If I had money, time and skills I would probably build a complete replica of a Nazi death camp from Poland. I am talking about Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim. This was one of the most horrific death camps in all of Europe. This would be a memorial to all of those who lost their lives in there as well to those who had courage and were lucky enough to survive it.

Or British swordfish attacking the Bismark in 1/48 scale.

1/16th scale NCC-1701 Enterprise, from star trek

A modern Carrier Battlegroup in 1/350 w/ all the amphibs and support ships.

If money were no object I would just buy 1:1 scale Sherman, Panther, Tiger, and a M1A2 Abrams to boot!

Jim

I guess I would build a complete field hospital, Swedish of course, since we have a habit of sending these all over the world... (Gulf war and Somalia...)

Since the idea of a carrier battle group's already been suggested (although since money, time and space are no object, I'd do it in 1/72 or 1/48 #:-) ), I would have to say my next ultimate dio would be the battle of Endor from ROTJ, with the planet, the Deathstar and the entire Rebel and Imperial fleets - of course now it's just getting silly

Cheers
Ed

Well I guess that I was being too reasonable for 1/350....I agree much bigger is better :-)

Well if a Hangar scene from the Yavin moonbase in 1/72 or a Hoth snowcave base scene are out, maybe a Vietnam Riverene scene. PBR's,Monitors, Seawolf gunships... in 1/35
Or a PACV hovercraft tearing across flooded paddies chasing fleeing VC/NVA
Or Carlos Hathcock (sp?) 2man stand vs the large NVA unit.. Company(?)
Several of the big battle scenes from Low Level Hell..

Or the entire Battle for Berlin..

Mike

Lets do it in 1/72 Scale!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've got a couple;
1) A mega-sized Naval air station in 1/48 scale. All the Naval and Marine Corps sqaudrons would be represented.
2) An Air show set in 1/72 scale with practicaly every plane i can fit on the field. It would have all the Air demonstration teams from around the world all the way back to the Wright Bros. plane.
3) The United States Marine Corps Silent Drill Team in 120mm.

I'll think up some more later :-)

Gunnie Iam with you on the idea. Maybee I would do an ambush scene with some Guntrucks, Supply Trucks, NVA guys and American guys. Like I said in the "Dream Diorama" post a while back.

The only other thing I can think of is a huge scene from the Starship Troopers movie. One of the last battles when the roughnecks clean up that base, and all the bugs start to attack.


Mike

Same of most of you

Either

German Invasion of Stalingrad
The Fall of Berlin
or
Ending war scene of Saving Private Ryan

How about the whole Arnhem bridge, with Grabner's kampf. rolling towards Frost's British paras? I think I almost have enough room in my basement. Can I shuttle contest judges to the house because I won't be able to get it up the stairs... LOL

I wouldnt mind a 1/9th scale H.M.S. Victory.

I was thinking how about a 1/100 USS Enterprise or 1/100 KittyHawk

Excellent topic .It must be we`re on page 5 already...(will anyone even read this far?)...... anyway considering your perameters you`ve given us and the fact that i`ve wanted to do this for quite a while now here it is .My diorama would be on the day of 29 March 1945,located on the autobahn near Giesen ,Germany.Thosands of German prisoners would be traveling down the median divider (west of course) and all scratch built carrying everthing they owned under the sun except their weapons although some still had A few from what I understand.And of course all makes of U.S. equipment of the 6th Armord Division headed east on both sides of Germany`s famous high way.Now many out there will think that I got this idea from watching HBO`s excellant BAND OF BROTHERS although i thought that the overpass and two German children were a nice touch,(maybe even usable in the dio), but the fact is I read the late Steven Ambrose`s book over 10 years ago, then my interest was peaked again when the same photo appeared again in Concords THE M4 SHERMAN AT WAR, by S.j.Zaloga....It would either be that or something depicting a BLACK HAWK DOWN. ALL MODELING IS GOOD MODELING......prbesch.....Please,all, call me [email protected]

My ultimate would be the massive tank battle outside and inside of Lvov during the opening stages of Operation Barbarosa where a few of the panzer divisions of Army Group South ran into a massive Soviet armor formation and 3 days of what was then the largest tank battle ever took place (the only bigger armor battle was Kursk). The reason that I would rather do this than Kursk is due to the subjects at hand.

Soviets: BT-2s, BT-5s, BT-7s, T-28s, T-34 mod 40s, T-34 mod 41s, T-26s, KV-2s, and KV-IBs made up the bulk of the force (they also had a few T-35s thrown in for good measure).

Germans: Halftracks galore (250s, 251s, and all of the prime mover varities), Pz IICs, Pz III E-Hs, Pz IV C-Es, Pz 38(t)s, StuG III As, Panzerjager Is, SdKfz 221s, SdKfz 222s, Sdkfz 223s, and 8-rad armored cars made up the bulk of the force.

Not to mention the artillery and men involved. I love the early war Soviet and German stuff so this battle certainly takes the cake for me. :-)

I've got several suggestions:
How 'bout Dunkirk 1940: big collums of trucks been driven into the sea to form piers where the Tommies walk over, while the French are struggling to keep the Jerries at a distance, with loads of Stukas to bombard the hell out of all conceivable ships mustered?
Or a WW1 attack? Cambrai if you want to do the armor, with about a infantery division every 3 km's? Think of the ammount of terrain work needed for this!
A complet Brittish division of "Funnies"would be nice too!
Or ..., or... or..., MUMMY, they're nagging me!!!

When I visited the NASM in 1985, they had a 1/100 modern carrier on display with full contingent of its airwing on deck.

I would try to do a Das boot diorama in 1/35 scale ... You know the german seaport with the, so called, the ultimate submarine ( about 75 m long and 10 m high), and a german tank patrolling around the base.

That would be a life-project for me ....

/Jamal

I would have to say the carrier battle group in 1/48th would take the cake. I'll do the Nimitz, you guys can do the rest. Who does the base board? You think 300' X 600' would be big enough?

Rob

something that dosent repaet its self too much...something in Mosscow...Greneades, snipers, bombed out buildings tip lots of them, with every little corener of everybombed building with its own little special touch...with a couple of tancks...with mud, heaps of troops, from both sides, attackings Germans, Gremans snooping around, Russians defending, Russinsa waiting their time...Yip...its a pasterpeice :-)

My super diorama is already started(planned,sketched, now acquiring the final kits and details).My dream diorama would be a Marine Assault carrier wiuth complete interior,launching LCU's chock full of armor and transports,in 1/35!!!!!!!!!Yeah,BABY!YEAH!! Now,I will spend weeks thinking and plotting,then finding references,just to see if the investment in plasti-struct and evergreen will pay off.I won't sleep for weeks just trying to figure out where I can put it.Guardian self storage?I will have to move the kids out,and by the time I finish that one,they will have their own home anyway so...........
Another obsession