Again, thanks for all the good words.
Now I just gotta figure out how to give the other 3% some ideas.
Seriously, I, like many others here no doubt, have a wife, two children, and a mother that lives with us. So space is limited in our home. So I don't have room to build the larger dioramas that I would like to build. I went through the stage of "playing" with my dios like all the rest but now I've come to the point where I can just build them and leave them be... most of the time. Many of the ones I build now are small enough to place on a desk shelf, and I'll rotate them every so often to keep the juices flowing.
And if you're careful with a good parts box you can build two or three of these from one kit Definately helps on the inflation.
Here's another one on the same size base 11" x 7", just scrap MDF.
Sorry that there are no in progress pics but I built this before I started posting pics.