More display than diorama, MM... The SAS were a busy lot, especially Sterling's chaps in North Africa... Overall, a classic little kit though AI needed to do some work on the weathering, especially the tires... They look like they're on a hardball instead of sand, and the Jeep looks as if it was placed there by helicopter... Carrying the ground color up onto the tires would go a long way towards "tying" it into the landscape... The palm tree is really good, some more scrub would have looked good there as well...
There's a few seam lines on the jerry cans, but not the welded ones that are supposed to be there.. Also, while on the subject, the cans are the dreaded two-handled ones instaed of the correct three. They're simple enough to fix with some styrene strip & sprue though, and applies to both German and UK/US-built jerry cans..
First, you cut off the offending handles:
Then add the strip:
And finally the handles made from stretched sprue:
Then just paint & weather normally.... Keep in mind that this is only used on the metal water & fuel cans, circa 1935-1980s, not the modern single-handled plastic cans.
Feel free to pass on the the info to AI if he cares to give it a try... Beats scavenging other kits for proper cans, or buying after-market ones...
The figures are quite good, IMHO, as is the overall Jeep, but I'd have to recommend that AI use a bit less base or add a few more items, natural or man-made, in order to fill the deadspace a bit better...
My score: 6.9 overall with a solid 7 on the Jeep...