Diorama Ideas/shots etc

[GTX]

The Record free fall made by Joseph Kittinger on August 16, 1960, he jumped from the Excelsior III balloon at 102,800 ft (31.33 km ), and fell for 4 minutes and 36 seconds reaching a maximum speed of 614 mph (988 km/h), before opening his parachute at 14,000 ft. (4.267,2 meters).

I think a diorama of the moment were he steps of the edge would be cool 



Duncan

I would love to do that jump! 

Regards,

Greg

[Jeffry Fontaine]

The Record free fall made by Joseph Kittinger on August 16, 1960, he jumped from the Excelsior III balloon at 102,800 ft (31.33 km ), and fell for 4 minutes and 36 seconds reaching a maximum speed of 614 mph (988 km/h), before opening his parachute at 14,000 ft. (4.267,2 meters).

I think a diorama of the moment were he steps of the edge would be cool 

It would have been even better if he was wearing one of those Birdman jump suits with the flaps between the arms and the legs.

[Mossie]

Grayman posted a link to a fantastic walkaround of the Caspian Sea Monster, thought it'd make a fantastic diorama with Anigrand's 1/144 Lun.  The general look of neglect would be difficult to pull off, but amazing when done.

Original thread: http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,27739.msg416829.html#new
Link: http://igor113.livejournal.com/51213.html

[Weaver]

Diorama idea that I'll never get around to:

Preiser make some good novelty figures in 1/72ndish, including a seated fairy and a mermaid. So, get a floatplane: doesn't matter what model, but it needs to be a biplane with two open seats and two floats, and the more rickety-built-in-a-shed-looking the better. Replace the engine with a glowing green globe, probably made from a Christmas light, with loads of extra steampunk plumbing around it. Then put the plane in a diorama, just touching the shore of an impossibly jewelled beach (glitter powder from the craft store). The pilot is looking up open-mouthed at a fairy sat on the top wing, and ignoring the passenger who's tapping him on the shoulder, but looking sideways at a mermaid sat on the back of one float.

Caption: "It became immediately apparent that the mysterious new engine had done a lot more than just make them go faster......."    


If you had bigger fingers and a deeper wallet, you could do it in 1/48th: who's to say how big fairies and mermaids are anyway?


Edit: they're 1/87th:

[Weaver]

And from the "you couldn't make it up" pile:

ARLINGTON, Va. — Could parachute-wearing bears sniff out Osama bin Laden?

That's one suggestion the Pentagon has received from someone who noted, quite correctly, that a bear's sense of smell is much more powerful than a bloodhound's.

"Overnight, Parachute some bears into areas [bin Laden] might be," the innovator wrote. "Attempt to train bears to take off parachutes after landing, or use parachutes that self-destruct after landing."


From here:http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=68700

I dare someone to do the diorama...... (not volunteering to be the loadmaster in the C-130 though.... )

[philp]

I've always wanted to do this one.



Just the Migs on the apron.  Got to find a cheap Mig kit with a decent tail.

[Old Wombat]

No wonder I had difficulty finding this thread - 19 March 2010 since anyone posted a diorama idea here!!!!! 


Well, here's a new one;


"An Australian QF 3.7 inch gun (at centre) operating in the direct fire role during the Battle of Tarakan in 1945"


Although the slouch-hatted Aussies seem to be standing around not doing much there is quite a bit happening here;

There are three Matilda IIs towards the back, two doing not much, the other on the firing line & has just fired, the muzzle blast is still coming out of the gun (I think it's a 3" howitzer, but I could be wrong);
The Matilda furthest to the rear seems to have the crew's washing hanging on the gun barrel & a pole stretching from the top of the turret to the hillside behind;
The 3.7" has only fired a few moments earlier, as the dust is still flying from the muzzle blast; &
The 25-pdr in the foreground looks to be just about to fire.

But, & this is the awesome bit, what a mottley collection of guns concentrated into a single battery! 

It looks like there should be another photo of this firing line, somewhere, as the bloke halfway up the far hillside seems to be taking a photo, too.

[Rick Lowe]

But, & this is the awesome bit, what a mottley collection of guns concentrated into a single battery! 

Maybe the remnants of other units, combined into an ad-hoc firing line?

Very interesting shot, though. 

[NARSES2]

That's a neat photo    I just wonder what they were firing at ? They look so casual I wonder if it was target practice ?

[PR19_Kit]

The 25 pdr is firing direct too, so the target must be pretty near. 

[Old Wombat]

That's a neat photo    I just wonder what they were firing at ? They look so casual I wonder if it was target practice ?

Possibly target practice, if you're using Japanese soldiers as targets (Battle of Tarakan, 1945 - it's in the description underneath). 

The 25 pdr is firing direct too, so the target must be pretty near. 

All 3 gun systems are firing direct, so, yeah, the Japanese are probably pretty close.