PHPaul

Thank you!

Little better focus.

I see I need to figure out how to manually focus...

As mentioned in my New Member Intro, this Winter's project is a 2' by 4' farm diorama in 1/64th scale to take advantage of my collection of 1/64 farm toys. It's pretty obvious that neither my building skills nor my photography skills are on a par with some of the stunning examples posted here, but practice makes perfect. I'm trying to dust off what little photography skills I have and take my Nikon P510 out of Auto/Snapshot mode. It's coming back to me, but slowly...very slowly. Here are a couple of the not completely horrible shots I've managed so far. Constructive criticism of both the diorama and the photography are invited.

Since you insist....? Some of my favorites in farm toys. A 1/16 Ertl John Deere Compact kit-bashed to match my 1:1 JD750. Loader and rotary mower scratch built. Backhoe also scratch built. A Tonka truck resto-mod with scratch built snowplow. Current pastime, a 2 foot by 4 foot 1/64 scale farm diorama

Hi, Paul from Downeast Maine here. I'm 69 and twice retired. Once from the Navy 1969-1990, and completely in 2012 after a career in various forms of maintenance. As a kid in the Golden Era of Muscle Cars (graduated High School in 1968) I built a lot of 1/24 and 1/32 cars and trucks. As an adult I was into HO scale model railroading for several years. For the last couple of years, I've been building 1/16th farm equipment out of brass and restoring/resto-modding Tonka toys. I enjoyed the scenery and structures part of model railroading more than actually running trains (one reason I got out of it) and this Winter decided to try my hand at a diorama in 1/64 using the Ertl farm toys I've collected over the years. I hope it's okay that I joined for the diorama forum rather than any extensive interest in model cars. I've been perusing the diorama section as a guest and I can already see I'm WAY out of my league here. Fantastic stuff folks! I've already stol...uh..."borrowed" a few ideas. I can post a few pictures of my humble efforts if/when anyone is interested.