Chris Honestly words fail me. Very impressive!! Stephen (cTr...Choose the Right)
I am really glad I stumbled upon this thread. This has to be the best modeling I have seen in a long time. As a Detroiter your dioramas really capture the feel of the Detroit-Chicago area!
Looks real to me!
I'm thinking about 2r again.
WOW!
Having grown up in Southern California, I'm familiar with a lot of the oil fields that used to dot the areas of Baldwin Hills, Torrance, Long Beach, Terminal Island and Signal Hill. You have done an outstanding job of capturing the look and detail.
Originally Posted by Chris03:
I'm honored about your comments 
here's something different
Leaving the Michigan and the east border, flying over the thousand miles
and the hills, going to the west... Like Henry Ford said :" If you only do what you always do, you only get where you always get"
Decided to make some research on new horizons I found beautifuls B/W pictures about oilfields near LA (Signal Hill Huntington beach)in California digital library or something like that; I was amazed by the number of oil derricks during the twenties, and the contrast with palm trees and all the rest, I mean the image of California that we have here in France lol
Convinced that could be a great theme with all this documentation
I decided to build a diorama about 4 feet long 2 feet wide on this theme in O scale
I started with two wood derrick and the last one in steel made with styrene...
For this diorama I would like a backdrop with something dramatic but colorful opposite of blue sky
The image of a californian sky with a sundown, also this backdrop should be the prolongation of my three derricks that look ridiculous comparing to the forest of this kind of structure in reality that's the challenge...
Christophe, you and your friends made a wonderful and great layout. I could admire it at the Convention in Rodgau/Germany.
Great, great work. I can't say anything else!
Lars
