This was for a GB entry on another forum. The T-34 is the DML offering with a Maquette engine and tranny. Well here's my entry. The figures are a mixture of Tamiya, Italeri, and DML, all of them converted with poses changed. I'm pretty satisfied with the way the figs and tank turned out. The base I finished in all of 5 days, and the crazy rush job shows. Unfortunately, I'm moving in two weeks, and this just had to be wrapped up prior to the move. Completely ruined the base, but whatever. Oh, and everything on the base, except the door and lamp are scratchbuilt. All comments welcome, and nevermind the datestamp. Forgot to change it on the camera.

Love the concept of the blown apart building with the door and frame still intact, you can find just these type of anomolies in loads of period photographs. Cool.

One small suggestion, don't know if the tanker loading ammo in is just holding a replacement round until you can fit another in his hands but the only part of the round that should be brass colored is the metal casing, not the warhead itself. You might also want to tone down the 'brassiness' of the brass (if that makes any sense!)

Nice Dio!!

Rick Cooper

I really like it - best thing for me is the nice 'irregular' mix of the figures. Your weathering on the T-34 is really nice as well. The whole thing 'blends' together really nicely as well..

Really nice - thanks for posting...

Nice an simple - I like it a lot.

Only small thing is the hair of the guy fixing the engine. Maybe some shadows and highlights. It kind of look like a flat helmet.

Superb piece of work, you have captured a very natural look to the scene and the painting is excellent.
Thanks for sharing.

John

I like the T34 - nicely weathered. A good diorama all around.

your strong points here are definitely composition -good dynamics in the diorama. the tank is tops too!
Not bad for a *Quick* T34 dio

Nice scene overall. The weathering on the T34 is excellent. The destroyed house looks great too. The figures look nicely painted as well. My only constructive thougts are as follows. It feels like there should be more debris in the street, IMO. Also it seems the the TC should maybe be facing the guy working on the engine or directing something. The way he is now it looks like he is seeking a target and ready to give the order to fire which doesn't fit in with the rest of the scene.

Sean

Thanks for the comments everyone, much appreciated.

Ah yess...the tank rounds. I have taken those off and am painting. Thankfully my pains weren't packed up yet. And those brass rounds, after looking at the pics, REALLY do stand out too much. I'll actually paint them a mixed colour of brass with several light filters to tone it down. And I gotta paint the tip of the round black with the red band.

Originally, the concept had a much larger of the building, but a couple of problems arose, all made even bigger by the serious shortage of time. Noticeably, the street section is WAY too clean, and there is not nearly enough dust for such a large collapse of material.
Basically, I cast (or tried to, being a more accurate description) a large outer wall. Unfortunately, it leaked. THen I tried it again, with more weight and support, and some mysterious force (no one's admitting anything) knocked it over. Thus, after several nights of messy cleanup, I got fed up, and just fashioned what I could of the salvageable remnants. I'll have to take this as a serious lesson for the next one.

Pretty good,
Id disagree that you made a mess of the base, you're to hard on yourself, looks great to me! Apart from the obvious (the brass rounds) and perhaps the commander its a good little dio, well done!

James

Very good dio.The paint and weathering job is fantastic.
Pedro

hey man, i really like it, its very real.

how did you to the warn metalk effect on the tank?

matt

Overall I think it's a good dio. My only comment would have been the brass projectile, which you are already taking care of. Well done. Thanks for sharing.

Good diorama - well done. Cannot really add anything on top of the comments above.

Thanks for sharing

i agrees with everyone else, its a nice looking diorama, you know about the shell casings, the only other thing i would comment on is your road is a little clean, in the fact you have a blown up building and the rubble from one would have been blown all across the road.

this picture show what i mean



other than that its a good build well done

keith forsyth

Nice diorama, it turned out really nice.

However there is something wrong with the mechanic. He isn't cussing and throwing the tools. Oh wait, that's how I mechanic on things!! :-) Never mind.

Just kidding, the diorama looks great. Keep up the good work.

HARV

Thanks very much for the replies.
Keith, you are 100% correct. It was one of the factors that made me quite unhappy with the end result. Considering the size of the building remanants, there is not nearly enough rubble apparent there. I will definitely keep this in mind next time.
One other little thing that is kind of difficult for me to fix now that its all said and done; the T-34 drivers hatch is open FAR too wide. There is no way the real thing could have been opened quite thus far. Again, thanks for everything guys. I've learnt quite a bit, and have a good ways to go for the next one.

Fantastic work!
Why did you call it "quick"? It is just more complicated than a simple grass or earth base!
Is the tank DML's?

Very well done for a rush job !
Except for the hair of the engine worker and the brass round it looks real neat !

Congrats and thanks for sharing !

Herr