Well here it is. My first days work. I am not completely done with anything.





Tell me what you think.

The pics of the troopers is a little bit blurry but I love the Tiger. How long till you get those tracks on?

Its a bit early to say more than u have a nice tank made there. One think that u shoud really care is that seeing ur plan i think that i have planned many straight lines paralle to ur dio bases . And thats causing a uniformity if all things are alligned parallely to ur base. try to rotate things a bit and add some interest.
Dioramas need more than just putting things in order. Thats why u get much from observing every life scenes and movies and everything .

If u need any help we al be around

Costas

Costas is right. If you rotate buildings and tank a bit your dio will be great
Good luck Harrison!

I agree with Costa's on the uniformity of the dio plan. But that's the beauty of a plan --- it can be changed. I really, really like the whitewashing on the Tiger. How did you apply it?

Tsunamibomb,

Is this the Italieri Tiger? I'm asking as you have same two mistakes as Sensei made on his, because the instructions seem to be wrong. Your smoke candle holders should be pointing slightly upwards, not level and down. And the driver and co-driver hatches are the wrong way round, as in the one on the left should be on the right and vice versa. Also I'm not sure that in December 1944 the Feifel system would still be attached.

Henk

Ok what is a feifel? Where are the driver hatches? I do understand what your saying about the smoke grenades. It is a Tamiya tiger 1. The figures are dragon. If i was to have a diorama 18' by 20' (which is the size of my diorama) I cant turn the street to an angle or anything for it would cut off the sides of the houses. But we will see, I need to get the houses first.

Harrison,
Here is a pic to answer some of your questions. You have chosen an early production Tiger I and i'm afraid it would not have been used in the Ardennes as far as I know. Your painting is coming along nicely however and your well on your way. A little research is always a good idea. If your happy with it thats all that matters in the end though.

what kind of camo do you have on the paratroopers...the color looks off. the paratroopers have the heer splinter pattern. the only comoflage that had a lime green like yours would be the oak leaf or plane tree pattern, but that scheme had a dark brown base coat and lime green dots.
just my 2 cents

my camo has no lime green on it. It is dark green. the camo type is splinter. The base color is actually is afrikakorpsbraun. It is just the picture that makes it look green sorry.

The dio looks good so far! Im looking at your pictures and trying to figure out how to get them onto my posts. Can anyone help me? Sorry to drag this off-topic.

you need to right click, properties, copy URL. then go to the image above your screen. then paste it where it says to paste. Remember to delete the fake url out of it.

Nice Tiger, I like it a lot.
I know what you mean about the figures and the photos throwing the color 'out of whack'. You need to be comfortable with the colors.
I would say to try and touch up the helmet straps a bit and get the entire width of them.

I have to agree with Costas on the parallel lines thingie. If you could take photo 5 and rotate it 5 degrees to the right (1 OClock) it would really make the diorama appear quite different and pleasing to the eye. I understand if you can't - I think we all have a diorama where we just had to go parallel.

err...i'm very confused here and hope someone will correct me. as far as my Ardennes knowledge is concern, i dont recall any of tiger-1 being deployed. If this true?? if i'm wrong pls correct me and i would love to know which unit, div the tiger-1 belong to.

thanks

Tiger 1's were definatly deployed in Ardennes Offensive.

Wasn't Das Reich the only division that had them in the Ardennes.

thats a really light dark green!
almost looks a little like chromium green

Here are some more pictures of my fallschirmjager figures. I havent really had time to start any other figures. On the one figure i messed up on his pants and will be redoing them.

Sorry forgot to put it up there^^^. Tell me what you guys think.

I like it all. The Tiger, as I said before, very nice. I almost made the same mistake installing the driver and co driver hatches.

I really love the figure's camo, especially at such a scale. One suggestion, however. I think that there are molding seams on the hands (this may be the light or it may be part of the uniform- I almost shaved off a sewing crease off of all of my DML Seals)

AHHH, my camera is playing tricks on me again! Once again its the illusion from the camera. I checked my figure and there was no seem. Thanks though!