my neice is building a basic Diorama of a crashed plane but she don’t no were to start .
My suggestion would be to first start with a plane? [:D]
Okay, okay…all kidding aside, i would recommend to first research old WWII aircraft wreckage photos. This will help her to get a general idea of what type of damage is inflicted during the crash sequence (ie, twisted metal, broken fuselage, engines coming off their mounts, etc). Mind you all crashes are different given the circumstances that made them crash in the first place (ie, shot down, mechanical failure, ran out of fuel).
I think the rest is up to her and her imagination. So long as she isn’t trying to reproduce a historical/actual crash, she should be fine and be able to tell her story in her own way.
i’m currently building one.
i’ll try to explain how i did it (it’s not finished yet!)
i’ve purchased a Red Arrow showteam plane cheap and a damaged house by 2brothers.(WWII scenery manufacturor)
i’d make a street sight incl. a playground a road and a house with fence ,grass and garden etc.
the plane will be hitting the house(the idea came from :several years ago in Enschede Holland a F-16 crashed in a home with luckely no casualties)
as i’m a envied code 3 fire apparatus collector,they will be on call of course LOL.
to make it all more realistic i’d built in some working emergencylights in one of them.
hope this helps you to decide what to do now.
HAVE FUN!!!
Hans
No! Not recommended to build a plane crash site! It is too terrible!
But, if you do want, find a book - “The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103” written by R. Doug Wicker published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. (ISBN: 0-8239-3656-2). On page 8 and 9, you can find a colour picture of the Maid of the Seas cockpit of the Boeing 747 aircraft lying on the grassland of Scotland a few days before the Christmas of 1988.
If you can rebuild the terrible scene, do not send me a picture. Thanks.