Ready for the painting booth (Patreon)

My friends, here are some phone pictures taken on a white background since I already prepared it for a proper photo shoot with a DSLR, and also so you can see the details more clearly. 

I added a ton of mess on the ground according to the original inspiration photo. Here's something I tried keeping in mind: placing some of the broken pieces of wood so they'd hang out of the scene. Once the glue dried, I cut them flush with the sides. The point of this? So it doesn't look like everything was crammed into this small space, but as if everything, including the debris, continues past the borders of the scene. Yes, letting some pieces stick out would emphasize that feel, but I personally like when everything is confined inside the borders of the diorama (so when you run your finger on the walls, it won't get caught on anything). 

The Stalingrad figures are nice. They needed some minor clean-up and their helmets were warped, so I replaced them with plastic Tamiya ones (leftovers from both my Mk IV kits). 

Making the trench "lived in" was about adding some random junk... the ladder comes from a Miniart field workshop set, the rifle from Tamiya (again, the same WW1 figures), some random resin stowage on the walls, 3D printed flimsies (this time for water, not petrol), and a bunch of epoxy putty tarps and ropes (again from the Mk IV kit, lol). 

So now it's all ready for painting! It was pointed out in the construction video that I omitted one important detail. The Krupp A7V had the side walls made from several plates, just like on the model. But Heiland was a Rochling production and had the sides made from a single plate. This COULD be fixed rather easily, but it would take good few hours of my life. Since this diorama took so long to construct and since I'd like to enjoy Easter tomorrow, I decided to live with this mistake. I hope that's alright! :) 

So yeah, Happy Easter everyone!