 (if needing some surgery to get a strding pose).
Hardest part would likely be having to scratch the motion picture cameras. That, and the gaggle of Staff Officers around the Mac.
Would be cool, though.
this would be a cool vignette that could function as a bookend
An iconic photo, would be cool to recreate
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So… where’s the finished diorama? It’s been almost seven years.
That’s a great idea! Like those little “book nooks” we see everywhere now.
I actually want to do a Philadelphia Experiment diorama. I just wish somebody would make a 1/700 scale Cannon class destroyer escort ship model.
Earlier in the thread, there was talk/pics of The Guns of Navarone. I’ve actually seen 1 or 2 dioramas of the German guns in that mountain on Facebook in the past. So that has been done by people before.
Done 
I have the kits to do the 109 on the gondola (posted above in 2018) - but my 109 is the old Revell 1/32 kit - close to 1/35. Thought about the 1/35 Border kit, just not sure I can cut it up … maybe if I find one on super sale.
I’ve always wanted to do a diorama of the U-Boat pens on the coast of France in WWII or a sailing ship diorama of either the Spanish Armada battling the English fleet or the Battle of Trafalgar with the HMS Victory as the centerpiece.
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My dad was a mechanic on mainly Otters in Viet Nam. I want to do a diorama of a crew working on an Otter engine, but I haven’t yet found any good photos.