Hi all!

Everybody has a Dream! Something he would do if he had Time, Space and Money!
I for example, have the dream of building two HUGE dioramas under the roof of my house (it's not used by now). One diorama would be for Allied and the other one for Axis aircrafts of WW2. The dioramas would depict all the operational areas of the world: Europe, Pacific, Afrika, etc... in various seasons (summer dios, winter dios etc...)
It would be something like a Railroad Diorama for aircrafts!

So what is your dream! What would you do if you had the Time, Space and Money? What would you build to achieve something special?
If you want to see what I'm talking about, here are two links to make yourself an idea:
1/16 All aluminium Corsair
1/72 Aircraft Carrier
Aren't these "Dream projects" becoming reality?

So let's hear about our dreams!

Jean-Luc

P.S. With Time, Space and Money I should add a VERY comprehensive Wife or Girlfriend! :-)

Hey Jean-Luc,

My dream that PERHAPS is comming reallity someday is to make a great, public model railroad, including a modelshop and a little restaurant. In Germany this is a common thing. In the Netherlands is harder to start up becuase of the real-estate prices, tax rates, governemental rules etc..
I'm discussing this plan with a friend of my for almost a year now and we visited simular projects in Germany, scouted locations and made first calculations...
He's got the financial skills(and is good in fundraising), I got the 'building' skills...

I don't know if it's gonna work someday, but it is nice to dream, isn't it??

Paul

my dream project is to build a 3 years lasting huge dio with Britney Spears in a Pacific island. :-) :-)

Honestly my dream is to see all figures i have painted on my display .i couldnt do it till now because work and wife thinks it is nightmare project...wish i can do it as retired.
willing you can make your dreams possible one day, best regards

Hmm dream project?

To rebuild the city of Rotterdam in Ho scale as it appeared before may 10th 1940 ( the start of WW2 here in Holland ).

A lot of the city was lost, including some lovely art deco and jugendstil buildings.

I am a rail modeller and to create my layout is actually happening but the other is to have a bd and breakfast by the sea where the guys can operate a railway or wargame or build models while the women do other things or share their partners passion for a day
maybe one day

"Dream Project"-------complete all the Recovery / Engineer tanks that I have plans for ----or can get plans for --before going to the..... "Big REME Workshop in the Sky" :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
aye
BARV

My dream would be to someday wake up pain and drug free. I'd get into my Ferrari, cruise to my own shop in Rockport MA. I'd have so many well done dioramas from only the world's top masters for view and sale that they'd inspire people to buy model kits from me. I'd have everything you need in stock, all the time. My prices, outstanding. The store, merchandised in a manor that you've never seen before. Stunning and logical.

Upstairs, accessable by a twisting walkway with hardly a noticeable incline, from another entrance of course. I'd have a fine dinning facility, the food, only the best Maine lobsters, prime rib, along with top notch heart healthy foods as well. The desserts, to die for! On the walls would be fine arts from locals located around the restaraunt where people are naturally drawn to them and encouraged to casually walk around and view/purchase them. The food would be served on plates/china that really compliment the food. Attached would be a studio with hand blown art glass and one of a kind jewlery for sale. I'd even have a display of the very plates that people saw when they ate for sale there as well. After dinner, people would go into the studio and look at all the artsy things. Who knows, maybe after a nice romantic dinner, it would end with a piece of jewelery for a present.

My wife's job would be socializing, answering questions, and of course, keeping up the up my Ferrari's shine, guess who gets to hold the hose and what's she's wearing . My dogs would be hanging out with me downstairs in the hobby shop. There would be only happiness and calm in my life. For these rewards I would give back to the community as much as I could. My good deeds would be endless and tireless. I guess what I'd be trying to achieve here is by supplying artsy things associated with good food I'd be conveying to a general puplic that doesn't have any clue, modeling is truely an art form by association.


POP! There it goes! I'm back to living in pain and I'm so drugged up I'm ready to go back to bed 2 hours after I got up. It was sure nice dreaming, lets do this again sometime.
LOL, some people just dream bigger than others, sorry.

Complete every known version of the Ford & Chevy CMP trucks.. never happen because I don't think there's enough Italeri kits left in the world, and because my scratchbuilding skills aren't up to some of them! add to that time & space problems.............

Ola Guys

mmmhh dream projects. I have several probably some will get finished and others may be never fullfilled. I wouldl like to built all Panzer 1 Variants. Some have to be scratcbuilt and DML is making the rest easy. Money is the biggest issue next to time. Another project is to make my own Vacu form machine. For me this is a dream which I hopefully can fullfill in not too long time I only wonder if I can tackle it with my limited knowledge of technique.
Another dream is being able to sculpt my own figures.
And so I have a couple of other dreams which each and every one of them can be fullfilled. Only time is the matter and in some cases money :-) :-) :-) :-) '

Dave.......Thought it would be finishing the Abbot.......... :-) :-) :-) :-)
aye
BARV

I've built a 1/144th scale dio of an airbase that was located here for the university library..(I have photos, but I've never posted them to my web site, I never liked how it turned out, it was a rush job.)

