What is your dream diorama?

[Mariner]

If you had the money to commission or the skills to build it, what would be your dream diorama?
I would choose the movie scene where Jeremiah Johnson leads the rescue party through the Crow burial ground. That would be so cool!
Mary

 

[marco55]

That is a good one.Mine would be based on the last action scenes of the Last of the Mohicans movie where Magua dies.
Mark

 

[tonydawe]

Massed charge of 800 Australian Lighthorseman at Beersheba in 1917. The last great cavalry charge in history.

 

[Mark S]

I'd do the Eureka Stockade battle.
In the Australian goldfields about 120 Scottish, Irish, American, Dutch and Italian miners who were protesting punitive mining taxes fought a bloody but short battle against about 275 Victorian military and police troopers.....they lost the battle but eventually won better conditions and fair treatment.
One of the American miners designed a flag to represent the miners and it remains to this day a popular and potent symbol of resistance against brutal oppression.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Rebellion

 

[Figurenfreund66]

The Battle in the Trenches 1915-17, or the Fight in Fort Douamount . Another Theme is from the french-german War 1870/71, one of the Streetfight Scenes .

Hendryk

 

[Iguazzu]

i really would like a scene with Hannibal Barca during the Trasimeno battle, fighting withtwo romans very hard

 

[bwildfong]

Isaac Brock's charge up Queenston Heights for me - that or the churchyard during the Battle of Lundy's Lane - awesome...

Cheers,

Brian

 

[bwildfong]

Isaac Brock's charge up Queenston Heights for me; that or the churchyard during the Battle of Lundy's Lane - awesome...

Cheers,

Brian

 

[Colin_Fraser]

Boxed diorama of Hitler's Lagebaracke (briefing hut) on July 20, 1944 as Claus von Stauffenberg places his briefcase bomb - in 90mm or 120mm scale.

Colin

 

[T-34/85]

The final chariot scene in Ben-Hur when Marsella(?) gets his due

 

[DEL]

Thought about this and came up with loads. But then I thought what would I actually buy if it was available.
Without doubt the final scene from Blackadder goes Forth.....the point where the four main characters have just breasted the trench
and are charging into no-mans land....gives me goosebumbs every time I see it.
Cheers
Derek

 

[pmfs]

mine is what i work right now.

cheers

 

[diamond cutter]

The scene in Eastenders where Tiffany (Gor Bless 'er Guv'nor!) gets run over and Grant cries like a massive t*t!!! In 1/76th scale and a shaddow box (it was at night)
OR
The man from the 'Go Compare' ad floating above a PZ 2 on fire
Just a couple of ideas for the artists out there!!!

 

[TonyT]

Large scale sinking of the titanic with all the passengers on deck as she is going down and the boats are leaving with internal lighting on the titanic.

Or

A large scale model of the ship in the film starship troopers that was hit by the burning ball the bugs were launching in orbit, breaking in half with all the decks detailed

 

[diamond cutter]

1.1 scale-that would be AWESOME!!!!!

 

[TonyT]

Btw here is one I am doing at the moment first ever proper diorama

http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/taylortony/modelling/sci fi/updatec2.jpg

http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/taylortony/modelling/sci fi/updatec1.jpg

http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/taylortony/modelling/sci fi/updatec3.jpg

Still awaiting some laves and creepers I have on order

 

[ChaosCossack]

The list is huge but here's a couple at the top of the list-

• French cavalry charging British infantry squares at Waterloo, I mean an entire battalion in square, so probably in 28mm.
• French cavalry charging Russian Great Redoubt at Borodino- cavalry, infantry, artillery, earthworks... definitely 28mm too.
• Prussian Grenadiers attacking at Hohenfriedeberg 1745.
• British Horse Artillery in action at Waterloo
• French Garde Royale firing line at Fontenoy

Apparently I am just self-abusive enough to want to take on a huge battle scene diorama. There are some great paintings of historical battles that are just screaming to be reproduced in miniature. Unfortunately I probably don't have enough years left in me to do some of the things I dream up.

Colin

 

[smudger1960]

Being a waterloo fanatic,mine would be the last stand of the imperial guard,if i had the sculpting skills of some of the great masters of this hobby i'd probably devote all my work to waterloo and the hundred days,as it is i have to settle for stock kits,i can always dream

Brian

 

[ometz]

Here's a couple that I would commission: Charge of the Burma Frontier Force Mounted Police at Toungoo circa 1944; scene of killing civilians by Einzatzgrupen (I mean, really, how many bucolic scenes of Nazi soldiers can this hobby tolerate?). Maybe a scene of Hannibal walking the field of Cannae after his victory.

 

[Harvey Pincis]

My dream is to build a (convincing) winter scene, maybe winter 1919/1920 a cameo of the War of Liberation; a field-post outside Riga. Its in my head as a concept but needs to be properly worked out. Anyway this is my 2012 project that I hope to complete this year.
Have to work on honing up my skills a bit but figuring what to leave out!
Composition is everything!