I know there is not a lot here yet for dioramas. But trust me that will change. In the mean time you can always check out these links:

http://network54.com/Hide/Forum/78970

http://fp.docdio.f9.co.uk/

But post your questions here too of course!

Thanks,
Jim

Thanks for the info Jim, I'll definately check both of those places out. AND will definately post some questions and comments here. Keep up the great work. Chris (Tiger 1) Carney.

hello Gents!
I would like to know if you think my idea of a diorama will work as in pleasing to the eye and of course logical!
I am going to recreate a scene with 1/35 german recon vehicles with onboard troops riding on top of Sdkfz 222 ,223 and 232. This scene is going to be a straight road set in russia during the summer of 42'. the dimensions will be approx 3ft * 1 ft.What do you think and could i put any other vehicles in it to compliment the idea. The Regiment is to be the Totenkopf!!!!
regards

I'm not completly sure about the Eastern front but I do belive that when there were vehicles going that way they often had about 5 to 10 ground troops which of course is taken care of by the ones on the vehicles, but you could add a motorcycle w/sidecar and make the sidecar hold a german officer such as Colonel or a lesser Comissioned officer or the top of the NCO's just so there is visible rank, otherwise the only problem to looks would be the openness of the area i would advise to have some small underbrush other than grass
Good Luck

I would think that a Kublewagen would be a good choice.
Chuck

My idea for a dio is to have Tamiya's 8 ton semi-track with AA gun driving under a railraod bridge, with a few American soldiers, one with a bazooka, on top of the bridge ready to attack the halftrack. Do you think this would work? I don't quite know how railroad bridges looked in the mid 40's, so if you can help me, thanks.

YodaMan

Cheers for the advice gents! Will post the pics once its' completed!Keep you in suspense as it were! As for your idea Yodaman, i like it. Nice to think of an intense battle situation with a really obvious ending! Neat

Howdy Marek,

Regarding your dio idea. Without going into deeper detail, I'm not sure if a 'group' of only Sdkfz 222, 223, & 232's were either actually used in that fashion, or as a recommended form of reconnaissance. I will have to check on that. Interesting idea though. :-) Of course, I love dioramas!

Tread.

And Yodaman, do you wear a night retainer for that underbite? :-) :-)

Well, I used to . Back then I had an overbite... :-) (sort of 'overcorrection' I guess)

YodaMan

Hiya TreadHead,
Cheers for the input! Actually have acouple of pics of the above named Afvs' and they should be historically accurate. I just don't want it to be to Still and uninteresting!
Think i may have an idea though! Cheers again.