**COMPLETED** My old mill diorama...an add-on (or two)

[Gern]

Phew! I thought when you said you were going to turn your attention to the figures you meant your Zulus! I was thinking "How the h**l is he going to explain what they're doing with a Panzer IV!?"

Now all is clear and I foresee another great little story.

[spanner570]

Here is the finished ( I think!) yard. I regret now not using a well detailed 1/72 tank, but this one serves the purpose. I gave it a light dusting. It looks a bit blue, but is in fact the correct shade of grey in real life...

The figures are from my spares box, as are the bits and pieces lying around.....I made a gate which you can just make out in the foreground.

The bloke at the front is not having a pee, he's cradling a shell in his arms!

You might also wonder why the two lads attending the tank are wearing steel helmets? They have been naughty and have to wear them all day as a minor punishment!!

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Then away I went off on one!

I decided to make the mill look a bit more like a fortification, just in case the French Maquis showed up!

I added some scratch built sandbags from putty and placed them on the stone wall and made some 'barbed wire' from thin from electric cable. The wire goes all around the perimeter and ends at the weir.

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I also came up with a diddy poster and notice board.

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I added some gear, ammo boxes and some more rubble....I also added a power pole( out of shot) and some cable running from it and along the wall to a fuse box.

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That's it. I'm happy with the result. It makes the yard look busy and helps balance out the water side of the model.

I hope you approve too folks.

Cheers,

Ron

[eddiesolo]

Superb Ron! I am not going to say it finishes it as the original, in my mind was superb-this...adds to it.

Si

[john i am]

Great additions Ron to what was already a great diorama it's gone from a sleepy countryside mill house to a hive of activity I'm sure I can here those tracks shattering the silence of the countryside well done mate and I'm so glad your mate prompted you into action you should make him come round and have another look I'm sure he would be pleased with the extras

[Guest]

Great little diorama Ron everything in it works.

[takeslousyphotos]

Good Stuff Ron .......... I really like that.

Peter

[spanner570]

Thanks chaps, I'm glad it passes muster. I've just realised, I forgot the black crosses on the tank.....Hey ho! Back to the drawing board - again!

[Guest]

Nice work Ron looks good.

scott

[monica]

Great additions Ron to what was already a great diorama

it dose just fill in that space

very nice paint work on the figures as well,o_O

[Guest]

Looks great...... And your brush painting is outstanding

[Guest]

I like it, nice job.

[Guest]

You've done it again Ron, a beautifully executed and observed dio.. Derek

[Alan 45]

Nice little addition to a great dio Ron it has certainly filled that little space nicely

[Guest]

Again Ron, a great eye for the diorama and you have created a perfectly viable and believable scene. It really does look the part. I have a great book on servicing German tanks during the war and there are a number of pictures in it whereby farm buildings etc. were used to provide temporary workshops for tank repairs with engine lifting gantries set up and various pieces of tanks scatterred around the place. You have captured the atmosphere of these makeshift repair facilities perfectly.

[Guest]

Just when I thought it could'nt get any better! Thats brilliant Ron,nice additions! Always great eye candy looking at you're craftmanship!