Hi all as it was my birthday today my son bought me these.



He's head of history and casually dropped into the conversation that he was hoping they would be used in a commissioned dio for his school. The dimensions would be 4'×3' approx so will need more models, thing is he knows as much about modelling as I do about armour so I need a lot of help I have a 1/72 tiger moth could I use that in the same period, I'm pretty sure (without checking the stash not sure I have a glouster gladiator biplane in the stash also) not been an armour man the only tanks I have are a cheifton that's 1/35 and I'm pretty sure ww2 although I could use my forced perspective I used in the warspite gets a few scars dio) what other tanks and assorted vehicles would be used in a dio of this size, I have no idea at all, I will need to research the trenches and stuff, also can you tell from the markings on the tank where it was used, I think my son is thinking German trenches is the tank the tight markings for that and is the plane right also (blimey I can see this getting complicated)

Hi Ken!

The biggest problem you've got is that the figures and the tank don't fit well together. Airfix (to their great shame) never produced later war figures with steel helmets. Both the British and the Germans are 'start of the war' era with cloth caps for our boys and leather helmets for the Hun. The tank is a Mk1 but by the time they first appeared both sides were equipped with steel helmets.
The Eindekker and the Triplane would be fine, the Eindekker was also an early aircraft but did soldier on to the very end.
Personally I would either do a diorama of the first battles of the war before the trenches appeared, maybe the defence of the canal bridges before the retreat westwards (no tank though and the Triplane would be out of place too) or else replace the figures with much better ones from HaT (check out the Plastic Soldier Review website for full info on all the different sets)

Best of luck!

Robin