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Today it is Winter Solstice and the Yuletide is upon us again. Here in the house of HobbyHistorica it will be a calm and cozy celebration. I have a couple of weeks more or less off work, and am planning to use some of these days to catch up on some diorama making since the nice and snowy holiday weather seems to have been replaced with a grey sky, warm and rainy days, so I guess I can forget about any skiing.

I like using a war relic as a base when i am making a miniature diorama. I have built dioramas on large grenade fragments, shell casings, rifle casings, boxes, coils of barbed wire, plus lots of other bits, and I am always trying to fit the scene and its landscape to the story of the relic.

These small metal sleeves to place a matchbox in were popular tourist trinkets and often they were decorated with vikingships, iconic landmarks, coat of arms etc. A few times I have been extra lucky and dug up trench-art examples were the soldier had made the cover from scratch and personalized it with his own artwork.