Renault FT-17 on a Renault FP artillery transporter by RGL - FINISHED - Meng/U-Models - PLASTIC/RESIN - diorama

[Old Collingwood]

They look good Greg.

 

OC.

[RGL]

Boots done, I want to make all these blokes dusty before I add them to the base. It’s spent the entire day adding rifle straps and gas mask straps 

Edited November 20 by RGL

[RGL]

So on a side note, got a Unicorn kit today! 

[wefalck]

These seem to be nice kits. I think I have seen some finished when I attended modelling exhibitions during my Vienna years in the early 2000s. I actually met then the guy behind Wiener Modell-Manufaktur (https://www.wmm.at).

 

 

[RGL]

Back to the dio 

[GrandpaPhil]

Very cool!

[DocRob]

Simply stunning, I love the balanced colors a lot.

Cheers Rob

[wefalck]

Absolutely - getting a cohesive colour 'mood' is not easy, preventing individual figures or props from sticking out visually 👍🏻

[RGL]

Ok. The foam base warps and needed to re glued to the base. I got some bollards and drilled holes through them to run chains. Added the two lamps. I have spent weeks. Painting up little filler pieces to go onto the base. The story will hopefully be self evident when it’s all over. 

[RGL]

I’m really not happy with the hands on two of the figures and will probably amputate them and replace with something a little more looking like hands and not plastic blobs. I’ll have black oil pouring into the engine 

[RGL]

I think this piece is done. New hands arrived today. 

[RGL]

So the diorama idea so far 

[RGL]

And I’m done, thinking of calling it “the Bollocking” 

[DocRob]

Lots of nice moustaches, among lots of detail. Again a dio, like a snapshot taken with a camera. Fantastic and fast work, rgl, congratulations on that beauty.

Cheers Rob

[wefalck]

Very French looking crowd indeed and the scene comes together 👍🏻

 

Talking about moustaches, while they give some of the characters their 'Frenchness', I thought since Ypres 1915 big moustaches were against the regulations designed to fit gas-masks tightly, which is why post-war big moustaches went out of fashion.

[ccoyle]

Love it, Greg! Lots of details for the viewer to search out.

[Canute]

Great build, Greg. The one tanker and gendarme are looking pretty skeptically at the two poilus and their cart of vin/cognac blocking the tank's turn. 

[RGL]

I’ve just ordered some new heads and a figure as RGL’s infantry officer son says there should be spittle