Monogram Diorama tips from the 1980s

[Django]

I stumbled across this, and suddenly I was 13 years old again!!

http://www.itzproductions.com/Misc_Pages/shep_paine.htm

[Mike Bates]

I still have a couple of those. They started to put them in their B-17G kits again.

Mike

[Django]

More from the guy that built dioramas for Monogram, Shep Paine.

http://www.sheperdpaine.com/gallery/aircraft/index.htm

[Jet Mech]

Boy do I remember those in my kits in the 70's, I have built most of those AC kits when I was a teenage and young times in the military. My First Sgt, always liked coming into my dorm room to see what I was working on, and leaving me notes about flaimable liquids and glues in the dorm room. I gave most of my models made in the dorm to the docs at the hospital on base. They loved to hang them up for the kids to look at while waiting.

Which I could get that good.

[tom d. friedman]

i had that b-17 kit in the 70's, it took a hit from a faux german 88 aa gun (an m-80 fire cracker, a kid's atomic bomb) there were no survivors!!

[Second Air Force]

I'm incorporating parts of my very first Monogram B-17 (I built it in late '75 if I recall) into my Koster conversion this winter. I love those Shep Paine dioramas, and it even makes me feel young again.

Scott

[T J Johansen]

I remember several of these from my youth. However when I try to open the files on most of the aircraft I'm being re-directed to a page citing error and that the original content is no longer there. Has anyone downloaded these sheets that you could e-mail to me? Thanks.

T J

[Chad Veich]

I still have Shep Paine's book on building dioramas to this day. Must have read it a thousand times. I no longer build plastic models but I have used many of his techniques in my profession as an architectural model builder.

[Jiggersfromsphilly]

Here is a link to Sheps work.


http://www.itzproductions.com/Misc_Pages/shep_paine.htm

[hang the expense]

While stationed in Germany in the late 70s I built some B-17s all the way up to putting the wings on permanently.I was due to PCS back to conus and didnt want them damaged.As I went through security they were checking everything for drugs and they figured the models would be a great place to hide that junk.I pleaded with the MPs not to tear them apart.He was a good guy and looked down through the nose and in the waist openings and let them through.(A great guy)I still have those B-17s today.Oh and they are finished.Working on the real thing(B-17s) will make you one picky sumbeetch let me tell you.

[T J Johansen]

Here is a link to Sheps work.


http://www.itzproductions.com/Misc_Pages/shep_paine.htm

I still get the same error message when I try to open the different a/c pdf's.

T J

[Steve Nelson]

I'm incorporating parts of my very first Monogram B-17 (I built it in late '75 if I recall) into my Koster conversion this winter.

My first "serious" model was the old Monogram B-17, which I got for Christmas in '75 (I was 11.) I was blown away by the diorama pamphlet. By the late '70s, my freinds and I had managed to collect most of them.

I met Shep Paine a few years back. He gave a talk at the 2001 IPMS National Convention in Chicago. Although I still admire his work, I have to admit that he came off as rather arrogant and abrasive.

SN

[tom d. friedman]

that diorama pamphlet is a collector's item, you'd be surprised at the price it fetches!! i remember mine as a kid vividly, especially the little guy staring at his flak helmet with the shrapnel hit.

[Jiggersfromsphilly]

I just went to the site and the tank links work, but not the ones for planes.

I don't know if it is a filter problem or what?

[Marco Lavagnino]

That was really so much time ago...? I still read those brochures which I keep in my files, they look as interesting to me as the first day I took them out of the box... never was able to make that funny snow diorama for my Sherman Calliope, though... don´t know, maybe cement + white spray paint was not exactly the formula Mr Paine used, but at that age it seemed ok to me...

Marco