Hi folks.

Yeah, I'm new here but I've been building Dios for a few years. just not the "type" most of you seem to do. Mine are just scenes from my own personal "back in the day."

I found you guys when I realized I'd been working in a sort of vacuum and just picking up methods and techniques as I went along. I went internet searching and that's where I found you.

Only now I've got a new problem. I read Keith Magee's first chapter of "Building a Diorama from Scratch" and learned a great deal from that alone. Then when I read the comments I discovered how long ago it was written and that it seemed to have disappeared before coming to final fruition. I'm hoping that's wrong and I just haven't been able to find the final version or how to get it.

Maybe I'm asking a question you all know the answer to but unless I ask, I'll never know.

So... HELP, WHA' HAPPENED?

Thanks in advance.

By the way, you folks build some mighty nice stuff !!!

Hello and welcome, this is a vast site, and perhaps for that very reason there's not a gallery of history, where people would submit their work for all to see, with the board as it is, things tend to fall off the bottom, and it is hard to find your way around, and I struggle more than most, I am 51 years young and me and computers just don't get on, I know what you mean about searching, I found something called Celtic Warriors, very good dio, but now I can't find it anywhere, I hope you have a great time here.

The biggest problem I have encountered here and in other forums that relates to difficulty in searching for things is that some posters tend to be vague in their titles. There may be 10 threads that begin with only "Help!" or "Need help!" as the titles. Opening the thread the subjects can range from wanting to know the switch cover colors on some piece of military hardware to an air brush spattering paint to what theater a particular vehicle operated in. It does make it hard to find things unless you bookmark efery article of interest. Most times a little thought and creativity can put enough info into a title to give an idea of the contents.

Even book marking isn't an end all. I have bookmarked builds and other reference entries that had great pictures olny to call them up at a later date and find the pictures have been removed. Now, I do my best to save any lengthy pertinent articles to a Word or PDF document as soon as I can so that I have a personal record of it. Even that can be a chore because there is so much great information here. I often like to go way back to the end in some threads because it is like a treasure hunt. Some real gems are buried there.

I keep a notebook by my computer to jot down all the little bits of info about tools and techniques I find here as well as particular details about vehicles I have or want models of. This has to be the single greatest repository of military history and information on the planet!

It is well worth your time to visit the other forums listed in the drop down menu at the top of the page that says "select a site". Historica Forma is outstanding for info on figures. The ship builders at Model Shipwrights have lots of neat things items that can be used in other settings as well as techniques and tools that cross over easily. Their builds are awe inspiring as well. Aeroscale is absolutely the best model aircraft model forum I have ever seen as well. AutoModeler is very easy to get lost in as well there is so much to see and learn. Take advantage of all.

CM firstly welcome to the site. If you are looking for a something by a certain member, look him up under members and the check his post history.

In the early days of the site, Keith was one of the more prolific members, who took his modelling to the next level, where he started casting his original parts for sale. He then opened a model shop in Texas, that closed last year ... or maybe the year before. With all of the above, he was not as regular as he was in the early days, and this project never got completed.
If I remember correctly, somebody was going to publish the whole build as a book, and then this fell through, so he was going to release it in CD-rom version himself, but then his business took over. He had a price for the CD and was taking orders, but I dont know if it ever went the full way, and actually was completed. I think he was concentrating on the casting part of the business more at the time.