This is a mock up of the base I am working on for my Panzer III. The total size of the base is 4"X6". It will be a simple stone bridge with little decoration. I plan on adding 4 black and white post at the corners for "watch out don't hit me markers". The telephone pole is a cuticle stick I use for applying putty. Once completed it will have a few signs nailed to it along with downed wires. There will be resin water running under the bridge and the black line you see is a propsed water line. I am going t try to put some high grass along the river bed. I plan on building the bridge from plastic card and cork (if I can find it). Not sure what else to say. Tell me what you think before I get to far along and then decide that it sucks. If it sucks tell me now before I waste the effort. The only thing that I am not sure of is the slant angles leading down into the river. They seem a bit steep, but maybe after ground cover they will look better. Again please give me some honest feedback.

Cheers,
Ryan

I wouldn't say it's bad at all.
You need to realize you will be adding a layer of groundwork putty on top and cork on the bridge etc. The tolorances for that additional mass don't look very large at all. No room for much extra 'stuff'.
The arch under the bridge should have the same amount of 'extra' on both sides. The left side looks like it has more area than the right side.

Yeah the styrofoam kept moving. I plan on evening it all out. I intentionally left very little dead space. I have zero spares or extra stuff in 1/72 scale. All my accessories I have right now are 1/35. I basically just wanted a simple base that wasn't to boring. I plan on compensating for the cork and ground work. Nothing is glued in place or permanent as of yet.

Thanks for the comments.

Ryan

so far so good....some good feedback too, you gotta watch that spacing or you'll be

provided theres nothing too attention grabbing on the banks of the river that is a nice, basic but very scenic base. The panzer will stand out nicely once it's painted, especially given the pallete of natural colours to be employed.

I admit though, you had me fooled for a minute, I was thinking that tanks small considering the base is 6x4 inches.

Then muggins here realised the scale :-)

Hi Ryan,
you have a classical cmposition here, the bridge enfatize the tank, is like a pedestal for the vehicle.
this litte brige may cross a canal, you can make the slopes with rectangular stones and a railing fence anchored with to concrete columns at every side of the bridge,this permits see all vehicle over the bridge.
if you whish spend more time you can do a damaged bridge that was repaired by engineers with wood plates.
hope that this helps
Carlos

I like it. Maybe a little too symmetrical, but this is easily overcome by maybe a tree growing out the side of one of the steep banks? I would say the right side (in front of the tank) You could have the embankments choked with underbrush leading into reeds etc. but not to detract from viewing the bridge...
Brad