Final Diorama Idea

For my final diorama idea I shall create a small scene based in no mans land, From the mood board below I have looked into how it looks. In my scene I shall be including muddy puddles, dead trees and barbed wire. I may also look into adding a trench, but this is not decided yet. I really want the scene to look dead and unappealing, so this would make a nice contrast to the bright and colourful Uncle Sam. It would also give a strong message to the audience, in the way that Uncle Sam is promoting going to the war and trying to rally troops. And then you see the scene and its death, the reality is actually all death, and the troops would be going to die in such a depressing environment.

When I get this into UE4 I hope to add some particle effects such as smoke coming from the ground to show that bombs have gone off recently. Also a dust particle effect to look like debris is falling slowly. I will also add a material to a plane to show water. It shall be rather basic fr the blockout, but when I go to do it for real I shall edit them to fit it to my scene better.

At this moment I am unsure if I will have it as a circular base like a war hammer figure, or if I should have it so the actual environment is quite large, and I then use a fog effect so you cant see after a certain distance.

I also need to think of a way to properly integrate Uncle Sam into the scene, as at the moment I can only imagine him pointing to the camera and just standing there, this may make him look out of place. I have thought of a number of ideas so he will fit more into the scene, but I can only think of ideas that will add too much work to what I already have