I think for me dream project would be a diorama of Omaha Beach complete with landing craft and bunkers...the whole nine yards.

That'll definitely happen - in 3-4 weeks I reckon :-)

My dream project is very easy: a Daimler armoured car in plastic (not a Dingo)! Or one armoured car from the desert war in plastic! That would be Great,Fantastic, Amazing!
Cheers and happy modelling!
Prato

Hi All , My dream project is nearly completed . The last few tracks to be fitted then a paint job on a very Early Renault FT 17 ARV used by the white Russians in 1920 . I know of only one photograph but it has all the details I needed for this project . cheers ian

a diorama :-)

So many dreams, so little time, and so few kits that will work, not to mention no scratch building skills.

One would be a dio of the Battle of the Denmark strait, with all six ships in the same scale. That's impossible at the present because while you can get the Bismark is just about every scale on the planet the others are only available in one or two scales, and not all the same.

Another would be to recreate a picture I've seen in a number of books. It's a knocked out Panther being towed by a Scammel. Both kits are available but the Scammel is way out of my price range. I'd like to figure out a way to do this particular picture. Half of the Panther is in bright sunlight, the other half, and all of the Scammel is in shadow. I've always thought that would make a great dio.

Most of all though my dream is to be able to paint a figure that doesn't look like some kind of freak. One that would look half way real.

:-) :-) :-) Great minds think alike, except mine is a little more realistic...... the blonde down the road, in the thong....... :-) :-) :-) Hey.... it's grumpyoldman..... not dead old man...... :-) :-) :-)

As for modeling, I have two closets, and a shelf unit, overflowing, not to mention the boxes under the bed, with "Dream, perfect projects"....... That I'll never live long enough to complete...... As I learned at my last Armorama Anonymous meeting, keep it simple, one kit at a time........ :-) :-) :-)

Mine would involve acquiring one of the old M551 Sheridans that I ran across while at Ft. Benning and having it deposited at my own refurb facility where I could spend as little or as much time restoring it as I pleased. Then it would become a daily driver to work and back... :-) :-) I gotta stop now as I'm laughing tooo hard to continue typing... "Q"

Funny how so many of us are model railroaders as well. I know I've mentioned this before, but my dream project is a railroad layout of Arlen, Texas. For those of you who don't see "King of the Hill," it's a fictional town in Texas based on redneck characters created by the same guy who did "Beavis and Butthead," Mike Judge.
Of course it needs Strickland Propane, the Mega Lo-Mart, Tom Landry Middle School, a shooting range, an Arlen water tower, and some very green lawns.

My second dream project already has many elements built-Firebase Harriman in Orgun-e, Afghanistan. I've got the Apache, the Blackhawk, and many vehicles, including a UAZ 469, built. Still waiting on the Chinook, and hopefully someday a Kamaz.

Mine is a 1/35th German train with one of each type of tank on the rail cars. One Panzer I, Panzer II Panzer III and so on. Each one secured for rail travel. I have everything I need but that Locomotive. Come on Trumpeter! I'm waiting!!!!!!

Hmm, dream projects? Well, to be able to build kits and paint figures as awesome as some of seen on this site for one.

I have a couple of dream projects, one of them I know I can complete but it will take years to get everything in place and built the pace I go. I'd like to build every tank ever used in the Marine Corps, kind of an 'armored museum' thing. Once built, it would be nice then to actually build the museum complete with people walking through looking at all the vehicles. If I had time, money and the abilities, I could even throw in placards in front of each tank giving its specs and add lights to the whole dio.

Another would be to have a set of figures built and painted from every era of Marine Corps history, kinda like the tank thing.

It seems my dream project changes before I can get to it. The latest is not military related. Here in town we have a Helicopter Crop Spraying business. (Referrence pics of one of thier choppers can be seen on my website.)
The other day I saw thier new chemical truck. It is an over-the-road type tractor with a large tank, pumps and a steel landing pad on top of the whole thing. I am now trying to talk myself out of buying the Revell/Monogram 1/24 UH1 kit to build the crop duster.
Then it's a simple :-) matter of scratchbuilding all the goodies on the back of the truck.
Chuck

Concerning modelling there would be these:

Mine would be to build a 1/87 scale model of Wells Cathedral (though I have never been there ).

Absolute dream would be able to build a massive 1/87 scale railroad dioarama...

More realistic: wooden model of the "Zeven Provincien" and the "Sovereign of the Seas"

In general: find a job I am happy with, and write unit histories of independent Allied TD battalions similar to the Munch book about s. Pz-J. Abt. 654.

I guess mine goes with the train gang as well. I would love to build an HO layout of the O&W from Middletown NY, to Allentown PA.

I have always wanted to model Grabner's attempt to retake the northren end of Arnhem bridge on Sept 18th 1944 in 1/35th. All the half tracks, armoured cars, ect. trying to force their way across. Just the bridge would be a HUGE undertaking...

Shaun