I think you will agree, some very well made created by cysior on the modelwork.pl forum
Always interesting I think to see how people compose their scenes, choose which items, and how they contruct the scenics to form a diorama. Also, not forgetting the use of the camera...
It appears to be a lot of can.do armour, with CGD, and railway scenics.
There are many more images on the galleries here:
Village Scene http://modelwork.pl/viewtopic.php?t=19932
Bunker Scene http://modelwork.pl/viewtopic.php?t=19754
Thanks to Thomas.
Wow! These are some extensive and incredibly detailed diorama scenes. The details level rivals 1/72 or 1/76 armor and even has a good match with 1/48th I have seen. The especial skills I see are the use of grasses and groundcover, very realistic. Buildings and structures are also full of realism, and the time taken is very obvious. Also noting the really fine detail painting on figures. 144th figures are hard enough to get let alone paint to a high standard and at these sizes - its all brushwork! With that very fine work on the grasses and snows you really need to keep those in a sealed case or dust will make them a lot snowier! and its hard to clean out of the grass parts once settled. Note also the trees, these are not Woodland scenics pre-cast trunks, but look crafted of twisted copper wire strands, very clever technique. A dot of glue or solder will make those permanent. Hats off to the Polish Armor modelers!
ReplyDeleteYes, but...
ReplyDelete..left side of the diorama has rubbled buildings and German AFVs dating 1940-1941 (early Pz III and StuG), the right one is almost intact and has middle-late war tanks (Jagdpanther, Tiger etc); also, there are rubbled buildings and no bomb or shell craters!
These small blunders may really spoil a diorama.
In the 'railway' diorama we have -again - an early mixed with late war PzJ VI and even a Maus! Even sporting a bunker with nasty flak guns, the oval road has a certain kindergarten look...
ReplyDeleteTrue. But who hasn't made a display or a diorama that doesn't look like an airshow or a armor museum vursus a really straightforward view. It would in fact be easy to make all one tank type and one truck and APC type and just vary the markings and the weathering. But where is the fun in that? If building a dio for a museum under a contract build, thats a different beast entirely. One thing that I tried to do in a dio that I was doing is at least break up the airshow look by making say 3 to 5 of a given craft and put them mostly together, in a row to give it that "masses" look. In a "luft 46" dio, for instance- I had 5 Me 262's in a row and just one was a two - seater. Thats about right. The revetments were full of various designers dreams. Good catch on the craters though. Some areas do erase craters pretty fast. In a recollection by a relative who was in WW2 and part of Patton's 3rd. they did in fact drive through rubbled villages that had mature trees growing and no craters because they were left that way from WW1! Although some areas just do not get repaired quicky and others are set aside as memorials. Go to google earth and look around Ploesti Rumania and there are still seas of craters in places, also in parts of Peenemunde. But go to others like Berlin or Biggin Hill and its hard to tell a bomb ever dropped there. Take a look at Novaya Zemlya and you could not tell the biggest ever went off there.
ReplyDeleteYour cratering may vary!
I kind of found the railway dio did have a model railroad look to it. Train layouts rarely portray real scenes, but are more compressed and interesting that way. Oval roads are a part of some places where large loads on trailers that cannot be backed up or turned around but pulled through are handled. Take a google earth tour of the early US ICBM bases like Atlas D and Titan 1 or the Jupiter's and they all have oval turnabout areas.