Wanted: How to make Stuka diving on Infantry?

[Razor17019]

Hey!
I had a thought about a new diorama that would feature my winter Stuka.
I would like to mount the Stuka on something attached to the base of the diorama allowing enough height to fit troops underneath and allow it to have a steep dive. Has anyone made something like this before or know what I could use to do this with??
Pics of what you did would be helpful.
Thanks,
Razor

[flyboy_fx]

Are you good with steel? You could weld a small steel pole onto a steel base (Dio base) and that would support it.

[STUKA]

oh sorry I thought you were talking about me.....
actually that would be cool dio

[VMF115]

oh sorry I thought you were talking about me.....
actually that would be cool dio

I can see it .....Stuka mounted on some short of pole or harness throwing plastic bombs at some infantry while screaming the dive whistle.....

[Panzer_M]

clear acrylic tube, like I use for 1/144 Bf 109E-7/Bs(3" sticks w/3" base and earth magnets to hold the Takara 109 to the stick)

but bigger of course to hold the increased weight of the larger model.

[aferguson]

i gather the 'troops underneath' will be of a smaller scale, so you're doing a sort of forced perspective type diorama?

To be honest i think the simplist approach is to make your base, with troops, decide where you're going to display it and then hang the stuka, via fishingline, in a vertical dive over top of the base. Then you could stand on a chair, or whatever and look at the base from above the stuka to get a sort of pilot's eye view of the action.

To make a stand that is attached to the base will be very clunky lookng plus very top heavy and likely to keep tipping over.

http://www.aviationarthangar.com/sofdejustava.html

[Razor17019]

Everyone - Thanks!

Aferg
Thanks for the comments. The link you posted gave me an ideal of using a photograph on the base with the plane coming to attack. (forced perspective)
I am looking for something that does not involve hanging the plane, because all my hooks are around the edge of the room without a place to put a base below it.

Thanks!!!!
Razor

[Crazy Kraut]

maybe this helps:
http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http ... s%3Disch:1
It is much smaller but maybe you can use it for more ideas.
regards from Germany

[HIDEOUS ONE]

fishing line

[aferguson]

did you ever finish this Razor? I'm curious how it turned out if you did.

I've been thinking more and more about using forced perspective displays. It allows for a wider variety of ideas and as display space dwindles, helps conserve room.

I'm doing a simple one now My 1/18 Samantha Peyton P-38 with a 1/144 Japanese Betty belching smoke and crashing, displayed a couple of feet behind it. Not sure how it's going to look but i thought i'd give it a try.

When Admiral was going to release a Dauntless i had planned to get a large colour top view illustration of a Japanese carrier and put it on the floor, on a sea backround with the Dauntless suspended above it. I was going to stand on a chair and look down from just behind the Dauntless, in sort of a pilot's eye view. I think that would have looked pretty good. Of course, no Dauntless was forthcoming.

http://www.aviationarthangar.com/mtuposbddaav.html

[VMF115]

Holy jumping thread revival batman!

[aferguson]

this is nothing.....it's a little over a year old. I've seen threads pop up on here that are 4, 5, 6 years old.

[normandy]

I missed this one.... cool idea. I like the link Crazy Kraut provided.........if your going to use the same scale that would be the way to go.

[Razor17019]

WOW! What a blast from the past! I don't even remember this now. I have changed over my display area over the years and guess I abandoned this ideal when I found a better way to display the planes. I have my winter Stuka hanging up from the ceiling, but not harrassing any troops or armor.
But I like the free thinking and brain storming that comes about on this board when someone gets a ideal of doing something. But as you see above, not one of you ever bashed anyone else's input to the thread or called my original ideal stupid or crazy. I don't see that on any other boards of this type that I visit.
Aferg, please feel free to pursue this to a conclusion if you find it helpful.

[granch]

I've also used fisherman threads to hang up planes over a diorama. More than 30 years ago (sorry, no pic left), I put an 1/48 plane over a 1/72 diorama (or was it an 1/72 plane over a 1/87 dio?). When seen from above, it makes a sense of perspective and depth, and it made also pictures easier (no choice to make to get the plane or the dio sharp, because the distance between the 2 objects wasn't so much). In the same way, I put 2 F-5E Tigers side by side, one in 1/72 and the other in 1/144 scale, on a pane of glass, with a big picture of a landscape in the background. The last one at a sufficient distance to avoid "wrong" scale shadows of the planes on the picture. With the hope that it helps: