
I've not long finished the Matchbox 1/76 Char B1 bis + Renault FT17 and decided to put them on a wee dio.
The base was made from a polystyrene block (I make a lot of bases with this) shaped at either end with a trench roughly cut out a shell hole simply melted with liquid glue.

The cover over the trench was some sprue rods glued together.
Then I looked at where to place the tanks.

Once I was happy I mixed up some plaster and layered it on the base.
While still wet placed the tanks in position.



(sorry about pics flash not working)
As the plaster started to dry roughed up the ground behind the B1, cut 2 pieces of plastic and scored them and placed them as running boards in trench with broken lolly pop sticks as side boarding.
The sandbags are sprue sections from an old kit that had the wheels attached to. When cut off left what looked like sandbags.


When dry painted base and added sandbags.
Barbed wire is hand made from electric cable as seen on a "how to " here on Big A.





Figures are Russian as I couldn't find any french or German in my 1/72 collection. Had to cut off the blankets on them but got away with the German by the tree by making it look like a bandage. The figure kneeling is a British ww1 figure painted in french colours.
Even though it is dry the ground has a wet look as seen in the pictures.









I'm happy with the way it has turned out especially as I don't have a lot of material etc to work with

Hope you like it


Comments welcome
SAS007