The Reinforced Farm–1/72 Dio with Pegasus figs&heavy weapons

3rdlav

looks good to me,cant wait to see the finished Dio

Me, too....

looks good to me,cant wait to see the finished Dio

Pawel

Hello!

A very nice and ambitious project. I especially like the look of the base and it's vegetation. There's one thing I see as wrong though - it's the building. You see, it seems to be out of scale, too big. Those old country houses in eastern europe are kinda funny. When you walk into them, you notice some strange things - mainly that the people living in them were very poor for generations, and so they were in average about 1/2 to 1 foot shorter than people we meet today. And so the doors were smaller, the threshold was flush with the ground and if I was to walk around such a house, I would constantly hit the lower edge of the roof with my head. You have to understand, to raise the roof one plank higher was not necessary, but would cost a lot of money to do, and then the house would be harder to keep warm in winter.

Other than this one thing I like your dio a lot. I wish you good luck with your future projects, have a nice day

Paweł

THS a lot Pawel for your message, I am glad that you enjoyed this scenario.

With reference to the building, I live in Eastern Europe, namely Romania.....

I knwo very well the country houses and in general your remarks are correct, peasants used to build small houses or even underground ones for easier heating. (Only the roof was over the ground, such houses being called "bordei". However, this applies in poor areas, mainly in plains. In the mountains, the situation is changed, because there was plenty of material (wood) either for building or heating.

In this light, the houses in the mountains, almost no matter the region or the richness of people, are larger and generally include basemant, ground floor and one storey. There are a huge number of such houses built 200 years ago, it is traditionally for mountains areas.... 

The house put forward by Pegasus Hobbies comes from a region very rich in wood, namely Karelia. It was modeled after reference images, so this house really exists. Windows and doors are quite in scale, a little exagerated are the details on the logs. 

bbrowniii

Wow!  A very ambitious project!

One question - why wouldn't they be using the building for cover?  Or as an aid station or something?  It just seems that the building is just 'there' but not a 'part' of the scene.  Does that make any sense?

Another quick point, more of a detail thing, and please understand that this is coming from someone who served for 14 years as a mortarman, so I can be a little anal.  As you have your mortars now, it is as if they have just been set up and have not fired.  How do I know?  The baseplates (the round plates the tube sits on) are sitting on top of the ground.  After firing a round or two, those things will be buried in the ground so that the base is flush with the surface.  After prolonged firing, they can even sink deeper underground (it can be a bee-yatch to dig out baseplates from soft ground!!)  Not really a big deal, but I though you might like to know.

Thanks for sharing your work!

Thank you very much for your message and very useful comments.

Realted to the building, fr the moment that it is not used for cover, it is just a station. The idea was the enemy coming from the forest where there are emplaced the obstacles. Some infantrymen took position there with light weapons, but the enemy is still far. Some mortars and guns are  during preparation to open fire while others just fired the first round. 

Your remark on the base plate sunk in the ground is very useful and for sure I will try it on a next diorama that I intend to build. I hope you will enjoy their appearance.

In fact that is not a finished diorama, more I "played" with those figs and accessories for showing hwo good Pegasus figs match theri weapons as well as to "show off" with some conversions, many of them done after reference images. Good examples in this light are the MG team, the mortar crew at the corner of the house or the wounded soldier and its comrade.  

Hello!

A very nice and ambitious project. I especially like the look of the base and it's vegetation. There's one thing I see as wrong though - it's the building. You see, it seems to be out of scale, too big. Those old country houses in eastern europe are kinda funny. When you walk into them, you notice some strange things - mainly that the people living in them were very poor for generations, and so they were in average about 1/2 to 1 foot shorter than people we meet today. And so the doors were smaller, the threshold was flush with the ground and if I was to walk around such a house, I would constantly hit the lower edge of the roof with my head. You have to understand, to raise the roof one plank higher was not necessary, but would cost a lot of money to do, and then the house would be harder to keep warm in winter.

Other than this one thing I like your dio a lot. I wish you good luck with your future projects, have a nice day

Paweł

Wow!  A very ambitious project!

One question - why wouldn't they be using the building for cover?  Or as an aid station or something?  It just seems that the building is just 'there' but not a 'part' of the scene.  Does that make any sense?

Another quick point, more of a detail thing, and please understand that this is coming from someone who served for 14 years as a mortarman, so I can be a little anal.  As you have your mortars now, it is as if they have just been set up and have not fired.  How do I know?  The baseplates (the round plates the tube sits on) are sitting on top of the ground.  After firing a round or two, those things will be buried in the ground so that the base is flush with the surface.  After prolonged firing, they can even sink deeper underground (it can be a bee-yatch to dig out baseplates from soft ground!!)  Not really a big deal, but I though you might like to know.

Thanks for sharing your work!