Thing

I first painted the Cromwell by airbrushing the paint from the kit, but the paint sucked, then I added the decals I made a small tarp by sticking two sides of duct tape together and painting it XF-5 mixed by eye with humbrol 90. 

I mixed my own terrain paste out of plaster, sand, pva and extremely rare and expensive tap water I also added some terrain paste on the tank, then I added a homemade wash made from vellejo Iraqi sand. I pushed stones from my garden into the still drying terrain paste 

I made the waterby aplieing watered down pva glue to tissues I added to the base causing wrinkles. This is a technique I learned off model nerd, I should not have used cardboard as it warped from the pva glue. I then covered the sides of the base with card board, and covered the top of the side with terrain paste. 

I airbrushed the sand part of the base with tamiya acrylic colours khaki, as I thought that matched wet sand good, I also painted the paste on the tank with khaki. 

I mixed the paint for the ocean bye eye from tamiya x-2 flat white and x-14 sky blue with vellejo dark sky blue 70.898 paints, i then sprayed this on the ocean, I touched up the overspray with tamiya khaki, I then added a brown wash close to the shoreline and were the tank had driven. I then gave the water a white dry brush and covered it in pva glue to make it shine. 

I sprayed the sides with mat black, then I painted the rocks in vellejo dark sea blue 70.898 painted the fronts with humbrol 164 and gave it a dry brushing with tamiya xf-2 flat white. 

Something seemed missing so I added 2 airfix "1/76" scale fugures despite the fact that they are closer to 1/72, which made the Scene more lively. This is my best diorama by far. 

 

 

Rate my photography and editing skills in the comments, this is the first time I have tried this?