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Reloading - 1945

Diorama
The base is a 30x40xm picture frame with glass. I added Styrofoam for reproducing the ground. I added a layer of repair putty ( originally intended for covering cracks in a wall ) and after drying I airbrushed it with Italeri colours. I noticed that the colour of soil is quite often not brown but grey and thus I have chosen this colour. I then added wallpaper-glue to the areas where I wanted to have grass and applied static grass. The yellow flowers are real plants. You can find them in flower shops, these are the blossoms of a plant which is added to roses or other flowers to make the whole set look more attractive.

The diorama was built for a museum in Vienna/Austria which had an exhibition in 1995 about "50 years since the ending of WWII”. I was lucky that I built a variant of a damaged and a captured German vehicle as it turned out during the preparations that the director of the museum did not want to have any model of an undamaged or active German vehicle or any German soldier in the exhibition. Some German decorations and a Luger pistol, which were supplied by an employee of the museum had to disappear as well. This still wonder about this habit and this interpretation of history and habit of political correctness. [editors note: Sad when someone like that doesn't know the value of remembering history. They seem to think there is only "certain" history to remember.]

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©2002 Models, images, and text by W. Kampfhofer (callsign: tankbuster). All Rights Reserved. Photography by Robert J. Sladek.