For the Old Country's Sake (1 Viewer)

[Jack]

First WWI Dio I have seen with a crashed biplane. Pretty neat {bravo}} Definately different !

Thanks for taking the time to comment. Much appreciated.

 

[Jack]

Great little diorama....Very dramatic, I really like the original touch of the crashed Soppy..!!!!.

Steve

Steve

Thanks for commenting. As a middle aged adult male who has never made anything, I am embarrassingly pleased with myself. I will not have the skills to make buildings, but the Western Front is certainly accessible.

The beauty of seeing other people's dioramas is how much you can learn for free. One of the things I have learnt is that you do not have to have every figure in a range, but just the few for your diorama. It doesn't save me any money because I just spend it on other soldiers, but it does makes for a wider selection.

Jack

 

[Jack]

the torn fabric on the plane was a really neat idea

Thanks for taking the time to post.

The broken model has sat in a cupboard for twenty years, so I was really pleased it proved so useful. I tend to use the same size base, so I put my soldiers on it for a few weeks before I have time to do anything with them. Each time I walk by I move them a round the board a bit so by the time I start I am happy with placement.

It is a really lovely hobby. I am enjoying myself immensely.

 

[larso]

Excellent dio - I liked the deft way the plane was 'dusted' to give it a suitablty crashed look. You know, you might be getting close to surpassing me in this hobby...

 

[Jack]

Excellent dio - I liked the deft way the plane was 'dusted' to give it a suitablty crashed look. You know, you might be getting close to surpassing me in this hobby...

I have more toy soldiers than you
I have more friends in the hobby than you
I have done more dioramas than you
I'm taller than you
...and when you're not at the shop, I tell amusing stories at your expense

I believe I surpassed you some weeks ago!


Thanks for posting about my dio! See you Tuesday.

 

[Rob]

Jack, is that a plane you built and then broke up? Looks very good, especially with the front of it in the water like that. Nice work.

Rob

 

[Jack]

Jack, is that a plane you built and then broke up? Looks very good, especially with the front of it in the water like that. Nice work.

Rob

No...my model making skills would leave you in considerable doubt as to whether I had thumbs. Thirty years ago my father made it, a Fokker Triplane and a Lancaster and hung them from a ceiling beam. The camel subsequently sat in a box, broken, for years and I had a clean up and thought, 'hey, that will work'. As things work out, my wife and I bought my parents home and did the whole renovation thing. As I type this, I am sitting across from the diorama under the beam that it hung from.

His health has left him confined to his house more and more, so he has started model making again - we are currently working on a 1/48th scale WW1 Brit airfield. He has discovered his own forum in cyber space because he asked me the other day what 'thread jacking' was, which made me laugh.

 

[Rob]

No...my model making skills would leave you in considerable doubt as to whether I had thumbs. Thirty years ago my father made it, a Fokker Triplane and a Lancaster and hung them from a ceiling beam. The camel subsequently sat in a box, broken, for years and I had a clean up and thought, 'hey, that will work'. As things work out, my wife and I bought my parents home and did the whole renovation thing. As I type this, I am sitting across from the diorama under the beam that it hung from.

His health has left him confined to his house more and more, so he has started model making again - we are currently working on a 1/48th scale WW1 Brit airfield. He has discovered his own forum in cyber space because he asked me the other day what 'thread jacking' was, which made me laugh.

Well that plane has seen some service and looks really good Jack, I look forward to your airfield too. As for modelling skills you are making me nervous in the service mate, I'm about to start work on a large model for my next dio and I've not made one for years.Oh well, in for a penny in for a world of laughter and ridicule I guess!:wink2:

Rob

 

[Fitzgibbon]

For as long as history lasts the imagination of our people will strive to conjure up the
vision of those boys who...went out to Flanders, not as conscript
soldiers, but as volunteers, for the old country’s sake, to take their risks and ‘do their
bit’ in the world’s bloodiest war.

Philip Gibbs (1921), Realities of War, p. 40.

I say, well done.... it's a Sopwith. I like it.......{bravo}}
Wayne.

It's a sop with what? {sm2}

 

[Fitzgibbon]

That came up a treat, Jack; and the water works well...what brand??

