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[Airborne01]

Started to assemble bits and pieces to complete the Diorama for the Rocket GB; may not be finished before the end of December but should be soon thereafter if not. Probably won't use everything but at least I'll have the choice! The setting will be second-line resupply/maintenance area with a 'relaxed' atmosphere. More than open to suggestions and ideas!
Steve

[minitnkr]

WoW!

[scottie3158]

That will be quite some scene with those beauties to add.

[Neil Merryweather]

I'm sorry Steve, you've forgotten the kitchen sink!
that's going to be stunning!

[Airborne01]

I'm sorry Steve, you've forgotten the kitchen sink!
that's going to be stunning!

Forgotten nothing Sirrah - just trying to work out how to make the soap suds ... !
Steve

[Neil Merryweather]

[papa 695]

Looking forward to seeing this one develop.

[Airborne01]

Realised that if all the elements I've proposed for this diorama (there are more than shown) are used effectively I'll need a base the size of a decent kitchen table - soooo, I've decided to create the base as a series of interlocking modules - unless I take photos with a drone the whole scene won't be visible, therefore a group of photos and a fertile imagination will be required. Back to the planning stage (scaled down 'footprints' didn't work) so please wish me luck! More than open to suggestions, tips and comments. Thanks
Steve

[Jim R]

A great selection to choose from. Clever idea to make modules. It will just need some careful planning to ensure it all ties together but I'm sure you're onto it.

[Airborne01]

A great selection to choose from. Clever idea to make modules. It will just need some careful planning to ensure it all ties together but I'm sure you're onto it.

Absolutely right Jim - careful planning of walls, gullies, banks, and pavement edges etc is paramount! Just got to get my geriatric frontal lobes into gear now! (Brain cells -'Stand by, stand by' !)
Steve

[Airborne01]

Well, some progress! Bearing in mind the 6P maxim (Planning and Preparation Prevents P--s Poor Performance) I've reverted to traditional pencil and paper to develop this idea, I found a company that will deliver MDF or timber that has been cut to size, searched my shelves and found some paper of appropriate size - so here is the cunning plot (so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a fox!): I realised that to incorporate all the elements (and more) that I revealed earlier the final diorama needs to be larger, much larger!

Sooo, In my cave I have a series of Ikea Kallax units - a modular unit that incorporates individual modules having an internal measurement of 300 x 300 x 300 mm; these currently contain books with a model/small bookend diorama to the front. I have ordered nine pre-cut MDF pieces (300 x 300 mm) that will together yield a footprint of almost one square metre. I can thus produce a 3x3 matrix that will, in themselves, ultimately produce nine individual dioramas that when combined result in a supercalifragilisticexpealidocious diorama!
The draft requires the use of my Daler Rowney acrylic paper pad measuring 230 x 140 mm; this allows a full - scale footprint to be produced and allows for (a) development of ideas (by judicious application of the eraser/rubber), and (b) a developmental overlap and continuation of adjacent modules (I told you it was cunning) - by placing the 300 mm sq centrally on the pad, full size footprints of individual components, cut from coloured paper, can be manipulated at will until the Eureka moment arrives. Ta Da! (PS Books etc are removed) Each module should eventually become a stand alone diorama- never considered anything on this scale!

I have identified individual modules as follows: Top row left -TL; Top row centre -TC; Top row right -TR; Centre left -CL; Centre -C: Centre left CL; Bottom row left - BL; Bottom centre - BC, and finally Bottom right - BR. The outline scheme so far is as follows:

TL - Farmhouse occupied by HQ staff (no surprise there!) with courtyard , small outbuildings and roadway to the right, Staff car, Kubelwagens and motorcycles parked up.
TC- Farm outbuildings repurposed as maintenance area
TR - As above
CL - Field area wit small farm outbuildings equipment dumps, R&R area, roadway continues
C - Farm buildings/ workshop/ maintenance area
CR - As above
BL - Field with cows/sheep, equipment dumps and rest area. Roadway degenerates to muddy track (?)
BC - Some small outbuildings, field boundary etc
BR- Small church with graveyard etc?

Personnel and gear/equipment as appropriate.; vehicles, scrap,, tracks, roads and culverts, hedgerows, bushes and walls to merge adjacent elements as appropriate - even a midden perhaps? I will greatly appreciate comments, suggestions and criticisms! Thanks! Wish me luck - along with other projects, GBs etc I should be busy all year! Keep me on track please
Steve

[Jim R]

Well Steve it sounds as if you've given this a lot of thought. All sounds like a good plan that should work.