How to Build a Realistic In-Flight Diorama 1/144 Scale Model Aircraft

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Scale-a-ton presents How to Build a Realistic In-Flight Diorama
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@stryderprime 9 ай бұрын

I really like the custom pilot figures you made for this aircraft but I wanted to let you know there is model figures at this scale. Look up 1/144 Mobile Staff by Wave, its meant for space and mecha kits but it has some pilots in the seating position that might work on future projects. Still this is an amazing work!

@benoitlemaire9072 9 ай бұрын

But soooo much fun to scratch built it!

@Scaleaton 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! This suggestion will be another alternative for those looking for a solution for pilot figures. I get complaints about hard to find or expensive materials in many videos. My intention is to offer different ideas to people who are trying to continue their hobby with a low budget. Otherwise, I have two different 3D printers in my workshop and I could make super realistic pilot figures. That's the point why I built them from scratch.

@stryderprime 9 ай бұрын

@@Scaleaton You choice the correct path. Not everything is with in reach and you have to improvise on the fly using the materials and skills that is available at that moment. This video, like others you have done in the past, serves as a guide for us builders to help us improve are craft to make our builds a little better.

@andreasekart3853 9 ай бұрын

Great build as always! If you should need another pilot figure in 1:144 you could watch out for train passengers in N-gauge from Preiser or similar. These are 1:160 (probbly close enough) and should be easy to modify.

@Scaleaton 9 ай бұрын

@user-ni2zo5zo3c 4 ай бұрын

Preisser at one time made 1:144-scale figures.

@matthewashley7138 9 ай бұрын

I assumed this was a shadow box when I saw the thumbnail, but having the plane extend out of the frame is an awesome way to present the build.

@DarksouIjah 9 ай бұрын

10/10 on creativity and execution.

@Name-ps9fx 2 ай бұрын

I've always wondered how to make a "in flight" diorama....never had the time to think it through, so thank you! And thank you a second time for the ingenious idea of how to make a 144 scale pilot!!

@Johnny-tt8zc 9 ай бұрын

Absolutely beautiful work. To be honest, the pilots look a lot better than some of the kit ones I’ve gotten.

@user-je5do6jn2f 8 ай бұрын

Wesolych Swiat from GM Factory Zero in Hamtramck, Michigan. Your Lifetime Achievement Award for scale modeling is available at Great Lakes Train and Toy in Sterling Heights or either Polish Century Club location in Warren or Troy.

@fotomakr 9 ай бұрын

Amazing effect -the second background does impart speed better. And cool method for making the crew!

@davegiles2344 9 ай бұрын

Great project 👏👍

@user-fk5tn4ud6j 9 ай бұрын

Perfect 👍

@modellbaugoaly9293 9 ай бұрын

Great idea with the pilot.

@HammerheadModelMaking 9 ай бұрын

Awesome results!

@Reddog08 9 ай бұрын

That..... is awesome. Love it

@benburton2530 9 ай бұрын

Excellent work there mate! Iike it👍

@atelierhcp 9 ай бұрын

Pretty cool, the effect is very realistic... 🤩

@Booooom513 9 ай бұрын

great result

@enzoroma14 9 ай бұрын

Amazing and enlightening as always! The technique with bicarbonate is excellent. Thanks for sharing, greetings from 🇮🇹

@rickbourn971 9 ай бұрын

Not only are you a fantastic modeler - you’re also a MAGICIAN!!

@jonbutcher9805 7 ай бұрын

Oh. A cool effect would be similar with the 1:144 scale craft. But looking at it through a foreground cockpit view as if the pilot was viewing the jet through his canopy toward the fighter wing or his wingman. Maybe even the pilots helmit viewed toward his p.o.v. seeing the back of the helmet. Difficult to build i would imagine, but cool as hell if one could pull it off. Maybe even consider it a challenge. LoL

@Brian-WolfmanJack99 7 ай бұрын

So cool! I'm always looking for a better way to display my models in flight.

@septiccalling8341 9 ай бұрын

Thats really cool. Good idea 👍🏻👏🏻👌🏻

@KarlScaleModeling 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic work, looks so realistic 😮 super well done and thanks for showing us how to do pilots from scratch 👍🏼

