Normandy Bocage diorama

[GerryW]

Looking at this, makes me want to 'attack' my first attempt, which was sort of a similar scene (posted a photo of it in the 'critique' section when I first joined) and go 'all out' with what I've learned since.

[AlanG]

Gerry. I would even do mine differently if i started again. It's a continuous learning process. But i'm getting there. Should really crack on with this one as well lol

[AlanG]

Well slight accident with this 'stalled' build today. I took it off the SoD to do a little work on it as the foliage is coming off. I need to seal it onto the trees better.

Whilst cleaning it up i dropped it. Not far granted but enough to break all the big trees off it. So i am going to have to recover this as much as i can. Still i suppose it gives me a chance to improve the ground cover before i fit the trees back onto it. Some of it has seriously faded so needs replacing. Still a little gutted though. Took so much time and effort to get this far with it.

[scottie3158]

Been there mate but as you say it's a chance to revisit.

[A_J_Rimmer]

That's really annoying - I hope you can get it sorted!

[Ian M]

Ouch. I bet that even Billy Connolly would have come second in the profanity contest that followed.
I hope you take the challenge and get on it again.

[AlanG]

I'm giving it a go guys. Typically there is not much left to do on it so hopefully i can get it finished soon. Then i can concentrate on building the vehicles and figures.

And yes Ian. The swear jar had to be replaced with a swear bucket

[minitnkr]

Have heart Alan, it'll come together. When I screwed up the 10ton wrecker I had to relabel the wife's job barrel.

[AlanG]

If i'm honest i nearly binned it. I was ready to take off the remaining bushes, trees and fence to reuse them on a new Bocage dio. Mostly because i've learned SO much making this dio from it's first concept to where it is now. I've done things in the wrong order and rushed ahead with some things rather than taking the time to get some basics right.

But i'm going to go with it for now. It'll still be decent enough to be a backdrop for some of the builds i have planned.

[Jim R]

Bet the air was blue. Definitely worth a deep breath and carry on. It was looking so good.

[AlanG]

Did a little work on the faces today. Right side one still needs work. But i'm happy so far.

[rtfoe]

Attaboy Alan, my philosophy is if it's broken just remind myself that when it first was in concept it was in pieces so I will repair it and correct the areas I had passed before.

Cheers,
Wabble

[Tim Marlow]

Looking good Andy. Love the expression on the left hand guy….

[AlanG]

Had a little spray bottle in the back of a draw and remember that it gave a fine mist when spraying. So thought that i would dilute some pva in warm water and see if i could mist the glue back onto the branches so i could reapply the leaves.

Seems to have worked a treat. Only tried it on a small section and will see if the leaves stick enough tomorrow when dried. But for now you can see that it has stuck the leaves at the bottom of the tree where as the top of the tree is still bare (ish) from where they fell off last time with the cheap glue.

If this way works i can see myself using it more often. For the sake of £1 it''s worth a bash.

[adt70hk]

Hi Al

Sorry to hear about the troubles with the base. Pleased to hear that you have not given up though.

The figures are very good . Particularly like the face on the 2nd one!

ATB

Andrew