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

[Magnus Berggren]

Forced perspective can be very nice, but it requires shadowbox settings to 
really come through.
And they tend to be very big. Some years ago I saw one at a exhibition, and 
it measured about 4x5 feet. I love dios, but they have a tendency to become 
to large even without the depht demand of a forced perspective.

/Magnus

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ernest thomas" <reason108 at hotmail.com>
To: <wwi at wwi-models.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 6:55 AM
Subject: Re: [WWI] 1/35 or 1/32?(A Different PERSPECTIVE!!!)


> 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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