This is the first module on the Jenny diorama that I will finish.The brass fittings are the door handles.The doors must be lined up exactly as they have no hinges to attach them to the main hangar module.The diorama is designed to be taken apart if required ,so all the modules surrounding the main hangar must be removable.
It is funny how it takes me a couple of days to warm up to a piece of work after I have left it for a long period of time.It is like mentally you have to replay the record(DVD) to get back on track again.

Hi John!
looking forward to your build!
One question: where do you stor all of your finshed dios? They are quite big...
ciao
Edo

Hi Edo! They are going to the CAM in Ottawa.

This module is next.

John,

You are simply in a class by yourself.

Regards, Dwayne

notherpic

Hey John did you put the title and registration in the glove box?

Call the constabulary John. I think we can find the vandal!

Finishing up module 2
Module two is now finished and ready to be screwed down.I finished filling up the garbage pail and adding a crime scene to the fence.I feel like an insurance adjuster at the scene of a hit and run.Our culprit however has left behind a few clues.

Is there a still hidden in there somewhere? It seems like everything else has been accounted for.

For Stephen,
Sorry officer I can't find the darn glove box!

Better not be Carl! I am already in trouble enough with the law.

Module 3 is now ready to be worked on.
The two figures could be CNR truck drivers waiting for the engine to be boxed up or they could be a couple of chauffeurs waiting for the dignitaries visiting the hangar.
Hooters, the barn owl, is still waiting to be put somewhere in the rafters.

Hi John!
stunning as usual... as Dwayne said: you are a class apart!!




What is it? A museum?

Model on!
Edo

Here are the basic elements of the chess players vignette broken down into its individual pieces.I couldn't find any reference to CNR truckers uniforms but I do know that chauffeurs of the era wore similar type uniforms .
First I will establish where I will glue down the central element which are the boxes because everything else depends upon their correct placement.
These figures are interesting because they were designed to be two WW2 German officers sitting in a truck.Normally I would modify the figures to fit the scene but in this case I did the opposite,I built the vignette up around the figures.

With this figure I want the heels of his boots just resting on the wood planks in a very relaxed position, so I built up the stack of wood to make this happen.

These are the engine crate panels waiting to be nailed together.
They are not parallel to the plywood base but almost.Putting things parallel is generally a no no when building dioramas ,in fact if I was to do it all over again I think that I would make the edge of the diorama a little wavy.I am concerned about everything looking a little too square.When it goes in its case I will suggest that it goes in at an angle to make it more pleasing to the eye.

Dioramas as a one frame movie!
"What we wanted to do at the beginning of all this,was to show what happens when you take human beings and put them through hell,then wonder how in the world they will approach life when they come home".

Steven Spielberg on his new piece The Pacific.

I was reading this in my newspaper this morning and it struck me how similar his idea for making a 10- part mini series on the war in the Pacific, and my idea for my latest diorama "Loss Of Innocence,Will it Ever Be The Same" are alike.(We must be reading each others mail.)
This is exactly what I have been writing about recently on the power of the storyboard diorama as a one frame movie.
A movie tells a story in all its thrilling detail and action,on a big screen with music,dialogue etc... a diorama does the same but with one frame.That is the magic and the challenge of the storyboard diorama reducing it all to one frame and still tell a powerful story.Sometimes the story is even more powerful in diorama form because it is left up to the viewer to connect the dots in his mind.A movie lays it all out for you ,a diorama requires a little more imagination on your viewers part.
This is why I believe storyboard dioramas are as much an "Art "as any of the other visual media.