So as a golden rule you should never place anything parallel to your base. My question is if building using a facade with a court yard for example, The Battle of Hue Vietnam. How would you place the facade on an angel to your base so that the back of the facade wouldn't be visible to the viewer. If you put it parallel to the base could you arrange the armor or figures so that it would be viewed as a snapshot and not built to accommodate the space of the base.

Don't make your case a rectangle. Make the back side of your base at the angle of the wall. I don't know how you are making the actual base so this could get difficult to buy something premade.

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Having trouble posting pics hense all the deleted post. The pic I got up is the straight on approach. The other had everything on an angle with the Gov. building in the upper right hand corner.

Remember, it doesn't have to be a sharp angle. Placing the building at slight angle to the edge and a little offset to the right or left would probably to the trick.

I think the golden rule you speak of has been dispelled by a variety of great dioramas and excellent 1/35 building facades.

What is your composition going to consist of? Figures, vehicles, a combination?

What is the dio story?

The key with a diorama as you have provided in your diagram is to consistently raise the elevation from the foreground to the background. To use your diagram as an example...start with the lowest feature...the drainage ditch, then the underbrush, then the street surface, perhaps leave off the retaining wall. Your sidewalk, posts, fence, and government building would create the additional elevating layers.

Position vehicles and figures so they draw the viewers eyes toward the centre of the scene...another golden rule. Use an imaginary triangle to create the layout. By angling vehicles, turning turrets, moving gates, placing rubble, repositioning figures your parallel base takes on a realistic shape.

Have fun with your dio!