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General Category => Dioramas => Topic started by: Ken Hamilton on April 07, 2010, 09:32:49 AM

Title: Coffee Can Diorama
Post by: Ken Hamilton on April 07, 2010, 09:32:49 AM
Okay.....I'll start the ball rolling here with a variation on the "Peanut Butter Lid" concept:
An HO-scale Coffee Can diorama.  Cutting out the side of a coffee can allowed for some
scenery that can't be worked into a flat PBL.

(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages109.fotki.com%2Fv787%2Fphotos%2F1%2F15405%2F4267294%2FPB260001-vi.jpg&hash=c55c3b006271c0381efaee305ddbf19afc612f73)

Just your average 60's afternoon with a car full of Juvenile Delinquents, pizza & beer....

(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages116.fotki.com%2Fv720%2Fphotos%2F1%2F15405%2F4267294%2FPC030001-vi.jpg&hash=a49260aa3840faca034c6e247001f30227ad4080)

Here's how it started:

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The Merc is a chopped Woodland Scenics '49:

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In-progress photos can be seen here:

http://public.fotki.com/khamilton/models/coffee-can-diorama/

Thanks for looking............
Title: Re: Coffee Can Diorama
Post by: finescalerr on April 07, 2010, 11:43:52 AM
Satisfactory. -- Russ
Title: Re: Coffee Can Diorama
Post by: mobilgas on April 07, 2010, 02:31:01 PM
Is that a guy pukeing up pizza  :(.....nice touch..........Craig
Title: Re: Coffee Can Diorama
Post by: David King on April 07, 2010, 05:06:29 PM
I always loved this one Ken, lots of imagination in such a small space.

David
Title: Re: Coffee Can Diorama
Post by: Frederic Testard on April 08, 2010, 04:10:59 PM
Your work is always amazing, Ken, and the level of detailing quite impressive, especially considering this is HO.
Title: Re: Coffee Can Diorama
Post by: Andi Little on April 09, 2010, 12:03:14 AM
Excellent job................. I've admired this piece before............... long and often.

Marvellous.
Title: Re: Coffee Can Diorama
Post by: JohnP on April 09, 2010, 07:07:31 PM
What a cool idea- and well executed (including the puke I guess!). Makes me think the box lid of an unfinished structure kit might make a good "space" to create a diorama. Anyway that is a neat idea and a good example for folks like me who claim to have no time for even a nominally sized diorama. Thanks.

John