Interus 1/35 MkV Hermaphrodite

This diorama involved a number of things I hadn't done before. Groundwork was a mix of grouting, paint, dirt and PVA ove a polystyrene block base.
Trench wood work was coffee stirrers and matches.
Sandbags were DAS clay.
The trench hurdle was woven florist wire
Barbed wire was handmade real 1/35 scale barbed wire using copper wire core from lighting cable. Labour intensive this diorama has approx 800mm of wire which took me two and a half hours to make.

Wow that looks real, nice photography

Maybe you could give us a few tips on photos as they are always so real looking.

I'd be happy to Ian.

I'm not technical at all about it and most of these are taken on an iPhone11. When I did my Arms Controllers Course at JACIG back in 2005 we spent a couple of days doing photography on real vehicles and aircraft. After that I try to depict my models in the same way as the real thing.

The real trick is framing the picture and ideally natural daylight. To get realism, backgrounds should avoid things that will potentially look out of scale. (Think about some of my old MilMod builds photographed across the airfield at Halton). At the moment most of mine are taken up on a shed roof or car roof using the sky as the backdrop.

Additionally, motorising  prop driven aircraft means a realistic propeller for in-flight shots.

Hope that helps

Andy

EDIT: Thanks Sniper!

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Thanks very much Paul

Really fantastic scene!
If it had been mine I would have put some mud on the trench floorboards, seeing how muddy the area is.

Andy, incredible work on this and I like really the photos against the cloud backdrop.

Ian, Si,



Thanks very much. 

Excellent result on an exceptional diorama. Very atmospheric.