Anyone know how to make scale Pine trees?

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It's slightly off-thread but worth being in mind that many armoured encounters took place at very short distances. At Kursk T-34's knocked out Tigers at less than 100 yards & Michael Wittman's famous battle in Normandy had him taking out Cromwells at less than that! I think sometimes reality has to be sacrificed by practicality and just a flavour of what's meant to be depicted can bring a scene to life. Patrick

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lol our posts were on similar lines Graham!

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Great minds think alike Patrick.... so why I was there is anyones guess :laughing:

[tr1ckey66]

I think this thread has turned into another thread!

Thanks for the thoughts. I guess what I should do is depict a section of bocage countryside with the outskirts of a village, and get the opposing forces to fit as naturally and realistically as possible. I think it's the change of perspective is what I'm after - seeing things more from a birds eye view. I think you're both right and a bit of artistic license is required.

If this project ever gets off the ground you guys will be the first to know!

Cheers all

P

[Guest]

What do you mean "if"???? Get on with it :laughing: Seriously though, if you feel like bouncing ideas around then why not start a new thread and get it going. You may decide at some point not to do it but such 'Ideas Scratchpad' type threads can get peoples creative juices flowing and give others ideas.

[Gern]

Hi Paul,

It would be very nice to have the scale distances in the scenery match those in the kits but we're not all blessed with display areas the size of Wembley Stadium - which is unfortunately what we'd need for some of our ideas!

You could think about it like this though. Model railway builders have the same problem; yet they have no problems building layouts with stations no more than a few train lengths away from each other. In real life of course they are many miles apart which not even Wembley Stadium would be able to represent properly in true scale. Everyone appreciates the difficulty and there are seldom any issues with it.

Equally, no-one will criticise your work if your opponents are a little - or even a lot - closer than they should be.

Go on! You know you want to!

Gern

[tr1ckey66]

SO MANY MODELS, SOOOO LITTLE TIME!!!!:surrender:

Cheers Dave

Yep, I understand the conundrum re scale and available space. Funnily enough my dad (God bless him) built me and my brothers a massive layout in the loft when we were kids.

Anyhoo, back to the point. I am going to try a large diorama in 1/72 but I can't see that being a quick build!!!! So that may take a while. The other thing is I've got a million other modeling projects to be getting on with as well - all of em screaming to me ,'BUILD ME, BUILD ME!!!!' I CAN'T TAKE IT I TELLS YA!!!:doctor: (Normal service will resume shortly)...

Sorry about that must be CA glue fumes.

Prime example of a model begging to be built - Just taken delivery of a Resicast Bedford QLT - absolutely gorgeous resin kit that I plan to do a lot of figures with (all of which will require converting).

I know I'm not alone in this - if I didn't have a job, family, didn't have to eat or sleep and lived to 200 I may complete it all!

Only joking. Modeling is a real passion with me but like everyone else just got to find the time.

eace:Paul

[Gern]

Only 200 years Paul? I take it you've not got many plans for your existing stash and have no intention of adding to it as new 'must have' kits are released?!

If it's any consolation, I hear the same demands from my stash every time I go near it - and I'd guess a very large proportion of other modellers do too.

Gern

[tr1ckey66]

Ok, immortality it is. As soon as I crack that I'll share it on the forum - perhaps then we might shift a bit of the backlog. Nah, who am I kiddin', we'd just keep on buying more and more bits of precious plastic! Ah, my precious, my precious!!!

Sorry - fumes again...

Paul

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"I know I'm not alone in this - if I didn't have a job, family, didn't have to eat or sleep and lived to 200 I may complete it all!

Only joking. Modeling is a real passion with me but like everyone else just got to find the time.i paul," - HI paul, i hear you!!! if i complete one kit a month i should get my stash done in about 6 years , DODDLE!!! Back to reality , im lucky if i get one done every 3 months not to mention my addiction to buying more! my trouble is i cant resist a bargain , ive just got to try and keep off e-bay! good luck in the fir trees quest, im still racking my tiny brains to think of anything that might be useful,ill let you know if anything crops up, cheers tony

[tr1ckey66]

Hey Tony

... Don't start me on ebay, it's like modeler's heroin!

Yep, I too can't pass up a bargain. I've spotted an AFV Churchill mkIII in Modelzone for £18! Now, I don't need a Churchill mkIII but my twisted modeler's brain is saying, 'it will be easier to convert that to an 'AVRE' than it will be to convert the Tamiya mkVII(which I already have)!' What kind of twisted logic is that!!!... It is nearly half price though... NO! STOP THE MADNESS!!!

NB: I know AFV do an AVRE but that's not on sale and I already have the Resicast AVRE conversion kit.

I think I'll start another thread about 'model stashes' where you have to submit a photo of your unbuilt kits! That'd be fun, like 'Modelers Anonymous' (except we'd know your name?!) ... Hello, My name is Paul and I'm a modeller but I've not bought a kit in the last 2 minutes... etc etc

...Just a thought...

Cheers Tony

Paul