American Patrol, Ardennes, 1944

[valiant]

Hi Guys,

Just finished this 1/56 scale diorama, using Rubicon Models kits and figures. The figures have been slightly re animated and have had greatcoats added for the scene. Snow is made from Bicarbonate of Soda, fixed with some of my daughter's hairspray...!

Thanks for looking

 

[Nap]

Hi Steve

Great result , like the snow effects especially the vehicle tracks ....

Your daughters hairspray eh ! ...hope you had permission .......LOL

Thanks for sharing

Happy benchtime

Nap

 

[valiant]

Cheers Kev - get permission...? Where's the fun in that...?!

 

[MoboSchreuder]

Beautiful diorama , and nice paintwork

Mobo

 

[Chris Oldfield]

Outstanding work Steve, & in a scale not often seen in diorama displays.

KTF,
Chris

 

[captfue]

great work

 

[valiant]

Thanks chaps!

 

[HansDig]

Very nice and wow, 1/52...that's small!! Better you using your daughters hairspray on a dio then she using your Bicarbonate of Soda to do her hair.....

 

[valiant]

Thanks for the comments. Yes, 1/56 is a slightly unusual scale, but was chosen by Rubicon Models ostensibly for the wargaming fraternity, but is a scale which is big enough to have good detail, but small enough to produce some quite "busy" dioramas, without taking up loads of room!!

Check out https://rubiconmodels.co.uk/ as there is a gallery of other's work on there.

 

[1969]

Not a scale I was aware of before but looking at the figures they do not lack detail and are nicely proportions unlike some of the smaller scales, nice looking scene Steve and nice work on converting the figures.

Just been on their website, nice selection on vehicles as well, what was quality and build like ?

Daughters hair spray They all say that

Cheers
Steve

 

[valiant]

Cheers Steve! Ive got no hair to use hairspray on...! Rubicon kits are really nicely detailed, simple construction with loads of options. They do a mix of plastic and pewter figures and some of the accessory kits are pewter. They also do a small range of resin kits that are by far the best Ive ever seen!!

 

[1969]

Thanks for the further info Steve, will be looking more into these.

Cheers
Steve

 

[valiant]

Steve - may also be of interest, a post from a while back....https://www.planetfigure.com/threads/rubicon-models.117492/