Thanks, I actually found a neat site on Makoto Kobayashi's late 1980's plastic model dioramas which really helped spurr me along. http://aswars.tripod.com/ (its tripod so expect popup ads) A really awesome site and worth the look. The webmaster also has his own models here: http://jukabala.tripod.com/ (again tripod popups) Really kewl stuff. Decided to post these links here just in case someone else is looking for the same kinds of stuff that I was.

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