Horror of the trenches by kpnuts airfix 1/72

[kpnuts]

Hi all this is completely different to anything I've done before 2 yrs ago my son bought me 4 1/72 WW1 airfix kits for my birthday (which is in October) (never bought me this type of kit before as he knows it's not my genre) I thought it was strange but said thanks and tried to look excited with them (among them were 2 WW1 planes, planes are my nemesis I've never built one I've been happy with) 

My son is head of history at his school and casually dropped into the conversation it would be nice if I could put them in a diorama to commemorate the end of the war that he could display at his school. That gave me less than a month.

After some research (which was more than my son did I realised I couldn't put all 4 kits on the same dio) I decided to do 4 dios at different times of the year and different places.

I asked him how graphic I could get and he told me he had shown pics of the worst of the war to his students so nothing I could produce could be worse.

Heres the start.

 

[popeye the sailor]

is school in session where you are........ours  is down for the rest of the year.  

[kpnuts]

They are being used to teach NHS workers children (basically to allow NHS working parents to go to work) my son shares it with other teachers going in 1 day a week but he still Mark's students papers on the days hes not working at the school.

These dios were done 2 yrs ago.

[kpnuts]

Heres the next installment.

 

[kpnuts]

This is the first dio finished.

[Edwardkenway]

Amazing dio KP, can't wait to see the next one 😃

[Old Collingwood]

You should do your dio's and take them around schools   a real insight into action  turning a replica into a 3D event,   Brilliant.

 

OC.

[kpnuts]

Hi all here is the next one.

 

[kpnuts]

Here is the final piece

 

[Landlubber Mike]

Very cool work - your dioramas are very lifelike.  Great creativity!