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How I Build Dioramas
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Posted: Sunday, August 10, 2008 - 08:36 AM UTC
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Posted: Sunday, August 10, 2008 - 08:54 AM UTC
Not bad for a city boy, eh!
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Posted: Friday, August 15, 2008 - 02:03 AM UTC

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Not bad for a city boy, eh!



Let's hope the smell is also in scale!
I like following your beautifull work John; it keeps amazing me!

Nice job on the scenic parts. I like those Woodland Scenic products also. They just work very well and it does not change color after glueing or time. No other brand can beat it.



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Posted: Saturday, August 16, 2008 - 11:20 AM UTC
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Posted: Saturday, August 16, 2008 - 11:48 AM UTC
The smoking buds bodies an done ,now it is on to the heads.I employed my usual method of shading with pastels over flat paint.I think that I will have to put the big guy standing in a gully.
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Posted: Sunday, August 17, 2008 - 12:19 PM UTC
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Posted: Monday, August 18, 2008 - 02:26 AM UTC
How I missed this thread...! Great work John my good man!
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Posted: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 11:46 AM UTC
Well now it is back to the crashed Albatros.I am really looking forward to doing this as it is something that I have never attempted before.I plan to build the whole thing on a skid type platform that I can easily rotate 360 deg for ready access to everything.I figure that chances are that if they were in a hurry to remove it from the field they would have slid planks under the engine area and dragged it off the field ,probably with horses.Once deposited near the hangar,there it would be scavenged for parts.
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Posted: Friday, September 05, 2008 - 03:03 PM UTC
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Posted: Saturday, September 06, 2008 - 03:21 AM UTC
Another pic
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Posted: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 01:55 PM UTC
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Posted: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 12:56 PM UTC
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Posted: Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 03:32 AM UTC
On to the upper wing!
I haven't got around to weathering the cockpit yet but I think I will set this aside for now and build the upper wing assembly as it is really the base for the rest of this upside down piece to be built upon.
The upper wing is built all in one piece and I will leave it intact except for the odd ding here and there.The fabric will be mostly flash burned off so I will have to build all of the internal structure including the drag and anti-drag wires.
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Posted: Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 03:54 AM UTC
Dioramas update
Went to the CAM in Ottawa on Friday and the new construction is well underway.They are hoping to have the official opening of the new area in Feb 2011.
The Albatros,Neiuport and Jenny dioramas will be on display for the opening and the backyard flyer at some later date.That will be the last of the really big ones for me,as I plan to limit myself to bread box size shadow boxes after that.
My wife will be very happy to get half her house back again after all these years.
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