Final assembly
About 75% of the diorama is now finished and I am estimating about another years work to completion if I work on it full time.The plan right now is to start at  the approximate center of the diorama and work my way out to the perimeter finishing things as I go along. The heart of this diorama is the interior of the old station at Cattle Crossing which also happens to be the opening scene from the film.

Playing with the composition.

Yesterday was a great day as I finally figured out the storyline for the "Once Upon A time.....storyboard diorama.Basically it is back to the theme park idea.I only want one figure in the piece for both storyline and scale purposes.The figure will be opening or closing the gated theme park with lock and key.This eliminates the need for any other figures and makes an empty theme park believable.I was worried about doing justice to the figures and making them look real, especially for Jill 's arrival scene.Instead of figures I will use posters of each actors important scenes that I like.Each scene(Vignette) will tell its own story,a kind of story within the story idea.I will create two more modules,one for Jill's arrival and the other for the security guard or park manager.(this scene will also contain a car ,truck or motorcycle etc... .These two modules I will try to place in such a way as to take away the look of too much squareness in the overall storyboard diorama.There will of course be more changes as I go along but this idea really appeals to me and I hope to the viewer as well.Cheers ! John.

Here is where I am on the water tower right now.

Here I am just fooling around with some ideas.

Claudia's arrival scene at Flagstone station.
The story really centers around Claudia's character "Jill".I have decided to create a vignette of her opening scene,the arrival at Flagstone.I think that it should make for a wonderful addition to the storyline.It is just now in the preliminary planning stages.Hope you like it !

I have joined the Clint Eastwood site and will be putting up the same pics over there too.
I have found a great website that de-constructes the opening scene of the movie.I will take some pics off the screen and compare the actual movie set scene with mine in 1/24 scale.Should be fun !
Note: I don't know how this pic got so big ?

Movie set 2.I have expanded the props yard to include a car/wagon idea that actually existed on the Leone movie set.For some shots of the wagon scene thru Monument Valley,A car was used for filming where you would normally expect a horse.

Well it is now back to the saloon.Only the front facade will be finished while the rear will accommodate the actors dressing rooms.