The German troops were always desperately in need of armoured all-terrain AA-vehicles, so a vehicle like this is thinkable as a field modification.
This wasn´t a very work intensive diorama. I finished it at one weekend. I gave the vehicle a new coat of paint (color modulation) per airbrush and some green camo stripes. Vehicles in Normandy were mostly heavily camouflaged with fresh leaves because of the allied air supriority, so I gave it this specific look with some foliage and laser cut leaves (also to hide some of the inacurracies). I also changed the kit´s barrel with a metal one.
The landscape is a wooden base with about 10x15 cm with a small tree I built from some natural materials. The base was coated with wood filler, painted in different brown tones. After that I added different brands of shrubs and grass tufts (blended together with some bright olive green paint).
The five figures are all from AB, one of my favourite "classical pewter miniatures brand" though I have to say that 3d print is getting better and better.
Today was very good photo weather, so I took my usual photos in daylight with real nature in background....all photos have been taken with a regular, cheap Samsung mobile phone.
A funny and (in my eyes) quite nice weekend project.
Regards from Bavaria
Thomas
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Yes, the background is real, it´s the fields and trees around our house. Our next neighbour lives about 300 meters away. We have a lot of space without buildings. So I can use the background for every period. But I have to be aware of contrails in the sky. Once I did some photos of a medieval diorama and you could see several planes in the sky. 