Hey guys!
It's been a while...pardon my long absence! Let me know if I missed anything important besides the site re-design and several group build deadlines 
While I haven't had much time to model recently - and necessarily no awesome finished projects to share - I thought I'd upload a few WIP photos of my current project, before you all forget me.
I've titled this project Ruhe vor dem Sturm (in English, Calm before the Storm). It started out as a simple display base for the Jagdpanzer IV A-0 I
built for the Hunters GB last year, but before I knew it I had a
diorama with two significant structures and 20 figures!
I've wanted to do a tank riders diorama for a while - and what started as an attempt to break up a somewhat pedestrian dark yellow paint job ended up becoming a pretty cool tank riders scene. There are 20 figures so far, most of which have been extensively modified to create natural, original poses.
I chose a rail yard as the setting, and spent way too much time scratchbuilding a semaphore signal from sheet styrene, a raised rail platform from hydrostone and styrene, and a small control building from my individually-molded hydrostone bricks. The coal and the street section came from the bottom of my groundwork box; don't ask me who made them because I have no idea. The base edges are polished Bolivian Rosewood.
Let me know what you guys think - while I'm pretty set on the general layout, I can move a figure or two if any of them strike you as unbalanced or out of place. And yes, before anyone mentions it, those poor decapitated chaps won't be like that forever- I just haven't found the perfect heads for them yet 
And for my obligatory history lesson - this scene portrays the men of
the 661st PzJg battalion, Panzer Division Clausewitz, preparing to
defend the town of Uelzen from the entirety of the British 11th Armored
and 15th Infantry divisions - April 11, 1945. This was a daunting task for such a tiny
division, outnumbered 6:1, but one at which they would be successful
for almost two weeks until running out of supplies. During this time,
the 661st destroyed nearly 70 British vehicles (including approx. 20
Churchills and nearly a dozen Sherman Fireflies) while losing only six
AFV's to enemy fire.
Let the suggestions fly! 