"Surprise Attack" the figures

 As promised, I'm posting in progress pics of the "Surprise Attack" 1/72 WW1 trench diorama. This post deals with the work done on the figures. Most of the figures started off as Preiser WW2 German soldiers. I was afraid I would run out as these were hard to come by, so I made resin copies of one of the sets. They appear as brown color in the photos. The grey ones are the actual Preiser figures in plastic.

Half a Dozen Halftracks!

My "completed" Braille scale builds for 2015 - WW2 US Halftracks from various manufacturers.

From left to right top to bottom: PSC, Academy, Italeri, Airfix, Matchbox, Hasegawa.

More "Surprise Attack" Pics

 Here are a few more pics of "Surprise Attack". It's the old matchbox 1/76 FT-17 kit that I have been building for several years. The Flyhawk kit had come out just around the time I was finishing the diorama, and I did, however briefly, considered swapping to the new kit. Sanity prevailed and the matchbox kit made it to the final diorama. Figures were modified from Prieser WW2 german figures.

1/72 "Owner Type" Stainless Jeep - moving along

 I've got some good progress on the stainless jeep. Most of the modeling is done but

1/72 "Owner Type" Stainless Jeep - build begins!

 As promised last year, I've finally started work on my Owner Type Stainless Jeep. The base kit is the Academy Jeep from their Ground vehicle set. I'm using the O3D Miniatures Academy Jeep Photoetch upgrade set and with resin copies of the Cararama Honda Civic wheels.

Minimized Maxim MG 08

It's a scratchbuilt 1:72 scale Maxim MG08. Used by Germany during WW1. Built from bits and pieces of plastic sheet, plastic rod and metal foil.
The machine gun itself is about 2 cm long.
When finished, it will be part of a ww1 diorama where a FT-17 is attacking a German trench.
The whole thing is built up from 3 main components. It is still missing the muzzle, handles and a mechanical bit on the gun mount. I'll also probably need to build an ammo box, ammo belt and the water can that cools the barrel. Stay tuned.