Hi all, here’s my latest diorama which I managed to get a silver with at Telford 
(good to catch up with you Tim). It’s called ‘Otherworld,’ and it’s set in the Ypres salient during the First World War.
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Nice! Reminds me of Uncle Nightshift’s diorama he made some time ago.
Mario
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Very nice layout. Deserved award as well.
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excellent, the puddles really make it.
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That’s fantastic - the lighting on the first photo really helps set the mood. I can almost feel the mud clinging and sucking.
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Masterful- truly deserving of an award. You’ve really set it out well too with the focus drawn to the two soldiers making their way past the tank, avoiding those beautifully rendered puddles. But you’ve not forgotten the other side of the tank with the puddle there, the dead body and the blasted tree trunks- plus the tank itself sunk into the mud with a beautiful finish and great weathering to anchor it into the scene.
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Outstanding. You captured the scene quite well.
If you have not read “Harry’s War” about Harry Drinkwater, you should. He lived through 4 years of the war. My concept of the battlefield changed after reading that book. Attacks normally starts in the early morning so the men could see what was going on. However everything else happened at night so you could not be seen and attacked by artillery and snipers. Trench building and repair, resupply and work parties was all done at night, It was mostly a night time war. In the day you stayed below the edge of the trenches and kept quiet.
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This is a splendid little dio Owen @Owen_D , one can almost feel the gritty wet mud, you’ve captured the essence of “No man’s land” very nicely, I like the buried shovel to show the futility of digging it out.
Cajun 
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Bleak.
Well done.
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Outstanding diorama Owen. The tank looks great and the ground work is excellent as well. Love the figure too!
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Very well done!
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Well done! After I returned home from RVN, I worked with 2 semi retired guys who had served in WWI (one Canadian, one German). At coffee breaks, they would sometimes talk about their experiences (wish I could have recorded them), anyway, no matter what the story, the most consistent thing that came up from both men was THE MUD…they both related how it permeated every facet of day to day life. Your diorama really captures the nasty, seemingly bottomless sea of mud these guys fought in. Very nice work.
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Lovely! I really like the battle damage on the tank, quite realistic to the way that plate shatters on impact.
Ken
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What can I say,what a fantastic scene
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Very well rendered scene…nice composition, excellent craftsmanship, focus directed to the two Soldiers instead of the tank…well worthy and deserving of that award.
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Brilliant just bloody brilliant.
Totally gets right into to old feels …
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Very well done.
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Oddly, the tank is the center piece, but the feeling I get is that’s not the point. It could have just as easily been anything else, and the feeling would still be the same. You see the dead soldier. The spot the tank occupies could be a mud hole with just the water cooled jacket of a machine gun sticking above the brown water and busted ammo cases and rounds scattered around. The Mud itself has become the focus. Very WW1.
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That’s really nice.
Cheers,
Ralph
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Thank you for the kind comments. The inspiration behind it was Uncle Nightshift’s WWI dio, the film 1917, and some of the archive audio recordings and photos on the Imperial War Museum’s digitised collection. I made a short film to accompany the diorama using the some of the collection which can be accessed by scanning the QR code on the side of the base
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