Angela (our Pacific contingent) offers her lates diorama for our viewing pleasure. It''s a sherman trudging through rubble to bring help to the front.

Well Done Angela

Diorama is here

If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!

Very nice work Angela

Great job Angela! Thanks for sharing. Everything looks great, the snow, the composition, weathering...Very nice work. Maybe it's me, but you havn't submitted anything in a while, it's nice to have you back!

Good job Angela. I like he composition, rubble and all , well done. but .......
I have problems with your markings. Your title says "Reinforcements on the way" ,so you are obviously talking about Patton's 3d Army helping out the Americans soldiers under siege in the town at this moment.
Bastogne is in Belgium. It was a free town at this moment. So, for certain there was not any German sign in the town anymore, and of course no portrait of Hitler. I would think about changing that.

Cheers

Claude

Angela:

A very nice piece of work. I believe you really
have a wonderful feel for creating shell
shocked buildings in ruin with all the appropiate
clutter and rubble. The "atmosphere" and
environment of your dio is what is so
impressive to me.

I'm glad to learn that your family supports
you in this wonderful hobby, as well. And to further
the point, I like to use the following terms as
it has a greatdeal of meaning to me:

The interconnectedness of all things!

And thru my experiences in life, I have found
that to be so true. Specifically in your case,
I mean that modelbuilding teaches a lot of
valuable lessons we can apply in our growth
as a person as we set goals for our future.
Modeling teaches attention to detail, it teaches
patience and even more patience, it teaches
us history — and as we know, to understand
the present, we must investigate the past —
it teaches us the joy and therapy of working
with our hands, it encourages us to be
creative and find ways to express our creativity.
I could explain further, but I think you get
my point.

Recently, a young man posted some pix of his
work here and said that his parents were not in favor
of him getting involved in modeling. And I thought
this was shortsighted and a big mistake
in considering his development as a person.
It's not just modeling! As I cited above, modeling
is connected to so many other aspects of
our lives. It hurts me that his parents
didn't see that.

The ruined building looks great and i love the composition.
The "chiglet" sandbags on the Sherman are really effective , im tempted to try it when i get round to building my Sherman

Great work Angela

Ian

great joob well done

Good job. I like it.

Excellent dio Angela, looks great! I would only dirty up the poster a little, but that's about it, you've done a super job.

Angela, agreat job!!! I love the buildings and action. Congrats on the fine build. Cheers Kevin

Very impressive rubble dio. Rubble is not as easy as one would think considering it's just junk

What do you use for snow ?

Very impressive dio Angela. Everything has just the right amount of balance. Keep up the superb work.
Glad you have a supportive family as my Beloved just say's "yes dear, that's lovely " while still watching the telly :-)8 :-) :-) .
Andy (++)

Very nice looking dio Angela... What did you use for the insulators on the telephone poll?

Dave

very nice..beautifully done. i like the details and the weathering. specially the gum sandbags. i'll try that on my sherman.

Hi,

Thank you for the comments and criticisms guys.

Yes, Claude, that tank is from Pattons 3rd army. The placement of the Hitler poster is for symbolism....his reign is toppling down.

Hi Kelly. The posters are quite dirtied now through a wash. I also tore a few corners.

Hi Mantas. The snow is made up of baking soda.

Hi Dave. The insulators are made up of beads attached to a piece of wire. In this picture, they look quite big so I changed the beads to smaller ones when I got the dio back from display in my local LHS.

Oh yes, a piece of discovery and advice. Baking soda makes great snow. However, some complained that it turns yellow or something after some time.

That's because of the soda's property to absorb. It absorbs anything moist...including oil colors. The absorption is not noticeable in the models themselves but it does alter the color of the soda snow.

Be sure to let your model dry throughly. In fact, you should dry it for at least a week before you add the baking soda snow. Before adding it, spray a protective, transparent overcoat all over the diorama. This will seal the colors and prevent or lessen the absorption of the baking soda. Finally, seal the baking soda with hairspray.

Winter dios with snow need occassional maintenance....usually around once every three months. Once in a while, brush off the soda that has absorbed the color of the model or dio. Reaaply with fresh baking soda.

Angela

Angela..lovely job..is it just me or are you without a doubt ...most improved? keep em coming!

awe some dio angela

Hey Angela... excellent dio indeed! The rubble and the snow... the whole groundwork looks awesome! THanks for sharing..

Very well done. It looks like a real live scence.

Awesome.

Hello,

Thank you very much for the comments.

I'm making my 3rd dio. This time, it will be a T34 running into a German ambush. It would be an urban dio.

Angela

Well done Angie ...
the snow looks real once again..... now we know it christmass!!

Excellent!

A very well thought out layout with a nice composition of figures, vehicle and buildings. Good work Angela.