Stan Kurcz, Naperville, Illinois

Takom’s 1/35 scale 21cm Mörser was the easiest part of Stan’s World War I diorama — his first — of a German gun crew on the Western Front posing for a photo. The only additions he made to the gun were locking pins and rivets on the wheel spokes. The figures are from MiniArt; the base is foam core covered with a mix of tile grout, wood filler, and real dirt. He made the trees with twisted wire.