BOOBY TRAP ! Stug III Ausf.G Early Normandy June 1944 DAS WERK 1/16

[Gérard Deygas]

The diorama is therefore 60 cm long and 40 cm wide. Its base consists of a 40 mm thick Styrodur plate. The floor is shaped by portion with a mixture of tile-making glue and filler. So the plaster hardens less quickly... I soupoudre in this still fresh coating of the ground and small stones. The frequent passages of vehicles, drive the pebbles into a soft soil because very wet in Normandy I have restored all this by working in the fresh plaster with a paint roller. I repeated this operation until complete covering of the ground. Cows entering the meadow are marked by numerous hoof marks in the ground. I reproduced these impressions by creating a “stamp” in a square of wood balsa shaped hoof. before pressing it into the soil still wet. For the following some pebbles will appear here and there without exaggeration.

 

[Gérard Deygas]

Unlike 1/35 vegetation does not exist at 1/16... Manufacturers will be interested in this very soon I am convinced. But for now, you have to look for and be imaginative. I don’t know if these types of stores exist in your country? There is a group of stores specialized in “culture” the brand name is Cultura... There is everything: paint, brushes, glue, felt-tip pens, books, music, scrapbooking material, fine art material and lots of small objects and curiously flowers and plastic plants
By prospecting in stores like this, I manage to find objects that I will divert for my dioramas. This is the case of these plastic flowers.There are different shapes and colors that often serve as decoration!
This is how I was able to create the creeping ivy on the wall. The dead branches are small roots glued to wood glue


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The Revell paint pot gives you an idea of the size of the flowers

 

[Gérard Deygas]

The ingredients used to make the field on the side of the diorama. Small grass picked up in a forest during walks, plastic flowers, a log and tall. Some Cisal
grass

 

[Gérard Deygas]

I will conclude this topic on my Stug III with this last photo and the spare pebbles... The link axes need to be significantly refined. I will post soon one of my dioramas on the Panther Ausf. Dragon made a few years ago, period when my eyes still accepted the 1/35!



Panther Ausf.D DRAGON scale 1/35

 

[Rob Wernars]

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With regards,
Rob

 

[Rob Plas]

Zo, wow!