Through the mud and blood to the green fields beyond

[Golgotha]

School museum commemorative project for the 100th centenary of the Great War. Diorama inspired by the battle of Cambrai 1917. Work still in progress - scale is 1/72 and the tanks are paper MK IVs. Figures will be Airfix, Caesar and HaT.

Top view: note barbed wire incomplete used cotton thread another tank still to be added.



Side view: showing close up of barbed wire



Damaged barbed wire
 


Wet craters





Taking the enemy positions surrendering Germans to be added.



I am just really pleased finally able post pictures. These are my first to be posted.

[von Lucky]

Lovely stuff... and lucky students!

[vcina]

Looks amazing!

[morrigan]

Very nice!

[fred]

Nice work.

[Golgotha]

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[Golgotha]

Duck boards added as well as some infantry note I still need to touch up around their bases to make them meld into the terrain better.



A view from inside the trench



Started adding some firing steps - some of the newer sandbags still need painting and weathering.



External view showing the side of the diorama which will then show a cut away of the German bunkers below ground - the heights on the right are going to be built up as a small hill with machine gun nest and above ground concrete bunker. Hope to have a German HQ here with table and maps, flag on the wall as well as bunk beds etc.



Close up of entrance way into the underground bunker.







Advancing British Infantry

[von Lucky]

Lovely stuff.

[fred]

good stuff, I like the cut-away to show the dug-out.

Are you sticking with the paper tanks? They look a bit flat compared to the rest of the model.

[Golgotha]

The tanks are incomplete and there is also going to be a 3rd tank. So I am hoping when they have their side guns and details on the top that they will look more convincing. Have thought of building up the tracks and maybe raising the rivets. Failing that may have to replace with resin but I am not sure I want the expense. Also once all the underground work is done I need to smooth of the sides of the diorama to take away the gaps and polystyrene look.