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Well, Finally, I'm wrapping up the museum. All is finished except the cleaning and polishing. I hope to have photos within a week and maybe a narrated video tour. I'm an electronic klutz, but my daughter Gail assures me it will be smooth sailing!

Looking' great John!!!! :vgood::vgood::vgood::vgood::vgood: Bob

You know Mark, It's the old story of being at the right place at the right time, Like so much else in life!

Very well done!!! :vgood::vgood::vgood::vgood:

Nah, that's ancient History Dave! Old hat!:oldguy:

Hey, I thought it was hilarious! Mine is all faded out, can barely read the cover! :vgood::vgood::vgood::vgood:

OMG!!!! I've been forgotten and doomed for the dump!!! My first diorama in the first Fine Scale Magazine, 40 years ago! Oh the horror! :) Hahahahahaha!!!~!!

Actually he wrote more than one. The others were technical and probably not for the mass market. Those cannons were incredible. He had several craftsmen in Russia. They created them out of metal, bored out and operated exactly like the real thing. They were engraved and gorgeous in appearance. I...

That's funny, we had those TV spots where the reporter came out, interviews and panned the museum so many times. In almost every one, they began with, "It's a small world after all, isn't it"! When they do that, they always sent me a VHS tape of it. I have boxes of those things. A matter of...

There's a thought! :)

Speaking of the Museum, the building in Old St. Charles, Missouri that it occupied in the 1990s, became a restaurant after it was closed. The name? "Tony's On Main Street", an Italian restaurant that is very popular today. We visited the St. Louis area in early December with our daughter and...

Hey John, I should have said, a lot of people think of a diorama as a scene in a museum. You're probably right about an established military museum. David Harper worked with the New Marine Museum in Quantico and Bill Chilstrum actually made a few Marine related dioramas for ti. I have had some...

Yeah Mark, A typical tourist trap, like Vegas or a touristy town. Another problem of a model and diorama museum is the mind set of the general public, They do not see what we do as art. When they hear models, they picture that ugly little car or plane they or their friend built when they were 8...

Thats the plan Ian, both stills and a video. Stay tuned!

I had to learn a lesson about museums the hard way. It was absolutely awesome to see, and we advertised in newspapers, on TV ads, every chance possible with press coverage in all sorts of periodicals. The model magazine editors came and all did articles, Fine Scale Modeler, Military Modeling...

Thanks Ian. I have your diorama is a special place! It looks so completely different now than before!

Barney, it isn't a public museum. It's in the lower level of our house now. We show it to friends and relatives and, modelers when they are in town. Some scout troops, church groups, things like that. It isn't a business, just for fun these days. Anytime you are going to be in our area, let us...

Way back in 1985, in the early days of VLS, I visited Monogram in Morton Grove Illinois. We had became a distributer for them and I was given the grand tour. Afterwards, I met the president of the company. In his office, there were several of the Shep's "Monogram" dioramas. I was, of course...

Trust me, anybody with an even slight interest in miniatures would have!

Hey Dave, Good to hear from you! I'll be wrapping up the museum redo in a week or two. I'll have lots to show them. I'm thinking of making a telecast tour of the "new" museum and narrating it to get into details and who built what and when.. It's such a shame that many never got to see it in the...