Need the name for a type of display please.

[Guest]

Hi John - really looking forward to this one !

Thanks Nick, seats will be available thro Steve Jones Ticket Masters c/o the forum in the near future.

I've got some of these in the stash... more than I could ever use... let me know if you want a sprue or two John?
Jason.

PLEASE PLEASE, yes indeed Jason just say how much and the postage please. They will be far better than any melted blacked sprue one that I try.:smiling3: Thank you.

I think mine are beer bottles but the offer is still there!

Jason I 'd take a guess they bottled it in any thing they could get their hands on., yes please. PM inbound

[Guest]

I thought these were called perspective dioramas, or is that something different?
Pete

Evening Pete, hazarding a guess I would think you are right, its the same type of thing to me. Just found this on the webb.

Study from 2014 into producing this type of image. Thank you.

[Tim Marlow]

I think forced perspective is the art of using smaller scale models at the rear of a diorama to make the back look further away than it actually is. I’ve seen some excellent railway models using this idea.

[Guest]

I think forced perspective is the art of using smaller scale models at the rear of a diorama to make the back look further away than it actually is. I’ve seen some excellent railway models using this idea.

Possible a step to far then Tim :loudly-crying:

[Tim Marlow]

On a visit to Italy many years ago we visited an old monastery which it was possible to have a look around. It had one room painted in forced perspective decor that really messed with your head. The room was rectangular but the decoration made it look oval in form. The illusion worked when you kept your head still, but when you moved all the walls seemed to swell and shrink!

[Tim Marlow]

Box dioramas are different John. You can make them look like a window into a room or vehicle. No forced perspective is required, but good directional lighting really lifts them.

[Guest]

Box dioramas are different John. You can make them look like a window into a room or vehicle. No forced perspective is required, but good directional lighting really lifts them.

Thank goodness Tim, bed time reading tonight is Shep Payne.

[Tim Marlow]

I think he did the Vietnam memorial wall box diorama and it’s shown in that book. It’s pure genius! There is a veteran deep in thought looking at the names. However, when a button is pushed to turn on the internal illumination the wall becomes translucent, showing the lost comrades the veteran is thinking of.

[Guest]

I shall have to see if that is in this book .

[Tim Marlow]

I’ve got a book with it in somewhere. I’ll try to find it....

[wotan]

John

Yes the barn you mentioned is the one I made and is the piccie I posted, called 101st airborne lost in the French countryside on the night before D Day. Like I said don't be afraid of using led lighting and even fibre optics. The electronics are very simple and they can all run from a 9 volt battery. The only challenge is finding places to hide the wires as you connect them up. The cost of leds is minimal and you can find everything you might need on many railroad modelling sites like this one Hobby LEDs for Model Trains, RC, Diecast - Home

Good luck sir.

John

[Guest]

John

Yes the barn you mentioned is the one I made and is the piccie I posted, called 101st airborne lost in the French countryside on the night before D Day. Like I said don't be afraid of using led lighting and even fibre optics. The electronics are very simple and they can all run from a 9 volt battery. The only challenge is finding places to hide the wires as you connect them up. The cost of leds is minimal and you can find everything you might need on many railroad modelling sites like this one Hobby LEDs for Model Trains, RC, Diecast - Home

Good luck sir.

John

Thanks John.:thumb2: Nice site, can see me looking for idea here.

[BattleshipBob]

:thumb2:Mr Race sir, grovel, grovel etc, etc

With regards to your up and coming event

Will there be reserved parking space for me StuG, sorry unable to bring a ship as its a swine to do a three point turn

[Tim Marlow]

Hi John
I got the name wrong. It wasn’t by Shep Paine, it was by a guy called Ernie Mirfin. The book is about a dozen years old (Osprey, Displaying your model) so the dio may well pre-date mass digital photography. I therefore couldn’t find much of anything about it on the net, but there is a bit on this site.....

http://www.boxdioramas.com/windrowdisplay

[Tim Marlow]

Just been browsing that site and realised John B’s Normandy barn is one of those featured....nice one Wotan.