Hello!
Now I´m finally ready with my small base/vignette/diorama/whatever and would be very intrested to hear your comments.




As always, please c&c
Cheers Andreas

Andreas:

Very nice. Simple but effective. Definitely has
emotional impact. The only suggestion I would
make is that I'd like to see a presentation plate
on the front side of the block, your base, that
has your title on it.

BTW, what did you use for the grasses. I'm trying
to learn all that part of the dio biz.

Hi Andreas,
Very simple, but very effective. Gets the point across straight up. Nice groundwork, the grass looks very realistic, the tools are nicely done and weathered, nice touch on the cross with the name written, you have a very nice little piece here that says alot.
Nice job!

Kelly

Nicely done. I wish the light was a bit better on the photos - oh well I understand.

The composition is nicely done.
I like the link of leaves on the ground and in the tree.
The bottom left corner needs a leaf in the grass. The leaves look a bit 'placed'

Andreas, Very very nice. As the others say simple but it really gets a your point across. i like it. Aside for the leaf issue Scott brought up its fantastic. cheers Kevin

Good job !

Like it .

What is the scale ? 1/35 ? 1/16 ?

Cheers

Magicbart

I think its great too. I love the entire concept. There would be a couple of questions that I would have to ask. Only because I have experience burrying things.

One would be, if the grave was fresh, the ground growth around it in my humble opinion could be a little more crushed , simply because you have to put the dirt somewhere. I also know that there's alway a little mound on fresh graves, only because we never get it packed as tight as it was when it was dug up. Not to mention the body would take up room that the soil was in.

Now, if the body has been there awhile, yes, the ground does flatten out, and it really doesn't take that long to do so. However, the shovel would be a little more rusty. If we leave a shovel out over night, the next day we've got surface rust. I suppose differant climates would react differantly. Anyway, I think what you've done here is show the humanity of war. I think I would have been tempted to put a bullet hole into the center of the helmut too ;-)


Edwin McCain has a song perfect for this vinyette called Prayer to St. Peter.

In this song he asks St. Peter to take care of our war torn soldiers and let them into the gates. Its a nice song, you should try to hunt it down and give it a listen.

Again, nice job! Thanks for the pictures and thank you for reminding me of the personal sacrifices people are making for us everyday.

nice one very nice =)

Thanks for your kind comments everyone! It´s right that realism wasn´t the most important thing in this dio, it was mostly a way to get me back to dios after some years away from it, but nothing can´t be made better.

Rick, The grass is made by Heki Wildgrass and painted. Presentation plate? Depends if I can get one cheap enough... :-)

Scott, I´m in Sweden...it doesn´t get more light than this at thits time of the year Will try to place some more leaves, thanks for telling me!

Magicbart, it´s 1/35. Definitly my favorite scale!

JBoilard, Hehe...one can get afraid about a person who knows that much about burrying bodys You´re definitly right about the shovel, it should be more rusty, I´ll see what I can do with it. And thanks for the song tip!

Btw, I hope you did spot the beerbottle
Cheers Andreas

Andreas,
A presentation plate doesn't have to be expensive. You can print it out on card stock or paper and laminate it to your base.
A really nice job can be done with even the most rudimentary graphics or word processing programs that you no doubt have loaded on your computer system.
Doesn't have to be fancy. Less is more. But it can add so much to the overall appearance.
regards,
Mike

Effective presentation --- simple, but it says so much. This is well done.


Steve

Thanks Steve! And thanks for the tips Mike, I will try to do it!
Ceers Andreas

NICE

this minmalistic vignette says alot, it is very grim too.
it makes me sad looking at it and that means it does the job.

Well done Andreas, really has an impact, I agree about the name/presentation plate.
This will have people stopping and thinking at your next show.