I like the concept, and think it will end up looking great. Can't wait to see the finished work.

That's some nice work! I guess I'd go with a medium brown too unless you can find a photo that indicates otherwise. 

Here is the final rendition! I'm pretty excited about this. Our IPMS club president taught me how to do the weathering on the tank and suggested I try setting up a base for it. Turned out to be a good weekend to just focus on model building. My daughter had a bunch of diorama stuff from Michael's so I used that to put this together.

I did the sandbags from air dry clay. They are primered then covered with mud wash, medium brown wash, then vallejo white and beige dry brushed on for some shadowing and texture, then finished with a mud wash. 

I died the rocks medium brown with the wash. Then scattered rocks and some green turf that seemed to match the pictures I could find of the trenches in WWI. It may still need some more different shades of grass. Possibly too much grass for WWI? Let me know what you think?

Finally I mixed up some water and elmers glue and sprayed it on the diorama to lock down the loose turf and rocks. Should be a solid day drying. This is the first one I've done so if you have any suggestions for me go ahead and shoot them my way 

I really like it Goose, each component artfully done. I personally would have raised the sandbags a little higher above ground level. Nit-picking.

Nicely done! I like simple dios like that. Sandbags look nice, much better than what I would have done. Only critique I have is this, even though the sandbags look nice I think they may be to large for the scale of the project.

-Stephen

This is your first diorama? I think you did a good job. It's a cool little diorama. If you want to figure out how big stuff should be in 1/76th scale you can multiply the real life size, maybe a sandbag is 20" long, by .013. So a 20" sandbag should be about .26". Lets call it 1/4" long. Hope this helps. 

Edit: I just read that you're a mechanical engineer. You get the concept! LOL. I hope I didn't offend. I deal with ASME construction codes all the time btw. 

AhA !

 We had a weak spot on the Levee some years back . Kin we kinda borry you'uns sandbags ? Them looks like they'll do fine .Very nice job on the Whole thing !  T.B.

LOL no offense taken Griffin25! for some reason they kept getting bigger as i made them. I think the first few on the bottom were close to the right size...in width maYbe This was fun to do and added something to the model. Full of firsts as this was the 1st armor ive done too. All of this just from the raffle we had at our club picnic! 

This well done. 

You've pulled off one of the fundamentals- the viewer gets what's NOT in the dio, expanding the story beyond the edges of your board.

Also, no visual distractions. Dead guys, abondoned weapons, just the tank.