David Budd presents his diorama of an abandoned King Tiger in an East Prussia village.

King Tiger Ruins



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Great diorama!! Very well done KIng Tiger and a well laid out and compact scene.

I love the number on te glacis of the King Tiger. You are quite right it - it is a number painted on by the Russians to catalogue destroyed vehicles.

Thanks for sharing

Good work. I like the old lady, the contrast between her and the monstrous tank adds a lot to the scene.

Beautiful!

Beautifully done. A very minor quibble; I doubt that the tools and weapons would have been left in place afterthe Russians had been by.

Those are the most realistic photos of a model that I've seen in a long time. Very Well done! I'd love copies of the pics, feel free to send me some if you'd like to [email protected]
I'll cherrish them!

John

Absolutely magnificent. Nothing else needs to be said.

Wow man, that is really something else!

Respect to your diorama...zimmerit looks very well!As what putty worked David?Thanks!

Thanks, I wish I could say the zimmerit was putty, but I think it is Cavalier. I had that in my write up, but for some reason they didn't put it in. Actually there are a number of things that got edited out of my write up as well as one picture.

Awesome job man. I love how it says so much in such a small scene. Very inspiring...

Nicely done David, lots of little details that only become apparent after looking closely, as the saying goes, the devil is in the details...

Artistically, the model is absolutely beautiful. The detailing and weathering is superb, and I love the little metal kitchen chair in the corner.
The ammunition posed leaning up is something that real tankers always have kittens about when they see it in dioramas, though. Occasionally, one does sees a round posed leaning on the turret side of a captured tank as you have done, but this was invariably done by the photographer who wanted to show the folks back home the size of the ammunition used by the "captured monster."
However, I gather the premise here is that the crew were interrupted by the advancing Soviets as they were loading ammunition at a supply point. Several rounds are out of their packing cases and are leaning precariously. Ordinarily, the last thing you want is to do is damage a round by letting it topple over, and the steel cartridge cases of late-war German ammo were heavily greased, so they would pick up any dirt they were set on and introduce it into the moving parts of the breach when loaded, another no-no. In US units, a round was supposed to be removed from its container and handed from man to to man until it was safely in its rack in the vehicle. If absolutely necessary, it could be set down sideways on a tarp to keep it clean. It was almost certainly the same in German units.

Thanks, I saw a photograph of American soldiers around a captured King Tiger and they had set the ammunition up like it is in my diorama. So, you are correct it is just set that way for the propaganda shot. There was also a picture of one man holding a Sherman round and another guy holding the King Tiger round.

Like you said, I was making the scene to show that there was a last ditch effort to get the tank running, but with the approaching Red Army they just decided to take off on foot. Then the Soviets troops came along and started monkeying with things and climbing all over it (you can't see it in the pictures but there are foot prints on the vehicle) until the political officer came along and told them to get off Comrade Stalin's new tank.

very nicely made, inpsiring piece and a work of art in it's detailing and simplicity

Fantastic work David! Phenomenal attention to detail. Love the chair and spilled bottle of wine in image 7. (Who makes the chair?)

Thanks, and the chair is from the Verlinden set 1/35 VPI0724 Wrought Iron Bench and Tables

i like

This is honestly one of the best dioramas I have ever seen.

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SCOTT