We all have an extensive stash of kits in our lofts, garages, under the bed or wherever, but even if we hope one day to build them all , what about the leftovers? I was thinking this a while back when I unearthed an Armourfast Cromwell sprue and a few other unused sprues from other quick-builds which had donated one example to some other project. I decided to use this and other left over bits and pieces up in a micro-diorama inside a plant terrarium which was equally unemployed. Now the Armourfast Cromwell isn't all that bad as far as shape goes, it does lack some necessary details which can be added, but the main issue is its size. Putting it simply it is a porker compared with say, the Revell 1/72 Cromwell or the PSC equivalent. This means it could only really appear in a diorama where there were no comparative vehicles in the scale. This is what I started with:
The question was always going to be how much can I fit in a 12"x 10" box? watch this space...