Well sorry for not posting that much it's simply because my head is just totally elsewhere which doesn't mean I lack in new ideas.

A few of those?

- In 187? out of revenge for some sort of "treachery", the French attacked the Chinese, sank a few boats and destroyed all the forts on the Yang Tse by taking them in reverse. But then, the french fleet (some of my preferred french boats ever like the Bayard for instance) couldn't drive too fast because of the Chinese soldiers bodies that jammed the propellers.

- There is a very beautiful and well known picture of an American sailor face down on a beach after Pearl Harbor, it's a very beautiful picture, sadly i couldn't find it while searching for it on the net.

- The Baba Yaga boxed  diorama -all my youth I had those Russian stories book that my godfather brought me back from the USSR, those were illustrated handsomely by famous Russian painter  Ivan Bilibin who died in the Leningrad siege. Well, a lot of them were about Baba Yaga, number one sorceress of the Slav world. I would like to do my own Baba Yaga as a handsome lady lying face down on one of those flimsy wooden bridges like the Russians do , well she would feed the dead lying in the marshes below. Some sort of mix between Barbarossa, Tokien's  dead marches, and Ivan Bilibin.

- Searching for some videos on Youtube, I fell on one which apparently showed some American soldiers shooting some Japanese sailors asking for help in the water. It could well be a fake -even though when you see the American sailors they shoot with a BAR at sea level. Whatever, I think there is some idea here, because I could show blood in the water and also the shock of bullets hitting the water. Great technical challenge.

Japanese sailor

- you know Contemporary Art? I must say that despite having lived with a girl that sort of worked in that and having a more than reasonable knowledge about it, I am really highly suspicious. Whatever. You know Joseph Beuys? German artists, works with grease etc.  Now what's interesting about it is the way he found that: the myth says he was shot down while driving  a Stuka and that he was almost dead at the ends of some Tatars that healed while covering him in grease. I was thinking I could do a half dead near a Stuka wreck and call the diorama Joseph Beuys only to annoy search engines.

Finally, maybe search for JBADiorama's next diorama called N°7, lots of Evil Deads here too. Here is the archive picture that inspired at least 2 of his figures

T-26

Eventually -you know how I call this "death dioramas", well it might change into "experimental dioramas" one of these days, actually I intend this place to be some sort of Labs.

Now the reason for my late, I had to buy a "router" not sure it's the right word, but that's a machine to carve wood.
Anyway, here are some sheet of wood cut in angle and painted in black.

They are fixed using that corner machine 

And I end up getting that case with a glass cover

aaah if you want a slightly ridiculous diorama, like you are in a 1970's movie, better use those 
Apparently you can find them only in Madagascar.

On the first picture I absolutely realized at which point I only built some undergrowth, it really needed some extra bigger leaves at the top

like what's shown on the 2 other pics!

more leaves

 Thanks to my friend Kaiserine for giving me his Masterbox sword -like he told "I am building Japanese soldiers, not samouraïs", all the best for my diorama.

Here is Admiral Yamamoto being painted. Nothing too fancy except that I again painted him in light green and brown green in the shadows areas. 

Yamamoto painted

Well, here I am a few months late, trying to resculpt that Yamamoto fig. first i adjusted all clothes better to the body, wiped out the paint and sanded thoroughly. He now looks a bit more realistic.

aah forget the lightsaber, I am going to put in his hand the sword from the masterBox japanese marines set. (what on earth am I going to do with the rest of the set?!!

back to yamamoto!

Yamamoto -back again

Well i know I ought to have make another post before posting the completed pictures, but well really nothing much new could be told at that time.

i added a few flowers taken from a Model Scene box, those were glued on a small etched sprue sheet.

And then painting, painting again..

One interesting note is about how Yamamoto himself was painted.

"-If you see a white horse under a tree on a full summer day, what will be its colour?

-well white I suppose

-nonono, it will be green, only your eyes are trained to refuse the fact a horse can be green so you see it as being white, while he is in fact green"

So all the shadows on Yamamoto are a blend between green and brown..

If I had a final word about groundwork or "vegetation in modeling" it's "never again, it took me 2 months for THIS, sheesh.." 

Very big pictures in the gallery here