As I write this down, the latest member of our site is M113. I say a heartly welcome to Ilhan, the man behind the callsign.

The same Ilhan decided to send us some pictures of his dio "Quiet !... Brummbar Ahead !" just a couple of days ago.... Pictures of a dio that I just had to share with you. Therefore I have put the pictures in an On-Display Feature.

FEATURE : Quiet !... Brummbar Ahead !

Something tells me that we'll be seeing more of our latest member in future !

Enjoy the pics !

Danny

DAnny thanks

and of course Illhan welcome to the site and what an amazing thing to come in here.
Good job and I really want to see more from you


Keep up the good work

Danny, thanks for sharing this dio with us. IIhan, welcome to Armorama.

Very nice. Keep the pics coming :-)

Great job Danny and of cause IIhan

Hi guys & Danny,
Thanx a lot for your hot welcomes, your hospitality and your toughts about that diorama.
You all are very kind.
And off course, i will keep sending new things, (even a second one has been sent) :-) i hope you like them also.

Happy modellings :-)
M113 - ilhan

Ilhan

I had a question though. I`m not a railroad expert. was it common that they used wooden planks or beams at railroadcrossings. I`ve never seen it. It looks very cool don`t get me wrong but I like to know if that was used more often at railroadcrossings

Well, first of all this diorama base is of Verlinden (basicly) but..i remember i have seen some pics with these wooden planks somewhere in the net. (years ago).

HTH, Cheers,

M113 - ilhan

aykay Thanks dude

Robert,

when you visit railroadmodeling sites of manufacturers and you look at the rr crossings, you notice many crossings that use wooden planks in the middle.

It was quite common in europe in the (post) WWII era.

DAnny

Jij ook bedankt voor deze informatie. Ik ben eigenlijk zo bezig met dat 1:35 dat ik het hele railroad gebeuren een beetje verwaarloos :-) :-)

nu ja weer wijzer geworden. nuttig leermoment

dank

That is one hell of a diorama! Great job m113! Thanks for sharing...........

Hey great dio! I was just curious to know what color you used for painting the guys field jackets? They look really good.

Those are painted with a mix of Humbrol 72 with Humbrol 155 (80 to 20%).
Thanks for your comments too. :-)

Hello Ilhan. Very impressive, especially the cobblestone road! Can you share with us how you did that part, and the railway!
To my opinion the wood of the railroadcrossing could be a shade darker, but like I said, that's me!

Hope to see lots more of your work...John.

Really quick - I'd like to chime in and give you a round of applause for a great diorama. Nicely done.
I love the mix of kits and subjects! Great job.

Thank you all for your comments.

And John..that was already a Verlinden diorama base, (unpainted) and resin..just painted, weathered, mounted the building, added the sherman m4a3 105mm and the good old friend jeep and the figures, pole, poster..and..that's it..

Friends,

Did you know that M113 his wife enlisted too.....and that she made some wonderful dio's she wanted to share with us......

Please visit : Ladymodeler2's dio's for more material in the wonderful world of diorama's.

Danny

Good job on the diorama.

I have one critque for you. Some of the figures seem out of place to me. What I mean is that the bulk of the figures seem to be "in action" while the driver of the jeep and the driver of the Sherman look non-chalant. They don't tie in well with the action of the scene. You might make the Sherman driver be facing the running soldiers or the direction that the tank is about to turn and the jeep driver should maybe be taking cover or grabbing for a weapon to help tie them in to the urgency of the scene.

HTH

I am really so glad to see you here Ilhan. I met your models before somewhere in net.not sure but I think it was a page about modelling about nam war...welcome abroad and hosgeldin.

Thanx MS Graywolf...i mean
Teşekkürler Başçavuş Gri Kurt :-)

For the models, yes, i had one "M42" and one "M132A1 Flamethrower about Nam era. But that VC's dio is LM2's..not mine :-)
Beside..i'm interested mostly in WWII era especially European theater.

Take care..see you