Trench-Tank Diorama, in 1/72 >NO PICS<
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 11:31 am
WIP here: http://www.spamodeler.com/forum/viewtop ... lds+a+tank
I picked this up at the local HobbyTown. The club was doing a WWI group build/contest and I decided to do something a little bit different. Im normally an aircraft modeller, so a tank kit will be a bit of a surprise! This is in 1/72 scale, so yes. tiny!
The kit builds up quickly, and by the end of the night, I had the entire hull assembled. As for camo...the box schemes called for just a solid khaki or grey but those were boring. so I looked online for some inspiration and this is the one I ultimately went with
while the paint and weathering was setting I decided to craft a small base for my tank: the tank will be coming up an incline and over a trench. I picked up a cheap wooden base from Hobby Lobby, and blocked things out with foam board and celluclay. Sculpey clay was used to make sandbags.
After some very helpful feed back from some of the armor guys at the IPMS club meeting, I added a walkway to the trench area along with a couple soldiers. The trench fortifications are scrap balsa wood we had laying around the art room, and the grass is bristles off a brush. The blasted-apart "tree" was a root a dug up in the back yard.
Here are the painted army guys. They are actually French figures, because I couldnt find any Germans! The uniforms look pretty similar to my untrained eye, so Im hoping the paint will help the illusion
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I picked this up at the local HobbyTown. The club was doing a WWI group build/contest and I decided to do something a little bit different. Im normally an aircraft modeller, so a tank kit will be a bit of a surprise! This is in 1/72 scale, so yes. tiny!
The kit builds up quickly, and by the end of the night, I had the entire hull assembled. As for camo...the box schemes called for just a solid khaki or grey but those were boring. so I looked online for some inspiration and this is the one I ultimately went with
while the paint and weathering was setting I decided to craft a small base for my tank: the tank will be coming up an incline and over a trench. I picked up a cheap wooden base from Hobby Lobby, and blocked things out with foam board and celluclay. Sculpey clay was used to make sandbags.
After some very helpful feed back from some of the armor guys at the IPMS club meeting, I added a walkway to the trench area along with a couple soldiers. The trench fortifications are scrap balsa wood we had laying around the art room, and the grass is bristles off a brush. The blasted-apart "tree" was a root a dug up in the back yard.
Here are the painted army guys. They are actually French figures, because I couldnt find any Germans! The uniforms look pretty similar to my untrained eye, so Im hoping the paint will help the illusion
(flash)
(without flash)
- superb work, it looks fantastic - and I like the phot's too, the sepia one looks almost real. 