Hi
First of all many thanks for Mark for his assistance, Second Im so glad to join such a great forum with a great modelers .
I`m Ali from Iraq and this is my first post here ,I started modeling since 3 years ago ,I scratch built all my dioramas with a very basic tools and materials because there is no hobby shops in Iraq and to buy something from internet is a long story ,So I built this scene 4 months ago and I hope that you will like it :)
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And finally a pic that shows the materials I used to built this scene
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Ali Alamedy
Really like that Ali, interested what scale you have built this to, whatever scale it is it is impressive.
Look forward to more details of this build, like how you did the plastic bags of rubbish and to to seeing more of your work
Thank you Gordon its in 1:24
I will post some WIP soon
Welcome, Ali! I have been watching your projects on Facebook. Very nice work! I can't imagine the difficulty you must have getting supplies.
Quote from: Alamedy Diorama on November 04, 2013, 05:11:31 AM
Hi
First of all many thanks for Mark for his assistance, Second Im so glad to join such a great forum with a great modelers .
I`m Ali from Iraq and this is my first post here ,I started modeling since 3 years ago ,I scratch built all my dioramas with a very basic tools and materials because there is no hobby shops in Iraq and to buy something from internet is a long story ,So I built this scene 4 months ago and I hope that you will like it :)
Welcome to the forum!
Great modelling, look forward to see more of your work.
Welcome to the forum Ali!
Very nice work and please post an SBS on how you made this without all the expensive stuff we are used to here.
Anders
Oops. If you saw my post under the Iraq diorama about a modeler who contacted me on Facebook, you now know why I posted the link. Not bad. -- Russ
Quote from: Chuck Doan on November 04, 2013, 07:07:09 AM
Welcome, Ali! I have been watching your projects on Facebook. Very nice work! I can't imagine the difficulty you must have getting supplies.
Thank you Chuck Im a big fan of your work ,The reality in your work is abnormal I was following you since I saw some of your projects at railroad-line forum .
about the difficulties , at the beginning I suffered a lot then I started to discover a new techniques to build my dioramas and that helped me a lot .
Quote from: Hauk on November 04, 2013, 07:34:17 AM
Quote from: Alamedy Diorama on November 04, 2013, 05:11:31 AM
Hi
First of all many thanks for Mark for his assistance, Second Im so glad to join such a great forum with a great modelers .
I`m Ali from Iraq and this is my first post here ,I started modeling since 3 years ago ,I scratch built all my dioramas with a very basic tools and materials because there is no hobby shops in Iraq and to buy something from internet is a long story ,So I built this scene 4 months ago and I hope that you will like it :)
Welcome to the forum!
Great modelling, look forward to see more of your work.
Thank you hawk Im so glad to join this forum and I will try my best to be an active member "well I hope so :)"
Quote from: Junior on November 04, 2013, 08:28:10 AM
Welcome to the forum Ali!
Very nice work and please post an SBS on how you made this without all the expensive stuff we are used to here.
Anders
Thank you so much Junior I will post some soon
Welcome to the forum, Ali!
It will be very interesting for me to see how you do your modeling with only a few materials. Hope to see more!
Cheers,
Volker
Welcome aboard, Ali! Marvelous work on that diorama!
Great stuff, welcome to the forum Ali
Jim
This is a great example of the essence of model building! Welcome, Ali!
Christian
Excellent work with what you have at hand. And nice details to make the alley come alive too.
This is some beautiful work and wonderful attention to detail! Welcome. -- Dallas
Over the years I have heard so many people say they would like to build models but they do not have the room or the money to do so.
Your excellent diorama is proof that anyone can build a great model if the interest is strong enough.
Thank you for sharing your photos with us.
Very nice :)
Welcome Ali
Quote from: darrylhuffman on November 11, 2013, 08:26:08 AM
Your excellent diorama is proof that anyone can build a great model if the interest is strong enough.
Yes, Darryl, but that still requires a little bit of talent...
Beautiful scenes, made with a lot of ingenuity.
Ali,
I thought about the New York theme of your diorama. Living in New York, I have to be honest with you: It doesn't really look like a cliche New York alley. But I think it has a wonderful feel of "any dark alley", so it just a problem of naming your diorama to something more generic.
I would very much love to see a Iraq diorama from you. You are living in a crazy world these days, with the war and unrest. I am sure there are plenty of interesting subjects for a diorama just outside your door. Places and things that we will never get to see, unless you show them to us!
Christian
Great stuff its different and interesting -just keep it coming and of course "A big Welcome"
Barney
I like Christian's idea (BKLN):
Have you built a diorama of a local scene? If not, why not take a photo of something near your home and build a very small diorama of it? You might take a different approach because you would be much more familiar with exactly how things should look. That might be very interesting for you and the rest of us to analyze and compare.
Russ
It is really hilarious, how we are always drawn to the mystery of far away places. Just think about Alexander's Mogadishu diorama.
I would also think that there are plenty of military modelers who would be interested to collaborate with Ali on some Iraq related projects.
Christian
I can't speak for Ali, but personally I think if I lived in a place that has been through years of warfare and is still experiencing ongoing strife, war-related scenes would be the last thing I'd want to model.
Just what I was thinking, Ray.
Quote from: Ray Dunakin on November 13, 2013, 05:26:11 PM
I can't speak for Ali, but personally I think if I lived in a place that has been through years of warfare and is still experiencing ongoing strife, war-related scenes would be the last thing I'd want to model.
Absolutely! We all have different motivations to build models. For some of us, modeling is an escape into another world, for others it's three dimensional documentation and some just love the process of creating.
Why do we assume the scene must be war related? He modeled a New York alley. I supposed the diorama could have included gangs knifing each other ... but it didn't. And I doubt every block in Iraq reflects desolation and carnage. Right? -- Russ
Ha, this might be the first time I get to send Russ into the corner.
"Russ, go stand in the corner!
Oy, Gevult! -- Russ
Many many thanks for all of you and sorry for the late replay
about building an Iraqi diorama I think Ray Dunakin said it all, I really doesn't like to build something I can see in everywhere in my country "BTW I live in the north of Iraq ERBIL which is so far from the war" I love to build beautiful scenes of different cultures ,I built a french cafe ,British bookstore ,Italian house facade ,American railroad buildings etc and a Japanese street scene "in progress"
again thanks a lot for all the comments and the suggestions
here are some how I built things
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Very nice, Ali!
I understand your point about the Iraq motives. Model building is a wonderful escape from the real world.
Christian