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[Artillery_crazy]

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[The Lt.]

Over the years I've gotten so much pleasure in creating my photo dioramas an sharing them. I remember that when first joining the forum they were very few who were photographing their dioramas and must give credit to the creator of

 

[Artillery_crazy]

few more..

 

[Artillery_crazy]

Now that digital makes it so much easier to capture the dios on images that can be shared it gives collecting an additional edge.....

 

[Artillery_crazy]

A few more.....

 

[Artillery_crazy]

more Colonial and inter Wars

 

[Artillery_crazy]

Few more Colonial and inter Wars

 

[Artillery_crazy]

more pics....

 

[The Lt.]

Over the years I've gotten so much pleasure in creating my photo dioramas and sharing them along with others who have joined me in doing so. It's alway a pleasure when viewing a figure or an item of mine prior to their staging an such a pleasure when seeing them come to life in my eyes when they appear in their photos. Over the past year or so the forums really come to life with photos being provided from our members. Thanks Kevin, Frank and Alec for your input on the subject along with the outstanding photos you've been providing us with. Spent a little time creating a mini dio featuring two of my many favorite figures within my collection..............The Lt.

 

[panda1gen]

Over the years I've gotten so much pleasure in creating my photo dioramas and sharing them along with others who have joined me in doing so. It's alway a pleasure when viewing a figure or an item of mine prior to their staging an such a pleasure when seeing them come to life in my eyes when they appear in their photos. Over the past year or so the forums really come to life with photos being provided from our members. Thanks Kevin, Frank and Alec for your input on the subject along with the outstanding photos you've been providing us with. Spent a little time creating a mini dio featuring two of my many favorite figures within my collection..............The Lt.

Joe, I agree it is a pleasure to share, but also to enjoy the collections you can't have from afar. There are many now doing this from around the world, artillery crazy, yourself, carlos, martyn, wayne, duke, tim, fubar, george, chris just to name a few others.

I also have to thank Louis and Lawrence for allowing me to photo and share some of their collections over the years.

 

[Firebat]

All good stuff.....Thanks to all, and lets keep this thread alive. Alex

 

[Rob]

There is no right and wrong way too enjoy your toy soldiers. Some collectors like to build permanent dioramas, others like to set up temporary scenes explicitly to photograph them. Due to space constraints and way too many ideas I fall into the latter category. I also enjoy the challenge of assembling the various scenic elements, vehicles and figures into cohesive scenes.

As for backdrops I use a variety of techniques.

I have made extensive use of the layering method alluded to by Alex. I refer to this as the digital or virtual background method. This consists of finding an appropriate backgrond picture and merging it with a foreground picture with photo editing software. The benefit of this method is it is quite easy to find good background pictures on the internet. I have used Google Earth to successfully search for geographically/historically appropriate backgrounds. The downside of this method is it can be time consuming and technically difficult. It is also prohibitively difficult to merge foreground pictures that include fine detail such as foliage with thousands of tiny leaves.

Recently I've made use of large background pictures. I refer to this as the picture background method. The benefit of this method is a much simpler process, take the picture, crop to frame, clean up and tweak details and post. No fancy merging required. The downside of this method is it is difficult to find suitable backgrounds that are sharp enough and have sufficient resolution to be blown up to large size. Most pictures you find on the internet don't meet these requirements and many have the additional problem of compression artifacts which look terrible when enlarged. I have worked around this problem by taking my own background pictures and then cropping and enlarging them to the appropriate size (72" x 24"). I have these pictures printed out and then hang them using poster hangers (see above).

Here are some examples:

Frank

Thanks for posting this Frank, the information you've given out here is very helpful and has convinced me to have a go at this myself in the very near future.

Cheers

Rob

 

[PanzerAce1944]

We all take photos of our dios or displays and I enjoy to watch them but..... I must say that even the best ones are a poor thing compared to a real view....Actually, the main carachteristic of toysoldiers is that they are 3D, and dios are wonderful as you can watch them from front, sides, bottom, high....While 100 pictures can never show what a dio is....{sm3}

And if we liked photos or paintings so much we would be photographers or painters and not dio builders {sm3}

Poppo,

I think most of the fun comes from creating dioramas from one's existing collection and sharing the photos with other members of the forum. Certainly they still are photos of Toy soldiers, but the amazing
thing is many here truly bring these Toy Soldiers to life with their extremely realistic displays.

 

[Artillery_crazy]

Hi Friends,
I was asked by a friend assembler close ups of two staff cars I have in my collection. One is a WW1 TAW Ford Model T and the other an Inter Wars Staff car called Praire Schonner by CJB. The latter one has a short history serving the British Army given that they began service towards the end of the 20s and were all lost in Dunkirk with the rest of the BEF heavy equipment........
So I thought of sharing these close ups with you also....
Regards

Artillery_Crazy

 

[Artillery_crazy]

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[Artillery_crazy]

These are the most recent British Empire sets to be added to my collection....
After a long trip between the UK - Brazil - Australia they finally arrived and are now being incorporated to the current standing battalions....Thanks to Obee and his magic..... A few more.....Very unique and not from the mass produced sets from China!! UK made Australian assembled