Here are some pics of the nearly complete plan for my diorama.
Any comments and feedback welcome.












Cheers

Nice drawing.
What application are you using?

Its Google's Sketch-Up. Its a nice little free program for home users, or its around $500.00 for the pro version. Im using the free one though.

Is the free version a limited time use?
Are the tools intuitive and simple to learn?

The free edition is unlimited time use. It is very easy to lean, this took me like 10 min to figure it out. there are also a ton of tutorials on the web on how to use it.

Just google SketchUp and you will find the download. Something cool about this program to is that it uses real world measurments so if you want it 10 feet, then pull the line to 10 feet and so on.

Here is the start of my dio concept now that the buildings are out of the way,
tell me what you think.




There will be us troops being ambused by germans that are on top of the tall brick building with the gate.

great idea, love to see the finished "product"..

HI Chris
Cool idea. I will have to download this program. How easy was it to draw the sherman?? Cant wait to see the real thing.Thanks, Nick

That is really nice. The big wall is nicely detailed and not overpowering.
What scale are you going to do this in?

Thanks guys, I cant wait to get it started!

nick, the sherman took about 3 seconds! It was a free download off of google sketchup 3D warehouse. So i just downloaded it and then with one click i had a sherman!

Slodder, I will be making this in 1/35 scale.

Hi Chris
Ok, thats pretty cool do they have a reasonably large 'stock' of AFV's then?? Thanks, Nick

Yeah its a pretty good selection, i got a bunch I will upload some pics of the armor from ww2 i downloaded.

stay tuned........

all this for free? thats just what i can afford! I love technology!

Yeah, I just downloaded it this morning.
Fun application. I need to practice more, but I figured out the rectangle tool, I think.
The arch tool may be a little more challenge.

Here are a couple of the tanks that are free to download.

Hi Chris
Thanks for that, they are awesome!!! I am going to have to download this!! Nick

Hey guys, for anyone who is interested in learing how to use SketchUp, this is the web site I have used to figure it all out. Very helpful and easy to follow instructions via a Podcast.

SketchUp Training

Hope it helps!