Hi, I am starting a 4 foot by 2 foot diorama with a road going along the side and a network of trenches and an under ground bunker in the corner. The road will have a german convoy going along it, under attack by an American Jabo. I spray painted the board and then I am going to cover it in plaster and cover that in woodland scenics grass. Just wondering if anybody else has done any dioramas on the Falaise gap and if they have any suggestions.

BTW this is my first diorama so I really have no idea what I'm doing here Thankfully I found this forum so I'm boning up on my dio jargon

Ola Pickle

First of all welcome to this site. You will enjoy your stay here and pretty much all your questions can and in pretty much all of the cases will be answered here.

To come back on your diorama. If it is your first diorama then my opinion is that you might start a bit on the overambitious side. If you start with making diorama's it is usually better to start small. You can still make it a Falaise gap dio and you still can show a part of a convoy being attacked by a Jabo. The nince thing is that you even can create that effect with just one vehicle and a load of figures going up a mountain road all looking towards the same point... pointing at the danger coming right at them and running away. The vehicle could be a flak truck. or something similar. You would have more focus on a single story and you can pack a serious load of action in it.

Now of course making big diorama's is always cool to see. But keep in mind that it is a really long time project. You'll need a huge load of vehicles varying from Trucks to left over armor after being trapped in the falaise gap, Motorcycles, kubelwagens... pretty much all that still did drive. You'll need a lot of figures. And while you can buy a lot of figures fitting for your idea still you will end up with scratching and sculpting your own figures. Making trees. Some very tough groundworks etc. etc. And you definately need to do a lot of planning. What will you place where, how do you fill empty spaces.

Now I don't try to get you off the idea of making a really big one out of your first diorama. but in my opinion it is better to practice on smaller scenes... it is already hard enough to get everything "right" in a small diorama. Nontheless if you start the big one I would love to see that just as well as any other dio you might produce. I simply love diorama's

With friendly greetz

Robert Blokker

I hope you have a lot of fun with it. My only words of advice would be: start smaller. It's going to take a long time to do a good job on a dio that big. You might get the same effect with one truck or a few wrecks on the road. Just a thought.

Two Falaise Gap dios here on Armorama.
https://armorama.kitmaker.net//features/1029
https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/88048&page=1

yeah I guess it might have been a tad ambitious for a 1st diorama and a new modeler I guess i just got bitten by the dio bug

PS what color would vehicles in normady usually have been painted? any reference pics? Thanks!