Small scale WW2 dioramas

[Steven000]

Lovely mini diorama's Peter, great work very nice :thumb2:
Steven

[stillp]

Great idea to make two scenes 5 years apart.
Pete

[Andy Belsey]

I too like the pair of dioramas of the same area. Clever idea! Keep them coming!!
Andy

[Andy Belsey]

Hi Guys

Rick - that woud be the ideal dio, unfortunately I cannot source civilian figures for the crowd, nor the Merc.

Peter

I used Preiser children that are really 1:260 -Z Gauge. I also converted some Z Gauge ladies by chopping parts of their limbs and torso out. It does leave you with stout women though! They do teenagers too. The only issue is that they are quite expensive for what you get. I’ll see if I can raid the boxes of figures at work or ones I saved from my foray into micro dioramas. I’m not sure what I have?
Andy

[Tim Marlow]

Civilians might be something you can get from the 3D print figure suppliers? Try something like shapeways.

[adt70hk]

Brilliant!!

[Peter Gillson]

Cheers guys, thanks for the kind words.

Jim - apologies, I missed your question form earlier in the thread - these buildings were GHQ products, very well detailed and an absolute joy to paint. The bunkers in the earlier dios were scratch built.

i'm not too worried about the lack of civvies; I doubt if I will make a scene with civvies in future. The next is likely to be a return to the Normandy campaign with a bocage scene, or perhaps a two level model with a bridge over a railway line. Nice thing about this scale is that they are so quick compated to 1/35 scale, I can whizz through the ideas!

while searching for civvies I came across a number of different producers of 6mm figures of loads of historical periods reanging from ancients, to English Civil War and Napoleonic; perhaps Hougoumont farm in 6mm?

Peter

[Tim Marlow]

There’s a huge range of 6mm stuff out there Peter, it’s one of the more popular scales for war gaming….possibly worth giving heroics and ros a miss though, they have been making them for at least thirty years and there are now better about.

[Peter Gillson]

hi guys

I finished a couple of mimi dioramas last weekend, before my thumb loses its argument with a saw, here are a few photos




peter

[minitnkr]

Very well done. I know it's tough to photograph, they're so small.

[Mini Me]

Very nice Peter.....

[Peter Gillson]

Thanks guys - even for the 2 'thumbs up"!

i agree I need to work on photographing them, I'll have to play around with the camera settings.

i may not be ble to do any actual modelking for a while, but I have an idea. Using Word I printed pages with a number of 5cm x 5cm squares which I am using to plan some more little dioramas.




the drawings are pretty basic but placing the vehicles on the squares allows me to decide the composition and plan the best way to approach building them.

Peter

[Andy Belsey]

You'll have a collection larger than mine soon! Keep them coming, when you are able.
Andy

[Peter Gillson]

Hi all

back to the small dioramas - this time an Allied HQ scene. This time I used vehicles and figures by Baccus which produce 6mm figures and vehicles, about 1/300 scale. the building is also from Baccus.

https://www.baccus6mm.com/

The vehicles are not as good as GHQ range, but Baccus do produce figures for pretty well all periods of history. I do have a small set of Napoleonics!



i produced it over the weekend, great fun. Next up will be some involve more detailed ground work - buildings and bridges.

Peter

[minitnkr]

Very nice.