Advance toward Tobruk diorama

Growing in size and complexity, this is my third attempt at photo merging.



This is the old Tamiya Panzer III ausf M, converted back to a model J. I removed the spaced armor, scratch built the exhaust, air intake covers, headlights, horn, hull escape doors, vision ports on the turret sides and front, notek light, antenna mount, gas can rack and probably a few things I've forgotten about. Markings are dry-transfers for the 15th Panzer Division. The bridge is scratch built from a photo of a sapper's bridge built over the Tobruk anti-tank ditch. It was hard finding a suitable background photo. I liked this one because it was rather dramatic, even though it makes the diorama look like it is on a ridge top. This is an old photo taken with my old camera and I am a little disappointed in the loss of resolution and the overall darkening of the image when converting a print to a scanned image. Now, after tossing down a good chunk of change for a decent 35 mm camera and lenses, I'm a little reluctant to dump all of it just to get a new digital camera!