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Dioramas
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Interesting Dio Idea..
Weezul
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Posted: Saturday, May 25, 2002 - 02:08 AM UTC
This morning I was stumbling through my basement, look at some of my dad's old models when I found something: my sisters old dollhouse. I suddenly got a great idea; why not use a doll house type format (ie. finished building on one side, cross section on the other) in a WWII diorama? You could make a really neat scene, where Allied troopers are creeping through the house, looking for Germans hiding. You could even have a trooper coming around a corner, getting lit up by a German in a hidden position...
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Posted: Saturday, May 25, 2002 - 02:28 AM UTC
Sounds good! :-) I would have American troops searching the house for Germans. Have a few guys shooting at each other around corners and through doors in the house. I would also have a german sniper or machine gunner on the top floor shooting out the window. But that's just me.Hope to see finished pics.

Mark
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Posted: Saturday, May 25, 2002 - 03:07 AM UTC
the idea is not new, just check out the old Verlinden specials. Wasn't it Bob Letterman who did these awful big and neatly detailled dioramas?
the problem with those houses is, in my opinion, that extra care has to be taken that they do not look like 1/35 doll houses with soldiers in...

regards, werner

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Posted: Saturday, May 25, 2002 - 06:49 AM UTC
Well, yea, you'd have to make it a bit war torn, with some huge bomb hits on it. And I won't be building this anytime soon. So don't expect pictures for atleast a few years.
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Posted: Saturday, May 25, 2002 - 10:25 AM UTC
thats a good idea
i always wanted to do the inside of an aircraft factory
Weezul
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Posted: Saturday, May 25, 2002 - 08:35 PM UTC
That'd be neat... But a pain... You'd have to buy a poo-pooload of 1/72 airplanes, and then you'd have to chop the scale on the figures etc.
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Posted: Sunday, May 26, 2002 - 04:46 AM UTC
I think it will be a real pain to collect / build all of the furniture.
Weezul
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Posted: Monday, May 27, 2002 - 01:26 AM UTC
Verlinden sure makes enough of it... And I could make some on my own.
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Posted: Monday, May 27, 2002 - 01:44 AM UTC
Sure Verlinden has enough, but buying and decorating a real house would be cheaper I think. Or the prices of VP must differ considerably from what we pay over here.

Beter stick to building yourself then
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Posted: Monday, May 27, 2002 - 07:29 AM UTC
Yeah, cost is def. a factor.
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Posted: Monday, May 27, 2002 - 10:12 PM UTC
The furniture doesnt have to be that expensive. Make it from balsa wood. Anything that doesnt look good, smash it at that point and anything that looks very weak, cover it with rubble. What about an evacuated house with white sheets over everything and weary soldiers sitting in for a break. The white sheets hide all detail except for the shape. Everthing could be nice and tidy and really dirty bleeding smelly soldiers. Imagination could run wild here.
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Posted: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 05:50 AM UTC
There's an idea Sarge...I like it as long as it's not overdone..
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Posted: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 02:20 AM UTC
i dont think you can over do something like that
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Posted: Friday, May 31, 2002 - 11:31 AM UTC

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This morning I was stumbling through my basement, look at some of my dad's old models when I found something: my sisters old dollhouse. I suddenly got a great idea; why not use a doll house type format (ie. finished building on one side, cross section on the other) in a WWII diorama? You could make a really neat scene, where Allied troopers are creeping through the house, looking for Germans hiding. You could even have a trooper coming around a corner, getting lit up by a German in a hidden position...

Hi everybody
I gave a link to another reply , but your going to get it to this idea. check this site.
www.hirstarts.com
There would be a lot of work in it , but it would be a very special dio.
John/Hammerjobi
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Weezul
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Posted: Friday, May 31, 2002 - 07:29 PM UTC
Make sure to have an MG42 barricaded behind a tipped over table or something... Pointing at a door, with some troopers on the other side, opening it, and the first one getting cut down... That would be neat.
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Posted: Friday, May 31, 2002 - 10:15 PM UTC
Always wanted to do a Dio of one of the 3rd Armoured Div. temporary maintenance depots. ASfter reading Belton's book, I envisioned a scene where they would commandeer a vacant machine factory (which they did) and repair/refurbish the damaged and destroyed tanks and halftracks. Even have a picture of a similar scene in one of my reference books. Only problem
with the idea is that it would take me forever to build it and cost a small fortune in kits!!!

Cie la Vie!

Tread.
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Posted: Friday, May 31, 2002 - 10:35 PM UTC
you get what you pay for.the question is how far are you willing to go with it?
Weezul
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Posted: Friday, May 31, 2002 - 11:06 PM UTC
The problem is that it just keeps going... You need to draw the line somewhere.
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Posted: Saturday, June 01, 2002 - 12:49 AM UTC
In my personal opinion,anyone who makes a dio of some American soldiers getting cut down by a then-Nazi German soldier needs to taken out back and shot.I mean,yeah it may be a diorama,but that stuff really happened and by making it,its almost saying that for every solider that went in to a German occupied town,everything they fought for to get into that town was wasted.Thats just my opinion.

If itwas some German walking into that door and getting sut to ribbons by a .50cal,hey by all means make it;)
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Posted: Saturday, June 01, 2002 - 01:16 AM UTC
I don't think that was the idea behind the diorama zach, but I could be wrong here.
Weezul
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Posted: Saturday, June 01, 2002 - 05:29 AM UTC
Your opinion is horribly bigoted... So its a-okay to kill Germans, the damned baby-eating Hun, but no! Not Americans! Anything but that!
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