Are railroaders dioramists? why of course they are!
That is what I love about dioramas,they really defy being catagorized.Do I do airplane dios that happen to have cars in it ,or car dioramas that happen to have airplanes in it ,or figures that happen to have cars and airplanes in it ,or maybe motorcycles or barns or hangars or even 1/16th scale dollhouses?As far as I am concerned I love what the railroders do, especially the pictures of their layouts.If the trains never moved that would be OK by me.The fact that they move is just an added bonus.
I am now posting to about 15 different websites,cars,airplanes,RR,figures etc.. and seldom do I get a complaint, especially after I explain what dioramas are about.Most people in our community are pretty open minded when it comes to craftsmanship and art.There will always be those who take a narrow view on any subject and that is OK too! There are those who approach modeling in a scholarly way and want to document history as accurately as they possibly can ,and that is just great ,as long as they don't try to impose those standards on everyone else.My approach to diorama making is that it is an artform and art is all about emotional reponse no matter what the subject matter.Dioramas are about bridging artifiical barriers.
Just think how far we have come when only just a few years ago dioramas were mostly considered to be a nice wooden bases on which to place your model.