Plannin a fishing village dio

[SA Dave]

After seeing your Dioramas Bob I think it will be better if I stick to Crayons and coloring books.

 

[reconron]

Superb work,Bob!

You are an inspiration source for all of us!

Greetings,Ron.

 

[moon puppy]

The diorama will definately have different elevations, this is one of my
weaknesses work on several planes at one time and tying them together. I
would like to include several different styles of structures,ie brick, wood,
and stone, along with plenty of activity to keep the viewer interested for
more than an "oh thats nice". I would love to incorporate some movement and
sound in it as well. I have started doing a little research on this(sound)
and have found a company that sells sound effect types cd's and players.
Don't know if I want to spend their kind of money on it though. Might go
with my son to a couple waterfront areas and make my own soundtrack,
seagulls, waves lapping, a crane, that kind of thing.
Guys, I'm looking for some input to how to start laying this out. Please let me know any thoughts. Thanks Pat

Pat, since you're not committed to any specific location, have you ever seen the Charleston Battery?

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The Wiki article on it

It dates back 200 years so you could model any time frame, or just use the info as some inspiration. :drinks

 

[jknaus]

If you want sound a cheap alternative might be some computer speakers (cheap ones are around $12.00 up here) and a cheap mp3 player, around $20.00. Nice and small and youcan change up the sounds fromtimeto time.
James

 

[Belg]

James, that is exactly the idea my son gave me not an hour ago. Shows how great minds think alike. Thanks so much for your input/suggestion.

 

[Belg]

Bob, all these great examples definitely help. I will probably have some more specific questions as relating to the scale height differential that can be believable at 1/87 th scale I have a few of the buildings roughed and build in paper. I will post some shots tomorrow when I have some daylight to help take some decent pics. I have the flat baseboard build and will install some lighting over it tomorrow as well. Its underway now just have to find enough time to keep up a steady pace. Work blahhh
I know you said the reference pictures were from an older era , which I totally agree with but the scale of the stone buildings is something which I believe will work. The amount of signage detail can be adjusted as needed for era being modeled? No?

 

[Belg]

Moon puppy, I will take a look at the link and get back to you thanks for taking the time to follow along. Pat

 

[bob letterman]

Bob,
I know you said the reference pictures were from an older era , which I totally agree with but the scale of the stone buildings is something which I believe will work. The amount of signage detail can be adjusted as needed for era being modeled? No?

Of course. The signage will have to be made either in the computer and printed or, maybe that era of signage can be purchased in model RR shops or Internet with fonts prevalent during that era. You probably know more than me about that.

Bob

 

[Belg]

Ok, these are a couple of test builds for the diorama. The base and pier I had from a past project, its a start. I believe I need the larger structures first so I can balance things out.

The following is a link to a project which gave me the push to try a large diorama. This is a model railroad but has many things I want to incorporate in my own project.
http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=22998&whichpage=1

 

[Belg]

I managed to load all the pics needed for this post but had to do it one at a time in between 2 windows copying from one and then paste it in the response. Is there a way to load more than one pic at a time like in the gallery?