Jungle fighting in 1/144

Today I want show you some pictures I made while I tried to put my US Marines and a Sherman into the right surroundings.

The basement is a food package which I filled with gypsum and then later I took to work out the diorama. For the flowers and the grass I used whatever I found during a walk to the woods. So see what the result is.

Winter fighting or a Hetzer on his way to Bastogne

As there are so many dioramas with summer topics, I wanted to try it with a winter theme.

I used the following vehicles:

• German Hetzer from Dragon
• GMC truck from 21 ^th Century
• US Sherman M4 from Dragon
• Soldiers from Pegasus

For the basement I used an old piece of wood which I brought into a rectangular size. Then I used a router to shape a 5 mm deep form into the wood. In this deeper form I pressed a kind of soft clay to create something like a way with an intersection.

After drying I made the first test in which way the vehicles would fit best.

Then I added some trees and of course the snow.

I hope you enjoy my small diorama even the snow maybe is not fine enough.

 

here I put for some time a Puma on the diorama