Hello

I recently posted the completed Kubel on the Braille Scale forum, and the rough unpainted vignette.

I've found some time and have completed the vignette.

I'm seeking feedback, whether it works as is, or whether it needs improvement or changes.

The base is small, so there's not much room to change the basics too much.

The roadway was made from a bought piece of plastic moulded to look like a quarried rock wall, laid flat, and the deep gaps between the 'cobbles' was filled with slightly diluted white glue, to even it up. The footpath, part wall, and larger stone debris was from an old unused Matchbox kit base from the 1980s (I never throw anything away) cut to size. The medium sized debris is model railway ballast glued on with white glue. The whole thing painted, then dry brushed, with enamel paint, then some pastel chalk scrapings were drybrushed on that.

The driver is a 1/72nd Preiser figure from the 'Resting Infantry' set. The female is from the 1/72nd Caesar 'Partisans' set with her rifle removed. She was painted with acrylics, except her skin which was done with enamel.

I'll probably also get a router (hello credit card) and make one of those neat routed edged wooden mounts to fix it too, when its complete

this is the second vignette I have ever made, (excepting a couple I made when I was a kid and have yet to finish a diorama (I have three large dioramas part completed).

all comments welcome

Cool!!! Tiny!!! I currently "expanded" into a few 1/72nd scale armor pieces. At first I was very hesitant to move to the scale because.....well, age makes small things look even smaller. Quality in these kits are amazing though!!! Kudos, brother

thanks Jack

glad you like it, as you say there are a lot of great 1/72nd kits been released over the last few years

the kit is out of the box (Attack brand) with a few small enhancements, the brass parts are a bit fiddly to get in the right place, but otherwise its a straightforward build. I tried to put internal details on the inside of the doors but could not get a neat enough job, so left them plain (my eyes are not what they once were either)

the scene is meant to be ambiguous. Is the soldier looking for female company ? does the female need help ? Is there hostility on her part ? Is the female a "professional" ? and between both is a space filled with the debris of war.

I don't know if I achieved that ambiguity, or if the scene looks like two unconnected objects placed together.

The female's face is very well cast, and her face details turned out to be well defined after painting more by good luck than anything as even with a magnifier I could not clearly see her eye detail

cheers
Neil

Hello

I bought a "router" & a box of "router bits" yesterday, and watched a few Youtube tutorials as I haven't used a router before.

I cut a piece of pine plank to the right size and routed it with a 'roman ogee' (?) bit

I'm pretty happy with the result

I stained it with 'jarrah' oil, and just need to give it a name plate, I'm thinking 'Fraternisation'

cheers
Neil

If I like the ambiguity of the scene as you say -and the whole build, I feel more reserved about the series of parallel lines of your work, more angles either car vs wall or sidewalk would have been welcomed, but once more this is a promising work
Nico