The following is my latest diorama, "Surrender of a Giant". It is inspired by photos of the Jagdtigers of Pz.Jg.Abt.1/512 surrendering at Iserlohn.

The Jagdtiger is a Dragon kit with Aber photo etch, Model Kasten tracks and a few extra items. The figures are from a variety of kits such as S&T, Takahashi, Warriors, Tank, Dougs, and Preiser. Most of the figures heads have been replaced by Hornet and a few of them have been modified. The building is mainly scratch.

Thanks Bart.

man love that gi with the camera. it just adds a whole feeling of the us being the campions to the dio. to you.

btw whos the camera fuy figgie made by?

Very nice dio. Nice painting on the figures. The only thing odd that caught my eye was the rifle straps are a little wide, but who cares ? The straps don't take away much. The whole thing is very nice.......Al

Hi Bart,

Are you the Campbell who got my book as a gift?
You have a good wife having such nice ideas. I really hope that you were not disappointed with the book!

This is a very good dio Bart!

I had a bit of problems interpreting the scene as the germans look a bit to relaxed for a surrender. Are they driving themselves also?

Do you have a ref. picture for the house?

The thing who caught my eyes are the satirs.I see two problems with them. They float a bit above the board walk, that's thje first an easy one.

They also are (IMO ) to high. That could pass , but they lack a protection on the left and right side of the upper stair. There is defintely a risk of falling high.

You did probably run into a layout dilema i was in myself also a few times
The lack of space and some calculation mistakes lead to a problem to get stairs
done correctly. I understand you very well.

If you like to redo it I think you have to options here.
I don't know if you are copying an original house. The best would probably be to replace the door and redo it longer (with perhaps a glass part in the upper part of the door) and replace the stair with only two steps. (around 5-6 mm height each)

If you do not want to remake the door, you may also try to do a stair like this one (can't find the words, so here is a pic of one of mine)

with the steps going all around. (perhaps rounded) You would not need the railing but they still would be to high probably.

A lot of talk about this tiny part of the dio, but as the rest looks very good, this one hits me.

The wall near the railway could use some more weathering. On top of it and running down.

Sincere congratulations on the scratchbuild and welcome to the club!

Greets to Canada

Claude

Hey Bart,

Very good diorama!! I like the overall look, and the figures look great. Those germans seem quite sad to have lost the war

Greetz Henry

Great looking dio!
I like the details (for example the photographer or the running child)... each is a small story and these fits good together to this scene!
Also I like the paintwork!

greetings...
Soeren

Hi Bart
WOW!! This is indeed a masterpiece. I think you've done a great job with this well known scene of this surrender, and I actually think those front stairs are spot on. I,ve seen plenty of these "funny" solutions on buildings, which are on uneven terrain, so veru well done. The only thing that really springs to my mind is, that from what I've seen from this Iserlohn surrender, the German soldiers actually seems to be happy/reliefed and is cheering along wiyh everybody else. But in either case, yes, the Germans DID drive all their vehicles themselves.
Please keep showing us your uotstanding works.
Jacob

Thanks for the comments so far.

-The camera guy is from Warriors

-Claude - yes I am the same Bart Campbell and your book is great. I understand what you are saying about the stairs and I suppose they could use a railing. Other than that I am happy with the look of them. As for the Germans...they do look relaxed, but in the photos I've seen and the youtube video of this surrender they do look relaxed and they did drive their own vehicles. Thanks for your comments.

Bart

Excellent diorama. I know exactly what pictures you are refering to. You captured the look and the "feel" of the pictures perfect.

Thanks for sharing

Beautiful diorama, Bart.

The painting of the vehicles, building and figures is superb, and although there's lots going on (the running / climbing boys and the dog are a nice touch) it doesn't lose its focus.

The split level also adds a lot to it. Excellent job!

- Steve

PS: I can't believe 448 hits but only half a dozen comments.

Really like this one
excellent work

Awesome work, Bart! Thanks a lot for showing those photos. Your dio just inspired me to do a German surrender scene.

Hi Bart
Great diorama, I really like your work!
Regards
Garth

Thanks again for the comments guys.

Bart

Hi Bart,
Just had to leave a comment for your dio....., especially after what Steve mentioned about the lack of comments to the number of views.

This is stunning, very impressive!! The detailing in the figures especially are fantastic, I'd be chuffed to get anything in my figures as close to the detailing you get in yours. The angles of the dio, the running boys, the obvious relief on the faces of the Germans, and the detailing on the jeep all adds to make this very inspiring.

Keep up the good work, look forward to seeing more good stuff........

SIMON.

Bart: You should seriously think about submitting this for a feature; your craftsmanship on this one is nothing short of incredible!

zaltar

Thanks again for the nice comments....very appreciated.

Bart

excellent work realy impressive

Bart, great work! I really like the boy running with his dog. Extra details like that make this dio come to life! Well done!

Bart,

great accuracy in figure painting and a lot of "stories-in-the-story" on a multi-level diorama.

Truly excellent!


Mike

I like it a lot! Good action, self explanatory, animated, well-crafted.