[WWI] 1/35 or 1/32?(A Different PERSPECTIVE!!!)

[ernest thomas]

It's funny that I've been following this thread because in all my years of 
modeling I haven't built enough rolling things for this question of 1/35 or 
1/32 to matter one lick to me.
But it's occured to me before that we should be able to use this disparity 
of consistant scales to our advantage. Why not build forced perspective 
dioramas? (If you don't know what that is, it's a diorama that is framed so 
the viewer only sees it from one angle.) It doesn't necessarily have to be a 
boxed diorama, just framed and displayed so the viewer sees it from a 
certain way. So if you put, say, a 1/72 truck and figures behind a 1/48 
aircraft, well designed, with the right scenery, one could create striking 
dioramas with depth rarely seen in the world of scale models.
It would take a more artistic eye that some of us(me) simply may not have 
and careful planning, as well as photographic backdrops in some cases, but 
it could certainly be done. And I think it might be a lot easier than one 
would first suspect.
I was just outside looking at things around the neighborhood. If I hold my 
finger and thumb(as if indicating something is rather small) out in front of 
my face about the distance from which I would normally look at a model, I 
noted that my midsize SUV is roughly 1" tall when seen from about 70 feet 
away. My neighbor's car is less than half an inch tall from about 50 yards, 
and my other neightbor's 2-story barn style house if about 3 to 4 inches 
tall from  maybe 100 feet away.
This suggest to me that one could imply a tremendous range of depth with the 
available scales without actually having to have a base equal to that 
implied scale distance, if that makes sense.
If done correctly, one could imply a distance of a couple, or even several, 
hundred yards of an aerodrome on a base about 2 feet deep by lining up a few 
1/72 aircraft behind a 1/32 aircraft, or a short distance on a flight line 
with a 1/48 kit between the 1/72 and 1/32. Add a building from one of those 
tiny railroad scales behind the airplanes and one could even suggest a 
distance of miles even.
E.

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