Fantastic diorama!
I love the spider web on the walls! How did you make them!
Cheers,

Great idea - very cool work!

Fun idea, but it's doubtful either side would have had any M3 series light tanks in service by 1945. The US had long since transitioned to the M5A1 and M24, and the Soviets were using British and Canadian built Valentines for infantry tank duties, having received only a small batch of Stuarts in 1942. If you wanted to continue the Lend Lease theme, a more likely scenario would be a US M4, M4A1 or M4A3 Sherman meeting a Soviet M4A2, either a 75 mm or 76 mm armed version. The build and painting are quite nice, though.

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dear Pablo the spider web made when i spray a product" water colour varnish matt "of Talens under big pressure with my airbrush

Gerald you are right

Dimitrius, Historicaly accurate or not, it is a beautiful peice of art. The spider webs are just a jewel in the crown. Great paint job too. When you say under great pressure, is there a support of material there before you spray or is that the effect just sraying by it's self?

Love the colours of the buildings A1 very nice Dio. Shame its not quite historically right, all the same its a real jewel. The spiders webs are great never seen anything like that before AWSOME stuff, thanks for sharing Cheers geraint

I like the colors of the houses. Also the details on the houses are beautiful. Nice to see two Stuart versions on one diorama, historically correct or not.

Oh dear, this is good! I just love the very subtle colour schemes you have been using, ace work really

Hi Dimitris,
this looks really great, nice colours and wheatering.

Is this scratchbuild?

Claude

Beautiful work. As far as 'not historically correct' is concerned, who could really say with 100% certainty. All versions of updates and reissues are not exchanged, traded out or employment discontinued at the same time in every corner of an area of operation with several different countries involved. For example, did you know that the USMC was still using Garands in 1965? I do. In any case, this is a very fine example of the uses of color and the variations possible in the scene. The spider webs are brilliant. When you talk about hi pressure spray, it clicked with me because I did that by accident with the brush far enough away from the work that I sprayed 'spider webs' all over everything (whether I wanted to or not). Great work. I appreciate your ability.

Matt

yes, great paint in both B/W and color!

spider webs are brilliant

I have a photo in one of my books of a Red Army M3 (with a cupola, same configuration as in this dio) driving near Riga, Latvia in late 1944. Hard to believe but there it is. The road sign is in the photo.

I agree on US M3-series tanks though. The vehicle shown served in Africa in 1942-43 in those markings. However, a quick change to an M5A1 would still work well with the theme.

As you pointed out, two Shermans would work; two jeeps also.

Another minor point is that the Red Army officer is wearing a uniform that was phased out in 1943. It is unlikely, though again not impossible, that anyone would be wearing such a uniform in 1945.

Very cool dioama anyway.

Can it be that although those light tanks werent around in 45, that there might have been a scant few that had not been shot up or replaced??????? Did not some forces , especially the Russians who were desparate for equipment ......used whatever they had till it literally fell apart ????? All the same ,this is very nice work. Great job.................Al..............