Every corner of this dio offers the viewer more and more to look at..It is a great work. The plane looks outstanding ..love the detail especially on the engine..Great Job...Keep posting more like this one...

Mary (++)

Thanks Mary I'm looking up your photos your dios really impresive . I love especially indian figures very good . Are the cats reall ? :-) :-) :-) If you intrest my country's famoust cats Van Kedisi ( one eye blue and the other one brown and all body white ) is on the internet . You can search them with google in their name . Thanks again

Dear Murat,

Well my friend, what can I say? Great diorama, wonderful piece of work...



Keep it up buddy !!!

"Ellerine saglik !"

Very nice dio, Murat. Lot's of detail and a good story.

BTW, for you younger guys who may not know, the song Lili Marlene is about a streetwalker (i.e., prostitute). While it was a favorite among the troops on all sides, I doubt it was very popular with their wives or girlfriends!

Well nothing like dragging it up again but great Dio Buddy.

Now if in that building their was a small speaker and Cassette player playing the song that would be tops.

I have a copy of the song sung by Lale Andersen and one by Marlene Dietrich.

I'll add to the praise! Very nice scene, looks wonderful!
Thanks for sharing!

Cheers!

Tim

That is great. I have always loved aircraft, so I think is great. Thanks for sharing!

I really liiiiiiiiiiiike it!!!!

Actually I beleive the song was sung during ww2 by Lale Anderson and in fact she got chastised by the nazi officials for making a song that was soft and emotional.

Murat, Stunning dio. Very well done with lots of eye catchers. Keeps the viewer moving all around. Keep up the great work and I personaly hope to see more in the future from you. I still can't get my pics to down load yet, ( havn't found the right size hammer ) but all I do is dio's as the model always looks better in a natural setting than on a plain base. Great story, no wondering what is happening, you said it very well.

Great diorama You put a lot of work on it and it's paid off , awesome, look forward to some more in the future Thanks Bob

Er, I just looked up the lyrics in German to confirm the song's meaning, and while your interpretation of her being a streetwalker is certainly possible (and perhaps even inevitable in our cynical modern world), the meaning of the song is more likely about his girlfriend meeting him one last time before shipping out. Like any soldier headed for the front, he wonders "who will you be meeting when I'm gone?"

Und sollte mir ein Leids gescheh'n
Wer wird bei der Laterne stehen
Mit dir Lili Marleen?

("Who will you stand with under the lantern if I'm just a shadow?")

Here's some background on the story which sort of undercuts your interpretation, at least on the song's origins:

http://ingeb.org/garb/lmarleen.html

If it wasn't popular with wives and girlfriends, I wonder how it became a hit on the charts in the US in 1944?

Incidentally, the poem the song takes for its lyrics was written by a German soldier before shipping out to the Russian front-- in 1915. The author survived and died in his bed in Switzerland in 1983.

BTW, superb diorama.