Yes Kurt a couple are that tall in order to portray the thicker trunk but its not practical for most dioramas and they really eat up material. I wanted the tall "towering" look over the soldiers and schwimwagen. I have started a Hurtgen Forest diorama that I will start a thread on. It portrays the doom and gloom aftermath of a battle with a bunch of artillery splintered trees.
I'm following this with interest, keep it up.
Mike - are you sure your not part Confucius?!!haha
- John

Mike - are you sure your not part Confucius?!!haha
- John

Too my taste the blood is too shiny and needs some darker areas. A real wound would have streams and lines going down the face. Right now your guy looks like he was the victim of a ketchup filled balloon,sorry to say. The figure you chose looks good though.
J

Hola Kurt

Thanks for the link. Very usefull.

About your figure, I can't said nothing, as I rockie to paint them!....

Regards from the south.

Alvaro

YES!! The wound looks way way better now. Very believable. Good show.
J

Hi Kurt,

I agree with Jerry!!! The wound is a lot more convincing now!

Cheers

Romain

I agree. It's definitely better now.

All nice stuff so far!
Have you decided on the place in the Ardennes or is it just kind of a generic scene from the battle?
J

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All nice stuff so far!
Have you decided on the place in the Ardennes or is it just kind of a generic scene from the battle?
J

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Hi Jerry ,

I'm not sure yet but i think it will be a generic scene from the battle. It can not be the surrounding area of Bastogne because of the fact that there was not WSS involved (correct me if i'm wrong)

So Stavelot or St-Vith , Stoumont are the places where WSS attacked the gi's(the Kampfgruppe Peiper for example) . Second reason is also the difficulty of creating a diorama based on local historical events ...meaning thinking and making stuff in the right dimensions with pinpoint accurasy ! Not exactly my thing really

Cheers

Kurt

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All nice stuff so far!
Have you decided on the place in the Ardennes or is it just kind of a generic scene from the battle?
J

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Hi Jerry ,

I'm not sure yet but i think it will be a generic scene from the battle. It can not be the surrounding area of Bastogne because of the fact that there was not WSS involved (correct me if i'm wrong)

So Stavelot or St-Vith , Stoumont are the places where WSS attacked the gi's(the Kampfgruppe Peiper for example) . Second reason is also the difficulty of creating a diorama based on local historical events ...meaning thinking and making stuff in the right dimensions with pinpoint accurasy ! Not exactly my thing really

Cheers

Kurt

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I get your point about the pinpoint location. It looks like you are having snow in your dio so it would be a few days into the attack as the snow came then. Peipers' group had no snow until the day they retreated!
If it helps any,there were SS troops down by Bastogne later as the remnants of the 1SS PzRegt (mostly the 7th Komp) made a very costly attack near the town of "luttremange" or something like that. I can't remember the spelling. Anyway,they were there and it pretty much completed their destruction after LeGlieze.
J

Ah yes,but these are the problems when talking about the BoB. It was a very large area that was involved and yes,the snow was localized which is why you have to make a decision when you plan a BoB dio.
I am used to making the dios from the northern bulge and the 30th Inf Div fighting Gepanzertegruppe 1SS and their battle had no snow till about 24Dec I think.
Obviously this changed because later they had deep snow as shown by the pics of body recovery at Baugnez. And the 82nd Abn guys practicing Bazookas in Le Gleize after Christmas on a Tiger II
J