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Distraction: Greta's Revenge

Introductions

Finally here’s the long awaited article of “DISTRACTION” that I made for the winter diorama campaign on Armorama.com.

I’ve been asked several times by fellow modelers as I updated it daily in the forums if I could put all together and make an article out of it. So for all these people and newcomers and all the other people interested, here it is.

First I want to start with saying that I’m not a pro and that this was my first dio in about 1.5 years. This dio is actually one great experiment with techniques that I have never tried before for example: sculpting my own figure. Making my own buildings and it was my first dio with snow. So also for me there were some great learning experiences and I hope it will be for more people.
 

The Contest

I started thinking immediately about the concept. What will I show? What is the story and I went to the drawing board. The story is I described it earlier in the forum threads:

In the desolated ruins of Stalingrad is a Russian sniper walking around. Step by step he walks between the debris of the devastated inner city of what once was the precious city now only ruins are left. Meticulously scanning every detail, every single inch of the surrounding area. Looking for that one German soldier that is with its mind in the mess where his comrades are drinking nice warm coffee and smoking cigarettes without freezing their hands off.

Suddenly the Russian sniper stops and looks again. Yep he’s not mistaken just in his firing range he spots the silhouette of a German soldier that is posting in an old ruined house. The Russian Sniper stops, raises his scope to eyesight, aims, holds his breath and shoots. The guns give a dry bang and the silhouette tumbles over. Just as the Russian sniper wants to look what he had shot another dry bang echoes through the ruins and the Russian sniper falls to the ground… shot in the head…. never to know who shot him.

From under a blanket on the sidewalk next to the building a German sniper stands up walks to the building where his comrade just had been shot. He walks up the place and looks in a happy smiling face. He puts the mannequin back on her “feet” strokes the snow off. Hangs the blanket where the laughing face was drawn on right and put the helmet full of bullet holes on it’s place again.

Without saying anything he walks back to the sidewalk lays down grabs the blanket and waits for his next victim that gets DISTRACTED.