IT'S FINISHED!!! well, except for the few things I noticed when looking at the pictures...
This is the overall view.

and just a little closer up

the "point men"

and some pics of the beast



and here is a close up of the fence. Kinda pleased with the way it turned out.


Well, Fire Away! Let me know what you guys think!
Cheers, BillK.

Looks amazing! Really well done! I love the scenery, and the tank and figures are painted excellently. The only thing I'd change would be to stain the wood, as it looks a bit weird.

Wow, thrilling work! Great diorama!!

The diorama looks great overall. I'm impressed with many of the details, the fence being one of them. The paint and weathering are well done. The brickwork on the building is extremely nice and quite realistic. The figures turned out very well, too, and they're all wearing ushankas!

To my eyes, the one thing that sticks out is the space (the bare cobblestone street) right in front of the AFV. It looks a little empty. I'm wondering if some more building rubble or other battle debris might help fill the void. I don't think you would need much more than a few odds and ends to fill the space and pull the scene together.

Other than that one nit, I think this is some really excellent work.

-YL

Very nice work on the building. The tank looks well weathered too.

Good job,

Chas

The building turned out great. I like it a lot.
Overall the project looks good. The one thing that 'dissconnects' in my mind is the way the soldiers are drawing my attention away from the ISU.

Techniques are all good.

Nice work. Was the building scratchbuilt or is that a kit?

Rudi

Hi there

Love the dio and the setting,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, not too much snow but enough to know it is freezing weather. What about one guy,,,, maybe two hunkered down for cover, weapon aimed, on the top of the tank protecting the tank but also going forward with it?

Maybe that would help bring the attention back to the tank.

Nice work.

Nige

Very well done Bill,

I already commeted the building, i was very impressed, but i like also your fence (at first it looked a bit modern to me, but i will not look further). You found a good method to sandwich the fence between foil.

Good work, one of the best this year on this site

Cheers
Claude

Thanks for the comments guys! Glad you like it.

Scott and Nige - you are absolutely right. I feel that the flow is kind of disjointed with the troops heading off to the right and the ISU heading straight ahead. I really thought about putting another guy to the right of the ISU, but with the fence there it did not seem likely that a guy would be there. I'm stll thinking about putting a guy on the tank Nige. I actually started one but I nixed it because I figured 1) AFVs draw fire, and being on one during an attack is not a good idea, 2) trying to hang on while going over broken terrain is hard enough to do in its own right now add in having to worry about getting shot and providing some protection from infantry attacks...it just didn't seem like anybody would stay up there. Having said that...I think I'll put a guy up there for asthetics sake.

Rudi - the building and fence are scratch built.

Claude - The fence. I got the idea from a picture dated 1950. I had the same thought as you, might be too modern, but I wanted something a little different (and I didn't have any good PE fences on hand to use) so I went with it. And thanks for your kind comments, they mean alot coming from such a talented builder like yourself!

Hi Bill, congratulations, no tonly for the building,for entire work

Hey I'm a new diorama builder, working on a Konigstiger diorama myself, but yours is great reference for first timers in technique. I am especially impressed with your dry-brushing and weathering on both the fence and AFV. My only sugestion is on the building structure perhaps you could add some sort of dry transfer, or sign, it might fill up some of the blank space!

Awesome dio Bill! Very well done!

Great dio! Bill, the figures are great!

great building and great dio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very nicely done.

Truly awesome dio Bill

Nice job with this scene Bill! Your figures came out well, as has the assault gun and building. Very nice indeed!

Thanks for sharing, cheers -

Tim

Thanks for the additional comments guys! It make building these things and showing them that much more enjoyable.
Hopefully I'll get my dio for the half-track campaign done in time.

Cheers, Bill

Great diorama!

I like the figures and especially the way you weathered the ISU.

Very Nice!

great build bill, i've been following this one from the start even before i signed up as a member well done. Ant.

Love that fence! I'll have a go at that myself.

Nice job on the weathering and I really like the snow and ice. The building looks very realistic , its a great finish. Who makes the snow and did you scratchbuild the building? Jim R.

Great dio, everything is : wow..
thanks for sharing..

cheers
Robert

By no means am I a expert, but I really like it. I think the only thing I would have done differently would be having the tank pointing in the same dirrection as the troops rifles.

Great job on the weathering, like has already been said the snow is nicely done.