Wow! After brewing my coffee this morning I logged onto the forum to see what was going on in TS land and read the comments to this thread since last evening while enjoying my first cup. All of the compliments were very flattering. Thank you all; George, Michael, Jake, 6th WI, Joe, Nooooo9, Scott (Britfarmer) Carlos, Al, Johno, Jeff, Chris, Scott (Scott), and Martyn. Your comments gentlmen got me behind the camera once again to take photos of another perpective of "My Battleground"
These are great too, what action, looks like you had a great time setting this one up.............awesome......
Had lots of fun doing this one, thanks again George
Making up for the time you've been away an missing your playground an glad to see that you have. Very nicely planned and stage Michael with a nice selection of well taken photographs. Thanks for the time an effort in putting it all together an sharing with us. Looking forward to what's headed our way next............Joe
That's the trouble with being a traveling Grandpa when I am needed to watch the Grandchildren . . takes me away from my toys! Union artillery is up next.
OUTSTANDING MIKE!
Never make apologies for a great imagination or the realities of limited display space. Carlos
Let's call it more an explaination of why certain elements of the dio seemed rather close :wink2: Thanks Carlos
It's always great when you set up your toys and take some snaps for us to enjoy Mike. You have one of the best dios on the forum. I like your new figures from the hospital series, WB did a good job of them.
I owe my dio to the artistic skills of Ericka and Ken Osen
It all looks fantastic. Great dio base and lots of action and color. Can't beat it. {bravo}} -- Al
And its fantastic to play on . .
{sm3} G'day Mike. Just fantastic mate. They look like stills from a movie or being there on the day. Well done. I know some guys who would spend ages looking at that dio. Just great. Cheers, Johno.
Thank you so much Johno. I love the photography aspect of this hobby and I try to "bring to life" with my camera these little metal guys.
Mike: Just the things we converse about that makes your dioramas...these scenarios come to life. It is a careful application of media that is not just the high quality well crafted WB figurines mixed in with some extremely realistic ground work and accessories. You splice in tidbits of various actions: the buildings at Fredricksburg, the cornfield at Antietam, the open farmland at Gettysburg. You juxtapose that within the command structure: portrayals of Generals and officers disseminating orders and objectives. You then weave in the plausibility of the whole action formulating the human cost: surgeons, ambulances, corpsman, nurses all standing by to attend to the casualties. The men themselves confronting each other on the fields of battle with honorable and brave feelings for their work but an undeniable inner thought of mortality. The ACW was this incredible application of the weapons clearly being superior to the tactics. It is a struggle: a cruel confrontation of Americans attempting to impose there will, there lifestyles, their beliefs on to one another. It is a miniature examination in dramatic conflict. You look closely at the confrontation of troops and you get this spine tingling thought process of both sides passionately committed to destroying the other side amid the back drop of our pastoral green countryside. We display, we portray, we attempt to rationalize and we learn. Good stuff Mike....top flight American history in miniature...a rather stimulating Saturday afternoon that would not be posssible without your visions and thought and those terrific and dramatic WB figurines.
Oh my goodness Jeff. Your writing skills are just incredible. Thank you very very much for the kind and eloquent words. I'll tell you what . . . let's publish a story book together, you do the writing and I will provide the pictures :wink2:
Great scenes Mike! It's interesting to see how you blended the various sets of figures togther and the different camera angles. Especially like the charge scene. Chris
Its not the ACW without massive displays of troops grappling with each other
Geez that's impressive! Do you have any figures that could go around the ambulance and field hospital that could register surprise at the attack? The staff looks a little calm for being so close to the fight.
The stretcher set's only draw back is that it has to be near a battle where Zouaves were involved with in the same Corp at least.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Scott I am glad you like the photos so far. I don't have any figures that would look surprised but then remember what I wrote in the beginning about compressed distances due to space liimitations. Obviously the field hospital would not have been that close to the combat area in a real situation . . . would need to have ambulances to take care of the ambulances if that were the case. WB is coming out this year with the 114th PA Zouaves. They fought 2nd day at Gettysburg in the Wheat Field just on the other side of Gettysburg from the Iron Brigade . . . . I will be getting these to add to my collection for sure.
Fearing that their position might be over run, the Iron Brigade called on the support of a section of guns from Battery B, 4th US Light Artillery
