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I don't know how many of you do this (I'm assuming it's probably an addiction all to itself!) but playing with model cars, figures, dioramas, it's all part of truly enjoying the work you do. If you've never done a vignette or a small diorama or played around with figures, you don't know what you are missing.

Hope you enjoy:

http://www.youtube.c...66?feature=mhee

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Of course, my inspiration for this was watching Jim "Hollywood" Fernandez put together the BAD GUYS DIORAMA:

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Photos courtesy of "Hollywood" Jim Ferandez

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Thanks Virgil! B)

have a Great Holiday yourself! :)

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I play with my models all the time, only when no one else is looking though :lol: , I have a few dioramas I want to do, but the way I want to do them , they are going to big. There is a seller on evilbay selling two and three bay garages for a low price, I have been thinking about getting one of them

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Whether you build them yourself or buy them the idea is the same, I guess, which is to set up your own little stories and photograph them, have quite a bit of fun doing so, then feeding the rest of us eye candy.

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Hey everyone you all should listen to Dr diorama's are fun and its the next step in model building.Here is food for thought when you start to

get bored of building models build a diorama and test out your artistic side you'd be surprized how much detail you can put into this.

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He kept washing out the spark plugs! :lol:

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i like 'playing' with what I build... That's why I'm also a model railroader... And that's why I love dioramas. But let someone unfamilliar and unaccustomed to the hobby accuse me of 'playing with toys'... If I'm at home, I usually respond by pulling out a small 1/350 resin destroyer kit and ask them if they're man or woman enough to pony up the 150+ bucks to buy this 'Toy' and the 40+ hours required to build it properly... That usually gets their undivided attention and, I am then able to go into more detail as to what this hobby actually entails! If I'm not at home, I have several good model pics on my phone...

I have used a couple of my airplane models as props (no pun here :rolleyes: ) to explain some different dogfight moves to people, does that count?

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You blow me away with thee type of dioramas. I just started my first and found my self kind of playing with it in a child like way. I even had thoughts of it being like a doll house. So I'm alright then? Actually it's a body shop I wanted to open after High School.

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Sometimes all you have to do is just get the idea you want to see your model in a scale environment you can manipulate and change as you play. That's where a lot of the fun is.

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I have always considered dioramas to be the best way to display a model. It tells the viewer a story about the model. It maybe an explanation about the models function or hints of its past or future life. A good diorama plays on the imagination of the viewer. Most of the models I build end up in some form of diorama.

Carl

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I'm not into the dolls house thing, but all my models MUST have freely rotating wheels, so I can play with them. I go to great lengths to achieve this if the model is not properly engineered for that out of the box. And yes, I do push them around on a table top and imitate the engine sound doing this :D

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Dr, Cranky, a quick question please.

In the second post you show 3 pictures. In the background of the third pic there is the Marine assault transport from Aliens. It looks to be a smaller scale maybe 1/35.

Do you know who made this kit?

Danger

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