Given that size was irrelevant, money was no problem and you had all the spare time in the world, what you try to create that would be your own masterpiece? The one dio that when completed you could sit back, let your paint dry up and never feel the urge to buy another kit.
I think maybe the one for me would be one of the final stands in a fallen German city. There would be a mixture of soldiers from different regiments including Luftwaffe, old men and young boys come out to defend their homes. Also due to the late time of the war a variety of vehicles would be present, with road blocks set up and I have seen pictures of tanks in the middle of the street with only their turret above ground level. Everyone would be waiting for the attack they knew was coming and had only one possible outcome.

Maybe if you got this one out of your system it would be the end of your quest for the perfect dio?......................or would it just be replaced by a bigger more ambitious one?

Robbo

Hmm... If I had enough money and space, and there was a time when everyone would just leave me alone so I could get something done.... It would be my masterpiece.... :-) :-) :-)

A Return of the Jedi dio. Inside the Death Star II. The structure if the dio would be the interior access tunnels of the Death Star, large enough to fly a starship through. (You SW geeks know where I'm going with this! )
I'd have a long portion of the Death Star II interior tunnels, complete with lighting and superdetailing. There would be the Milennium Falcon flying inside, along with numerous Rebel fighters and Ties. I would constuct the tunnels with an opening, allowing a view of the action inside.
I know there's a picture of this somewhere, but I can't find it to post...
BTW, there's another thread with cool dio ideas here.

YodaMan

The ultimate project would have to be a diorama of the battle at Kursk. Wide open fields covered with hundreds of pieces of armor. An armor builder's dream.

Patrick

Mine would be a Convoy Staging Area during the Vietnam War - with a lot of cargo trucks of various sizes snaked around as they did when getting ready to move out - with about a dozen Gun Trucks moving into the formation. No fantasy stuff here, a recreation of a particular mission with all the correctly modeled vehicles that participated in that run.

Oh, perchance to dream...

Gunnie

I would do a massive diorama of the Folgore Division's stand at El Alamein, which bought some time for the other non-motorized Italian divisions to withdraw.

The dio would have the trenches and sandbags of the Italian defences, with a few 47mm AT guns, some Italian 81mm mortars, and a bunch of paratroopers. Attacking them at close range would be 8th Army infantry and tanks. I could also have some Semoventes and M13/40s or M14/41s of the Ariete Division counterattacking.

Nic

There are so many ideas...

- a whole bunch of hueys landing US troops in elefant grass in Vietnam...
- one of the big battles from the Lord of the Rings, with plenty of action in the bacground and in the foreground a hobbit sticking a dagger into a black rider
- marines assaulting a hill where japanese troops are entrenched

and how many others... #:-) #:-)
As soon as one of these would be finished, I would be turning to the next one that would certainly be my masterpiece !

A huge Vietnam firebase....Artillery Helo's Bunkers......The whole nine yards.......

Matt

For me, it would have to be the battle of Kursk. The Soviets fielded 60% of their tank forces for the battle.....that would be a whole lot of models #:-)

Cheers,

CDT Reimund Manneck
U.S. Army ROTC

For me it would be the 7th brigade holding the line at the start of the Yom kippur war.trenches mine-rolling t-55s,t55 avlbs and t62s getting wacked by Kahalanis centurions.

Josh Weingarten
Aka shiryon

Mine would probably be the entire battle at Omaha Beach.And Im talking the WHOLE enchilada.
If not that then maybe Col.Robin Old's daring Operation Bolo.Have all the F-4s in multiple scales in Thud formations setting the perfect trap for those NVAF commie rat bas****s lol.

Oh and YM I know whacha be talking bout homie g skillet.That would be pretty awesome.And Penpen your idea about the LOTR would be astounding to actually build and see.Especially the opening battle of Fellowship of the Ring.

My ultimate would be a fantasy piece.

May-June 1945
Several Tiger II's with infantry support backing up a Maus or E-100. They are clashing head on into an entrenched American force supported by Pershings, with a "Super" Pershing or two in the mix.

First would be Little Round Top as the 20th Maine began its wheel into the Alabamians (in 54mm scale) Plenty of dead and wounded, multiple vignettes to flesh out the action. Then, on a grander scale, I'd take on the last moments of Custer's last battle at the Greasy Grass, showing the full line of retreat with fallen troopers, others cruched behind their ponies, Sioux counting coup, hand to hand, desperate fighting, troopers helpling each other and helping each other out of this life. Hundreds of charging Lakota on painted ponies, some with captured guidons, many with sodiers' pistols and carbines.

But if it means putting down brush and blade, fugheddaboudit!

If only!!!!!! (enough said)

I've seen a large scale resin model of an M1A1 tank in 1/25 scale. I would like to do one of these and superdetail the interior, engine and exterior. I would do it in the markings of my favorite tank, A-65 of 5-77 Armor. This was the most colorful tank I owned and had a full color Tazmanian Devil on the front slopes of the turret. I had a lot of fun on that ride,"Almighty Taz II".

Well, mine would be either one of these:

1. The Arnhem bridge against the backdrop of Operation Market Garden. Allied paras on one side, and the Germans on the other. A landscape dotted with debris and bodies from both sides. Trucks and vehicles littering the bridge. A scene right out from 'A Bridge Too Far.
2. The German Invasion of Stalingrad. Again, from the movie 'Enemy At The Gates'
3. The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, with hundreds of men dead or dying in the water. Stricken warships all around. Jap dive bombers wheeling and diving between them(now that would be the most difficult part )
4. A scene from the Battle of Britain at its peak hour(an absolute nightmare, I'm sure !)

Sigh! Any of these, IMHO, would take me half of my remaining years to complete #:-)......

Cheers,
BP.

How about the Birdge on the River Kwai blowing up as a train passes over. It would be fun if you like to build trees and bridges......... hey, maybe Eric (demodelbouwer)should do this one

Nic

If money is not an object, I will start to dating super models.... #:-) #:-)

Battle of Kursk for me also.

But I do like the Super model Idea a great deal too.

Hey SS74, for a few seconds I stayed dumb in front of your latest posts... What kind of model are you talking about ?

#:-) Man I'm going crazy just thinking of all the possibilities #:-) #:-) #:-) #:-) ! I think the ultimate Dio would be a huge Ardennes scene with snow and trees and houses in a Belgian village with a long line of German vehicles and troops in mass confusion because of an American roadblock that prevents them from moving. Just think Tiger IIs, Support vehicles, self propelled guns, motorcycles and Kuebels and Schwimmwagons, troops, horses and Lions and Tigers and Bears....OH MY! OK now back to reality....I hardly have room for the stuff I have built now.....I'll settle for a little vignette of the Tamiya Tiger II with dispatch rider. The End...Jeff

1/16th scale battle of Kursk... the WHOLE THING!!!!

Nate
Wisc. USA

First of all I would never want to finish it cuz it would represent the END of my kit building.

I would have to do portions of the Battle of the Bulge.

Pershing II Launch Pad... six TELs plus all the support, bunkers etc., circa Germany, October 1973. In full erect position. To include all us Infantry types running around wondering just what the hell was going on. (Yom Kipper War when the Soviets threatened to send in a AB Brigade)

Thanks,
Kevin Keefe
Mortars in Miniature

Bastogne, complete.

I would build a 1:1 scale spitfire, down to the minutest detail. Or a 1/24 scale boxed diorama of a scene from the battle of Briton. Probably something like the scene which adorns my desktop. A Robert Taylor painting of Robert Stanford Tucks' first kill in the battle, viewed from above, awsome :-)