HERMES MkII Air Assault (3)

Hi all,

thank you for your feedback and comments.

In my part of Germany the summer is very hot and very humid - murky - and we have quite a lot thunderstorms.

One could say Germany now has "rainy season".
It makes working and live a bit exhausting, breaking sweat just by moving a finger :P

But I got to work a bit more on the HERMES.

I started off with cutting the wood to the base size (30x30cm).

Then I built up the mountain on which the air assault is to happe´n.

I used Styrofoam as base.

And covered everything up with cheap masking tape.

I want it to look as if the HERMES is hovering above ground while unloading the troops.

Once satisfied with everything I covered it with instant plaster.

And while the plaster was still wet I added sand and little rocks. The sand is standard bird cage sand and some small black deco rocks.

The HERMES on the cured mountain section.

While the plaster cured I started to build some assault rifles and dismantled heavy weapons.
You can see I folded the tripod for the heavy Bolter and mounted the bi-pod for the mortar to the tube in a folded position.

Next I started to position the troops.

As you can see there's still a lot to do, much, much cleanup.

What do you think so far?
Cheers

Klaus