Small Scale Military Headquarters

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

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

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

STUKA wrote: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.....

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.

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

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

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

fishing line

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

Holy jumping thread revival batman!

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.

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.

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.

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: