new tanks for Africa

As I had to decide which tanks I want to place on the african village, I took two from Panzer Depot and one old Panzer II from Dragon.

In the next days I will paint them and some stuff to make them more looking like in action in Africa.

sketch for my 1-144 train station

Here is the drawing I created before I started with the building.

just out of the box: US-Army in Italy in 1/144

While watching an Italian movie with my wife I had the idea to this small diorama.
It shows the approach of the American Army in an Italian village.
The GIs just received at the train station. 
As my space is limited I decided to build a narrow gauge line with two wagons.
The M3A1 Stuart gives the GIs a bit fire support. The tank is from “Panzerdepot” and just out of the box. All soldiers are members of the “Pegasus” Army and are out of the box too.
So here are some pictures:

While working on the train I tried several different tanks - as you can see not all of them fit perfectly.

some progress for my african diorama

Here some more picutres. 

Meanwille I filled up the ground with plaster of Paris what I coloured it with used tea bags. 

They give a really good natural colour.

The last picture shows the diorama before I decided the paint all houses and the entrance in the same colour. The vehicels are all from PanzerDepot and yet I have not decided which one will be definitly be later on the diorama.

Welcome to Africa II

I made a little progress this weekend. I have built the door and I like it.
Some words about the design of the door. It's made out of three layers of the white foam.
The dorr itself will be built with these small pieces of wood you get at coffee shops.

Africa drawing for the door

As I have Google Sketch, I use this free 3D software to draw things before I build them in real.
So here the the drawings created to get an idea how the door should look like:

As material I use again this foam board. It's easy to handle and cheap so that in the worst case I can throw away any rubbish I produced.
Here a picture with the latest state of my african door

Welcome to Africa

I saw some days ago a nice movie from a French "Wochenschau". For all who are not familliar with the name "Wochenschau": in times as nealy nobody had a radio or a television, (yes there was a time without Internet and texting), people went to the theatres to watch news. In Germany these news updates were called "Wochenschau" and they were full with propaganda. In one of these I saw an airplane passing by an italian fort. So I want to have my own italian Fort.
Here is the plan: a big entrance nearly a ruin and two houses.
On the base plate it should look like this:

okay to build such a big complex I do not have the space and time so I will stay with the plan below: