Ok i am doing a 2 level diorama set in Berlin the top level a street the bottom is the u-bahn here is it so far



the street level

the street being updated

[img]http://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr33/martyn_16/DSC00394.jpg?t=1222105386[img] full dio size!

pictures needed please!

sorry im having trouble with the photos

MArtyn

This is going to be big one ! Is it 1/35 ? Are You planing any buildings on street level ? Hope You will post some WIP pictures soon... I guess You have planed this work better then I've done with my SAS diorama

cheers
Robert

Thanks Rob i loved your SAS diorama!
yes it is mate! and i dont know any ideas would be great

Have to agree - this'll be big and powerful. The sheer vertical nature is already eye catching.

What are your plans for the pillars, are they going to be 'part' of the diorama and look like brick pillars or will they be 'invisible' supports.
What might be cool is to make the bottom sort like a shadow box. Boxing in everything except for a round/oval opening in the front.

Your concept is great , I'll love to follow this one. Good luck Bob

This looks very interesting and ambitious. I will follow it with interest.

Keep us updated

Scott the back and sides will be boxed off and uses as walls with a bit cut out for the track yes the pillars will be used as pillars where i will brick them up and screw them into the base.

thanks Bob and Jesper

i need photos and some ideas if anyone would be so kind!

Find these





cheers
seb

Thank you very much Seb i will use them right i need to add resin benches to my list

shall i add a U-bahn entrance?
any good Russian figures?

If I was you I will add the entrance to connect the upper part of the dio and the lower part this will give you a nice story to tell
like the crew from german armor that felt into the subway tunnel trying to escape using the U-bahn network and some russians trying to hunt them. And in order to give a better impression of symmetry using the ground level as the reference a destroy building will be a nice addition a brick building using the Carlos/Blockaus technique, then you can even connect the cave to the subway.
Possible title: No heaven below or Six feet under

You like it ???

hive put these on my list a railway station always has benches and luggage for abandoned look as the railway station will be hive with activities such as soldiers passing through!

figures i want
and Nachtjager 1945

haha yes Seb i am going to do the the stairway going round for the space what shall i use to make the stairs?

knock knock knockin on heavons door....... no!

bang bang here come the russians!

Martyn
I do reminder that plastruct has such think, you also can checkout their industrial kits very useful like ladder and I and H beam, you need to check to railroad references here big time.
Also some 1/35 rats to decorates the tunnel, subway tunnels are full of these beasts.

Thanks Seb im going t have an armoured car sheltering from allied bombing in the tunnel and yes i need a lost of plastic beams and stuff like that!

This is going to be very interesting. Hows the armoured train from dragon^ i have one with a 75mm turret in my stash.

hello there, nice dio.

this link might help ya

www.berliner-untergrundbahn.de/cu-00.htm

Martyn, I just checked your gallery and it's apparently the first time you start a huge project. Well it's a bit like running a Marathon innit? save some breath for harder times, try to keep focused and good luck too

Mahdi the armoured train is actually Revell and has an mg turret !
thanks for looking!


Michael thanks for the link ive translaed it and looking now!

Jean-Bernard thanks i will and il keep you posted!

Hi Martyn,

As said above - very ambitious!

How's the Vietnam bunker project coming along?

- Steve

Steve thanks for the intrest !
the Nam dio is in the draw ive put it asside for a while!

hopefuly some work tonight if im up to it because i have a kidney problem and i had 2 scans and the second one was a radioactive one where it is pumped into you and its knocked me, so im taking it easy!

Martyn!

And i got this today from Ian Allen bookshop it is going to guard the stairs and im not using the ski's and replacing the hats for helmets!

Martyn,

Sorry to hear about yor kidney problems - hope that gets fixed real soon. Doesn't sound too pleasant, but at least you've got the perfect hobby to help you relax and recuperate.

There was a superb diorama doing the rounds a few years ago that was very similar to the sort of thing you're planning here. I saw it "live" at Euromilitaire in (I think) 2004 and it took my breath away. The underground section was even dimly illuminated for full effect.

I'm pretty sure it may have featured in the modelling press as well, so when I get time I'll have a rummage and see what I can find. I also may (or may not) have taken a couple of pics of it at the time. I'll have to go back through my own picture archive to check.

Basically it was a split-level Berlin U-Bahn diorama with (IIRC) Germans emerging from underground with the Soviets up top. I can't for the life of me remember who it was built by - maybe someone else reading this will remember it?

- Steve

Oh rite loved to of seen that there is a class diorama at this years show of a Berlin diorama for street level!

oh rite i would like to see that!
and i got the idea off of Dans idea but i wasnt going to have the tank falling down now im having it as two dioramas in one being joined by the stairs!

Thanks for the sympethy!

Martyn