Tag: doiramas

• Do Or Die-orama?

  

  Is your little world being made around your ideas, or are your ideas being made around those of the retail trade? For some modellers – the model engineers in particular and to some extent the R/C model boaters – they are in control of their desires. Both groups make what they like…and spend a very…

  Dick Stein

  May 16, 2026

  1:72 scale, after-market, Dioramas, display, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Model trains, Uncategorized

  doiramas, model scenery, planning

• It’s All About The Show

  

  At the show, that is. This fatuous philosophy may make my model displays better in the future. I’ve just seen a wake-up that tells me the viewers need more than what many modellers give them. My library dioramas – 300mm x 820 mm – are kept to that size by the display cabinet that protects…

  Dick Stein

  July 13, 2023

  1:72 scale, design, Dioramas, display, Model Airplane, Modelling exhibitions, Uncategorized

  display, doiramas, exhibition, visuals

• I Can Quit Any Time I Want To…

  

  Honest.* But the success of the first diorama shelf trays being what it was, I decided to call past Officeworks, get some more A1 foam board, and then see what the hobby shop afforded in the way of decorations. Luckily, there were new Faller fencing sets in stock. Expensive, but totally worth it for the…

  Dick Stein

  May 28, 2020

  1:72 scale, card models, Dioramas, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Modelling exhibitions, Scale Models

  doiramas, foam board, shelf display