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One small error in one of your replies toms are the customers of ladies of the night.

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I think it's pretty obvious Jerry abbreviated Tommies to Toms in his post. Your incorrect in your description anyway...

Toms is an urban description of the "ladies of the night" not their customers.

The running-gear looks great... love how you’ve been playing in the mud!

Cheers!🍺
—mike

Nice mud work Jerry .
I see you finally got some Diodebris molds . I have many of them and can't say enough about how useful they have been .
I use regular old plaster , Dap dry powder mix from Home Depot . People use different types of plaster , some very hard dense [ expensive ] plasters , I really haven't seen the need . I also like the way stains and paints absorb at different rates into the bricks and roof tiles when not primed .
One other thing , I use dish soap [ watered down ] as a release agent . The duck bill and rectangular roof tiles are very thin and fragile . The dish soap also makes cleaning the molds after use easier . Try not to bend the molds when removing the tiles , they'll crack in half every time . I use a small flat blade x-acto to gently pry them out , that's where the soap aids best .
Once you start screwing around with them and get your own system down you'll be very happy you got them .
Sorry I didn't respond earlier but I just got out of jail . Last Saturday night I got a wee bit hammered and at my home town bar saw fit to beat the three piece band up with their own guitars . Or at least that's what the police report said . I went before a judge Monday morning , he looked at me and said " first offender ? " I looked back at him and said " no your honor , first a Gibson , then a Fender " Soooooo I went back to my cell and was just released yesterday .

From an old song it goes: Gibson - Marshall - Fender is a go go go

By Jove, is that British actor, Terry Thomas front and center? ... And someone is actually wearing their PE Spectacles!
Outstanding, I say! (British accent)

Cheerio!🍺
—mike

The middle guy reminds me of someone else…Neville Chamberlain sans ‘tache? But by Crikey the specs, the faces, the colours, the poses..wizard, from The Magician

... The specs were made from wire and are not PE. All the PE specs I had or saw were all out of scale so I had to make my own!

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... The specs were made from wire and are not PE. All the PE specs I had or saw were all out of scale so I had to make my own!

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And that explains why they look better than the flat aftermarket PE ones I’ve seen through my own specs!
Nice scratch-work, indeed! 👓

Cheers!🍺
—mike

You are doing great work on the figures for this diorama, Jerry.

Now that you mentioned it, I don't recall seeing any officers in your previous dioramas. If they are there, they didn't stand out like the other figures would have. The officer trio for this diorama turned out well.

Cheers,
James

Jerry, they're a smart trio indeed!

Actually, the chap in the middle reminds me of Edward Fox from A Bridge Too Far...

Superb Jerry. Very reminiscent of the "Two Types": in typical British officer fashion what regulation gear is worn is done in an individual manner.

Shortly before D Day General Montgomery issued an order to the British 2nd Army stating that officers could wear what they liked (for the forthcoming campaign) or words to that effect; he of course, was already well known for his own individual interpretations on Dress, not least during his service in North Africa.

Pity the poor soldiers who were cut no such slack!

Brian

Superb group JR & brilliant characterizations – can’t help thinking the guy on the bike’s saying “Hey Major that’s the guy who put leeches in my pants, the one with the binoculars”

Beautiful fm work on he figs. Jerry , very , very cool !!!
In regards to your Diodebris moulds , I remember seeing this site a long time ago and just recently found it again . Hirstarts.com , many possibilities . I'm looking at moulds #235 and #259 in the castles section . Many architectural elements that can be mixed and matched and combined with the Diodebris bits .