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Peter Gillson

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Hi All

i have taken a leaf out of Andy B's book and have been working on a few 1/285 scale Ww2 dioramas:

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Hi Peter
Those are excellent. Quite amazing considering the scale.
Jim
 
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Are the gun emplacements based on the ones in the channel islands?? Nice work Peter
Steve - the first one, the one with the Stug is fictional, but the other two are based on parts of a Victorian fort which the germans added some AA guns, here is a photo of the ara now, the two area i modelled are circled, along with a very poor WW2 photo showing the weapons in place.

Peter
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Cool. I’ve always liked very small-scale, small dioramas (having built a couple myself), and these look really good.
 
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Jakko

they are surprisingly fun, next on my list is one featuring a Scammel transporter with a Stug as its load.

Peter
 
Excellent work on these Peter. I had to put my magnifiers on to see them on the screen! Bob will love the Stugs. you are adding to these little scenes. :thumb2: Rick H.
 
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Makes me eyes hurt! :thumb2: ;) ......beautiful job on this Peter, looking forward to D-Day. Rick H.
 
Excellent stuff Peter. They are jewel like in appearance and execunion. I know there are a few manufacturers in this scale, which one are these?
 
That brings back memories.....I briefly dabbled with 1/300 wargaming on my youth.... So not that far off from these!!

Well done.

Andrew
 
In my youth I think Heroics and Ross were the only 1/300 game in town….not the best models really. I’ve still got some 1/300 Napoleonics and some WW1 aircraft somewhere…..
 
Certainly have the wow factor, could you show one against a bottle of Vallejo or Tamiya please Peter.
 
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Hi Guys

thanks for the compliments.

All of the models in this thread will be 1/285 scale with the vehicles and figures from GHQ, really remarkable detail : https://www.ghqmodels.com/collections/1-285-6mm-scale

the tree in this one was one of a few which Andy Belsey kindly sent me a few years ago when I has my first attempt at this scale.

For my D-Day dio I will be doing a very minor detailing work - drilling open a couple of hatches so the figures will fit in. For some other ideas there will be some conversion work.

i guees I am the same as others in having a 'bucket list' of diorama idea which I would love to build in 1/35 but know that I'm not going to get around to them. This scale gives me the opportunity to delve into that bucket list and get a few built.

Peter
 
Hi Peter
That is superb. These little dios are jewel like as Tim says.
Jim
 
Sorry, I've only just caught up with this! Great work Peter. Lovely little dioramas. They can be addictive, can't they?!
Andy
 
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