@firelockg I’m interested to see where this goes too!
I started adding bases to models and then figures a while back. Looking back I’ve done a few. I guess they are more vignettes than dios. This one may be the same.
The adopted definition for modellers, as I’m sure most know, is that a dio shows some action or activity, whereas a vignette shows a moment captured in time.
I think that’s a difficult distinction sometimes. A vignette will have meaning even though it may not have the depiction of motion. So in this case the railway tracks will ‘symbolise’ the struggle to establish and cut-off supply that was a significant part of the Verdun story. The artillery will reference the fact that the intensity of shelling that happened in WW1 was a change in warfare and was horrific. The base will represent the destruction and conditions I can see in photographs.
I’m interested to hear the views of others, but I believe, unless the figures are actually ‘doing something’ or the howitzer is actually firing it will be a vignette not a dio!
