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[dretceterini]

Fantastic MM diorama in 1/43rd scale

http://www.miniwerks...ead.aspx?id=700

[Scuderia SSS]

That is actually very impressive. I have often thought about doing some simple diorama's, but nothing near that level of workmanship. I'm impressed.

[Nanni Dietrich]

Fantastic


Just a detail (I'm over-meticulous...)
The race is the 1956 Mille Miglia, in the penultimate picture there is a blue Fiat 500 (with a red dressed girl standing), near the Eugenio Castellotti's Ferrari 290MM #548 and the parked Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider #425 (Consalvo Sanesi?).
It's impossible, because the first "Fiat Nuova 500" was sold only on July 1957.

(perhaps that girl was Engineer Giacosa's daughter, testing the prototype... )

[dretceterini]

The same person has also done some fantasic LeMans dioramas. Check out the website

http://www.chrono43.com/en.html

I especially like the 1930s Le Mans ones....

and yes, car #425 is the Sanesi giulietta lightweight veloce monposto spider...and you are correct about the FIAT 500

[David M. Kane]

God bless talents like this!

[Alan Cox]

They always have a fascinating stand at Retromobile. Their skill takes one's breath away.

[dretceterini]

Originally posted by Alan Cox
They always have a fascinating stand at Retromobile. Their skill takes one's breath away.

Unfortunately, so does their prices...

[mfd]

Originally posted by dretceterini


Unfortunately, so does their prices...

What an appalling thing to say...

[dretceterini]

Originally posted by mfd

What an appalling thing to say...

I'm not sayiing their prices aren't fair, but a diorama like the MM one would be over $10,000, and very few people can afford to spend that for a model...

[David M. Kane]

If I put a coupla 1,000 hours into a piece like that I'd expect a hefty price too. It just like Barrett-Jackson, RM Auctions or racing Historic Racing cars...all cost lots of money, that's the cruel reality of modern life .

[scags]

you could build one yourself, if you had a spare year or so...

[Jager]

It's a great piece of work, but I think its a bit of a shame that a work of that size which obviously took a lot of time and $$$ to put together only a handful of cars.

For a diorama of that size I would have preferred to see them incorporate a lot more cars to show the diversity of the entrants in the Mille.

[275 GTB-4]

Molto Simpatico ...the blonde in the 5th pic seems to be up to no good

[dretceterini]

Other dioramas by the same father and son team...

http://www.chrono43.com/en.html


Click on "creations" at the left. The 1937 Le Mans one with the Bugatti tank is fantastic too!!

[Leigh Trevail]

Sadly I do not find these dioramas inspiring, in fact they have the opposite effect on me. I now feel that I should quietly place my models back in their boxes and put them in the shed, I feel so inadequate!