@foreverplastickits138 9 ай бұрын

*So original and well painted, very good job SaT!*

@user-ni2zo5zo3c 4 ай бұрын

David R Lentz, USA Absolutely spectacular-well beyond my capacity adequately to describe! Over the past few years have I seen other extraordinary examples of your unprecedented excellence! Thank you so much for these master class tutorials. I have had in my mind similar projects, though I lack the means to implement them. Not only is your own work exemplary, your presentation you now bring to us validates mine through serving as proof of concept. My idea is a forced perspective aerial diorama wherein I include several models of an aircraft in ascending scales. To borrow from, and to adapt, your remarkable example, I would start with 1) Tamiya’s 1:32nd-scale kit of the McDonnell Douglas F-15E Eagle USAF Strike Fighter; set behind and slightly above this first model would be 2) Tamiya’s 1:48th-scale replica of the same; 3) I next would place behind and somewhat above the first two facsimiles, two smaller, yet well-detailed 1:72nd-scale kits of the fighter (I do not know what kit makers might offer suitable examples; my inference from experience would be Hasegawa or Revell AG); these two also would be noticeably apart from one another; 4) at the last, I would set behind and all round the preceding models a few good quality 1:144th-scale kits of the F-15E; the one you employed looks excellent! Incidentally, I also may have seen another F-15 kit, this one in 1:100th-scale (though I may be in error). It may have been that of an F-15C, which would make it useful through serving as a replica of fighter escort. This would be an astoundingly enormous, multistage project requiring 1) building several highly detailed models; 2) for at least the first two replicas, a more sophisticated, counter-balanced gimbal crane than the wire you needed, one offering no, or a very limited, range of motion; 3) a substantial volume of space to encompass them; I estimate nearly 1 metre in breadth, 70 cm or so in height, and round 75 cm in depth before the backdrop. However, upon building all the models, a visual assessment of the entire assembly would be necessary to assess how the display’s components fit together in relation to one another, in prelude to its actual completion. I ask all reading this your for your reflection and ideas. If you want to build your adaptation of my forced perspective aerial diorama, I wish you every success where I lack the means even to begin; please let us all know how it goes for you. It might be well for you to have your modelling friends join with you in this venture for a group build.

@ZinzanModelling 8 ай бұрын

Dear Mr Scale, Viewed from the correct angle the effect is very convincing. This highly imaginative and innovative method of diorama is most entertaining. We’ll done! Regards, Z

@patagonien11 6 ай бұрын

Different, interesting way to make a diorame. Nice job.

@KS-ModelismoAviacionHobby 9 ай бұрын

nice work👍👍🏿👍🏻👍🏾👍🏼👍🏽

@Eagle-pe9pg 9 ай бұрын

Love it!

@thewaynesiewatsg 9 ай бұрын

Really amazing work! I especially like the pilot figure!

@magnuskallas 8 ай бұрын

Darn amazing! Nice combination of model building, photo manipulation and print. Truth to be told I like this kind of minimalistic dioramas better than full blown epoxy floats...

@ericverpeten8503 9 ай бұрын

Awesome build

@ronaldbyrne3320 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic. I must try this. 👍🏻😀

@Scaleaton 9 ай бұрын

If you need that image used on the video please let me know. You can contact with me via mail on contact section of channel

@ronaldbyrne3320 9 ай бұрын

@@Scaleaton Thank you, I will keep that in mind. 😊

@user-oo3vz2gt6v 9 ай бұрын

I love that the pilot is a grey alien :DDDD

@mossadon 9 ай бұрын

Awesome build. A great idea superbly realised. Also good to see within the process that you kept in and didn't edit out the change of photo used and why, revealing even better the hows and whys of the creative process. of not just the model building but what goes into great dioramas and presentations. As a trick on the eye this was proper magic...your placement was bang on! And, although your voice is very low in volume (it needs nockin up a bit, brother) and the lack of background music is very refreshing (take note, content creators!...sometimes less is more. ;) ) The reveal at the end with some rock music? Brilliant! THAT is how you make excellent use of music in a video! Now...Sci Fi nerds...kit bashing your next spaceship? Think about what Scaley did here...take a pic of your creation, get some sci fi background and in photoshop, turn your ships pic into a shadow and boOM! Awesomeness abounds as now your ship is flying out of a frame with it's shadow in shot and eye trickery is achieved.... ....Jus a thought. ;) Another top build, Scaley! You continue to inspire and teach, Sensai. >places right fist on open left palm and bows

@Scaleaton 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for your valuable comment! Unfortunately the video's voice channel is somewhat reduced. This wasn't the way I set it up. It was probably a mouse scroll button accident.

@havidzwahyudy 9 ай бұрын

Mantap! Nice results. This is the next Indonesian aircraft.

@emilmisslin9172 9 ай бұрын

Fantastico🎉... tanks

@travisweeks7819 9 ай бұрын

Wow that looks amazing

@rolandpauscher2707 9 ай бұрын

Great idea and great solution...👍

@drivethruabortion280 7 ай бұрын

Thank you. Now, wait a million years until I feel like it.

@Magurae 9 ай бұрын

Great idea!

@MrBerkcan21 9 ай бұрын

Abi harika diorama tebrik edderim. Photoshop'u Türkçe görene kadar Türk olduğunu bilmiyordum bu arada

@mikey354 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful work as always.

@smgdfcmfah 8 ай бұрын

Very nice! Liked and Subscribed! One thing I will say to anyone else attempting something similar is that the light source is absolutely critical for such a work. All looks great in the video, but if you have a spot you want to hang this you better check the actual lighting/shadows in the room to see where the real life shadow of the model will land and adjust the picture to reflect the same light source or it will very quickly "just look wrong". Again, beautiful work!

@moisted 8 ай бұрын

OMG... This is the most wonderful thing I've seen for a long time. Great idea and great execution!... Bravo!

