this is my latest dio.
And the first time ive painted figures.

i wanted it to be or the mortor team in someones front yard.
So any comments are welcome. http://photos.kitmaker.net/showgallery.php?cat=18636

Hi there

Good little scene.

The groundwork is quite good and looks promising. Your work on the figures are also quite good, but the canteen on one of the kneeling guys ought to be painted. Perhaps you should try to re-arange the figures - there seems to be some more space you could use.

In all a nice piece of work.

Thanks for sharing it

Simon

Aloha,

Nice job. I am nearing taking on my first figures as well. Hope I can do as well as yours.
-zon

I love the path on the base. Mind if I steal?...............pleeeese

No i dont mind at all
I thought it was one of the deciding factors of the diorama.

Love the groundwork also and an excellent first attempt at figures. Only thing id suggest is that the gate appears to be far to big for the walls - its almost as big as the guy standing which would make it around 5.5ft tall!
Id suggest shrinking it slightly, otherwise excellent.

James

Hi David,

Very good job for a first try !
Nothing to add, except the flask unpainted.
Keep on the good work.

Julien

Thanks for the steal. How did you do the grass, that looks ace too!

Good job. Keep it up!

Hi there

Thanks for the rob.
Got to work straight away. Brilliant idea beacuse I bought some bricks and strewing to lay a road down, trouble was that there were nowhere near enough!

Thanks again

The grass is a brand called jorden its real cheap and really good.
and the tussoks are made of jute rope that has benn dyed olive green
it was some spares that i had luing around from my ghillie suit i made and use for hunting.

Another nice little dio David. Figures appear to be pretty nice, for a first time, but the pics are not clear enough to give further feedback. Getting good clear images of your figures is an excellent way to get tips and help on how to improve.
The gate itself doesn´t feel natural. A gate .... especially in someones front yard ... would be light and easily openable/closeable. A big heavy wooden gate like this would not be easy to use. Its also quite unusal to see a gate that is higher than the wall ... if so, it usually has pillars on each side.
A tip would be to look at period images and try and copy front gates/walls to get a more natural appearance. Another one would be to get some plastic strips, as they would be more in scale.