This is fantastic! It is absolutely stunning and will be even more stunning when finished.

Looking forward to see more

The size of that just amazes me.

The convoy of varied vehicles gives me mixed impressions. I like the variety, and they are very well done. Would those vehicles have traveled together?

Probably not Scott, but all the vehicles depicted were involved in the battle for Savastopol. As I have said in the Savastopol Dio thread, the actual positioning of the German war machine is not as important to me as showing the uninformed masses what the Werhmacht brought to the Crimean Peninsular for the battle against the fortress city. I can't think of any other time in history where there was such a massive use of large caliber seige weapons. Some of the big guns were used against the Warsaw ghetto, but not on the same scale. Below is a list of the other divisions involved other than the heavy artillery crews.
* 22nd Infantry Division;
* 24th Infantry Division;
* 46th Infantry Division;
* 50th Infantry Division;
* 72nd Infantry Division;
* 73rd Infantry Division;
* 98th Infantry Division;
* 111th Infantry Division;
* 132nd Infantry Division;
* 170th Infantry Division;
* 336th Infantry Division;
* 28th Jägerdivision;
* 22nd Panzerdivision.

Whatn a monster!
Cheers and happy modelling!
Prato

Here's a small update. I've just about finished the basic groundwork and am now in the process of completing the last of the convoy, a Sd.Kfz.251/4 Ausf C towing a Lefh 18/40. Here I might have made a major mistake. The instructions say that the splinter camo (red/brown markings over the dark yellow base) was for an 'unknown unit on the Eastern Front'. Looked great, so thats how I painted it, but on an admendment it says 'Balkans 1942 - Dark Grey', which fits the time and place more precise. What I would like to know is, would the Werhmacht have used a splinter camo scheme in 1942?
Anyway, any comments about the the basic grounwork would be appreciated.

Looks great so far, good attention to all of the different tracks left on the ground...Can't help with the question about the paint, sorry.

I'm very affected what a beatiful and successful dio,,, Congratulations

Hi,

your question is a bit confusing but I will try and help. It sounds as if you're talking about the camo of a vehicle ? If so, I think the Grey matches your time frame better.

What confuses me is the term you used, splinter pattern, which is a pattern of camouflage on German clothing, which gathers it's name from the small 'splinter' like lines on the clothing, it is not used to describe vehicle camouflage.

If you were asking about clothing and I mis understood you, then the first clothing in splinter pattern was Heeressplittertarnmuster 31, made in 1931 as can be seen in it's namesake.

HTH

OMG........ That's.... amazing.

Simply amazing. That Dora is so flipping massive... Kym, it looks like it should have taken a whole lot longer than 70 hours, but I'll take your word. And that dio is HUGE!

And I thought I was going to build a big dio for Borders Of The Fatherland...

Kym, excellent work, and looking forwards to seeing the end result!

The dio is just about completed. It's on hold at the moment as I have a couple of other projects going. Here's a link to the other thread on the larger scene.
https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/103580&page=1