Hello all!
Due to the recent interest for shadowboxes Ill post these in progress pictures for those interested. Hopefully they will be of help and inspiration for those wanting to make one. This is my first trial and there were quite a few things to consider and research.

I also would like to thank you all for all the suggestions for the title. It was a hard choice but Ive settled for: "Sympathy for the devils..."

Heres the first pic of the outercase interior. There are two lamps, one to the port side and one at the ceiling, and a fan in the ceiling as well. Not seen is a LED with a reflector that is mounted on the veil to take out the shadow of the ceiling lamp in the scene that casts on the door.




Picture number two shows the scene slided into the box with the lights on. Note the empty space to the left and as well over and below the scene. Those clearances are necessary to have but perhaps not as big as the one on the left side.




Here the veil is in place and you can see the wires for the LED light on its right side. The whole box front is to be a picture frame with a passpertou with the opening just slightly smaller than the larger end of the veil.




And heres the angle of what the viewer will see once the scene is finnished. I also would like to stress the fact that it isnt finnished yet. Shadows, weathering and more details is to be made both on the figures and the surrondings.



Cheers

That is beginning to look very impressive. Another idea for my growing list of future projects! I saw your earlier thread on this dio (?) and liked the look you had achieved with the figures and especially the interior of the house, which I assume is scratchbuilt?

The lighting seems to work very well, particularly through the window at the left of the scene. Great work!

Did you select a name yet? Looks awesome

Fantastic finale for a great scene! Very, very well built and painted! The shadow box has a awesome result in the lightening of the scene! Pitty you can only see a small part of everything through the "window"!!!... Anyway, Congratulations for a project very well finished!
Cheers and happy modelling!
Prato

Have you already chosen a tittle for the scene? which one?

I echo all the above comments. Toke mentions his title btw, 'Sympathy for the Devils...' ~ like that one! Perhaps you should have the Stones track playing on an endless loop in the background whenever the shadowbox lights are switched on?! :-)

Nice build! That really shows some talent...I can't wait to see this one finished.

As said above...the light through the window really looks great.

Another nice title could be "Running with the Devils"

Van Halen could then be playing in the background :-)

Nice one Toke. Don´t know how I managed to miss your earlier threads, but Ive went back and read them now. Great research and planning to get the look your after ... and it paid off! Cant wait to see this live.
Both the shadow-box effect and the actual dio are top notch. Nice one.

Magnificient !!!!! Excellent !!

I love every inch of this masterpiece. This is growing into something wonderful. Be sure to keep us posted and.... make lots of pics and..... and article too...pleaaase

Good choiche!

As for the rest; I replie the WOW and AAAH!! emotions mentioned above and think you do a great job on this one! Keep tracking your progress!

Paul

Thanks for the comments!

Graham.
All of the interior is scratchbuilt using plastic card, rod and other profiles. By glueing different profiles together and sometimes cut and/or scribe them one can create much. Certain details such as the doorhandle were carved and sanded to shape.

Perhaps I should connect a taperecorder to the scene, once you get the electronics into your blood its hard to get rid off.

For Prato and Shermierules.
The title is to be:
"Sympathy for the devils..."

And no, I wont have anything to do with Van Halen.
Cant stand them, even as I once saw them at Monsters of Rock when AC/DC was headlining. 1984 if I recall correctly.

Now Im burning my midnight oil to have it ready before 30th of june. And theres still a lot of painting to be done.

Cheers

I have enjoyed watch you build this Toke - hop eyou have it ready by june 30
Ian

Very impressive. I look forward to the finished product. I think a feature on this would be nice too.

Toke,

Extremely well done, this is truly a work of beauty. I think Danny said it the best it is a "masterpiece."


Jay

Toke:

Thanks for posting the pix of the shadow box with the lights and wiring. When this is complete, it will truly be a beautiful piece of work and proof positive of your artistry and intelligence. Obviously, a project like this takes a lot of planning and resolve. Congratulations,

Having seen this evolve from early on, I can but agree with all the previous posts, but looking at it I do feel there is one thing missing. It looks to clean.. I know it's not quite finished yet, but in my opinion this scene should show more of the destruction which the Red Devils where fighting in at the time...The area around the bridge was literarly reduced to rubble by the time this scene is playing..

But aside from that, your building skills are impressive, and you have captured the Paratroopers very well, aswel as the interior of a Dutch building..

Cheers
Henk

Really nice thanks for sharing it with us hope to see a feature on this.

Ola Toke

This is truely amazing... I would love to see some bigger pics of the scene but what I see now is capturing the Atmosphere terrific.
I also agree on Henk that it looks very clean. Even though I`m also aware that it is not finished yet. But I think that at this time already there was not a window without broken glass in the area. And a huge trail of dust and mud on the floors. Probably when a group of soldiers ran through the house they wouldn`t mind that they do it without cleaning the shoes. But This is really awesome.

I also really like the title. Brilliant thought

Thanks for all the positive comments, fellows!

Im aware of the destruction of the houses around the bridge, Keiths dio in progress of the same subject shows that very well.

However I decieded to do this scene in an relativly unharmed house. On the other hand its hard to know from what being seen about the condition of the rest of the building.

When starting this scene I pictured the breakout attempt of Tatam-Warter before surrendering/capture dashing from house to house trying to get away from the germans. This however is more artistic license than hard facts. I also usually do not specify my scenes for such reasons and let the viewer decide. Like a Rorsarch spot?

It could also be early in the campaing before the shelling.

Sometimes when I do scenes, diorams, vignettes or just a groundwork I do research to have it historically correct but other times I just want a general, mythic picture of an event. My favorite example of such things is the dio of Douglas Lee:



Although a charge like that never happend the myth about is so strong. I still have the idea on my "to-do" list, but with another version of course, perhaps one that is more historically correct?

Cheers

Toke,

I can see you point. Sometimes it's hard to find that balance between artistical feelings / viewpoints and historic accuracy.

I did notice one minor thing that has something to do with this point though. It's the windows.... whenever the paratroopers entered a building, they smashed the windows first, because of the risk of glass flying around. It's something to take in consideration.

No crytics, just something I noticed. Hehe... I'm an "Arnhem Lover" myself, so I've probably read too many books about it