discussion Are our models a reflex of our soul..?

[Guest]

Good night to all.

Today I have been on France for business, and stopped on a kiosk. They have excellent train magazines..... Taking a fast look I discover this amazing diorama on one of them.

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Is built inside some wine’s bottles boxes!!!

I think is the PERFECT diorama!!! It has all....it’s funny, romantic, has a nice tonality colour with “live” and of course....is very original!!!

I’m not worry about my skills (every day we learn new things), is just.... I remember my builds and.... anyone hasn’t this colour and energy!! I’m always changing my dioramas, adding new ideas and always talking that I want to build something “romantic”. Well....this is a lesson!!!

My question is..... are our models a reflex of our soul...?

It’s possible to learn and leave the grey colour on the stash...? Or is add on my “kind of be”....is just I’m a cold person!? I understand the major part of the members here (me too) build war items....and all it represents things like: weathering, dust, and other similar effects, but I have doubts, now, if I can “copy” or do a similar diorama!! Is so much genial!! You need a very opened mind!!

My best wishes and admiration to this amazing modeller.

Ps: the diorama is at 1/30 scale. The little rain runs, of course

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[Alan 45]

Well polux my old friend I was going to disagree as my dios are from World War II but now I've thought about it some of mine have an element of the human side, my football one I give as an example so maybe you have a point

 

[Guest]

It is very good Polux, but wait until the next issue when you'll see a Tiger tank about to upset that pastoral scene

 

[monica]

very interesting points you have bough up,

you know im going to need time to think and reflected on this one,before i put my foot in my mouth,

i hope it dose not reflected your souls as i would be in a very dark place believe me if it did lol,

 

[eddiesolo]

I have tried to create some theme to my dios, successfully (?)...not so sure, but I try. As for quality of builds, I struggle with bad eyes, arthritic back and hips, bad arms and hands that shake...but one thing I do know...this site and its myriad of builders in all genre's have given me the ability to up my game and skill...I may never be to the quality of images in Polux's mag but I will try my very best to make a model, scene or dio as interesting as I can do and afford.

Si

 

[Guest]

Mmm...it's true Alan!! But don't understand me wrong, I'm not saying all the dioramas here are "grey" or without "live"!!

Is just...I build two dioramas and they are very serious!! Maybe for this reason start the neon sign, looking for something different

Or maybe is just this weekend was my Birthday and now I'm one year older and I see all different

 

[Guest]

Polux to me each model I make means something to me. I choose a model for some reason.

Falklands as I was 40 at the time and it was the bravery which came out of that war. I waited in dread for the news and this war made a mark on me. Read most of the books that came out most being personal accounts of some one in that conflict. So I built a Wessex and a Sea Harrier as two books were about the pilots of one and observer of the other.

Lysander as I have read so many books about the resistance and this dear little aircraft delivered and collected agents in the field in more ways than one. Landing on miniature fields in France.

Swordfish as I have read about those that flew this crazy machine for the era it went to war. Mosquito the 3 books about night fighter pilots. WW11 also had the added incentive I I lived through that as a small boy and the pilots and aircraft were every boys dream despite the disasters which were going on but were not aware of.

So the list goes on. But I would not build a model for its looks this would be just a happy coincidence. They all there on my shelves for what they were and the people in them.

Incidentally there are not many of these books I have not read at least twice.

Laurie

 

[Alan 45]

I'm not disagreeing with you mate you do make a good point about our dios reflecting our personality , I build a dio on what is available to me at the time so some are war based but when I get an idea of my own it's different , I try to go away from the fighting and do something with a human aspect , sadly this is not always possible as it's hard to get the figures to do what I want to do.

 

[Guest]

Think I have proposed a difficult question. Of course everybody looks it different!!

Maybe some of us will say: I paint on "grey" colour, but is just because it was grey!! I'm just follow the history!!

Mmm...yes, maybe! But we all knows there are more things behind this kind of act

I am a tidy person, am happy or depressed, am meticulous or..... uff many things can change our kind of build models!!

 

[Guest]

I'm agree with you Alan!! Many of the figures are fighting or similar!!

And I haven't the enough talent or skills to build as I want

 

[Guest]

Very interesting option and point of view Laurie!!

 

[eddiesolo]

I'm agree with you Alan!! Many of the figures are fighting or similar!!And I haven't the enough talent or skills to build as I want

Only you can answer if you think you have the skills...I would say yes you have. However, folk have said I have skills in dio builds...yet, like you I don't think I have.

Si

 

[Guest]

If Paul P observes this thread, he will pulling us the ears .... with his great post "how to sculpt a figure".

 

[Alan 45]

Polux Si , I think you both have the skills to do what is needed for a dio you want to do , I'm relatively new to diorama so it's difficult for me to get what I want I have to choose the figures and dios are all about figures and how we see the dio evolve around them.

Now both of you have the ability to change that , we are our own worst critique and what we see is not what others see

 

[Dave W]

I read a lot of books associated with WW2.And I'm inspired to build models of the Aircraft I read about.Ive also built models of aircraft I've worked on such as Phantoms and Tornado's.Im a licensed aircraft engineer by trade and currently work on Boeing 757's and Airbus A320/321's.But I've never wanted to build a model of one.So it must be the war element that interests me.Wonder what that says about my personality?.

 

[Guest]

To answer the question that Polux posed, my view is a strong ' No ' - I don't think military modelling is a reflection of our souls.

There is an undeniable majesty & beauty about tanks, ships & aircraft for all that they're machines designed to kill.

But having said that, it's not the weapons of war or even the men and women who use them that cause death. It's the leaders & politicians who do that, for reasons of greed or vanity.

Let's also not forget that as abhorrent as war is, it also represents humankinds greatest leaps forward - would we have jet aviation, satellite communication or computers in everything were it not for the advances made in extreme need during WWII?

 

[stona]

To a greater or lesser extent, depending on the individual, building models or dioramas is an artistic as much as a technical endeavour. To that extent it is something that comes from within. Imaginative rather than literal dioramas, like the ones at the top of the thread have a larger artistic element, but no two are the same.

I'm afraid I'm more of a technician than an artist I do very much admire artistry when I see it, someone already mentioned Paul P's figure sculpting which is a fine example. There are plenty of others represented here too.

Cheers

Steve

 

[Guest]

My ears were burning , years ago i used to teach art classess to kids and the one thing that struck me with kids as opposed to adults is that kids will never say i cant paint or draw, mainly because thay are not critical of their own work, give them crayons or paints and whatever they do is magic. Then we grow up and we become more concious of our own failings, oh to be a kid again. As far as im concerned everyone can paint, build models be it tanks or planes or ships or figures, its only our self doubt that stops us becoming better. I dont think that because we build these things of war that it is a reflection of our soul, but it is a reflection of our artistry and imagination. When i think of building a figure i want it to represent that figure from the past so i name them, so the greek was Aries, the Roman Vespasian and the Viking Ragnar, so they become something from history. Everybody here has a talent and its art whichever way you look at it, ENJOY it

 

[flyjoe180]

I build them because I enjoy it. I enjoy the technical side of it like Steve, from research through the building stages to the final product. An emotional and artistic aspect may be there but they are more motivators than a soul search.