JohnReid Posted September 28, 2012 Author Share Posted September 28, 2012 Well three of the boxes are gone,the other two proved to be too heavy for us to lift so they will be coming back to get them next week.At least now my wife has half a smile on her face. C|:-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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havanaholly Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 What a neat old depot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnReid Posted September 29, 2012 Author Share Posted September 29, 2012 Hi ! The station is from the opening scene of the movie "Once Upon A time In The West".Glad you like it ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindaC Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 John the Depot is really wonderful. going to photobucket to see if there is a full album :-) Am I missing it? I look now and then at others trying to make my way through them all. BIG job. good to see you again. Hope you are checking the Spring fling albums. Or maybe you are waiting for finals. take care, Linda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnReid Posted September 29, 2012 Author Share Posted September 29, 2012 John the Depot is really wonderful. going to photobucket to see if there is a full album :-) Am I missing it? I look now and then at others trying to make my way through them all. BIG job. good to see you again. Hope you are checking the Spring fling albums. Or maybe you are waiting for finals. take care, Linda Hi Linda ! if you go to my photobucket,there is a list of albums on the R/H side of the page.Scroll down to Diorama 6 and they should all be there.Cheers! John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnReid Posted September 30, 2012 Author Share Posted September 30, 2012 Well I think that I will go back to my original idea of an abandoned movie set.The poster idea was OK but when I put an example up I found that it was a little visually overwhelming with all those posters. The grey fence around the property is however underwheming and boring and needs a little work too.I tried putting posters up on the outside of the fence too but it also looks like too much of a good thing. So,I am thinking of expanding the movie set idea to include things like abandoned actors dressing rooms,equipment storage rooms etc...all weathered and a little rusty looking and only the odd old poster here and there for visual effect. Well now its back to the drawing board....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnReid Posted September 30, 2012 Author Share Posted September 30, 2012 The film portrays two conflicts that take place around Flagstone, a fictional town in the American Old West: a land battle related to construction of a railroad, and a mission of vengeance against a cold-blooded killer. The main storyline revolves around a struggle for Sweetwater, a piece of land near Flagstone containing the region's only water source. The land was bought by Brett McBain, who foresaw that the railroad would have to pass through that area to provide water for the steam locomotives. When railroad tycoon Morton learns of this, he sends his hired gun Frank to simply intimidate McBain to move off the land, but Frank instead kills McBain and his three children, planting evidence on the scene to frame the bandit Cheyenne and his gang. By the time McBain's new bride, Jill, arrives from New Orleans, the family is dead and she is the owner of the land. Henry Fonda as Frank Meanwhile, a mysterious harmonica-playing gunman, whom Cheyenne later dubs "Harmonica", pursues Frank. In the film's opening scene, Harmonica kills three men sent by Frank to kill him, and, in a roadhouse on the way to Sweetwater, he informs Cheyenne that the three gunfighters he killed appeared to be posing as Cheyenne's men. Sometime later, Harmonica kills two men sent by Frank to kill Jill. Back at Sweetwater, construction materials are delivered to build a railroad station and a small town. Harmonica explains to Cheyenne that Jill will lose Sweetwater unless the station is built by the time the track's construction crews reach that point, and Cheyenne puts his men to work building it. Claudia Cardinale as Jill McBain Meanwhile, Frank turns against Morton, who wanted to make a deal with Jill. Frank's betrayal is made easy by the fact that Morton is crippled. After having his way with her, Frank forces Jill to sell the property in an auction. He tries to buy the farm cheaply by intimidating the other bidders, but Harmonica arrives, holding Cheyenne at gunpoint, and makes a much higher bid based on his reward money for delivering Cheyenne to the authorities. After rebuffing another intimidation attempt by Frank, Harmonica sells the farm back to Jill. At this point, some of Frank's men try to kill Frank, having been paid by Morton to turn against him, but Harmonica helps Frank kill them in order to save that privilege for himself. After Morton and the rest of Frank's men are killed in a battle with Cheyenne's gang, Frank goes to Sweetwater to confront Harmonica. On two occasions, Frank has asked Harmonica who he is, but both times Harmonica refused to answer him. Instead, he mysteriously quoted names of men Frank has murdered. The two men position themselves for a duel, at