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13/05/2021 9:24 am
Years ago, I incorporated some of my models into dioramas. The two Me262s (day/night) were put into a makeshift airfield north of Prague in fall of '44. The Bf 110 Zerstorer in a captured Soviet base in the Caucases circa '42. Well, I'm selling the condo that they're in and neither will fit through the door or the windows! I'm going to have try to disassemble every piece in order to turn them on their sides to get them out. All these pieces are so darned fragile, I'm expecting a nightmare of epic proportions. Everything is a mix of 1/32, 1/35 and 52mm scales adapted to match up. All the figures were either hand sculpted or made from parts. Note: for all you purists, the Me 162 Komet doesn't really belong there. It was to be another diorama that I gave up for lack of research material (and time)
13/05/2021 9:53 am
What a shame to have to disassemble this. Your work is outstanding Rich.
Tony Perrone and Tony Perrone reacted
13/05/2021 10:05 am
wow !!.....in order of impact > the use and placement of light and shadow in sharp definition...the appropriate relevance and involvement of each piece in relation to all the others....the MONUMENTAL accomplishment of your completed aircraft.........the staggering amount of painting/weathering/detailing.....THE FACES..............amazing
Tony Perrone and Tony Perrone reacted
13/05/2021 10:15 am
Beautifully done diorama’s perticulary the figures are outstanding!
Tony Perrone and Tony Perrone reacted
13/05/2021 10:56 am
Positively incredible! A phenomenal build impeccably done. Hell Rich, I'd cut a hole in the wall to get it in, before I'd touch one hair on that diorama puppy's head!
Topic starter
13/05/2021 11:00 am
What a shame to have to disassemble this. Your work is outstanding Rich.
It's like the story of the guy who built an airplane in his basement and never really thought it through. DOH!!!! 😖
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13/05/2021 11:03 am
Positively incredible! A phenomenal build impeccably done. Hell Rich, I'd cut a hole in the wall to get it in, before I'd touch one hair on that diorama puppy's head!
The thought has occurred to me. I don't think the little lady will go along with that option though. Now I make mini-dios that fit in a 1/18 dust cover.
13/05/2021 12:10 pm
Amazing work Rich!
In the past, I got a little carried away with doing huge salvage yard dioramas, but I had a whole basement to work in back then. I did a few more in my garage when I moved here, but now I'm keeping them table-size. Since I use some of the same models and stuff in each diorama, I keep make easy to disassemble in my model room.
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13/05/2021 1:33 pm
There has to be a way to get this done! To disassemble is out of the question because once you do that, you will never get it the same way. This caliber of time and skill cannot be
undone .
The trucks and planes I can reposition. The problems them can arise is in transport. Most of the figures that stand alone have long pins in the feet. My biggest worry is all the ground work, trees and foliage. They've been under Lucite dust covers and I don't know if they'll survive a mild breeze. Except for the 'grass'. the rest is all actual plant life that I harvest at different times of the year so after all these years, they might just turn to dust.
Tony Perrone and Tony Perrone reacted
13/05/2021 4:51 pm
extraordinary work Rich, well done. I'm with Tony on the hole in the wall idea!
13/05/2021 9:11 pm
Rich, if you include the diorama with the condo, I will come buy it ...
Rich Sufficool and Rich Sufficool reacted
13/05/2021 10:05 pm
This is excellent work. I have some questions about the BF-110, ME-162, and ME-262. Are these diecast models or did you make them from plastic kits, and are they all 1/32 scale? If diecast, who is/are the manufacturers? Also, I am not familiar with 52 mm scale. What is that scale?
I have my own collection of diecast airplanes (1/72 and 1/48 scales) and one remaining plastic model airplane I assembled years ago. I appreciate seeing your model planes.
Ed Davis
Inverness, Illinois, USA
13/05/2021 10:30 pm
Awesome work on both the aircraft and the dioramas ! Someday "Star Trek" transporter technology will make difficulties moving these masterpieces a moot point !
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Topic starter
14/05/2021 1:45 pm
This is excellent work. I have some questions about the BF-110, ME-162, and ME-262. Are these diecast models or did you make them from plastic kits, and are they all 1/32 scale? If diecast, who is/are the manufacturers? Also, I am not familiar with 52 mm scale. What is that scale?
I have my own collection of diecast airplanes (1/72 and 1/48 scales) and one remaining plastic model airplane I assembled years ago. I appreciate seeing your model planes.
None of them are diecast. They're all based on plastic models that are detailed to the extent of my ability to research. The aircraft are 1/32, the softskins are 1/35. The figures are from 1/35 parts and the ones in intimate contact with the aircraft have been slightly scaled up. There is at least one Verlinden 54mm that I remember (the guy leaning on the shovel by the 262B Nachtjaeger. Some of the equipment are modified Historex 54mm along with a lot of Waldron parts for the conversion of the Opel Maultier into an antiaircraft platform. I've probably forgotten half the stuff that's in there. I don't think I'm capable of doing anything like that again. I still look at them and marvel.... "Did I really do this?". LOL
14/05/2021 5:21 pm
I’ve painted a handful of pieces that came out as they “wanted to”…some wanted to look presentable and others didn’t.
I can’t recall, on any of them, just what steps, colors, or washes I used to get the end result. And I couldn’t duplicate any one of them if I had to. My feeling is, that you keep throwing change and shade at your pieces until they eventually begin to transform before your eyes.
Unexpected effects appear and are then sometimes wiped out and lost forever. It`s not really possible to tell when a piece is “done” because you are always in the dark as to what another round of brushwork will bring to the surface.
Mm v scale….my take on it is this…
Average male six foot figure is three inches, or 70mm, in 1/24 scale …a child figure appropriate to 1/24 scale might vary, depending on age, but a three foot kid would tape out at 35mm
So it follows that a 35mm adult male figure would conform to a 1/48 scale….and so on…yes?