Operation Greif: This is not the way to Ambleve

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Operation Greif: This is not the way to Ambleve

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I used Miniart's 1/35 Country road and U.S. Bantam 40 with crew for this little diorama. The vegetation was from various places although I made the grass clumps myself with a static grass applicator.

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Beautifully credible figures and nicely set against the backdrop Titan.
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That is incredibly good model work and very clever photo backdrops. It looks so realistic!

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Brilliantly done Mark; very realistic indeed
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Fantastic diorama and outstanding photography.
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What can I say, the models are just wonderful but with the photo background it's lifelike !!
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The backdrop really sets off this albeit simple but delightful dio.
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Thanks gentlemen I'm glad you liked it, I certainly enjoyed making it though at the start it wasn't really planned I just had the kits in the stash. The base came with a cart which I was going to use on it's own with a couple of French farmers around it but I couldn't find them..( I think they must have been liberated...) so I used the Bantam instead as it had crew as well.
The backdrop was a public domain photo I found online so I blew it up to 30in x 20 in and stuck it on a cork notice board, the photo though had a gloss finish so I sprayed it with some inkjet spray matte varnish which worked very well. Whilst taking the photos I adjusted the height and position of the backdrop just for variety .
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Outstanding Mark, that really is a fine diorama and the photography is also very well done making the scene appear very realistic - I can almost hear those soldiers talking to each other :grin: I presume decals were provided for the figure's unit patches and what have you or else you have a very steady hand!
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Thanks Shaun but I can only wish that I could paint unit markings that good in 1/35 alas no those were the decals that came with the kit. :)
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Great idea to have the illusion of them being on a rise in a valley: that's what really sets this off (along with the static grass... new to me: things have clearly come on since I last used railway modellers' dyed sawdust!)

I see that they also do pre-formed clumps on sticky pads http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WWS-100-Self- ... 2227750052... probably useful for basing single figures/small groups.
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