The Time Traveller: A Diorama

[AinuLainour]

Imagine...

There is a man who is accidentally transported through time, and experiences the most well-known periods of history. From the dawn of time, when the earth was still forming, to the first land creatures, to the Mesozoic era and the Dinosaurs. And then to the first men, to the Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, the Babarians, and through the Middle Ages to the World Wars, and then the landing on the moon. Throughout the way, he would interact, communicate, hide from, and fight.

This project would be my greatest and most ambitious undertaking by far, and I plan on bringing it to Gerona in 2008 for the World Expo. If I can\'t outpaint them , then I can at least make my minis worth looking at.

I would have to scratch-built a lot of this, such as his time machine, and the format of the diorama would also be difficult. Any thoughts?

 

[Ogrebane]

Good luck. Sounds like a huge project.

 

[finn17]

It\'s a good idea...

But to me, it sounds like an almost infinite number of dioramas....???
To achieve the effect of the passage of time you would need at least 4/5/6 separate scenarios???

 

[AinuLainour]

Yeah, it will be very difficult to tie the series of dioramas together, but I have some stuff in mind (and I don\'t feel like elaborating).

One thing is to keep themed diaries for each scene.

 

[Swordwind]

Please, for my sake, feature the Yorkist charge at Bosworth Field in some way.

Sounds like an insanly cool idea.

 

[AinuLainour]

Originally posted by Swordwind
Please, for my sake, feature the Yorkist charge at Bosworth Field in some way.

Just looked up what that is
Sounds great! That\'s definetly a good scene to have him transported in the thick of the battle.

 

[DaN]

You could have him (or the time machine) loaded with artefacts from the relevant eras - lost paintings, etc lol

And to have him materialise(?) in the middle of a battle would be great - you could have the participants all stopping and staring stupendously and him walking out like \"Oh, hello - how are you chaps?\"

 

[AinuLainour]

Originally posted by DaN
You could have him (or the time machine) loaded with artefacts from the relevant eras - lost paintings, etc lol

And to have him materialise(?) in the middle of a battle would be great - you could have the participants all stopping and staring stupendously and him walking out like \"Oh, hello - how are you chaps?\"

Exactly lol

I relish the thought of him running from a pack of Velociraptors :twisted:

 

[Ritual]

Why not do things like, for instance, if you have a dinosaur diorama, then in the following dioramas there could be a dinosaur head tied to the time machine as a trophy. And each time you move forward in time there would be some trophy from the previous one added to it...

 

[vincegamer]

I\'m having a hard time visualizing the time machine.
Would it be a sit-in job like the Jules Verne classic? Or would it be a portal like in Time Tunnel? Worn would be ideal for practical use but hardest to convey in minis.

 

[Talion]

I suggest the classic sit in Time Machine.

You could have the Diorama, as a long piece with the ages starting off in prehistoric to modern or what ever.

Place the Time Travaller in the Modern part, with all the trophies as mentioned above, but have skid marks/Flame or whatever trailing the feet of the timemachine....from the Prehistoric part through all the time periods to the back of the time machine.

This will give the feeling of travelling through these time periods, and collecting stuff on the way.

 

[DaN]

A DELORIAN!

 

[StarFyre]

yo

I had a great idea for something like this.

Saw a picture like this, so thought of ways to exchange it but for my idea, it was to do it in a D&D theme; with different times/events in the D&D universe.

Will discuss with you sometime...(taking Shilpa and her Brother out now)....

Later

Sanjay

 

[AinuLainour]

Why not do things like, for instance, if you have a dinosaur diorama, then in the following dioramas there could be a dinosaur head tied to the time machine as a trophy. And each time you move forward in time there would be some trophy from the previous one added to it...

That could definetly be used to tie it all together, but for that example I don\'t think he would be one to hunt dinosaurs. I have a vision in my head with a little Compsaguthus (I probably spelled that wrong), which is one of those chicken-sized carnivores from Jurassic Park II hiding in his time machine and at the end of the diorama sneaking out into the Victorian streets

Would it be a sit-in job like the Jules Verne classic? Or would it be a portal like in Time Tunnel? Worn would be ideal for practical use but hardest to convey in minis.

You could have the Diorama, as a long piece with the ages starting off in prehistoric to modern or what ever.

I based the original idea off \"The Time Machine\" (that WAS Jules Verne, right?) and a Tamiya mini set based on \"The Lost World\". So yes, it will be a sit-in time-machine.

Place the Time Travaller in the Modern part, with all the trophies as mentioned above, but have skid marks/Flame or whatever trailing the feet of the timemachine....from the Prehistoric part through all the time periods to the back of the time machine.

This is where it gets complicated. You see, it\'s far more interesting to show the Time Traveller interacting through all of these events, isn\'t it? If not, all of the characters in the dioramas will have WTF??!! written all over their faces, which would be funny, but wouldn\'t look so good when put next to five other nearly identical scenes.

tA DELORIAN!

No! lol

I had a great idea for something like this.

Then I\'m interested, Coolmini chat sometime I suppose?