Thursday, July 10, 2008

Ebay find- a very special diorama

 £31,000 will get you into the bidding for a 160 by 120cm diorama of the battle of Agincourt, with 500 figures and based upon historical documentation. £36,000 will Buy It Now, but you'll still need to have £5000 in reserve to have it delivered.

Maybe a museum could buy it to use as a display.

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Friday, April 11, 2008

Soyuz on the train

 io9 has pictures of a Soyuz rocket being hauled across the desert to its launch site by a diesel train. It might be hard to scale match a model of the rocket (or even find one, I couldn't get a match for "Soyuz" at Hannants) and a Russian train, but think of the diorama possibilities.

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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Papercraft Coke machine

 I don't know what scale this would be when printed out, but here's a papercraft Coke vending machine.

via BoingBoing

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Sunday, March 09, 2008

Little cities

 Tinselman has a fascinating piece about miniature cities. I'd love to do a huge model of a section of a city, but I'd want to make it imaginary because I'd be putting lots of fantastical and bizarre scenes into it.

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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Take Manhattan

 These Warhammer players have created a huge Manhattan-like gaming environment in someone's apartment.

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Friday, June 22, 2007

A tank from a lake

 Tanks from the Second World War are still being pulled out of the lakes around St. Petersburg. If I remember my history correctly, the city was resupplied across the frozen lakes during the winter phases of the siege and at times the ice broke. The site refers to it as a "BT" tank. You can get BT5 or BT7 tanks in 1:35th scale from Zvezda, or BT5, BT7 or BT2 from Unimodel in 1:72nd. A salvage operation like this would make for an interesting diorama.

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Riot in Toytown

 Adalberto Abbate's work includes a series of mini dioramas depicting little modern horrors such as riots, shootings and accidents, all done with little railway model figures and totally over the top.

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Friday, June 08, 2007

Miniature Moscow

 This huge model of Moscow dates back to the Soviet era, and is a three dimensional snapshot of the city at the time. It has become increasingly expensive to maintain and was put up for sale for $3million (or maybe $380,000). Someone with 400 square feet to spare bought it last August.

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Thursday, April 26, 2007

CODE Guardian

 CeeGee Studios created an awesome compueter animated short about Nazi super robots (YouTube part 1, Part 2). It got me dreaming up possible propellerpunk (that's my name for it, which I coined for a story called Heavensent, others call it Dieselpunk) battle scene dioramas.

Take the sort of robots and sci-fi subjects available through Hobbylink Japan, kitbash them with second world war era tank and plane parts then set them against some period tanks or ships. To give an idea of the size of the robot you'd really need to do it in a scale such as 1:144, or even smaller. Revell does a 1:200 oil rig, the destruction of which would be an opening scene from the giant robot movie. Mirage does a Polish harbour diorama in 1:400 or the Clyde, circa 1940 in the same scale. In larger scales 1:144 is well supplied. Here's Hannants' list, and that of interesting looking Japanese garage kit company Kami de Koro Koro.

I'm going to be on the lookout for giant robot kits now.

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