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Greetings from the Eastern Front

The construction of the Diorama:
I wanted to keep the base simple, so I scribed a pattern of concrete plates onto plastic sheet and added a mixture of sand, white glue and plaster in the upper right edge. Before getting hard, some spots were covered with static grass. After attaching white glue with a syringe into the grooves of the concrete plates, I sprinkled them with static grass too. Spattered drops of white glue fixed dispersed sand, in order to represent pressed down dirt spots, left by passing tanks and personnel. Bristles that were cut from a rough brush were used to tinker the "elephant grass". Finally everything was painted with my airbrush. The workshop items came partly from ITALERI, TAMIYA and by myself (many things in the tool box). The canvas plans on the ground and the lift off vehicle roof developed by pressing crumpled aluminum foil onto the surface underneath. It makes convincing folds. The vice, the anvil and other metal parts were primed with aluminum color, "filtered" with black and polished with graphite dust, scraped from a pencil. Wodden parts were grounded in dark yellow and finished by a highly diluted burnt sienna, as well as raw umber oil colors.
Finally the base was framed and got an information sign.

Last but not least
At the end there are some more impressions from the details and another "old picture" for you to watch. Finally I would like to still mark that this project literally cost me blood, sweat and tears, although however furnished very much fun. Additionally it was a very favorable work, if one considers, that I was busy with only one model more than half a year and I avoided many after market "nice-to-have-but-costly-items" (an interior detail set would have cost approx. USD 53,-!) Only with the tracks it could have been of some advantage to use a product of " Friulmodelissimo"... To everyone, who might think, that I am too slow at tinkering, I would like to give him one slogan from the far east for considering: "the way is the target "