Hello again big A family!
Now I´ve put on chinstraps on the helmet, do they look out of scale or do they fit? I did not come up with any good way to make rivets, any idea? I also decided for autumn, started making the grondwork, put in the shovel and a water bottle and of course shot some more photos for you guys! What do you think?




I will try to make it look as if it have been some months since the soldier was buried, and therefor the shovel and waterbottle would be forgotten.
All comments and criticise are welcome! If someone have a better idea of a title, please tell me!
Cheers Andreas

Hej Andreas!
Really like the little vignette (Is it still a vignette without figures?) Maybe some dirt still caked on the top of the shovel (where your foot is placed to drive the shovel in when digging) even a little dirt caked up the back of the handle from the bottom where you lever the load off the edge of the hole... (Can you tell I dig holes and trenches?) :-)
I think that even a touch of new sprouted grass of a vibrant green colour would break up the earthy tones. OH, and here's a thought- how about a spider's web on the cross? Hanging from under the horizontal part down onto the vertical would look good. Sheesh, how to do it though... Fishing line and patience?
Brad

Brad, that spider web will be done, wonderful idea! Grass will be added, and about the dirt on the shovel, I will try to not make you dissapointed
Andreas

Looking very nice so far! How are you planning to do the spider's web? A medal or dog tags hanging from the cross would also make a good detail. (although I think no medals would be left behind on graves. They would end up in the enemy's pockets) The scene reminds me of the cover of Metallica's Master Of Puppets.

Looks good, I think there should be more dirt on top of the ground (where the body is), not all the dirt that goes back in would be level, as the body is taking up the space.
-Shain

Oh what I love this forum! Everyone has good comments! I thought of using very thin streched sprue to the spider web, hopefully it works. About dogtags, does German once look like American and Swedish dogtags or totally different?
Cheers Andreas

About dog tags, German ones are an oval shaped disc. The disc is divided by three perforations running horizontally across the center. The name and info is on both halves of the disc. It is designed to be broken in half, so you can pocket one part and leave the other with the body. Check out websites that offer reproductions to reenactors for some pics.

Probably the most solemn vignette i have seen so far.

Probably adding a bit more dirt to where the body lies would make it more interesting?

Even: Thanks! I´ll do that!

Jeremy: Solemn..hehe Good, cause then I have succeeded.

Things to do now:
More dirt
Dogtag
Painting
Grassing
Leaves
Making spider web

Cheers Andreas

if its been months sice the soldier was buried, the excess dirt everyone's been suggesting would have been washed away from rain and blown away from wind etc i think it looks about right. just my 2 c

cheers

This is a very nice vignette. I really like it. You asked about the chin straps. i think that maybe they are just a little bit to large..again.that is my opinon..but..as far as everything else goes..i love it. I agree with Zach..depending on how long the gravesite has been there, the dirt would be more level over the gravesite. However, the fact that the helmet is sitting atop the cross, would lead us to believe that it is a fairly new gravesite, therefore more dirt would be needed.
Can't wait to see how you do the spider web.

Nice.... a club member did a desert grave scene a while back... even had a vulture digging a bone out...

Regarding the season... although I like the autumn idea... what about winter... as in "he entered the winter of his life"... i.e. the end of his life?

If you're going to add the spider web, sprue might look too heavy and awkward. Why not take advantace of the season we're in and head to the local arts & crafts or party store and get some decorating "spider web"?

Actually, as I think about it, you rarely see spider webs outside and not what you'd seen in a house (or creepy old castle ). Most outdoor webs only last as long as the first wind, rain or passing animal and are made of a few starnds of silk or are orbs that would not be visible in scale or pretty close to the ground.

Thank you for intresting comments everyone!
Some more dirt have already been added, so it´ll stay there if it doesn´t look totally out of place. We´ll see... The spider web seemed to be an intresting discussion...hehe can´t promise what I´ll do with it, how I do it or even if it will be done. Any tips regarding materials and techniques are more than welcome!

Al: Yes, you´re probably right that you wouldn´t see them, but I know they are there as I have walked through to many sticky spider webs in the forest

I will tolerate a little bit out of scale... Afterall it will be my first diorama/vignette in about five years.
Andreas

Awesome little vignette! I like it a lot! I'll watch closely how that web will come to live! It's really intreaging me!
Cheers and happy modelling!
Prato