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I think this one would be funny, but I do have a Tree-Phrog in my stash.
normal_Vietnam-Bases-Danang-1694 by Christopher Ridle, on Flickr
The Fly 1958.
I like the idea of a dio of the Philadelphia Experiment - you could skip the ship model altogether!
I too love this idea. I’m not sure if you could paint the USS Eldridge some odd colour, maybe with glow in the dark paint or do something smaller scale and cast it out of translucent plastic or just have some weird lighting effect with LEDs in a shadowbox.
Or even the alleged flying saucer crash at Roswell, NM.
Frankly I think both are a load of balderdash but they’d make interesting dioramas in any case.
Way out of my skill level but just throwing this out as an idea. https://www.pancanal.com/eng/history/history/locks.html Apparently the control board was a working representation of the lock.
“A control board is a waist-high working representation of the locks in miniature. Everything that happens in the locks happens on the control board at precisely the same time. The switches to work the lock gates and the other system mechanisms are located beside the representation of that devise on the control board. To lift a huge oceangoing ship in a lock chamber, the operator has only to turn a small chrome handle. Another ingenious part of the system are elaborate racks of interlocking bars installed unseen below the control board to make the switches mechanically interlock. Each handle must be turned in proper sequence or it will not turn. This eliminates the possibility of doing anything out of order or forgetting a step.”
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I think that’s just the smoke producced when the ships of that era were at full power.
Pat
this may be more ScaleAuto related, but here goes: my Dream diorama would be based on a photo I’ve seen from the Porsche factory, an army of mechanics and engineers working hard to finish the twenty-five Porsche 917s required by the FIA to race in 1969.
Only, I would need 25 917 kits, preferably the fuld-detail multi-media kits from MFH iN Japan…
So maybe not…
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Could use holography. There are some modern doable methods. For example
http://www.litiholo.com/hologram_kits.html
So one minute it is there, and then it is not.
You could add other bits in background, like you mentioned with LEDs in a shadow box, and could include rotating prism, with LED lasar pointed at it, flashing beams of light through a thin film of smoke…that was my idea for the Arc of the Covenant.
That sounds cool.
There is another way around it by using a forground diorama with a mirror background, and a reflective glass window in front of the diorama. Angled in such a way to have the desired number of Porches in view. At first glance it would look like a large busy workshop.
Hmmm, hadn’t thought about holograms- interesting!
It did jog my memory to remember the Pepper’s Ghost effect. It would require either a small model of the Eldridge or a very large shadowbox though.
That is a great idea. Looks simple enough to do.
I’d love to do a bunch from Apoclaypse Now
The B-52D aft section looks pristine, thought that ridiculous, prop folks should had scuffed it up a tad; surprised there wasn’t other debris present. I’d go for a bashed-up OV-10 on opposite shore instead.
Anyone care to “re-create” one of Shep Payne’s diorama’s ?
Can anyone confirm that these guys are Marines, or US Army?
If that photo was taken at Makin, they are Army. The Marines were not at Makin. A lack of camo helmet covers is also indicative of soldiers as opposed to marines. But that is a variable.
Thank you, Stik.
Commodore Colin Maud, with Winston! King & Country produced a figure of them a couple of years ago, in their D-Day series.
Wasn’t he on Juno beach, though?
Yes he was on Juno in reality. The film took an artistic liberty with him (among a few) being in Sword instead of Juno. As well as the dog breed.
I have a figure of him with the dog and plan to use it for the diorama whenever I do get around to building it. I still need to pick up a few figure sets for other individuals I plan to add.