AI dioramas with your models
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cookie1600 said:
No, they're spot on original, exactly as they came out of the box my father kept them in. I'll upload a 'standard' photo of them in the next couple of days to illustrate.
Without derailing the thread too much (mods, please move if not appropriate) here are a few pics of my late Father's scratch built collection. Please remember these were made in the late 1940's, early 1950's when Dad was a young teenage boy and he used real vehicles as the templates, making his own drawings and sketches and measuring each one to get the detail right, you can see the improvements and added detail such as sliding doors as his skills increased. My Granddad drove many of these, the Gloucester ones when the family spent some time with relatives during WW2 and he was redeployed from Eastbourne Corporation.
They are about OO scale and everything but the wheels is made from Balsa wood. The Eastbourne AEC double decker does have modern transfers on it that I added a few years ago, You will also see some still under construction, unpainted or primed, that never got completely finished - a project for my retirement.
The real thing
Edited by cookie1600 on Monday 30th March 09:38
Thank you all for the kind comments.
Just to bring this back to the thread title, here is one of the original open top Eastbourne buses, No. 78 (JK 2336) which was a Leyland Titan TD2 dating from 1932. Its Leyland body was rebuilt in the Corporation workshops to open-top at the end of 1949 and named the "White Queen". Yep, that's my Granddad standing by it (I think he was conductor on that occasion).
Here's one of the four versions Dad made to represent the open top fleet that included the "White Princess,"'White Queen' "White Rabbit," and "White Lady
And here is what Gemini made of it:
The drivers cab half screen is wrong (does not tilt away at the bottom, the radiator is the wrong shape and some of the background scene isn't quite right, but not a bad first stab.
Just to bring this back to the thread title, here is one of the original open top Eastbourne buses, No. 78 (JK 2336) which was a Leyland Titan TD2 dating from 1932. Its Leyland body was rebuilt in the Corporation workshops to open-top at the end of 1949 and named the "White Queen". Yep, that's my Granddad standing by it (I think he was conductor on that occasion).
Here's one of the four versions Dad made to represent the open top fleet that included the "White Princess,"'White Queen' "White Rabbit," and "White Lady
And here is what Gemini made of it:
The drivers cab half screen is wrong (does not tilt away at the bottom, the radiator is the wrong shape and some of the background scene isn't quite right, but not a bad first stab.
My Vespid 1/72 Pz.Kpfw.V Panther Ausf.G Late Production, with the striped camo scheme used for Panthers produced at the M.N.H. factory in early 1945.
Now parked by a roadside in Germany in March 1945. I think this is a reasonably convincing image; it's scaled the tank crewman quite well (he's perhaps just slightly oversized), and has the muted colours that one often sees in genuine colour photos from the period. Stripes have lost some edge crispness though, and it's put back in one of the side skirt panels that I deliberately left off in my build.
Now parked by a roadside in Germany in March 1945. I think this is a reasonably convincing image; it's scaled the tank crewman quite well (he's perhaps just slightly oversized), and has the muted colours that one often sees in genuine colour photos from the period. Stripes have lost some edge crispness though, and it's put back in one of the side skirt panels that I deliberately left off in my build.
My Dragon 1/72 Sherman M4A3, looking in need of a better backdrop.
Now in a street scene in wartime France, with 4 of the crew posing for a pic. I like Copilot's scaling and proportioning of the crewmen in this image and how it has depicted the Sherman from a lower viewpoint without losing any features. I also like the lighting in the scene and how it has toned down the weathering a little. Perhaps my favourite AI-generated dio featuring one of my models that has been created so far.
Now in a street scene in wartime France, with 4 of the crew posing for a pic. I like Copilot's scaling and proportioning of the crewmen in this image and how it has depicted the Sherman from a lower viewpoint without losing any features. I also like the lighting in the scene and how it has toned down the weathering a little. Perhaps my favourite AI-generated dio featuring one of my models that has been created so far.
A Corgi Trackmasters model of one of my late Grandfather s Leyland Octopus tankers.
Set in London with a routemaster bus and people in period clothing and environment
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Truck needs to be a bit bigger, the motorcycle on the pavement needs to realise it’s not 2026 and Dr Who can f right off but hey, first time using Gemini…
Set in London with a routemaster bus and people in period clothing and environment
To
Truck needs to be a bit bigger, the motorcycle on the pavement needs to realise it’s not 2026 and Dr Who can f right off but hey, first time using Gemini…
Edited by Every day a journey on Tuesday 14th April 19:46
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