Hi All
Heres my finished Tamy Centaur,this was built for the Best of British campaign(also posted there aswell)
The dio is titled "Finishing touches"(southern England June 1944)
It shows a Royal Marine Centaur crewed by R.A.C troops in the final days before D Day getting it ready for the big day,a new jerry can rack has just been welded on and is in the prossess of being painted,when"EVERY THING STOPS FOR TEA"!!!
This is my second Dio,the base is a picture frame,with a Verlinden cobbled street section,with EACH stone hand painted

The decals are by Bison,the tanker figs are from Ultracast and are a joy to behold,I only wish my limited skills could do them justice
The boy and dog are VLS,the tea mugs were made from brass tube,with a handle soldered on,the paint cans were scratch built and the brushes were carved from a matchstick,the cammo net was a bandage dyed green with strips of tape added for the scrim.






Hope you like
All comments /questions welcome,but please note due to ISP problems I might not be able to reply straight away
Tanks for looking
Andy

Love it Andy, excellent stuff.
I thoughtful dio on an overlooked subject, the dio really tells a story and the centuar is a real gem.
I know what you mean about hand painting cobbles, I did this in my Sherman dio and its not for the faint hearted!
Tip, if you dry brush all of the cobbles after painting the base mortar colour in a single grey then pick out individual cobbles in lighter/darker tones it makes it a bit easier as say 33% are done in one go.
As I said, a great peice of work.

Cheers,

James

Gday Andy
Mate this is fantastic!
I really love the setup of the base, with the offset front for the plaques.
There are plenty of little things to catch the eye! The paint tin is great
As James stated, an overlooked chapter of the landings was the preparation; well captured here...
I don't see how the little VLS boy could turn up in England when I'm sure he is a part of my future St. Lo diorama?
Cheers
Brad
P.S. Great work on the cobbles

good work Torchy ... I am curious as to why there are ruled lines on the turret? Pardon my ignorance but I am not familiar with Allied armor and I cannot figure out what their purpose could be. Let me give it another shot.... thinking... thinking.. nope. cant figure it out wait a minute..it has 360 pips..hmmm.. are the lines some sort of way to identify the turret's orientation? or something ?

I think this is fantastic. Very minor personal things if anything at all. The biggest one is the space at the left corner. To me it's a bit empty, what would I do to fill it? Don't know, it's a bit of a 'no mans land'. This one may just have to 'be' as is. Potentially for the next one you may be able to angle the back side of the tank to the bottom left. That would but the empty spot on the front right and with the head turns and positions of the figures you could have them fill that spot.

Very good for a second diorama

great subject and build
the scratchbuilt items really ad to the scene
and i think the eefort you put into the cobbles is evident and looks stunning
look forward to the third diorama

Love the whole thing but I think Scott is right about the corner. Maybe a basket of potatos, bicycle, something to connect the corner with the boy...

Great job.

Shaun

Nice looking Centaur Andy and an interesting scene too, as to the "empty" left front corner, something simple like a couple of fuel barrels would be enough to fill it.
Oh, and your figure painting skills are really quite good, just keep practicing.

Well done Andy,

Nice little scene you executed with great care.

Cheers
Claude

Very well executed. Not overly weathered, fits right in with the setting. Great work on the camo net.

That is a very well thought out dio. The paint tins and water bucket are great. Nice job on the cam net.

Hi Guys,many thanks for the kind words,I see what you mean about the space ,front left, a bicycle would be perfect,thanks Shaun


Caught in a time warp ,his sister and Granddad have ended up at Kursk in 2003


Mike ,the lines on the turret.....

the tanks would fire their guns offshore from their landing craft,on german targets and bunkers.they would then land and continue their work from the beach.
the white degree markings on the turret of the tank were placed to assist in fire support,the markings could be read by binocular equipped spotters to align the 95mm howitzer on the target,even if smoke obscured the direct line of fire".
Once again thanks guys
Andy