there are few risks with building large dio's, the biggest is never getting it finished.

Another problem is that it is becoming just a parking lot for a lot of vehicles and many figures that are just being placed randomly.

From what you are telling I think your dio will be far too crowded with vehicles. I advise you to first focus on the story, what is it that you want to tell? A sudden ambush when a vehicle loses a track. Germans inspection a captured Russian tank? and so on...Once you know that, select a few vehciles only. For your diorama I would not choose more than 2 tanks and perhaps two smaller weapons, liked an AT gun or 4x4. Makes sure everything is placed in a position that makes sense from a militairy point of view and which also raises the viewers interest.

i once made a diorama with 1 ruined house and one vehicle which was in total 15'' X 15''. It took me half a year to complete it and to make it look right....

Hi Wyatt - - I'm working on my second fairly large 1/35 diorama right now - (the 1/35 scale truck fabrication shop in the dio category, its about 30" x 42")

I will echo what others have mentioned, that yes, it's possible to do a big build, but, remember it could/will likely (!) take fairly long time to complete.

Something to keep in mind, is that as you are building with no directions per-se, (just your imagination + theme/story) you will set the level of rigor/detail/complexity required to finish the project.

That is, if you start with a super high level of detail, you will need to (not literally need to, but you have established the design/build criteria, so, once you're moving in one direction, it can be hard to shift to another) follow through with that level, in order for the project to look cohesive - This can open up some opportunities, for long, slow, and sometimes tedious tasks (hahha...believe, me, it happens)- It looks good when done, but takes some work.

You'll also discover that in some cases, even after doing what you think (and the clock tells you!) is lots of work, on a big layout, it can almost be lost (yet very relevant to the overall "picture")....and appear to be just one heck of a fancy workbench, or stack of perfectly weathered ammo boxes...or cluster of junk, or weeds, really nice tree, etc....

I like the big builds, but am in it knowing full well - it will take some time, cost some money...and i must keep marching!

Maybe a bit of advice - i find to keep interested in the project, i switch back and forth between working on structures and vehicles fairly frequently - a couple of weeks on building/s then vehicles - and so on -

cheers

Nick

Hey all, I'm new to this forum and I'm kinda new to building dioramas. I was wonder would a diorama of the battle of Kursk that is roughly 24" X 36" be too big? it will be a 1/35 scale diorama.

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Hey all, I'm new to this forum and I'm kinda new to building dioramas. I was wonder would a diorama of the battle of Kursk that is roughly 24" X 36" be too big? it will be a 1/35 scale diorama.

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HI Wyatt,

I did a diorama a couple of years ago...7`8" x 1` showing a village in on the Russian-Ukrainian border area just after Kursk.....

Nice one Anthony!

I like the way you avoided the potential traps of a big dio and concentrated the scene around a tight space.

Claude

That truck fabrication shop dio is Fantastic! You have no problem with size there! (And your photography is phenomal as well!) Hats off to you my friend!

Yes, make sure you can move it. Other than that, go for it. It always struck me how incredibly tiny most military dioramas were. A model railroad might fill a 20' x 30' room and be detailed down to the traffic tickets let on the windshield of a car parked in an alley plus the whole thing may have lights, sound and motion. Get with it guys, think bigger! : )

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