Random Diorama Ideas

[ysi_maniac]

Another random idea:

What is in your opinion the plane?

[GTX_Admin]

If you were to go by the shape of the cockpit windows, the 737 is probably closest:



I don't think it really matters though.

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[Story]

Another shadow box forced perspective potential - 1/35th PBR and 1/144th B52 tail.

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[Frank3k]

I thought ^THAT^ image was already a diorama or photoshop, but it dates from 2015 when the Russian army went to Shumshu island, the most northern of the Kuril Islands. They were looking for the remains of Russian and Japanese soldiers from WWII. Lots of rusty old war remains

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Might be.

[ChernayaAkula]

<...> Shumshu island <...> Lots of rusty old war remains

The image search for Shumshu looks like one giant "random diorama ideas" gallery. 

Rusty tank + whale skeleton in one dio? Would have people guessing. Could either be real world, with the two things unrelated and just by coincidence in the same area. Could be a fantasy setting with people having fought giant monsters. Recently saw a build in a modelling magazine ("Damaged", issue 5? 6?) that had a small excavator in 1/32 with the skeleton of a "giant" (actually 1/6 human skeleton).

EDIT: It was issue 6 of "Damaged Magazine".

Teaser:

SOURCE

Can recommend "Damaged". Mostly off the beaten path as far as modelling magazines go. Lots of abandoned stuff, figures, dioramas, sci-fi and fantasy,  kitbashes, civilian things, steampunk stuff.....

[Story]

I've actually got a clear plastic vacuum formed parasol from a hot rod car kit floating around....

[Story]

Could be a fantasy setting with people having fought giant monsters. 

Ever hear of Socotra, an island in the Indian Ocean?  http://socotra.info/%D1%82-34-on-socotra.html#.XqHoVshKjIW

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I've actually got a clear plastic vacuum formed parasol from a hot rod car kit floating around....

 

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[ChernayaAkula]

You know you're in a rough neighbourhood when they nick the tracks off your tank and put it on bricks. 

Could be a fantasy setting with people having fought giant monsters. 

Ever hear of Socotra, an island in the Indian Ocean?  http://socotra.info/%D1%82-34-on-socotra.html#.XqHoVshKjIW

I have, actually. I remember a programme on TV about this island off the Horn of Africa that has this totally weird, almost alien fauna. Bleeding tress and stuff like that. They must have skipped the part about the T-34s and the monsters, though. 

[Jeffry Fontaine]

I have, actually. I remember a programme on TV about this island off the Horn of Africa that has this totally weird, almost alien fauna. Bleeding tress and stuff like that. They must have skipped the part about the T-34s and the monsters, though. 

Sure that was not Madagascar?  There are a lot of strange looking flora and fauna on that island.

[Frank3k]

Nope. Not only does Socotra have a tree that bleeds, it bleeds dragon blood

[ChernayaAkula]

Sure that was not Madagascar? <...>

Pretty sure, yes, because they also said the island now belonged to Yemen, while actually closer to Somalia.

The German wikipedia article on Socotra (LINK!) claims the Soviets based "two squadrons of Sukhoi fighter-bombers" there in the 1980s. Source is a DER SPIEGEL article, which talks about "Suchoi-28" bombers. Su-28 is assigned to an unarmed version of the Su-25 Frogfoot fighter-bomber.

Obscure islands with strange fauna, abandoned military hardware, people fighting giant monsters..... shades of King Kong and The Land That Time Forgot, huh? 

[GTX_Admin]

You know you're in a rough neighbourhood when they nick the tracks off your tank and put it on bricks. 

 

[elmayerle]

You know you're in a rough neighbourhood when they nick the tracks off your tank and put it on bricks. 

Hmm, sounds like parts of South-Central LA and neighboring areas.

[Story]

Obscure islands with strange fauna, abandoned military hardware, people fighting giant monsters..... shades of King Kong and The Land That Time Forgot, huh? 

Or places on this Earth where the onion skin of the multi-verse is worn threadbare. 

[Stay tuned for more on that]

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Another pair of Stuka ideas:

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This one would take some effort but would look cool if done well:

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A couple that could be used to inspire a diorama:





Click on them to see bigger versions.

[Story]

A U.S. Coast Guardsman, clad in a silk kimono and twirling a parasol, looks down the sights of a Japanese Type-92 heavy machine gun, Saipan, 1944.