Mountain Road Ambush (1 Viewer)

[TomNT]

German General and his escort ambushed by Brit Commandos and an angry French partisan lass somewhere in the French Alps!

Tom

 

[TomNT]

More pic's..

 

[TomNT]

Last lot.

Tom

 

[villagehorse]

Using full use of the terrain in this scenario. Road, river and bridge all feature. Now we need a German troop train emerge from the tunnel hell bent on revenge. Excellent layout made easy when you have such a magnificent terrain board in play.:salute::, Robin.

 

[Larry Allen]

THAT … is simply amazing.
The work that you did on the terrain is top museum quality. There are so many possibilities for future display with that masterful design.
Have you totaled the number of hours of "love" that you put into the design and building …???
The realism is top-notch in the creation of the rocks and mountain face, river, roads, bridge and more.

To bad that you can package it up and take it with you to Chicago. I am sure the entire collecting community would be ecstatic to study and drool over that for a good while.

Well done, indeed!!!

See ya' in a month and a half in Chicago!!

---LaRRy

 

[uksubs]

Really nice Tom and great choice of afv

 

[wwiibuff]

Really great looking photos Tom. That's a terrific diorama layout you've made and one that allows you to take lots and lots of different camera angles to provide a variety of photo opportunities. I know you will enjoy this piece and make good use of it. Well done mate.

 

[Horus]

Great photos Tom telling this tale of yours. Yep, you're going to get plenty of mileage out of your diorama. Very well done mate. :salute:::salute:::salute::

Steve

 

[bradleyl30]

Wow Tom, I enjoyed that so much. Great attention to detail, staging and story.

 

[Guy]

great dorama, great terrain, great story, I love the setting in the mountain pass
Guy:smile2:

 

[TomNT]

Using full use of the terrain in this scenario. Road, river and bridge all feature. Now we need a German troop train emerge from the tunnel hell bent on revenge. Excellent layout made easy when you have such a magnificent terrain board in play.:salute::, Robin.

Thanks Robin and there's a Jerry train coming through the tunnel sometime soon but the para's (and angry French lass) will have been well and truly gone by the time it arrives. ^&grin

THAT … is simply amazing.
The work that you did on the terrain is top museum quality. There are so many possibilities for future display with that masterful design.
Have you totaled the number of hours of "love" that you put into the design and building …???
The realism is top-notch in the creation of the rocks and mountain face, river, roads, bridge and more.

To bad that you can package it up and take it with you to Chicago. I am sure the entire collecting community would be ecstatic to study and drool over that for a good while.

Well done, indeed!!!

See ya' in a month and a half in Chicago!!

---LaRRy

Thanks Larry, this dio took me a bit over a year to build (I didn't count the hours) although I did other things during the year so my time spent on it wasn't day in, day out. If you would like to view the construction pictures then I have a thread in the "how to dioramas" section at the middle to lower part of the forum. My thread is called "My Mountain Railway and Road Diorama Under Construction".

Yeah, it would be a nice thought that I could bring this to the CTSS but somehow shipping and having it arriving safely would be a financial and logistical nightmare! {eek3} See you and the guys next month.

Really nice Tom and great choice of afv

Thanks Neil and yeah, it's the first time I have taken pic's in a dio with my Panhard Armoured Car and I thought it was an appropriate choice given the French Alps location.

Really great looking photos Tom. That's a terrific diorama layout you've made and one that allows you to take lots and lots of different camera angles to provide a variety of photo opportunities. I know you will enjoy this piece and make good use of it. Well done mate.

Thanks Duke, if you ever visit Oz mate, then we can do a few dioramas together using your brilliant camera taking techniques and crisp images.

Great photos Tom telling this tale of yours. Yep, you're going to get plenty of mileage out of your diorama. Very well done mate. :salute:::salute:::salute::

Steve

Thanks Steve, glad you liked the tale mate.

Wow Tom, I enjoyed that so much. Great attention to detail, staging and story.

Thanks Larry.

great dorama, great terrain, great story, I love the setting in the mountain pass
Guy:smile2:

Thanks Guy, glad you liked it.

Thanks to everyone else that provided a like.

Tom

 

[mikemiller1955]

Awesome Tom...

that little kayak under your bridge in the water looks great!

you did a fantastic job and now have an area to display so many of your figures in different scenes...

 

[TomNT]

Awesome Tom...

that little kayak under your bridge in the water looks great!

you did a fantastic job and now have an area to display so many of your figures in different scenes...

Thanks Mike, here's one more overhead pic of the scene featuring the kayak.

Tom

 

[wayne556517]

Mate your gonna have some fun with this and we all benefit from it with great setups, so it's a win win.

 

[TomNT]

Thanks Robin and there's a Jerry train coming through the tunnel sometime soon but the para's (and angry French lass) will have been well and truly gone by the time it arrives. ^&grin

Oops, I stand corrected and should have said commandos, not Para's! :rolleyes2: I don't want a rivet counter coming in here and correcting me..^&grin I'll put the error down to being under the weather (having the flu) and not thinking straight!

Mate your gonna have some fun with this and we all benefit from it with great setups, so it's a win win.

Thanks mate and it's disappointing living in Darwin as no one can view this diorama or any of my dioramas in person. Pictures are fine but they can never be the same as the real deal and also setting up scenes with a mate. I enjoyed doing that with Duke and it would be great setting up scenes plus having get together's in person with my Aussie collector mates, you included Wayne. Hopefully in the near future when I move to another and bigger city (perhaps Adelaide, Australia) I can have these get together's and people coming around to view my dioramas and collection over a beer or 3!

Tom

 

[Raider]

Looks awesome Tom!!!Really enjoyed it,thanks for sharing!!!

 

[wayne556517]

Oops, I stand corrected and should have said commandos, not Para's! :rolleyes2: I don't want a rivet counter coming in here and correcting me..^&grin I'll put the error down to being under the weather (having the flu) and not thinking straight!



Thanks mate and it's disappointing living in Darwin as no one can view this diorama or any of my dioramas in person. Pictures are fine but they can never be the same as the real deal and also setting up scenes with a mate. I enjoyed doing that with Duke and it would be great setting up scenes plus having get together's in person with my Aussie collector mates, you included Wayne. Hopefully in the near future when I move to another and bigger city (perhaps Adelaide, Australia) I can have these get together's and people coming around to view my dioramas and collection over a beer or 3!

Tom

Only 3 ????
I won't bother for only 3 beers mate lol
Yep be great if you moved closer plus more chance of a woman in a bigger town cobber.

 

[TomNT]

Looks awesome Tom!!!Really enjoyed it,thanks for sharing!!!

Thanks Jason, I hope you are going to the CTSS this year so we can catch up for a beer!

Only 3 ????
I won't bother for only 3 beers mate lol
Yep be great if you moved closer plus more chance of a woman in a bigger town cobber.

I'll have the fridge full for you mate don't worry! ^&grin Yeah, more chance of meeting a nice lass as opposed to anyone decent here!

Tom

 

[zoidberg]

The problem with this work Tom is it makes everyone else look like toys, absolutely brilliant cheers Graham

 

[Obee]

Hopefully in the near future when I move to another and bigger city (perhaps Adelaide, Australia) I can have these get together's and people coming around to view my dioramas and collection over a beer or 3!

Tom

Hope it's not an Adelaide beer !!!!!

Well, COOPERS maybe, as that's quite palatable

John