I want to build a dio with a Krupp Protze crew asking for directions for Minsk somewhere in Belarus during the first phase of Barbarossa, but I am stack with the landscape. Does anyone know how it should look like in June? I heard it rains a lot in the summer, is it true? I would also like to add a small village or farm house. Any tips? I found a krakhov village house in my local store, do they look anything alike?

Thanks

You can see the house i am talking about at this link
http://dioramas.armorama.comhttps://gallery.kitmaker.net/data/13053/1to350003.jpg

Hi Piro, In my opinion the easiest thing for you to do is to do a google search for the area you are lookin gfor and search for images. I hope it helps. Cheers Kevin

Pictures from a 1946 book I have..cant verify if it would be considered belarus, but its German invasion of Russia.. you can see surrending russians mid pic.. hands are raised.. maybe this helps with ideas for landscape.

I did find a few pictures in google but i am not sure if it's winter or summer. I heard that the rainy season is in June so it should be really muddy during the invasion, thanks kevin

Many thanks Kancali, this is very close to what I had in mind, a small farm house near the road. The vegetation is very helpfull. And the surrendering troops is a good idea although I guess they wouldn't surrender so easily to a Krupp crew. Maybe I could add some refugees.

According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica,Belarus has moderate rainfall but higher than most of the East European Plain,with the maximium rainfall in June and August.
The north tends to be coniferous,the south deciduous,but Silver Birch is common through out.
Alot of the landscape is flat lowlands seperated by low level-topped hills and uplands.The low lands tend to be poorly drained and marshy.
Bit of a general description but I hope of some use.
Cheers
October.

Aaaaa!!! the encyclopaedia britannica, all the answers you need. So it should be really muddy and green in June. Now we have to choose a nice farm-house, where the belarussian members?

Thanks a lot October

From what I know, Belarusia is pretty flat with some hills. It had a lot of forests at that time and that summer in particular was very hot and dry. The marshes did not dry up, but it still was very HOT and DRY. That is why many memoires concerning that front begin with:
"in that hot, dry summer i was..."
If it weren't so at least a part of the German front would have bogged down in June and not September. No proper roads in the USSR at that time, remember?
Small villages with huts similar to the ones in the pics posted above. Small agricultural plots beside the houses. Larger farming fields surrounded by woods.
Thats what it looked like in 1941, doesn't really matter what the Enc. Brit. say about it in general, does it?