I am planning on building a vignette of some soldiers passing a statue in a square, the statues pedestal is covered with notes and photos of lost loved ones and missing friends.

I will be using a picture frame as the base, and an old knight toy for the statue! The pedestal will be old wooden dominoes coated with plaster. I am planning to name it “Whispers of war”. Not quite sure on the name or the figures.



Any advice and criticism, is welcome!!

you should use either russian soldiers in Stalingrad or german soldiers
thats what I think would look cool

I will be using two or three German soldier’s, I would use Russian soldiers but it would not fit the scene. I have glued down the pavement I have also painted on the base coat on the bronze statue. The wooden blocks have also been glued together. I have started painting my second figure; I painted the other one a week ago.

Here is the outline of the dio:

Yo Vladimir,

Nice story!! But scale down the statue...its totaly out of scale...use a knight in 1:35 scale, with horse for example.

Greetz Nico

Thank’s Neco, the only problem is that there are no modeling stores in my region and the toy’s are the only thing’s I found. I will use it as a substitute until I find a 1/35th or 1/32nd scale knight.

So, this is my progress so far:
I added some strips of wood to the pedestal to give it a sort of design, I then added plaster to get rid of the ridges and the texture of the wood. I even added some flaking part’s to show some battle damage:



I also added plaster to the base to even it out and to give the styrofoam sheet some texture and battle damage:



Here is the statue (I will be using it as a replacement for now), I gave it a dry brush of sky blue and several washes to give it a faded rusted bronze look (I hope I have succeeded). If it does not look real, please give me any advice on how to fix it:



And finally, this is the overall progress. I found a chain to go around the statue and I have also started looking for notes to print out.



Any advice and any comment is welcomed and appreciated!