Hey all - please use this thread as a central location for the Hooray for Hollywood (h4h) campaign. Any news/updates/questions can be submitted here for everyone to see! The following information is from the campaign page, in case anyone has still has questions about the coolness factor of this campaign.


lights....camera..... action!

Oh that's just great, the campaigns not even a day old and already Joan Crawford is bitc*hing about some, wire hangers in her wardrobe, or something.
Cheyenne

"Wild horses couldn't drag it out of me!"

This has got to be the best campaign ever, anything goes, all facets of modeling , all eras, all anything, etc., etc.
You could take a manikin, smash a creampuff on it's head and call it Animal House ..... " I'm a zit ... get it ? "
Cheyenne

Cool deal! I actuaslly had something in mind that I wanted to do anyway, so this is right on time for me! actually, this will be my first real diorama, and while I'm sure I wont be up to y'alls standards,, I'm really looking forward to this.

Welcome to the cast, Novembersong! Can't wait to guess your project!

I actually have finished the one I was thinking about (aside from some tweaking here and there) so I'm going to do two; another one I have in mind NOONE will get! If someone correctly guesses my second one, I'll send them a $10.00 gift card to Starbucks, or Hobbytown USA or something. I dont think I've ever actually met anyone aside from myself whose seen this great movie I'm thinking of!

I'm going to have to create the figures though, it will be kind of tough.

Has anyone made any progress on this yet? I'm going to try and post pics this week of the one piece I have finished already (Though I'd really love to do the faces over), but my Digital Camera is only about 3.6 megapixels, so it doesnt really have the clarity I'd like.

hey there, exciting that you're done with one. It would be fun to see your project - but maybe don't reveal the movie until the end of the campaign! I'm still gathering all the parts for mine- waiting for the snow to fly before i spend time indoors sniffing glue.

Think I will wait until after labor day; I found some stuff called "Flesh wash" by Citadel Colour that's used to do faces on Warhammer pieces (from what I'm told. I dont know anything about warhammer) that seems like it might give me some more depth to my troops.

I think I can safely say I like Dragons troops better tham tamiyas.

Hi!

I ordered a great model that's suitable for this campaign, and I enlisted right away! This is gonna be a great campaign!

Just a question to make sure:



It's bases on it. So, it does not have to represent an actual scene, but it must be obvious referable to the movie or series, am I right?

Paul

I'm not sure Paul, I construed that to mean it had to be an actual scene from a movie or show. You might be right, but unless the dio was something painfully obvious, like a set-up of the M*A*S*H camp, it;d be really hard to figure out what everyone was basing their dio on.

Thats just the way I saw it, I may be wrong, my wife is quite accustomed to pointing that out to me a whole lot.

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LOL!! Same here, man!! I know exactly what you feel!

Thanks for your answer.
Well, the subject I'm planning is indeed 'painfully obvious'.
I only don't know if the vehicle I want to build was really used in "it" (not to give a hint if it was a series or a movie...).
I think I just give it a try.
The kit is suspected next week by mailorder, I can hardly wait...

Paul

My second entry in this campaign has been kind of put on a back burner for right now; I got really far on a battle scene of Kursk with a Panzerkampfwagen IV, and actually got a great deal on e-bay on a kit of SS Panzer troops survivors of Kursk that worked out really well. I'm trying to find a couple of Russians to put in it as well, so I'ts kind of consumed my time.

I was going to re-do my first entry, as it was the first dio I ever did, and as such, I painted the firgures without priming them first (Hey, I didnt know any better), and they were Tamiya, and the whole thing just left a bad taste in my mouth.

Is it just me, or do the Tamiya figures leave something to be desired? After seeing the Dragon, Academy and Warrior figures, I felt a little let down in the quality of my work.

The whole point of the campaign is to try and let the viewer guess what movie you are trying to protray. How you present it is up to your imagination but I would venture to say that most dios will end up being a scene from the movie. I think this line in the instructions should answer your question

"Recreate a scene from an actual TV show or movie into a diorama."

I myself will be doing a scene but it will be not be an exact replica. There will be a bunch of people but they won't neccessarily be the "exact" people from the movie.

Is it Band of Brothers? (Falling pine-trees...)

Nope, but it was made by HBO

It's "When Trumpets Fade", and I'm 100% positive!

Novembersong. You should not be posting any pics until the end of the campaign. No clues about your project should be revealed until then.

Hey there, everyone! It's exciting to see the first campaign entry on the board!! Looking really good and I haven't a clue where the scene is from!!
I'd like to request 2 things, as indicated in the PM I sent to Novembersong, before more entries come in:

1. Please create a new thread for your entry under campaigns. Your thread would be titled something like Hooray for Hollywood - Novembersong. There you can post as many pics as you'd like, and then people will be able to reply directly to you making comments, suggestions and guesses about your work and it won't be buried among everyone elses entries. The main HFH thread should just be kept for questions about the campaign at this stage. I'm going to request an official Hooray for Hollywood gallery be created and that is where you'll submit your final 3 pictures for the entry.

2. Please dont reveal the subject matter of your dio. I'd like everyone to have a guess at them, and if someone guesses correctly right off the bat, then it's not fun for everyone else if the answer is already in the thread. I think it would work if we post the answer in our threads at the end of the campaign.

Hope this works for everyone! I'm really excited about my first campaign and I'd like for it to go well!

Doh! Sorry! I misunderstood that part of the campaign!
Forgive me for my overzealousness, I've never done anything like this before, and I got swept up in the moment!

No problem Novembersong. Normally in a campaign you would post prgress pics but this one has a different twist.

Hooray for Hollywood Gallery is now up !

Man, this campaign is harder than you think at first.
You'll have to go completely solo!

I started my build for the campaign but I come up with some (more) question about the "prototype" I'm building. These questions are burning on my modellers mind, but asking them here will reveal the subject of my entry...
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