kpnuts Posted May 7, 2020 Share #1 Posted May 7, 2020 Hi all this is completely different to anything I've done before 2 yrs ago my son bought me 4 1/72 WW1 airfix kits for my birthday (which is in October) (never bought me this type of kit before as he knows it's not my genre) I thought it was strange but said thanks and tried to look excited with them (among them were 2 WW1 planes, planes are my nemesis I've never built one I've been happy with) My son is head of history at his school and casually dropped into the conversation it would be nice if I could put them in a diorama to commemorate the end of the war that he could display at his school. That gave me less than a month. After some research (which was more than my son did I realised I couldn't put all 4 kits on the same dio) I decided to do 4 dios at different times of the year and different places. I asked him how graphic I could get and he told me he had shown pics of the worst of the war to his students so nothing I could produce could be worse. Heres the start. Haliburton, hexnut, Edwardkenway and 10 others 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popeye the sailor Posted May 8, 2020 Share #2 Posted May 8, 2020 is school in session where you are........ours is down for the rest of the year. thibaultron, lmagna, Canute and 3 others 6 Quote I yam wot I yam! finished builds: Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build Billing T78 Norden in dry dock: Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20 Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400 Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpnuts Posted May 8, 2020 Author Share #3 Posted May 8, 2020 They are being used to teach NHS workers children (basically to allow NHS working parents to go to work) my son shares it with other teachers going in 1 day a week but he still Mark's students papers on the days hes not working at the school. These dios were done 2 yrs ago. Canute, thibaultron and mtaylor 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpnuts Posted May 8, 2020 Author Share #4 Posted May 8, 2020 Heres the next installment. mtaylor, hexnut, Jack12477 and 8 others 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpnuts Posted May 9, 2020 Author Share #5 Posted May 9, 2020 This is the first dio finished. thibaultron, VonHoldinghausen, Javlin and 11 others 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardkenway Posted May 9, 2020 Share #6 Posted May 9, 2020 Amazing dio KP, can't wait to see the next one 😃 Old Collingwood, Canute, popeye the sailor and 2 others 5 Quote Current builds; Henry Ramey Upcher 1:25 Providence whaleboat- 1:25 HMS Winchelsea 1764 1:48 Completed: HM Cutter Sherbourne- 1:64- finished Triton cross section scratch- 1:60 - finished Non ship: SBD-3 Dauntless 1:48 Hasegawa -FINISHED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Collingwood Posted May 9, 2020 Share #7 Posted May 9, 2020 You should do your dio's and take them around schools a real insight into action turning a replica into a 3D event, Brilliant. OC. popeye the sailor, thibaultron, Canute and 1 other 4 Quote Current builds 28mm Battle of Waterloo attack on La Haye Saint Diorama. 1/700 HMS Hood Flyhawk with PE, Resin and Wood Decking. Completed works. Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic. HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts. HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine plastic. Black Pearl 1/72 Revell with pirate crew. Revell 1/48 Mosquito B IV Eduard 1/48 Spitfire IX ICM 1/48 Seafire Mk.III Special Conversion 1/48 Kinetic Sea Harrier FRS1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpnuts Posted May 11, 2020 Author Share #8 Posted May 11, 2020 Hi all here is the next one. mtaylor, Old Collingwood, VonHoldinghausen and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpnuts Posted May 13, 2020 Author Share #9 Posted May 13, 2020 Here is the final piece JohnB40, Edwardkenway, ccoyle and 8 others 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landlubber Mike Posted May 30, 2020 Share #10 Posted May 30, 2020 Very cool work - your dioramas are very lifelike. Great creativity! mtaylor, Old Collingwood, Edwardkenway and 2 others 5 Quote Mike Current Wooden builds: Amati/Victory Pegasus MS Charles W. Morgan Euromodel La Renommèe Plastic builds: SB2U-1 Vindicator 1/48 Five Star Yaeyama 1/700 Pit Road Asashio and Akashi 1/700 diorama Walrus 1/48 and Albatross 1/700 Special Hobby Buffalo 1/32 Eduard Sikorsky JRS-1 1/72 IJN Notoro 1/700 Akitsu Maru 1/700 Completed builds : Caldercraft Brig Badger Amati Hannah - Ship in Bottle Pit Road Hatsuzakura 1/700 Hasegawa Shimakaze 1:350 F4B-4 and P-6E 1/72 Accurate Miniatures F3F-1/F3F-2 1/48 Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat built as FM-1 1/48 Special Hobby Buffalo 1/48 Citroen 2CV 1/24 - Airfix and Tamiya Entex Morgan 3-wheeler 1/16 Terminated build: HMS Lyme (based on Corel Unicorn) On the shelf: Euromodel Friedrich Wilhelm zu Pferde; Caldercraft Victory; too many plastic ship, plane and car kits Future potential scratch builds: HMS Lyme (from NMM plans); Le Gros Ventre (from Ancre monographs), Dutch ship from Ab Hoving book, HMS Sussex from McCardle book, Philadelphia gunboat (Smithsonian plans) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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