Small Scale Military Headquarters

I spent a few hours of free time last night putting together some little dioramas with some of the 32x vehicles and figures I have around my apartment at school. I have many more vehicles and accessories at home, however, I don't keep them at school. Most of the photos were taken in black & white (actually sepia) with my digital camera to enhance the level of realism. There are a few colored ones. These are my first attempts at at dioramas in this scale. Due to space and material constraints, these are all relatively up-close photos, designed to put the viewer right into the action. Let me know what you all think and thanks for looking!

Here's the link:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shampts@s ... as,4%3af,0

This is what I see:

The File You Are Looking For Is Inaccessible.

Please sign in and try again or check with the owner of the file.

Sorry about that... The link worked when I tested it after posting, but that may have something to do with being on my computer. Lets try this again:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shampts@s ... /my_photos

If it doesn't work again, try the link to my website and look under the 32x Diorama's page.

tman

I don't see a diorama page when I click on your website (via the button). Just has a Miscelaneous gallery.

Sorry again about the mess. Thanks to P-51's observation, I realised that the three other albums besides the miscelaneous one had been selected as "Private," they are now "Public" and should be able to be viewed by others on different machines! Thanks for your help and for looking!

Those are great shots Tman. I particularily like the T-34/85 pics. I also impressed how good those little 1/32 figures look when photographed close up....quite realistic. In some ways more realistic than the larger 1/18 figures since there is no articulation present. (Btw, the vehicle you've labeled as a stug III is actually a stug IV, as it's based on the Panzer IV chassis)

I like the way you used b/w and blurring too. Very cool. I hope you'll take some more sometime and post them....maybe a king tiger lying in ambush or a British Matilda in a desert setting..

Same here. Eerily real!

-Ski

Nice pics, Tman!!

I've wanted to do something like that but never seem to get around to it. I make the scenes but never photograph them.

The b/w does make them look cool - straight out of a history book.

C2000

Tman, Nice pics! what did you use as the backdrop landscape photo and how far back from the vehicles did you place it?

Thanks!

Very nice pics, I really like the B/W ones...
BTW, I don't wanna be nit-pickin, but the Stug III is actually a Stug IV..

gee i wish i'd said that Harry..

Whew! Finally have a chance to get back to you guys from a UCLA library computer! The cable internet at my apartment is down, so my responses over the next couple of weeks will be slower. The cable company is upgrading the subsctiption and thus cancelled the old service and can't send a technician out to install the new service until February 1! Just give me the access numbers and I'll do it in 5 minutes! Arghhh

To get back on track...

Here's how I did the photos. I used my digital camera [an Olympus 726 C, I believe] in either the custom photo or portrait mode with the color usually set to "sepia" to make the photos black & white. The camera was set on a textbook or on the desk to get different heights and to hold it still. Lighting came from desk and room lights, and I didn't use the camera flash as it made the objects too "shiny." It was difficult to get the focus right at such close range, and for each good photo, there were 1-2 bad ones!

The backdrop is a scenic countryside picture that came as a demo with the JASC Photoshop software on my machine. I blew it up to about 8" X 10.5" and printed it at the highest quality setting on my inkjet printer. In retrospect, it seemed to work perfectly. It is mounted on the wall and the setups were made on a desk top pushed right up to the wall. The photos are all framed within that small backdrop.

Most of the shots are no more than 12-14 inches deep, which is the reason why you can't see the end of the tank gun barrels in some pictures. The figures that are blurred are closer to the camera than others. The folliage was made using moss from a houseplant. The figures, most of the vehicles, and the sandbag emplacements are 21c 32x, but the T-34 tank, the smaller crates, barrels, and the brick wall ruins are FOV.

Glad you all have enjoyed the pictures and thanks for your positive comments . I have also corrected the Stug III error!

Great work! Thanks for the update info. It sure looks realistic especially in the BW mode. I can't wait to try some myself. Thanks again for sharing the photos.
Todd

They look awesome!!! Bet you dont have a 2 year old daughter. hehe

Those ME 262 pictures are ABSOLUTLEY AWESOME!!!!

Thanks! King, did you notice that the M-18 Hellcat in the pictures was the one you sent me?

Nice to see it in all it's glory. Better than I could ever do

Hey King! We knew you couldn't stay away from the forum for long.

Mark