WWII Dioramas

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The best dioramas tell a story.

While modelling and detailing individual figures or vehicles is a satisfying project in itself, placing the models in a realistic action setting provides a spectacular backdrop for your work. World War II - fought over a variety of terrain from the frozen Arctic to the heat and sand of the Western Desert, as well as through towns and cities and across forest and wilderness - allows an unlimited number of locations and tactical scenarios for dioramas.

In WWII Dioramas, the skills of incomparable diorama modellers are laid bare in a way that will be of immense value to the average model-maker. Composition, detailing, construction and painting - all the skills of the model-maker's art are shown off in two brilliant dioramas: an urban scene in a war-torn town that combines work on buildings - exteriors and interiors - with figures, and a vivid tank action in the Bocage country of Normandy that focuses on realistic portrayals of men and vehicles in scenery.

Author Bio

Jerry Scutts has worked in the field of aviation publishing since the late 1960s, writing over 40 books that have covered a broad spectrum of subject matter ranging from US Navy floatplane fighters in World War 2 to the exploits of the USAF's Phantom IIs over Vietnam. His specialist areas are the Luftwaffe and the US Army Air Forces in World War 2, and he originally appeared on the Osprey list as long ago as 1977, when he wrote the second volume in the now much sought after Air Cam Air War series many of the jacket illustrations in this series were also painted by him. Jerry has been a regular contributor to Osprey's Aircraft of the Aces series since its inception in 1994.