Small scale WW2 dioramas

[Tim Marlow]

In my youth I think Heroics and Ross were the only 1/300 game in town….not the best models really. I’ve still got some 1/300 Napoleonics and some WW1 aircraft somewhere…..

[JR]

Certainly have the wow factor, could you show one against a bottle of Vallejo or Tamiya please Peter.

[Peter Gillson]

Hi Guys

thanks for the compliments.

All of the models in this thread will be 1/285 scale with the vehicles and figures from GHQ, really remarkable detail : https://www.ghqmodels.com/collections/1-285-6mm-scale

the tree in this one was one of a few which Andy Belsey kindly sent me a few years ago when I has my first attempt at this scale.

For my D-Day dio I will be doing a very minor detailing work - drilling open a couple of hatches so the figures will fit in. For some other ideas there will be some conversion work.

i guees I am the same as others in having a 'bucket list' of diorama idea which I would love to build in 1/35 but know that I'm not going to get around to them. This scale gives me the opportunity to delve into that bucket list and get a few built.

Peter

[Jim R]

Hi Peter
That is superb. These little dios are jewel like as Tim says.
Jim

[Andy Belsey]

Sorry, I've only just caught up with this! Great work Peter. Lovely little dioramas. They can be addictive, can't they?!
Andy

[Andy Belsey]

Hi All I have taken a leaf out of Andy B's book and have been working on a few 1/285 scale Ww2 dioramas: peter

Have you found the book helpful Peter? I’m glad that it’s inspired you do do these.
Andy

[Peter Gillson]

Hi Andy

yes the book was a help, as are the articles which were published in Mil Mod.

i agree they are addictive, although they can take a surpising amount of time - still a lot less than 1/35!

peter

[Peter Gillson]

Here is my D-Day diorama.

it shows a Sherman DD taking the surrender of a German soldier coming out of PZIV Tobruk pit, with a single British soldier advancing. The reason i used the Sherman DD rather than an ordinary Sherman was that using a DD would clearly set it as Normandy, an ordinary sherman coud have been anywhere, even North Adrica!

i know the barbed wire is out of scale, but it is the thinest wire I have.

i now have the body of a Pziv to use - perhaps I may try and convert it into a bergpanzer.

Peter

[Mini Me]

Very nice result Peter. :thumb2: Rick H.

[adt70hk]

Nicely done!!

[Peter Gillson]

Cheers guys - I really do need a better magnifying glass.

Peter

[Andy Belsey]

Cheers guys - I really do need a better magnifying glass.

Peter

Invest in an optiviser. They are what most of the top modellers rely on these days as we get older and our eyes are not as sharp as they were.
They aren’t very expensive too, although I suspect that many are cheap copies from China of an original design? Anyway, I rely on them nowadays for small work and I know that Mike the Kiwi does too. You can wear prescription glasses as well as optiviser.
Andy

[Tim Marlow]

Peter, have a look here.

https://www.theloupestore.co.uk/Headband-Loupes/

It was orig posted by someone on here, but I forget who. Great site! Proper optivisors are made by Donegans I think.

[Peter Gillson]

Thanks for the link and thoughts about an optivisor. i bought one a few years ago but could not get on with it. I will have to dig it out and give it another go.

Here is a photo of the base of my next dio:

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as you can see it is twice as long as my other dioramas which are 5cm x 5cm. The reason being that this 'reptile' will be the centerpiece of the diorama:

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the idea, and challenge is to have a burst of flames from the Crocodile to the bunker in the corner. Not sure how I am going to do it - putty or perhaps

John - here is a photo of one with Vallejo paint for scale:


Peter

[Jim R]

Hi Peter
I can well imagine these micro dios becoming addictive. Wonderful stuff. Even at 1/35 I need my optivisor.
Jim