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Long Tom


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My Male tank project has another element in it-the Custom Dioramics CD 4060 Male Equestrian statue, which should be easier than the tank.  Yes, the tank will be going through any town, village or park that would have such a statue.

(This is it BTW: http://www.greatmodels.com/~smartcart/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=CUD6040)

What's the idea?  I'm completing my old idea of how World War One changed Europe dramatically, wiping away the old social order-represented by the equestrian statue.  It won't be destroyed or damaged, but the tank will rumble past it and the surrounding area will be damaged.

So this leads to my question-how exactly would I locate this statue?  Meaning in a park or town square, and what would surround it?  I'm trying to make the setting as generic as possible.



-- Edited by Long Tom on Monday 25th of July 2011 05:14:23 AM

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I vote for the old town square (roads and buildings all around). Googling town square with statue should give lots of inspiration. Most will be far too grand (both statue and surrounds) but will maybe serve for the idea, just to be "toned down". Ones I like from the point of view of first impressions layout and dramatic effect - Dom Pedro's statue, Cascais: Jan Hus, Prague: Warsaw mermaid.

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Long Tom


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Just to let you know that I found the horse statue kit rather disappointing in that it was too full of flash and extra material, plus I determined that it didn't quite fit in with my scenario anyway-the knight in armor was rather too old-fashioned for the diorama's theme.  I went to the Hansa Systems USA site to buy cobbles and other parts for the town square and found they sold a pedestal meant to mount a standing human figure.  Now I need to find the right kind of figure and I'd be in clover.



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I found and bought a set of 1/32 Napoleonic statues and will use one upon a base.  It turned out the Hansa base was unsatisfactory so I'm going to try to somehow scratch one, perferably a round or oval one.

Which makes me wonder: how "old-fashioned" would the Napoleonic soldiers be?  Were they much different from soldiers of a century ago?  I remember reading that the soldiers of Belgium, early in WW1, looked much as they did a century before.



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