Help, quick!!

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Good grief, not had a fisherman's friend for years... or anyone else's for that matter ;-) To be able to make something like this, i assume you have an idea, visualise, what the finished result will be. I cannot believe that these scenes fall together by accident so you must visualise the concept.

I would be interested to know if you think of a scene then go out and get the kit and bits, or do you get a kit and let that inspire the scene?

To use 'Bale out' as an example of how my mind works(when it decides to) on these dios.....yes there obviously has to be an initial idea, but I honestly don't know how it will end up!I wanted to do a smashed Tiger for a while, then I found the four figures on e.bay. I then found a suitable donor tank. I started with a straight road by a pond. Then, as always happens with me, and no doubt others, the ideas start.....How about a causeway with water either side, be more interesting? Plop the tank on the causeway, nah! Better to have it slid down the bank. So I dug a bit out of the 'lake bed' to take the tank tracks. After I did the rocket crater and placed the elements in place, it looked out of balance.

Idea...Put a bit more land by the wreck and put a destroyed M.G. nest in, which I did, complete with 2 bodies. When I was happy with it, I wandered round the garden rather like a waiter with a beer tray until I found suitable background foliage, then click! The photo of the 2 tanks on the sky line was again a spur of the moment thought and one that I am well chuffed with!

So to sum up ('bout time!)

I have an initial idea, make a start then see what ideas/ changes come to mind as I go along. This, to me is what makes these things so much fun to do...I really don't know what is round the corner. I just go merrily along!!...

Finding the excellent qualiy crew did inspire me with this, but usually I'll make the diorama and see what's about in the way of suitable kits.

It all sounds a bit 'hit and miss' I know, but to be honest it is.....And I love it!

Ron