I hope you blokes don't mind me dumping this here as I'm a little stuck in the middle, I deliberately stuck in some row boats to keep in with the water/sea people, then I've used rather a lot of WW1 troops, still, maybe you'll let me know one way or the other.

Apart from the backdrop which will require a touch up, most of this has now been finished, just a bit of TLC here and there.

Hi Alec, Nice concept for your dio. The split level approach adds alot to it. Could you post a couple more photos? .........Vince

With a bit of luck, I should have this finished by the weekend, most of the ground work is finished, the troops and bushes just a little touch here and there.

After clicking on the picture and going over to flickr (you may resize the pict. for us) i could identify what this is.

This looks really good. I like those two levels.
What is the scale and why put in in a box ?

Cheers
Claude

Looks pretty good from where I'm sitting, Al. The groundwork and the rock face are very nicely done.

- Steve

Ah good question - this is suppose to a 3-D photo, some call them shadow box dioramas, whereas a normal diorama would be open allowing the viewer to see all sides, with a box diorama, quite often paint would be missed because you won't be able to view it, this is both a lazy man's diorama and a good idea all rolled into one, I have simply cut the whole thing in half using a step diorama giving me the row boats below and the WW1 troops above while at the same time being able to view both, but within the confine of a box. A bit later on, I'll take some more pic's showing you the two levels.

Alec, The new photos are much better. The first photo of the new bunch really shows off your idea. I like it alot. You've pulled together the land,water and figures very nicely......Keep up the good work....Vince

Hello there, almost finished, not to sure about the far right hand corner, this is a split level shadow box diorama, in photo 1 you can view the whole diorama within its box, photo 2 while physically attacthed can be viewed seperately from the main diorama, although within the same scope and time scale you can imagine this is a totally different diorama, and finally photo 3 which will again tell a quite different story to the row boats.

5 long days and finally finished this split diorama shadow box thingy, I am rather pleased how the rock formation turned out considering its mostly scatter and cork pressed onto filler.

There is colour, not to much in the way of plant life, a nice little back drop which really should have gone in first, over on MSW I am asking for people to leave a caption as I wanted this diorama to be a little bit of fun rather then a serious build.

The troops were a pain and some (sorry) mould lines on their hats that I totally missed, its not an excuse but I did begin painting in the evening and before I knew where I was, it was way gone 3am so my eyes were probably being held up by matches. Still, I hope you like what I've done, I've tried to get just about everything out of this idea, a shadow box diorama, a split level diorama, and fun time old seaside post card type of thing.