 

[Jack]

That came up a treat, Jack; and the water works well...what brand??

Realistic Water by Woodland Scenics. It must be the urine of the gods because it was quite expensive.

 

[Rob]

Realistic Water by Woodland Scenics. It must be the urine of the gods because it was quite expensive.

^&grin

Rob

 

[larso]

"I have more toy soldiers than you
I have more friends in the hobby than you
I have done more dioramas than you
I'm taller than you
...and when you're not at the shop, I tell amusing stories at your expense

I believe I surpassed you some weeks ago!"

I did bring out my own range of Anzacs you know. I see that due to your hard service in the Movie and Song Title threads you have 6 times as many posts as me, if we're counting those, should I count my plastics? Those Timpo Vikings are almost works of art!

 

[TomNT]

"I have more toy soldiers than you
I have more friends in the hobby than you
I have done more dioramas than you
I'm taller than you
...and when you're not at the shop, I tell amusing stories at your expense

I believe I surpassed you some weeks ago!"

I did bring out my own range of Anzacs you know. I see that due to your hard service in the Movie and Song Title threads you have 6 times as many posts as me, if we're counting those, should I count my plastics? Those Timpo Vikings are almost works of art!

Im confused, did i see this post twice or is this a lover's tiff! ^&grin

Tom

 

[Fitzgibbon]

Realistic Water by Woodland Scenics. It must be the urine of the gods because it was quite expensive.

Water and economics have been close bedfellows for some time - "trickle-down" was always going to be about urine...but, of course, the most expensive is that which does not work; your dio does not give that impression. And then...your airman seems to have escaped since the cockpit is still in good shape; so it follows that he will be enjoying a jug of p..s somewhere...{sm4} and thanking the gods for his life no doubt.:rolleyes2::wink2:

 

[Jack]

Water and economics have been close bedfellows for some time - "trickle-down" was always going to be about urine...but, of course, the most expensive is that which does not work; your dio does not give that impression. And then...your airman seems to have escaped since the cockpit is still in good shape; so it follows that he will be enjoying a jug of p..s somewhere...{sm4} and thanking the gods for his life no doubt.:rolleyes2::wink2:

You are the people's poet!

 

[AIDMAN]

Steve

Thanks for commenting. As a middle aged adult male who has never made anything, I am embarrassingly pleased with myself. I will not have the skills to make buildings, but the Western Front is certainly accessible.

The beauty of seeing other people's dioramas is how much you can learn for free. One of the things I have learnt is that you do not have to have every figure in a range, but just the few for your diorama. It doesn't save me any money because I just spend it on other soldiers, but it does makes for a wider selection.

Jack

Jack....Of course you can!!. Do you think that all the guys here that turn out quality work just woke up and said I"m gonna build a dio and it came out tops first time...NO WAY!!!!!. I trashed no end of stuff ..(sometimes still do)..before i got to where i am now. It"s quite simply a learning curve, you just have to dare to try putting your ideas into reality!!..As far as walking round the board for a few days before you begin work..you are already off to a good start!!..and from the result you have the fantasy and certainly an eye for composition...So come on suprise yourself....Oh yes.... embarrasingly pleased is OK!!!!!!!!!.

Steve

 

[Jack]

Jack....Of course you can!!. Do you think that all the guys here that turn out quality work just woke up and said I"m gonna build a dio and it came out tops first time...NO WAY!!!!!. I trashed no end of stuff ..(sometimes still do)..before i got to where i am now. It"s quite simply a learning curve, you just have to dare to try putting your ideas into reality!!..As far as walking round the board for a few days before you begin work..you are already off to a good start!!..and from the result you have the fantasy and certainly an eye for composition...So come on suprise yourself....Oh yes.... embarrasingly pleased is OK!!!!!!!!!.

Steve

Steve

Many thanks - I will give some thought to trying a building...but I assure you that it is going to be a building that has taken a direct hit...possibly more than one!

Jack

 

[AIDMAN]

Steve

Many thanks - I will give some thought to trying a building...but I assure you that it is going to be a building that has taken a direct hit...possibly more than one!

Jack

WAY TO GO JACK...WAY TO GO.....!!!!!!!!!

Steve

 

[Jack]

A Camel in the snow!