Well, it's that time again. When I met Gail, my daughter, one of the things we had in common was our love of Japanese architecture. This year's project will be a 1/35th scale Japanese Garden out of the Book, Sayonara, by James Michener , subsequently made into a movie. The main characters are Major Lloyd "Ace" Gruver (Marlon Brando), the son of a U.S. Army general, who is stationed at Itami Air Force Base near Kobe, Japan. He falls in love with a Japanese entertainer, Hana-ogi (Miiko Taka), who is a performer for a Takarazuka-like theater company, whom he meets through his enlisted crew chief, Airman Joe Kelly (Red Buttons).
The garden will be made on one of the same bases that I made the Simpatico diorama on. It will have a very large gate entrance, a Japanese bridge and a Pagoda. It will have many kinds of bonsai trees, bushes and flowers. It will also have a lot of rocks, a waterfall and a large lake.
I plan on using the American Officer in the Masterbox kit, MB 3514.
I'll convert him to a Korean War Air Force major. Then I managed to buy a Japanese Geisha in 1/35th from an obscure company in Japan. I'll convert her to Hana-Ogi in a Japanese wedding dress, (All white), and they will be standing on the bridge.
Here is a Japanese wedding kimono.
This will all be scratch except the two figures. One hell of a lot of landscaping. The terrain will be very hilly and rocky as Japanese gardens usually are. Here are some examples I am using for reference. Mine won't be like any of these, just some ideas.
I am leaving next week with Gail for a father-daughter vacation on the Gulf coast. I have all the materials I will need for this dio and will start as soon as I return on the 24th of july.
It will be something really different for me and I like those kinds of projects.
Bob
The garden will be made on one of the same bases that I made the Simpatico diorama on. It will have a very large gate entrance, a Japanese bridge and a Pagoda. It will have many kinds of bonsai trees, bushes and flowers. It will also have a lot of rocks, a waterfall and a large lake.
I plan on using the American Officer in the Masterbox kit, MB 3514.
I'll convert him to a Korean War Air Force major. Then I managed to buy a Japanese Geisha in 1/35th from an obscure company in Japan. I'll convert her to Hana-Ogi in a Japanese wedding dress, (All white), and they will be standing on the bridge.
Here is a Japanese wedding kimono.
This will all be scratch except the two figures. One hell of a lot of landscaping. The terrain will be very hilly and rocky as Japanese gardens usually are. Here are some examples I am using for reference. Mine won't be like any of these, just some ideas.
I am leaving next week with Gail for a father-daughter vacation on the Gulf coast. I have all the materials I will need for this dio and will start as soon as I return on the 24th of july.
It will be something really different for me and I like those kinds of projects.
Bob