D-Day 101st para drops,

I think there is a company that sells livestock models that are 1/35, and theyre cheap
It might be tamiya, you should just "redo" the models to make them look dead

Italeri makes an opel blitz thats 19 bucks... i dont know of any cheaper personnel carrier
Its a realistic kit so nomatter what you do with it , youll get good results

Is your dio in 1/35 or 1/72?

Once I made i dio with a farmhouse and some haystacks and i had that same problem... this is how i did it
for the hay I would take wisks from a broom, make them look like the scale you want, and get some clay and form it like a haystack
then paint it dark yellow with gold and lite yellow details, then glue the broom wisks to the painted clay

You could use thcik wire if you wanted a metal fence
You could use sprues or balsa for a wooden fence

for a well I take sprues and form the shape of it, then take some spackel or modeling clay and make the well... then i cut the brick shapes in it, then I paint it, for a buckte and rope, use thread and small thimble... dont use one with the hole pattern in it

for the water just take some caulk and fill up the cavity where the water goes
then take 2 kinds of gloss blue and use the darker for shadowed water and the light blue for the out of shadow water... then take some gloss spray and spray over the paint
if you want a cover for it use balsa wood and sprue for the supports and rafters

For the farmhouse use some balsa wood if you have some around the house... and make your farmhouse out of that

yeah

i watched it yesterday and theres a dead paratrooper hanging from the tree, and the truck is just a regular personel carrier (not a half track), and then a bunch of dead horses and cows

sspanzer;

Here are my suggestions for your diorama idea.

For the burnt out farmhouse. Use cardboard from cereal boxes for roof tiles. Use wood from a tangerine or clementine orange box for the exterior interior walls cover these with cardboard from the cereal boxes with the inside of the box as the outside. It has a rougher texture like plaster. For the hay stacks you could use several things. Doll hair, Wig hair, Coconut fibre, Brush Bristles. Each of these can be "stacked" around a form of styrofoam to conserve materials. For the water tower use the appropriate size cap of a aerosol can i.e. shaving cream or similar canister. For the stand of the water tower you can use the wood of long stem fireplace matches. For the ground cover i.e. grass and road surface use fine sifted sawdust for grassy areas. For the roadways use cornstarch or a similar powder substance. You could also visit a coffee shop and "borrow" some supplies (a good source for stir sticks which make great "lumber stacks" when cut to scale).

Hope this helps and is of use to you or others here on the forum.

Cheers;

Gregory

cheers, ever thing is going to be 1/72 scale.

i would build the farm house out of scratch for i too have a tight budget....i would build it out of balsa, its cheap and quite easy to work with.... BTW what scale is this going to be?
for the hay i would use brush hairs or real hay...if u dont live on a farm then some dried roots will work, just bundle it up and paint/glue it.
i watched the whole series but the scene is kinda of vague right now with out the me having the energy to go upstairs and watch the scene..so i cant help you with the truck part...but i would say that it would probably be a halftrack or a hanomag... if it is a hanomag tamiya makes a cheap one (1/35 scale: $15.45) but WARNING its not all that well detailed.. but u can always find cheap kits (but some ull have to do a bit more work to look good)
-Dj