thanks to my grandaughter
I have been building military vehicles for the past few months with no where to store or display them
then one day about a week ago while I was planting a couple of young spruce trees in the garden spot with my 7 yo grandaughter assisting she turned to me and offhandily said "Pappy it sure would look right if you put some of your army men under those trees"
I looked a bit closer at the small young trees and exclaimed "Amber you have given me an Idea"
then jumpig in my pickup zi drove slowly through the pasture land that i own and began to locate and dig up all the small evergreen that I could find- none being over a foot high then replanting them close together as they would be in a real forest then using broken branches as dead trees and logs I had the making of a forest in Europe large and small flint rocks were used as to represent the granet cliffs
cut a river through the center and used smooth flint rocks in the river bed between the cliffs and built a road to the river a bridge over the river and cont on this side of the river now came the placing of the vehicle which I did in military convoy fashion still have to finish the figures and place them and am in the process of building a guard tower and the HQ Command center and the supply depot tent
the convoy
two jeeps a duce and a half full of supply's , a half track loaded with the ammo for four tanks a Stuart two Shermans ( one Bombed out sitting by the side of the road) and a Abrams and on the other side of the river waiting on them to cross a company of Ger man troop with a half track a swimwagon and a geman style command vehicle
