Scale: 1/48
"The weak point of your Snowspeerer is the cockpit." and also "Your airspeeders are the only units that pose a direct threat to the Empire's vehicles out there." Those were the words the pilots were given before they got on, left the base and started the fighting in the cold terrain of that planet. There were not many hopes, but they had to try all they could and destroy as many vehicles as they were able to do. Many said they hadn't a chance, but facts proved they were wrong. Though the base on the planet was hit, most of the rebels went away on time. But not all of them, and the corpses of the heroes among the rebels that had fallen that day here still are under the icy terrain of this world, bony remains of the same whitish color of this snow that will never see the warm climate that otherwise would one day maybe uncover, or unearth, them.
The main feature of the diorama is the Snowspeeder in 1/48, from a very old AMT-ERTL-Revell kit, that I placed in a sort of snowy diorama so as to make it look like one of the well-known images of Star Wars - Episode V, from the old trilogy. The snow was made by using several materials that look like snow, or ice, though they tend to become yellowish with the passing of the months. That's a pity, but I tried to make the diorama more realistic by also adding a rock, and putting a lot of weathering with ink washings on the outside of the vehicle as it had to look like a worn-out or damaged T-47 Airspeeder that the Rebels made use of, though they knew that trying to fight against the much bigger, and full of weapons, vehicles of the Empire was just like throwing snowballs against a tank. Unless you had a good tactical plan, of course - and Luke had on, as every fan knows, though their battle was more a way to let the Rebel starships escape than really to fight and win, you know.
The model is painted with acrylics, leaving oils only for the weathering of the icy rock and on the metal parts of the Snowspeeder plainly.
