I've got an idea for a rather big 1/72 diorama, but I just don't know whether I will find the time.
Setting will be WWI-ish, with a trench defining the dio's back. A German Harrier GR. 1 (inspired by one of Mav's brilliant profiles!
) is sitting at a FARP. Nearby is an artillery emplacement with a 21cm Mörser 18. A road in the middle, separating FARP and artillery emplacement, leads to the front and will be populated with German infantry and cavalry (horses, not tanks!
). Thought about arming some of the figures with German WWII weapons from a Dragon 1/72 set.
Maybe I'll add an AA emplacement with a Flak 38 as well. To guard the artillery and FARP against marauding Royal Air Corps machines.
Mav's profile of the Harrier is Lozenge overall. That'll be
way too complicated. The timeframe is too limited. And so are my skill and, most of all, patience.
Maybe I'll "paint" the wings and control surfaces with Lozenge decals and the fuselage in rather gaudy colours (no Red Baron, though
).
The artillery piece will be mostly unmodified, save for the wheels with "snow shoes" (to keep them from sinking into the mud) that you see in so many photographs. The artillery will be painted in the multi-colour camo jobs of German WWI artillery pieces in a grey-ish green, tan and brown separated by black lines. Maybe the figures need some camo'ed gear as well.
Probably too ambitious for a GB of two months. Especially when considering my usual building speed.
