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Farmerkev wrote:Not sure, but Id like to make one so people would quit looking at me funny when I play with my models in the backyard. That is a good one Jason
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Claus I dont get it either ....but most of the guys in here build working diorama's ..and thats cool . But for me its the static diorama's that really get my attention ,,everything replicated and aged down to the finest detail ..the military dio's are a real work of art ....
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I dont have room for a dio..
As much as id like to make a really nice one...i cant!
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loaderman953C wrote:Claus wrote: What do you do with a diorama when it's done?
Well, in my opinion there are two types of dioramas, working dios and static dios. A static dio is an example of a dio that is done. I built this dio with the sole intent to display a crane model with some dirt models. I can simply swap out models, but the culverts, stone, dirt will not change. Andrew Looks great Andrew!! I like the static dios a lot better than the working dios. I say that a static dio is a true dio. I haven't built one yet but going to try to start a logging one after I get some more logging models.
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diecast_dirtboy wrote:
Looks great Andrew!!
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This is how I see it,making dios is a hobby it's self,many people do it to make there equipment stand out in there fleet.This is what i think a real dio must inlude,grass,dirt,trees,hardscapes,roads,buildings,curbs,and all the little details that make a dio look realistic.going out side to your backyard getting a shovel scooping dirt and put it in a box and call it a dio,is not a real dio,its just a dirt box.I personally dont have a real dio(not enough room),if i did have one it would replicate the city streets of one of my favorite citys philly.Back on topic,people make dios to make there equipment stand out in there collection doing real jobs that they would do in real life.Why not a train layout?may you ask,some people are not intrested in trains,i went to my local train shop last weekend and do you know how much it costs to make a train layout in O scale,proply over 500$ to 1000$.Some people just dont have that money or time to do that and they arent interested in trains,that why they make construction dios My hat goes of to you wonderful dio makers,becasue you have to articsitc in making them. 
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Cat345bl wrote:Why not a train layout?may you ask,some people are not intrested in trains,i went to my local train shop last weekend and do you know how much it costs to make a train layout in O scale,proply over 500$ to 1000$.Some people just dont have that money or time to do that and they arent interested in trains I think you miss understood me, I wasn't suggesting people on this forum should build train layouts, I was just saying that at least with a train layout you can use it when done. And your WAY off on you prices, I have an O guage locomotive that cost $1,000.00 and several that cost $500.00, people that build O guage layouts get into ten of thosands of dollars very quickley. That's another reason I don't want one.
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I do like Hummer13's dios altho he moves the machines. They also look really good!! Here is what a real dio sould look like. Sorry for the angle. 
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diecast_dirtboy wrote:I do like Hummer13's dios altho he moves the machines. They also look really good!! Here is what a real dio sould look like. Sorry for the angle. Heres one I took of it 
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Claus wrote:I think you miss understood me, I wasn't suggesting people on this forum should build train layouts, I was just saying that at least with a train layout you can use it when done.
And your WAY off on you prices, I have an O guage locomotive that cost $1,000.00 and several that cost $500.00, people that build O guage layouts get into ten of thosands of dollars very quickley. That's another reason I don't want one. Boy isn't that the truth! The pricing on O scale buildings is pretty stiff even before you lay any track... 
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diecast_dirtboy wrote:I do like Hummer13's dios altho he moves the machines. They also look really good!! Here is what a real dio sould look like. Sorry for the angle. I used to just have a box with dirt in it and through in a few machines, but this last dio I am doing a 4 by 8 foot table. I am trying to make it as realistic as I can do. I have been reading and purchasing a lot of model railroad supplies for the realism aspect of my dio. I am trying to take it out of the playing in the dirt dio to the making it look like you are here watching the machines accomplish a task at hand. A lot of the time it comes down the pictures that you take, angles can make the machine look like a toy or the real deal. Weathering also has a lot to do with realism in the dio. I for one have weathered quite a few of my machines for this dio I am doing. After all it is just money and you can not take it with you, you might as well have some fun with it. And O scale is a expensive scale to purchase stuff for. I try to make as much as possible when I can Jason
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One of the kids on the forum made some kind of crack that "what the difference in weathering a model or playing with it in the dirt?", I know one of my weathered models brought $600. 00 once on ebay, what will his sandbox toys bring?
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Claus wrote:One of the kids on the forum made some kind of crack that "what the difference in weathering a model or playing with it in the dirt?", I know one of my weathered models brought $600. 00 once on ebay, what will his sandbox toys bring? What one was that? If you sell a weathered model you must sell it on eBay. They bring tons! Vinny didn't you do a dio for the openhouse? Who did the logging dio, I can't remember? Hopefully I'll have one this year.
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It was a D10T, I didn't do the selling, I made it for my freind ( an ebay seler) and He sold it.
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diecast_dirtboy wrote: Who did the logging dio, I can't remember? Hopefully I'll have one this year. That logging dio was done by Greg (325cl). Andrew
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Claus,
Listening to comments from others on the projects you have to understand it's the pleasure in creating a simulted scene of event's scaling down what happens in the real in the arena within the comfinment of ur room. Models on a shelves are dead diorama's makes the models come alive people go about it differently some like posing scene while other enjoy the real movements as tho they actualy doing the work "not interms of playing as playing is scattered work but orderly doing ur series of events to form a task". You said you weather models why weathering hmmm!!!!! Trying to get the scene to be real is not an easy job but a lot has to do with sunlight and angles along with using real materials. Everyone when starting out will not be there but they enjoy the process. For mi i use only a few for diorama and it's give mi a better perspective when working on the jobsite as when ur'e in the excavator u only see the bucket but say i operate the model using it as an example u see the outer picture and this helps with exterior perspective at work and it works.
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diecast_dirtboy wrote:[quote=Claus]One of the kids on the forum made some kind of crack that "what the difference in weathering a model or playing with it in the dirt?", I know one of my weathered models brought $600. 00 once on ebay, what will his sandbox toys bring? I didnt mean it in terms of money but in altering the model. There is no doubt if you custom weather it that it will sell for more money that a model from a dio that is weathered just from the dio but i was comparing as far as altering the model not how much you can sell it for.
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R Jordan wrote:when working on the jobsite as when ur'e in the excavator u only see the bucket but say i operate the model using it as an example u see the outer picture and this helps with exterior perspective at work and it works. If all you can see in the bucket then you got a problem. You should know where you tracks are, where your counter weight is, {unless you have a CR} the stick, the boom. If you don't see where your tracks are you might have your excavator on its side and be running over everything. If you don't see your counter weight and you swing you might swing into a slope or machine or tree or a person. If you don't see your boom you'll be into the telephone wires and tree limbs and any other danger above you. You got to know your machine and how it works. I may be only 13 and I have been on machines for my whole life. You also may think I'm just some hic from WV that knows nothing about equipment or tractors but I have had a lot of experience.
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If all you can see in the bucket then you got a problem. You should know where you tracks are, where your counter weight is, {unless you have a CR} the stick, the boom. If you don't see where your tracks are you might have your excavator on its side and be running over everything. If you don't see your counter weight and you swing you might swing into a slope or machine or tree or a person. If you don't see your boom you'll be into the telephone wires and tree limbs and any other danger above you. You got to know your machine and how it works. I may be only 13 and I have been on machines for my whole life. You also may think I'm just some hic from WV that knows nothing about equipment or tractors but I have had a lot of experience.
It's more than just the bucket i know that i do the work everyday. I was speaking interms of a bucket perspective. For example packing boulders wall 3-4 lears of rock or more this is where a second pair of eye's come in as u don't see around the rock. So understand the statement plz read carefully with understanding.
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