Race Track Diorama?

Has anyone built a Race Track diorama? I have 5 DTM kits and I think it would be cool to build a diorama of a corner of a track or something. I have never built a diorama so I do not know what I would need.

something like these would be cool.

http://speedarena.com/gallery/albums//Touring%20Cars/DTM/2002/02%20Round%201=Hockenheim/78.jpg

http://speedarena.com/gallery/albums//Touring%20Cars/DTM/2002/02%20Round%201=Hockenheim/77.jpg

http://speedarena.com/gallery/albums//Touring%20Cars/DTM/2002/02%20Round%201=Hockenheim/54.jpg

jay wanted to build one of Laguna Seca (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=75423&highlight=laguna+seca+diorama)

Of course it'd be humongous!!! The problem with race track dioramas is unless you make it adequately size, you're fitting too many cars onto a narrow piece of track, which doesn't look as cool.

I think you can find info on Scale Auto Magazine's web page. I want to biuld a Japanese mountain pass for my Drift machines. http://www.scaleautomag.com

Originally posted by daggerlee
jay wanted to build one of Laguna Seca (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=75423&highlight=laguna+seca+diorama)

Of course it'd be humongous!!! The problem with race track dioramas is unless you make it adequately size, you're fitting too many cars onto a narrow piece of track, which doesn't look as cool.

I was thinking that same thing. So I may go with just two kits battling it out. Mercedes vs Opel.

Black grinding paper makes a nice track.

race tracks are alot easier than, lets say, rally dia's mainly because of their simplistic nature. All you'll probably need are a few sheet of styrene; for the road. Some putty or plaster for the curbs. Some grass type stuff (like made by evergreen). And of course the type of glue that works best with hold grass or gravel type materials to styrene. the hardest part of the diarama is, if you are going to do a slope, getting the slope to look proper and the second hardest part is getting the road texture down and including details like skidmarks and rubber tracks and such (can be obtained with thinned blacks or airbrushing)

My other suggestion would be to look up FAQ's or Tutorials for War/Battle diaramas, often times they will include techniques for roads, thin grass, or gravel.

Hope that helps

I have heard that sandpaper works well for the blacktop

oops! here it is :)

i entered this dio last year in the motorshow 2002 here in manila. it won best in presentation :)

That looks amazing.the fans look very realistic.

I have seen that before. It is very good. Did you scratchbuild everything? Got any tips?

I too would be very interested in knowing how you built this one, as I'm now interested in doing one myself. That looks amazing. I'm still like :eek: when I see it. Maybe you could start a tutorial thread on it. That'd be sweet.

if your interested in the building process of my diorama, you could find it in the automotomover site where i explained it in detail :)

what's the url?? I can't find it

yea same here... need the URL!!
im so freakin interested

heres the url:

http://users.skynet.be/automotomover/main.htm

its under the kit review button, under rally car dioramas

:)

is not to make it in 1/24, but 1/32 instead.

Revell are releasing quite a few 1/32 2002 DTM cars: two Audi tt-s, two Merces and two Opels.

Click me!!! (http://www.revell.de/cgi-bin/kat/katalog.pl?cmd=overview&KOSCHL=04&grp=9998&modellsuche=&showall=true&lang=de&kat=modell&sort=mass&page=1&frei=&ps_KOSCHL=&SWO=&MAS=&mas=32)

O man. Maybe I will make a 1/32 scale one. Those Revell kits are awesome. I have been waiting forever for the TT kit to come out. And that Mercedes is awesome too. I was hoping someone would release the decal kit for the Tamiya kit but I'll get that instead.

does anyone have any idea when these kits will be coming out?

I want to build a japanese mountain pass for my drift machines

Me too:flash: :flash:

With the trueno and the 2nd gen. rx-7 of the famous drifting races cartoon Initial d

I kinda did the same thing, but with just 1 car...

http://www.misteryracing.com/sennake/312t3/vil_01.jpg
http://www.misteryracing.com/sennake/312t3/vil_02.jpg
http://www.misteryracing.com/sennake/312t3/vil_03.jpg
http://www.misteryracing.com/sennake/312t3/vil_04.jpg
http://www.misteryracing.com/sennake/312t3/vil_05.jpg
http://www.misteryracing.com/sennake/312t3/vil_06.jpg
http://www.misteryracing.com/sennake/312t3/vil_07.jpg

That is pretty cool. The one I want to build will be a bit bigger than that.

does anyone know when those Revell kits are coming out?