which point Harmonica's motive for revenge is revealed in one last, clear flashback: When Harmonica was a boy, Frank forced the boy to kill his own brother by tying a noose to the top of an arch, placing it around the brother's neck, and forcing the struggling Harmonica to support his brother on his shoulders with a harmonica in his mouth while playing the song that's heard throughout the film. Harmonica draws first and shoots Frank, and when Frank again asks who he is, he puts the harmonica in Frank's mouth. Frank nods weakly in recognition and dies. With Frank dead, Harmonica and Cheyenne say goodbye to Jill, who is supervising construction of the train station as the track-laying crews reach Sweetwater. Cheyenne collapses almost immediately, revealing that he was shot by Morton while he and his men were fighting Frank's gang. The work train arrives, signaling the arrival of 'civilization' and the end of the Epic age of cowboys and gunfighters; thus the film ends with Jill carrying water to the rail workers and Harmonica riding off with Cheyenne's body towards the horizon. A creature of the frontier, Harmonica can't "settle down" and decides to ride in search of a place where a man like him can still have a role and a reason to exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindaC Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 wow. what a story line. found no 6. thanks. love your deck work area :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnReid Posted September 30, 2012 Author Share Posted September 30, 2012 I finally gave old Morton his dream of a Atlantic to Pacific RR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 John, you are a true Sergio Leone fan! I do like the idea of just a couple of weathered, faded movie posters on the fence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnReid Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 People often ask me why do you love Sergio's work so much ? Here is just one of thousands of reasons why. Sometimes I ask myself a simple question "How can a man take a child's life for no reason ?" Even a good looking man with beautiful blue eyes? But these are the eyes of a killer as depicted by Henry Fonda.Who would have believed it Henry Fonda a killer of children ? Who would believe that men such as this could be responsible for mass murder.Sergio wanted his audience to be shocked as the camera panned his face,(as Fonda himself said) "Jesus Christ its Henry Fonda !!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnReid Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 I am currently researching old west facades to add to the diorama. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 ...People often ask me why do you love Sergio's work so much ?...Sergio wanted his audience to be shocked as the camera panned his face,(as Fonda himself said) "Jesus Christ its Henry Fonda !!!)Creepy! But, then, who knew that this: was one of the most hideous monsters ever spawned? (Ted Bundy, y'all) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnReid Posted October 2, 2012 Author Share Posted October 2, 2012 Here is a great old saloon with swinging doors and all ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Love it! All it needs are a few bootprints in the dust and maybe a bullethole or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnReid Posted October 2, 2012 Author Share Posted October 2, 2012 Typical Hollywood back lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 :jawdrop: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnReid Posted October 4, 2012 Author Share Posted October 4, 2012 I am planning for this diorama to be from the late 60's era when movies were made the old fashioned way.With all the animation of the modern era this is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.Sergio would be very familiar with this way of doing things. Diorama wise it is also a good way of presenting a certain time frame.The back lot will be depicted as used but not yet completely abandoned.That way I have a lot more leeway with the weathering of the piece.Everything weathered the same way would be boring. Then if I decide to go ahead with the old west building facades I can make them look as old or new as I like depending upon the movie being filmed at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Remember the old Gilbert Rowland "Cisco Kid" movies that used the same sets over & over & over again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnReid Posted October 4, 2012 Author Share Posted October 4, 2012 So many memories of days gone by ! I am so happy that you are enjoying it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnReid Posted October 4, 2012 Author Share Posted October 4, 2012 Here is a stationary backdrop that I made for filming,sometimes they were on rolls to simulate movement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnReid Posted October 4, 2012 Author Share Posted October 4, 2012 Models were often used for long shots which could have it's own backdrop as well.Here I have used an HO scale model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Oops, the engine's smokestack shadow goes to the horizon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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