New try with the palms. The leaves are too few, but I will make more and better ones. Also I decided to put some date fruits for visual interest





Real ones:



Hope you like them,

Cheers!

I like your work, kool. I also like the F2..something about it makes me smile. I was wanting that kit, hard to find. So I hunted around & aparently some of the Dragon kits come with an F2 barrel. The kit I found had a stubby 75mm & an F2 . So I found myself in an F2 kinda craze about 6 months ago, buying a few different Dragon kits to make 1 F2 , then I also got the Italeri F2...so , after all that I ended up with 3 Panzer IV F2's lol. I had an extra F2 barrel & slapped it onto my Vorpanzer I had about 80% complete. So I had to buy another Vorpanzer to replace it. I'm actually building that now. The Vorpanzer with an F2 barrel looks pretty kool, not sure if its realistic but...

Thanks!

Ausf. F2 from Dragon is very hard to find, I'm glad that bought it long time ago

Image on black background and figure for comparison, I think is slightly better. In reality the palms turned out very cool, on photos they look very two-dimensional



Cheers!

Those trees are really really nice!!
J

Hi Venelin,
I just saw this thread for my first time. Your work is stunning; way beyond my meager skills. In looking at your photos in this thread something caught my eye with the M3A1 Stuart. I have the same Academy kit in my stash so I checked it to see if I was seeing it right. Academy got the US flag decals wrong. They show 50 stars in the blue field on the flag. There were only 48 states in the US during WWII. Look at the period photo of the Stuart in your thread and you will see what I mean. At this stage in your build I wouldn’t consider trying to change it but just something for your readers to note if they plan to build the kit in the future.

Again your work leaves me envious so keep posting the updates.
John

Jerry, thanks, glad you like it

There's some work on the leaves and I have to add more, now are too few

John, appreciate your comment. I didn't knew of the stars on the US flag, so please excuse me.

There will be major changes on the diorama, so stay tuned

Cheers!

Hi,

I painted some different tones on the leaves (especially the dry ones), for color variation





V