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1:35, German 1st Cavalry Division France 1940
hemblecreations
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Posted: Monday, March 25, 2019 - 11:14 PM UTC
Hi All,

This is a dio I did about 2 months ago.

Recipe

The figures are a mix of ICM figures #35639 and the horse's are from Tamiya's old Wehrmacht Cavalry set #305053. The kubelwagon is from Italeri set #312 and the building is from Miniarts set #35520.

I just used the front section of the Miniart kit as I will be using the rest of the kit for another project. I painted the figures, horses, kubelagon and building with Vallejo paints and weathered with GW Agrax Earthshade and pastel chalks.

The base is thick foam and I used an old piece of vac formed cobblestone for the road and the ground work was done using spakfilla mixed with fine sand. Once the spakfilla/sand mix was dry I then painted and weathered it with Vallejo Paints and pastel chalks.

I used Woodland Scenics Olive Green foliage for the tree and small bushes and I used Woodland Scenics Medium Green static grass and once dry I used pastel chalks to tone down the colour and the grass tufts are from Army Painter.

























timcc2008
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Posted: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 12:45 AM UTC
Ron,

Another great diorama. I find your work inspiring and motivating.

vr

Tim
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Posted: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 12:58 AM UTC
Totally agree, another winner! The way you keep coming up with ideas for scenes, and then the detailed execution of each one really makes me want to get busy with my stash.
pod3105
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Posted: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 01:35 AM UTC
Rather nice job.
Grauwolf
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Posted: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 02:03 AM UTC
Hi Ron,
Compliments on another EXCELLENT Diorama!
Cheers,
Joe
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Posted: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 03:03 AM UTC
Excellent work!!
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Posted: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 06:35 AM UTC
Great job, I really dig the officer on horseback! That's a great scene of the German forces already reaching the outskirts of Paris in 1940.
Why the outskirts of Paris? Because everything significantly north of the capital was either razed during WW1 and rebuilt afterwards or developed in the second half of the 19th century, and built out of red bricks. Meanwhile, Lille and the other main cities of the north of France are built in the Flemish style, like Belgian or Dutch cities.
This kind of house would be more typical for a village in Normandy, around Paris, or in the Champagne region, which weren't affected by WW1 and didn't have regional architectural styles (like Germanified Alsace or everything closer to the Mediteranean).

There's actually a little trick I use when doing dioramas: check out... real estate sites! Look for what you want, here, houses in France, pick something in the right region and which looks like it's appropriate for the timeframe you're aiming for, and go ahead! This way, you get lots of pictures which are much more detailed than what you could find in, for example, historical pictures or on Google Maps.

Just make sure to double check the style of the house with actual archive pictures though!
CReading
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Posted: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 06:56 AM UTC
Nice diorama, one question: What is the poster on the wall of the house?

Cheers,
C.
hemblecreations
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Posted: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 06:23 PM UTC
Tim -
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Ron,

Another great diorama. I find your work inspiring and motivating.

vr

Tim


Really glad you like it Tim and thank you.

jack -
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Totally agree, another winner! The way you keep coming up with ideas for scenes, and then the detailed execution of each one really makes me want to get busy with my stash.


Thanks heaps Jack and I like to keep the diorama's fresh especially when we never will see every picture of what they did before, during or after a conflict.

Paul -
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Rather nice job.


Thanks Paul.

Joe -
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Hi Ron,
Compliments on another EXCELLENT Diorama!
Cheers,
Joe


Thanks heaps Joe.

Brian -
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Excellent work!!


Cheers Brian.

Olivier -
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Great job, I really dig the officer on horseback! That's a great scene of the German forces already reaching the outskirts of Paris in 1940.
Why the outskirts of Paris? Because everything significantly north of the capital was either razed during WW1 and rebuilt afterwards or developed in the second half of the 19th century, and built out of red bricks. Meanwhile, Lille and the other main cities of the north of France are built in the Flemish style, like Belgian or Dutch cities.
This kind of house would be more typical for a village in Normandy, around Paris, or in the Champagne region, which weren't affected by WW1 and didn't have regional architectural styles (like Germanified Alsace or everything closer to the Mediteranean).

There's actually a little trick I use when doing dioramas: check out... real estate sites! Look for what you want, here, houses in France, pick something in the right region and which looks like it's appropriate for the timeframe you're aiming for, and go ahead! This way, you get lots of pictures which are much more detailed than what you could find in, for example, historical pictures or on Google Maps.

Just make sure to double check the style of the house with actual archive pictures though!


Thanks heaps Olivier, When I started this diorama I wanted it in a small town setting kilometres outside of Paris and the officers were swapping intel. Appreciate the info mate thank you as this will be a huge help when I do more early war diorama's.

Charles -
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Nice diorama, one question: What is the poster on the wall of the house?

Cheers,
C.


Hey Charles, it is a OXO cubes poster I have had in my stash for a long time.
dhines
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Posted: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 10:52 PM UTC
Very nice dio Ron,I really like the figures.
hemblecreations
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Posted: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 11:19 PM UTC

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Very nice dio Ron,I really like the figures.



Thank you Dale.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 07:38 AM UTC
Very nice work.
Painting is superb.

Tom
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Posted: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 09:04 AM UTC

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Very nice work.
Painting is superb.

Tom


Cheers Tom.
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