@mode1charlie170 9 ай бұрын

Cool project, excellent result!

@joeshmoe9978 9 ай бұрын

Great project. 🏅

@sierrahobbys1883 9 ай бұрын

That's really cool 😎. You should have them chasing a UFO .

@fightingcorsair7297 9 ай бұрын

Outstanding work. Great job.

@marcanderson8669 8 ай бұрын

All I can say is: What a very very good idea.

@timothybackhus824 9 ай бұрын

Love it! My only criticism (uninvited, i know, apologies) is that the shadows would be sharply defined in the real photo, no?

@cathopreicon 9 ай бұрын

outstanding!!! triumphant display of creativity and skills!!

@neilhaas 9 ай бұрын

I have the F-15 jet five of them, one a transformers decepticon starscream. Very nice build impressive. Love the F-15 jet the Israeli Air force IDF the F-15 I ra,am besides the Japanese Air self defense force. An amazing jet fighter F-15 brilliant. ❤❤😊👍🖖🤩🤗😁💯⭐🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇱

@joeromano5607 9 ай бұрын

Very nice!!!

@Sketchupdave 7 ай бұрын

You could go a step further and do the picture in CAD, the F15 in the front seems a bit of to me. But I dont want diminish your efforts, great Idea.

@osvaldo56 9 ай бұрын

Great work!

@sukhoisu-27flankerbdude92 9 ай бұрын

It’s cool

@glizzymcguire4849 9 ай бұрын

The creativity! I’d never think to do something like this.

@coast219 9 ай бұрын

I'll try your pilot making technique with my 1/72 Apache.

@jerryvolpini7987 9 ай бұрын

Now, that's artwork even I can appreciate, lol! Great job 👍

@jdtheone 8 ай бұрын

Wow just wow amazing build

@dominiquea.j.lallement228 7 ай бұрын

Very good work in microscopic-scale!🎓

@hawkertyphoon4537 9 ай бұрын

what the F-15! Applause! Yes!

@Flutungsopfer 9 ай бұрын

der Rahmen müsste viel tiefer sein, dann würde es noch besser aussehen !

@user-ni2zo5zo3c 4 ай бұрын

Translation from German to English: "The frame would have to be much deeper, then it would look even better!"

@ModeliteDiorama 8 ай бұрын

So cool! Love the idea of a 3D Picture

@christianmarin781 8 ай бұрын

Desde Medellín, Colombia un saludo y un abrazo. Que detallazo la construccion del piloto. Comparto plenamente la idea de que es fundamental la presencia mínima del operador, esto enriquece la ilusión de realismo, lo hace infinitamente mas bonito y genial jejeje

@BedirhanAlbayrak 8 ай бұрын

Harika ötesi olmuş. Böyle yaratıcı çalışmaları çok seviyorum, buna benzer bir şey yapacağım bende. Elinize sağlık abi.

@MGB-learning 9 ай бұрын

Great build, presentation and video.

@deef6844 9 ай бұрын

That was awesome! I think I may try the same technique.

@sleeplessknight99 9 ай бұрын

Wow! That looks so good. I'm going to have to steal your idea.

@NyteStalker89 9 ай бұрын

my only complaint is that the shadows are inaccurate on the first background. One way for the ground, others for the aircraft. Immersion breaking tbh, and glad you didn't use it. Shame though because that was the best background!

@cslvisualstudio 9 ай бұрын

Excellent idea and execution. Well done 👍

@SierraSierraFoxtrot 8 ай бұрын

Absolutely mental!

@AlessandroBottoni 8 ай бұрын

Really great job! Kudos!

@justfly7730 9 ай бұрын

Very nice job. Thanks for asking which photo to use so we can relate ourselves to your success 😂

@carloshnunez 9 ай бұрын

Very nice 🔵🔵🔵🙂🙂🙂👍👍👍🔵🔵🔵

@commonsense7754 9 ай бұрын

Need a resin printer. Great job as usual

@Scaleaton 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! I get complaints about hard to find or expensive materials in many videos. My intention is to offer different ideas to people who are trying to continue their hobby with a low budget. Otherwise, I have two different 3D printers in my workshop and I could make super realistic pilot figures. That's the point why I built them from scratch.

@markrayton6385 9 ай бұрын

You sir are awesome. Your work is amazing.

@cosmarendy8417 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing. Very inspiring.

@merakrut 8 ай бұрын

Very realistic for all those one-eyed viewers. Or for stereo viewers simply close one eye.

@YiminyCricket 9 ай бұрын

I've GOT to try this on a Gunpla like the Zeta Gundam or at least a Zeta Plus or something similar.

@user-ub8rk8hr8f 3 ай бұрын

これゃれまた最高作品が出来てしまったね🎉

@seraajroomaney3148 9 ай бұрын

Very nice, maybe in future try 2 aircraft in different scales to add depth perspective to the diorama 😊

@Spectre_Vol2 8 ай бұрын

a real 3D Diorama would be cool... like a similar Scene in a box with a framing like that. So it would have a real parallax effect. But anyways, great work, I could not do this on my own.