That’s my last vignette.
I used Verlinden's rock tank. Figures are from Dragon and Warriors.

















Original rock tank:


Osprey „Japanese Pacific Island.Defenses1941-45”.

All comments welcome.

nice little dio Tomek,like the boobytrapped sword,nice touch

Haha, nice reference picture. And Verlinden actually made a kit out of that!?
Well, you made something nice with it. Great colors on the rock and groundwork!


Cheers
Claude

There's one you don't see everyday. Very good work!

Hi
Very nice build, interesting idea.
very well precented & painted.

The figures are great especially the way they're displayed, one obviously listening to the other and seemingly very tempted at a nice Jap sword, I feel you've actually captured what dioramas are all about, a story, a piece of history, darn good FX, small enough to be large on atmosphere, and you haven't gone way over the top. Very nice, very cool very yeah okay I'll shut up -------- I'd appreciate it if you could tell me what paint you mixed to get those rock colours, or are they real ?

I remember you mentioning this dio idea to me. It's great to see you stuck with it... the result is an excellent diorama. Well done mate.

So, do you have any more PTO dioramas planned?

Chas

A funny diorama, I enjoyed it, thanks for sharing here ! G.

Gday Tomek
That is some great paint work mate!
Your 'rockery' really looks the part, plus the way you managed to create a storyline within such a simple scene. Well done
Brad

Have to admit - having seen this kit only in catalogues before, I never liked the look of it at all.

However, you've made very good use of it and I really love your groundwork. You've also made the tanker figure look like Nicholas Cage!

Well done.

- Steve

Thank you for comments. I'm happy you like my little dio.
Alec - To paint rocks I used light grey for basecoat and than a lot of layers of oils. I mixed raw umber, burnt sienna, yellow ochre, van dyck bronze, black and some humbrol paints in many configurations.
Chas - I build AFV M5A1 now and I'm planning to use it for next PTO dio.
Steve – Nicolas Cage as USMC tanker? Great idea for his next movie.

Cool. Firstly because its something different, but i really like the fact you used a camo jacket on one guy and helmet on the other guy. Nice contrats, and really adds to the composition of the scene.

Excellent! Nicely done, very unique! Thanks for sharing. Cheers!

Thank you guys.

Tomek-- great job! What color did you use to get that great pattern on the helmet....very realistic.
Thanks
DJ

I remember precisely only a base color, it was Humbrol 74+81. Spots are dark brown, beige, dark green, and very light green ( I mixed a lot of paints ). Than I made turpentine + oil filter/wash with raw umber.

This site may be useful for you.
http://ww2collection.blogspot.com/

Superb dio and a very, very original idea!


Lars

great stuff, I had seen the Verlinden kit and always wondered about this.

A nice little dio, really well composed.

James