Hi, all, I built this car show diorama last summer. It was mentioned in some of my posts, but I never posted photos of it till now. It measures 50" x 12", and replaces a shelf in a hutch in our living room. The photos were taken outside to look more realistic. It represents part of a block of storefronts where a car show is going on in mid summer. I use it to display my models, swapping out old ones as new ones are completed.
This is downtown before the cars showed up.
Here's the registration canopy, made of paper, plywood, and music wire.
Building fronts are mostly plywood and balsa.
Here are some of the cars. The VW bus dragster model is 40+ years old and has a hemi in the back seat and hand painted "Poison Ivy".
Grocery store has brick paper over plywood with awning made of painted strips of masking tape on a music wire frame.
This shot puts it in perspective. It was on a table on the deck of our house. The whole diorama was built with scraps of materials I had laying around. I bought the G scale (more or less 1/24) figures from ebay. I spent about a month making it, and was pleased how it came out. I hope you like it, too!
Sam