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All of the WWII photos I have ever seen never showed the caricature peering over the wall, all I ever saw was the slogan. Besides I am not that good an artist - had all I go do just to keep hand steady enough to write the slogan without smearing it all over the wall. Thanks for the compliments, Lou. Reinforcements from rear aka stash. I probably should photograph the stash . . . Yikes !
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Well I knew there was something missing from the diorama. Took me a while to remember it tho (advancing age I guess).. Now that the most famous building tag of WWII has been added to the church walls the diorama is now complete. Thanks for following along and all the helpful comments, critiques, off-topic banter, jokes etc, much appreciated. Stay turned for the next "incarceration" project.
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Since I had all day to fiddle with this and laying down the ground cover is easy, I think I am just about finished. Gotta sit with a few days before I say FINI but ...... Sorry if anything is out of focus I had to use the small pocket size digital because my really good Pentax DSL has a problem with the aperture control mechanism and nothing comes out with the correct exposure no matter what setting I use. Now I have to find a place to display it. The base measures 11 x 14 inches with a height of church at 8 inches
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Thanks for pointing it out. Appreciate it. I have 3 WWII variants of the half-track, the M16, the M3A2 Personnel Carrier and the M21 Mortar Carrier. I was going to put one of the other half-tracks together with the M16, until both the Admiral and my son said it looked too crowded, so I pulled a "jeep" from the stash to add a 2nd smaller vehicle without of course checking that I had the right war and theater. Guess I will keep the MUTT for something with the 4 variants of the M113 APC I also have in my stash Thanks for the heads up.
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The MUTT was just a jeep I grabbed from my stash of finished models. I didn't pay close attention to its markings to tell which war it was from. The M16 definitely has 2 setsof decals for WWII, and also decals for Korea and "modern" whatever that means. I tried to match the decals to the previous M16 I built 30 plus years ago, also in my stash, choosing the alternate vehicle ID. I can still swap things around on the diorama to get everything in synch time wise. I've been away from the plastic so long I have forgotten which era is which vehicle. Way back when, I was buying and building kits of each variant of a WWII vehicle. Of course in 20-20 hindsight I should have stuck a hidden label on the underside to remind me what war the model was from.
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No, it's a Verlinden model of church ruin in Europe during WWII. Francois Verlinden was a Belgian modeler who started producing very beautiful, detailed, cast plaster, actually Hydrocal, kits of various ruins in 1:35 scale. He retired quite a while ago and his kits are still available but at a price $$$$$. I managed to buy two when my local hobby shop closed, actually the only two they still had. He also produced a lot of other accessories in cast resin. I have 2 of his accessory kits which are wood crates for artillery and small arms ammo, some Jerry cans, bed roles, tent traps, etc. He also published a series of books called the Verlinden Way describing how to do dioramas and super detailing. There were several volumes.
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While the Admiral and I sit in solitary confinement here in the Hermitage I completed the staining of the base (cherry over basswood) and applied 2 coats of satin poly. Did a first pass at weather the half-track and made a pass at the layout. I had to use modeler clay under the Infantry soldiers feet to get the to stop falling over as soon as I placed them. The entire base will be covered in an earthen material and other appropriate accessories including some oil drums, jerry cans and perhaps some discard ammo crates. I am still trying to figure out how I want to represent any collapsed beams inside the church walls. But here's some progress photos First the half-track First pass at diorama layout (could change) I might change out the two "passengers" in the Jeep too. Maybe a guy manning the machine gun, if I can find a figure in my stash.
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Well, here at the Hermitage things have slowed down a bit while I try to locate all the landscaping supplies from my N scale model railroad that I stashed away in unlabeled boxes somewhere in the basement. Can't run out to store since most are closed. So far we are not under lock down, but since the Admiral and I are in the at risk age group we are limiting our trips out. So the rest of this build will be slow. But I will continue.
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