Dear all,

some pics of my diorama depicting an ambush to a traitor tank. I am not completely convinced about it. I wonder if I shoudl add a german infranyman following the tank. Also, I used several types of snow, but I am not yet fully satisfied with the outcome.

Any advice is wellcome.

I think it looks great, the snow looks good, as does the entire scene. Well put together.

Hi
Looks very nice! Great Dio.
Greetings- Swen

Luca

From my humble opinion, you should keep it just as is !!!!!!!!!!!!!

The story line and execution is brill !!!!!!!!

Nige

I agree with the other guys ,, its bloody good and tells the story but if you want to make it more real so to speck you could dirty up the soldiers a bit ,,their boots are very clean as are there pants and the bottom edges of the great coats and throw some mud on the tanks tracks and road wheels ,,but damn man theres bugger all else to do ,,its a very cool dio


Phill

There's nothing to add or modify!
Maybe just a bit more snow on the track links...but it really looks outstanding!

luca , leave it be it looks great,I really love those figures brilliant painting
Andy

As they say, 'if its not broken don't fix it' and Luca pal, that is far from broken! Top class job mate, looks amazing

Luca: Great Dio. My only comment is the guy with the Molatov cocktail, he should not be holding the bottle upside down, less he spill all the fire juice on himself. Everything else I thinks works great and is well executed. If you do add any German figures, only a couple behind the tank.

Happy Modeling, -zon

I have to agree with everyone else. Outstanding.

it look really, really good. But one thing - add some dirt on soviet's clothes, they look so new! or some snow, or some mud or something else on their clothes will make scene much more realistic.

hi luca,
another T34 on the wall! ;-))

I like very much the scene, nice work as usual!

but, some things "jump to the eye",well, addition to the aforementioned bottle upside down and dirty on men, I might add weight to all objects on ground...
excluding the tank, which had good buoyancy skills and looks good, everything else (men, machine guns, boxes, barrels, saw ..) seems to rise on the snowy ground.
either the transition snow-open ground does not convince me at all, it seems to me too vague ... everything can be solved by adding a layer of snow where it is needed .. also on the window sills, where the absence clashes a bit ', I think.

keep on, it's a good one!!

I have tried to apply the wise suggestions received by you and this should be the final result... Thanks to all for the contribution !

I agree this scene is a snapshot in time leave it be

I would add a mud on chassis and rear of the tank. I read that in Russia sometimes during the freezing ground run over by tanks do not freeze, which is why, even in winter tanks have wet mud on whels and tracks.

Pawel

Your tank screams utter frozen coldness...you have activated a presence there and everything around the area supports the extreme kind of rock-hard winter that only a place like Russia could host.

You mention several types of snow material. I once used a fine snow medium put out by Hudson and Allen diorama supplies. The fluffy crystalline structure to that product would detract from the hard frozenness of your original work, as would muddy tracks. The hard-packed ground seen in the 3d photo from the last, above, is a verbose witness to my claim...move your eye across the tracks, in this photo and upwards across the hull to the turret, and you have extreme, bi*chin' frozenness. Great work.

The ice in the water trough is fantastic!

Thanks so much for your comments.

Regards, Luca