Hi all,

Recipe

Figures and motorcycle - are from Master Box and is kit #3539, the figures and motorcycle were built straight out of the box. The figure peeing, I used a tiny amount of putty for his privates and for his urine I used wire covering from an old set of ear phones as it was clear and I cut off what I needed and then stretched it out.
The figures and motorcycle were painted and weathered using Vallejo Paints and pastel chalks.

Base - is a old action figure base and I built up the ground work using spakfilla and fine sand and applied it to the base. Once dry I painted and dry brushed the mix with Vallejo paints.

The sign is from Verlinden and the posts are pieces of balsa wood. The grass are grass tufts which are from Army Painter and the small bushes are from Woodland Scenics, the taller plants are pieces of real weeds which were treated with methylated spirits to dry them out and stop them from rotting.

Nice dio! Nice change from the usual war-stuff.

/ Robin

I will have to report you to the language police though.
In the German language all nouns are spelled with a capital first letter, just like names of persons (Tom, Dick, Harry et.c).
In this case it would apply to:
Nacht and Wein.
The i and e in the first viel have also become mixed up.

Ich hatte letzte Nacht viel zu viel Wein

…language police also red-flagging the misspelt “to” – should read “too”. Great little vignette though Ron,, not wishing to take the piss

I see that you guys got to this little "Language Police" chore before I did... BTW, "misspelled" is also correct, according to Webster's...

As far as the German language is concerned, Robin is of course, correct. A bit of personal anecdotal trivia:

OFF TOPIC!!! (SOME people enjoy reading my anecdotes...)

We spoke in a sort-of "Schwaebisch/Augsburg/Schwenningen Dialekt", i.e, the ("Southern", or more correctly "South-Western"-style) Swabian dialect, with Augsburg and Schwenningen overtones (!) at home when I was growing up. So our "at-home" language was a kind of mish-mash, because my Dad's German was Hanoverian. He picked up the Hanoverian dialect while he was a P.O.W. of the Germans during the War. (He served in the Polish Horse Artillery)... Interestingly, when we wrote each other notes and such, it was always written in "Hochdeutsch", i.e, "High German". Why? Because "Mamma" (not "Mutti"), and Oma wanted my Sister and I to be familiar with, and just as much at home with Hochdeutsch, as with our "informal home-German"...

Both my Sister and I also had a few years of foreign languages in High School; German, which came very easily for us, and French, which was A LOT harder... TG we didn't have to deal with Latin and Greek, as was taught in schools years ago! I mean, how much knowledge can be stuffed into a kid's brains, anyway..?

My Dad and I spoke Ukrainian together all of the time, in the "Western" Ukrainian "L'viv" dialect. As a matter-of-fact, both my Sister and I attended "Ukrainian School" twice a week AFTER our regular schooling. Of course we were formally taught the language-skills and the History of Ukraine- It was fun, because most of us boys and girls at the Ukrainian School were a bunch of "hellions"!

Out of deference to my Mom and "Oma", ("Grandma" in German), we spoke in the Swabian/Augsburg/Schwenningen dialect; they could understand a bit of Ukrainian, but didn't speak the language, except for a very few words. Oma was originally from Frankfurt, so her German was happily tinged with Frankfurt overtones...

My Dad also taught me a tiny bit of Krakow-Polish, a few Czech words and a bit of Russian, besides. I've forgotten most of these though, because Dad isn't around anymore. Neither are Mamma and Oma... I miss 'em all...

LANGUAGES are a wonderful thing...

Hi Robin, Tim and Dennis - Thanks guys and yeah my fault I shouldn't have used Google translator not on just this one but a few other dio's and when some mates pulled me up on it I decided just to write it in English LOL.

This is awesome Ron, great humorous moment!

Ah yes, the 24th Panzer Division insignia.
It's good you have this trio in high spirits here, because we all know what happens with their deployment to Russia after their time in Northwest Europe.
Just mt 2c...

Cheers
Dave

Not trying to be a "wise-guy", but do you ever do WWII US/Allied material..?

Superb scenario, Ron!! These three jokers could be from any army. The poses are top-notch. Thanks for sharing!

Dave -


Hey Dave, yeah if they only knew what was going to happen I don't think they would have been smiling and thanks heaps mate.

Dennis -


Hey Dennis, mate I always say if you don't ask you don't know and I have only done two US/Allied subjects and they are a SAS jeep I did about two weeks ago and a US Sherman I did way back in 2005, pics below.

Jack -


Thanks heaps Jack and glad you like it.

Dennis sorry for the smaller pics on the Sherman this was when I first started putting pics up on the net and I always thought smaller was better lol.