Hi,

While I was preparing for a contest this weekend, I kept wondering about creative bases to present my models but can't really come up with any usable idea.

Would you care to share creative ideas you might have used yourself or stumbled upon in the past?

Thanks a bunch!

During the last model show in Mosonmagyaróvár l've seen a few dioramas placed in old steel helmets...

I recall seeing a Tamiya field kitchen diorama that used a German mess tin for a base.

A magazine a while back did a story on a Vietnam tunnel rat vignette that used a 1:1 WP grenade.

I've toyed around with adding figures to the top of C-Ration cans, ammo cans, period maps, ammo magazines and vehicle data plates. Unfortunately, I have a hard time finishing anything so these ideas seldom get beyond the mock-up stage.

At Squadronfest in Dallas last year, I saw and Israeli Sherman displayed in a beatin up Ww11 U.S jerrycan that had the whole side cut out. Looked quite im pressive.
Ziggy

I have a figure in a wine glass that has the Bn crest on it from a Military Ball. He looks pretty good. I have seen the ammo can approach before too. The coolest I have seen was a WWI trench section in a section of empty stock of a 1903 Springfield rifle.

Hi,
I've made 2 dio's myself that have got more unusual bases than the 'norm'....
One was built 'into' a book, set in WW1. With 2 opposing trenches dug into opposite ends of the pages, the book itself called 'Tommy', based on the First World War British soldier, so the connection was there. I've seen afew other dioramas built in a similar vein, and they do look really good. Like the scene coming out of the pages......
The second was a scene set in the Ardennes forest in early 1940, so the base was a slice of log from a tree, so again the base is relevant to the model.
Hope that helps Cristian....

Simon.

Some really great ideas! Thanks for sharing!