It's just a bit early to post this next idea in dioramas, but I definitely can feel a diorama coming on...
Regular visitors who temporarily stumble out of the 1/43 scale motor car section of S143.com and find themselves here in my aviation thread will probably know that I have a bit of a "Polar" sub-theme going. Well, it hasn't stopped yet.

My latest purchase is this Italeri 1/72 kit of the Antonov An-2. Some may know of this plane, others not, but the simple fact is that there have been more An-2s produced post-war than any other plane. And this kit includes a bright orange Polar version with skis. I'm in!

Next stop along the way was an eBay search for "1/72 Snow" and up popped this 1/72 kit of a Horch 108-40 Armoured Command Snow vehicle.
And so the diorama is set. It's post-war in Russia ... the defeated Germans left a lot of kit behind in '45, including the Horch. Now it's 1950, peace has been restored (sort of) and the Horch is now a liaison vehicle for the very very very far north, snowbound, icy outpost of some godforsaken Russian scientific outfit, which also has a new An-2 (first produced in 1948) to get them to even more godforsaken parts of the tundra to drill holes and do other scientific stuff.
I've been looking for 1/72 scale wolves, reindeer etc and haven't found any, so I suspect my old Ford Trimotor kit dogsled team may play another supporting role in my next snowy diorama. Wish me luck!