Hi all,
here is my progress to the ground and figure. Now I have to add some dust on the figure and complete the ground work at th back side of the dio. your comments will be appreciated.

The sand around the grass makes a huge difference. Nice progress on this.

Don't forget foot prints in the soft sand. Also matt down the grass where he is sitting.

If you feel up to it, a strap on the rifle would be a great addition.

Its looking much, much better now i agree with slodder about the strap, also i think u should work some more on the figs head/face it looks too bright to me (or is it the pic?)

but, its much more nicer that it was

Thank you guys,
As for the strap to the gun, I started to make one but it was a failure. I have to try again. I rut some more fotos in my galery. Here is one

Nice Diorama! I may have missed a post on the leaves of your tree, but what did you use to make the leaves?

Good morning Five Oduece,
The bark of the tree is made of dry donkey thorn and the branches and leaves are dry oregano branches painted in green shades.

Hello there IGI. U have done nice work with the tree and the ground work . I like it much Go ahead and finish it off. Waiting for this brya and your full adreess to send u the stuff i promised u . PM Me
Cheers

Costas

I do agree there too,
one little tip i may give is his right hand looks like it will be glad with a cigarette, a soldier enjoying the quite piece will have his dream come threw with a cigarette :-)
Seriously may be you should do something about that hand it doesn t look like natural
My idea
Anyway great dio

hi RIMA,
You are right on your comment. My first idea was that he would keep a bottle of beer . The story would be that he had a couple of beers,he is drunk to forget the cruelty of war and that he is far away from his home wife and children, but I think that a sigarette enjoing nature beauty would be a good idea.I don't know yet . I'll decide as soon as I'm about to finish it. The head and his uniform isn't really shiny , in fact the fotos makes him looks like this , but I am going to add some dust on him. You can't be clean in country side.

G'day IGI, nice looking dio, the tree is awsume, groundwork is great too, cant wait to see it done, cheers