Post by ozmac on Apr 13, 2022 2:05:21 GMT -5
Now I'm bending the rules here in this 1:43 scale diorama section by posting this old diorama from way back, as it is in 1:72 scale, but what the heck, I'm just trying to fill up the shiny new forum with a bit more dio content where I can find the photo files.
I had so much fun reading a book about the Long Range Desert Group, a bunch of mostly New Zealanders who had mastered long distance desert travel in Africa in the 1930s, and who then served as long distance patrol units for the British Army in WWII in North Africa. So much ingenuity and innovation, and that's no surprise, as they were all scientists to start with. The Long Range Desert Group later on provided transport to the early SAS Patrols, but while the SAS liked to blow stuff up, the LRDG just liked to lay low and report in on what they saw, without being detected.
The people I used as crew figures actually come from a plastic mortar crew set for WWII modellers, and I made up headgear a la Sahara for them. The palm trees were ultra-cheapies from eBay, but they looked ridiculously new so I aged them, cut off a few and painted them grey so there were dead fronds here and there. I suspect my palm authenticity rating would be 1 or 2 out of 10.
With my attachment to building fake water wherever possible, I decided they had to stop at an oasis for lunch and repairs. The old mortar spotter was my favourite figure in the dio.
Of course the greatest fun was building and modding this Canadian Chevrolet truck from a plastic kit. It came equipped with all the guns, etc, but I used modeller's clay to make up some extra swags and bags, then covered everything with dust.
Building the little truck was a tweezers and magnifying glass kind of thing at times. That's a 10ml paint pot next to it, for scale.
I had so much fun reading a book about the Long Range Desert Group, a bunch of mostly New Zealanders who had mastered long distance desert travel in Africa in the 1930s, and who then served as long distance patrol units for the British Army in WWII in North Africa. So much ingenuity and innovation, and that's no surprise, as they were all scientists to start with. The Long Range Desert Group later on provided transport to the early SAS Patrols, but while the SAS liked to blow stuff up, the LRDG just liked to lay low and report in on what they saw, without being detected.
The people I used as crew figures actually come from a plastic mortar crew set for WWII modellers, and I made up headgear a la Sahara for them. The palm trees were ultra-cheapies from eBay, but they looked ridiculously new so I aged them, cut off a few and painted them grey so there were dead fronds here and there. I suspect my palm authenticity rating would be 1 or 2 out of 10.
With my attachment to building fake water wherever possible, I decided they had to stop at an oasis for lunch and repairs. The old mortar spotter was my favourite figure in the dio.
Of course the greatest fun was building and modding this Canadian Chevrolet truck from a plastic kit. It came equipped with all the guns, etc, but I used modeller's clay to make up some extra swags and bags, then covered everything with dust.
Building the little truck was a tweezers and magnifying glass kind of thing at times. That's a 10ml paint pot next to it, for scale.
