In Spring
![Album image #1 Album image #1](/albums/img/8/5/9/1370859-74137-65-720.jpg)
I'm using two figures from the Master Box Civilians Western Region, WWII era MB3567 kit. The sculpting of the old man is very good. The teenage girl not so well sculpted, but being one of a very small number of decent female civilian figures, I have seen her pop up in quite a few dioramas by other modellers!
![Album image #2 Album image #2](/albums/img/8/5/7/1370857-74137-58-720.jpg)
High-density foam for the base. I suspect I was subliminally channelling Night Shift when I made the wall.
![Album image #3 Album image #3](/albums/img/8/5/8/1370858-74137-96-720.jpg)
Detritus of war came from the spare parts box
![Album image #4 Album image #4](/albums/img/8/5/6/1370856-74137-93-720.jpg)
Base colour and layout..
![Album image #5 Album image #5](/albums/img/8/6/0/1370860-74137-62-720.jpg)
![Album image #6 Album image #6](/albums/img/8/6/3/1370863-74137-78-720.jpg)
Laying down some grass, vines and gravel
![Album image #7 Album image #7](/albums/img/8/6/2/1370862-74137-14-720.jpg)
Adding paint and pastels for the ground colour
![Album image #8 Album image #8](/albums/img/8/6/1/1370861-74137-99-720.jpg)
Tree is copper wire frame and some dried flower stems for the finer detail.
![Album image #9 Album image #9](/albums/img/8/6/4/1370864-74137-35-720.jpg)
I realise I missed taking photos of the process of adding all the leaves (one by one with superglue)
![Album image #10 Album image #10](/albums/img/8/6/6/1370866-74137-56-720.jpg)
I like how the old man came out. Sorry, missed taking all the in-progress shots.
![Album image #11 Album image #11](/albums/img/8/6/7/1370867-74137-58-720.jpg)
![Album image #12 Album image #12](/albums/img/8/6/5/1370865-74137-70-720.jpg)
The "girl" seems to have distinctly "middle-aged" features which I tried to soften down. The hair replacement was a somewhat failed experiment: from a distance, seems OK, but totally out of scale close-up.
![Album image #13 Album image #13](/albums/img/8/6/8/1370868-74137-16-720.jpg)
Compositing the figures with the base and adding leaf scatter
![Album image #14 Album image #14](/albums/img/8/7/0/1370870-74137-90-720.jpg)
"In spring.." final composite?
![Album image #15 Album image #15](/albums/img/8/6/9/1370869-74137-82-720.jpg)
![Album image #16 Album image #16](/albums/img/8/7/4/1370874-74137-65-720.jpg)
![Album image #17 Album image #17](/albums/img/8/7/1/1370871-74137-83-720.jpg)
The broom is actually a rake from the MB kit with bristles added
![Album image #18 Album image #18](/albums/img/8/7/5/1370875-74137-41-720.jpg)
![Album image #19 Album image #19](/albums/img/8/7/6/1370876-74137-90-720.jpg)
![Album image #20 Album image #20](/albums/img/8/7/7/1370877-74137-58-720.jpg)
![Album image #21 Album image #21](/albums/img/8/7/8/1370878-74137-31-720.jpg)
In spring..
"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming." — Pablo Neruda
"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming." — Pablo Neruda
Comments
14 31 December 2022, 05:36
![](/profiles/img/74137-198-s.jpg)
Perhaps my final build for 2022. Fittingly, figures from MasterBox of Ukraine, in a diorama that attempts to capture my greatest hope for what will come in the new year..
In Spring ...
"If we survive this winter, and we will definitely survive it, we will definitely win this war." — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming." — Pablo Neruda
31 December 2022, 07:53
![](/profiles/img/28909-839-s.png)
More like spring (youth) vs fall (old). Green leafs, grass and youth on the left. Fallen leafs, rust and an old man on the right.
Anyway it's a good composition and it looks mighty fine
31 December 2022, 08:04
Album info
Perhaps my final build for 2022. Fittingly, figures from MasterBox of Ukraine, in a diorama that attempts to capture my greatest hope for what will come in the new year..