LOL Tony,

I missed your groundwork "tutorial" from last week. You are doing a very good job i think, learning while doing ! The end result is very convincing considering how you started.

The Tiger looks great, you have probably more experience with that.

Keep going!

Claude

looking great Tony, the scenery looks very realistic, love the figures too!

I've been trying to finish this dio and must finally admit to myself that, tonight's going to be the last one on this project.

Mark, Claude & Chris, I appreciate your comments. Thanks.

This picture is of the attachments of the sails to the main beam. After breaking them off a couple times with my sleeve etc. I decided to pin the ends along with the glue.
The metal attachments were a lot of work as I put them on after the sails were installed. They are made of plastic and steel 18 guage wire and painted with artist oils. They are 45 pieces in all. They are not traditional mounts for tower mills, but to me looked like a good improvise considering it was too late to backtrack on building a large 4 mouth bracket.



The fallschirmjagers hanging out under the tree.





Tough to get a good picture inside the cap. I put two of the Tamiya observation crew inside the cap and two on the stairs. I used the officer from the same kit.




This picture sums up the project. The feedback from Armorama pretty much decided the outcome of the theme. I wasn't sure where I was going with this from the start and yes I did look hard trying to find the nearest location from where this tank might have been to a tower mill. Closest I could find was near Het Rooth or Bemelen (Van Tienhoven Molen). That does looks like a pretty good hike however.

And the concesus wins. This is not the Ardennes.

"Dies ist nicht des Ardennen"


Tony

Wow! Stunning Work! Especially for a first! It inspires us to try new things once in a while!

About your german: What you wand to say is probably "This is not in the Ardennes", which would translate to "Dies ist nicht in den Ardennen" or "This is not the Ardennes" which would translate to "Das sind nicht die Ardennen".

Cheers
Stef

Stefan, I tried hard to find the right translation but again, just goes to show how much one can learn from just asking the questions in here.
Thanks, somehow I was expecting comments on that. Do you figure it's worth changing?
I was hoping to bring it to a model show in Nanton, southern Alberta this weekend.

Beautifull work mate!
Windmill is stunning! Do you have some plans for it or did you make it straight from pictures?

Andrzej

Hi
Very nice work you have done with this diorama.
I really like the Soldier sitting on the swing ( cant resist them myself when the kid's are at the park ). Like the Officer & the Map roll interesting way of showing the map instead of laid out. Your figure's have turned out very nice ( painting).

All in all a convincing job considering it was your first dio (if i remember well, it's so long ago you started :-) )
There is a lot of potential in your dio-career.

Cool and idea with the title (if written correctly).

Cheers
Claude

The final project is great. Details are everywhere. The composition with many little stories is nice and very cohesive. All in all really well done

nice work tony,

i really look forward to seeing it complete

cheers

Looks great, Tnoy. The layout of the scene is very good and there are many small stories everywhere in the diorama as already pointed out by others.

Thanks for sharing

Andrzej, thanks for the comment. I made the mill from looking at pictures. And I thought the tank was tough enough and it came with instructions.
Shaun, also thanks for the feedback. Those figures took quite some time. I even stole a piece of my wife's gold necklace for the officers map case. Hard to notice but I even used twine for his cap brades. I got the swing ropes to stay straight by soaking with white glue and weighing down overnight.

Claude, thanks for the reminder of how long this took. Though I did set a timeline to finish it before I turned 50. That's today in fact. So your memory is probably better than mine. tks.
About the title? Go figure. I guess now it kind of goes along with the whole theme from the start. Close, but not quite on the mark. lol. Tks.

Scott, I really appreciate your responses. I used your advice from (geez, I guess that was years ago) and put the barrel on the other side of the tree. Although I couldn't find the creativity to add structure to the inside of the cap for rotation once I had it in place. Again, thanks!

Mattt & Jesper I threw in a few more pics of the final project for a better view. Last things to go on were a couple birds that still have paint drying on them.










The windmill idea kind of grew from someones comments about adding windows.

Happy Birthday!

Claude

Hey mate, It's your model! I don't know if anyone can tell over in Canada... For me it would depend on the amount of work.

Still, great work! Been modelling for years now and wouldn't dare to scratch a wind mill... I'll have to try the tree sometine, it looks great!

Cheers
Stef

wonderful diorama, i love it!

wouldn't wanna be where these guys are standing though!

Nice Work!

Claude, Stefan, Press, Luke & Dave, thanks for comments. Stefan, you're probably right about the wording.
I really enjoyed this build and certainly enjoyed seeing the feedback all the way through.

I entered the dio in the Western Canadian Regional Model Contest last weekend at the Lancaster Museum in Nanton, Alberta. The paint was still wet on the last pieces I put in place. Two little birds.

Obviously the best part of all of this work on this diorama took place at the show. I still cannot believe that I won a silver medal for Single Vehicle Diorama and to top it off, it won the Peoples Choice award for the entire show.
The prize also included a limited edition print titled 'Beyond Praise' by Len Krenzler. It depicts a true story of a Lancaster in trouble and shows it flying low over a church in the scene.

The show was sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Model Club and was the first time I've been to a show. It was a good turnout with hundreds of excellent models to look at. In fact there were so many that I'm not sure I even got to see all of them.
The whole town really did a great job in putting together an excellent event with lots of other things also taking place.

They even fired-up the engines on the lancaster in front of the museum.



The dio is hard to see in the picture but is down at the end of the table.






Definitely one of the happiest times of my life going to that show.

congrats man, well deserved, how long did this dio take you? it looks like a huge amount of work got put in it. great job!

Awesome Dio. Congradulations. milvehfan

Hey, Congratulations! A well earned reward!

Cheers
Stef

Hi
Well done at the show.
Looks like a busy event.

Cool, I've been to that museum! I really wish that I could have been there with the model show; I haven't ever been to one. Did they fill up the entire hangar with the models? Anyways, great diorama!

zaltar

Excellent Work

Excellent and well deserved,
Congratulations,
Bob