Looks like you're if full retreat mode. I like the old films of German soldiers blowing up the tracks as they ran from the Russians.

Wood, blowing up tracks and retreating reminds me of a very cool WWII movie called The Train with Burt Lancaster  Its about a German officer trying to haul all the artwork from France near the end of the war. The movie shows a lot of german trains including some rare armored locomotives and fighting cars thats filmed in such a way thats its low light, smokey and "train greasy" that makes you feel like your right there. With the anniversary of WWII, this movie shows how brave the French underground really were. Truly a great generation.

I build a lot of RR and i've planned a large scale 1/72 German RR diorama in the works for later this summer that I'd like to bring here adding work photos as I go along. Its themed in a mountainous region of middle Europe with a full train and German motorized columns. I've been building parts in 1/72 for a while and I'm a couple months away from a start. I'm looking at a 28" X 48" board.

Thanks for looking and I hope you'll follow along.

Terry

Very clever idea for a dio and you executed it very well!

I'd think it would be quite a conversation starter.

Very well done!

Mike

Mike, Greg thanks. I have a set of figures I may add to see how it looks. Terry

As a stand alone model it is VERY cool, i agree that you don't really need a figure as the crew could have simply abandoned the locomotive near an out post. If you were to place one may i suggest simply an engineer and perhaps one more fella to watch the progress and relay info. I really do not like to plagerize someone's idea but it is an interesting piece of the war.

Armor, I have two German figures that I was going to place on it.

The first is a simple soldier/engineer sitting on the rear of the plough watching the action, and the second a stoic looking officer standing on the platform next the the rear cab door with his hands behind his back in a defiant pose.

I think i'll add them and resubmit a couple pics but I didn't want to draw any attention away from the destruction end of this thing but I totally agree with a lot of people that figures do add a realism to any diorama.

Armor I'm an armor guy myself but for the past year I've been trying to depict German RR scenes. We have a lot thats been done with armor, especially german WWII (which is my specialty) that I thought we were missing another part of the war.

Thanks again,

Terry

Jibber, the figs you described are very much along the lines of what i was thinking, looking forward to seeing your addition. My interests of late has shifted from the main  line battle vehicles to the more mundane and often unsual support vehicles, i.e. recovery, rolling stock, etc., that are the true work horses of any conflict. I still have a LARGE stash of tanks that i need to work through, fortunately manufactures are slow to produce the odd stuff, I would have to rent another storage unit LOL. Again your dio is absolutely FANTASTIC and thanks for the insperation. Happy modeling.

You bet, all the best. Terry

Terry:  This is a wonderful presentation of a subject completely overlooked by modelers.  I was just surfing the web and looking at Jordi Rubio's website (and the railcars they offer).  I am currently designing and building a German train dio with a railgun (undecided yet: Leuopold or Karl Moser, or maybe the 150 mm Railway Cannon Deutsche Reichsbahn...if I can afford that one), pulled by the Trumpeteer Baueihe 52 mit Steiframentender, along with several Rubio structure accessories...my biggest challenge will be properly building the base so that everything does not appear cluttered.  Wish me luck....

I saw this kit in a few websites, but really did not understand what it's function was....(guess I lead a sheltered life...), but thanks to you, I now know.  Add those figures....it would nicely accent your sense of drama here....Keep up the great work!     Robert

Thats a really nice response. I'm currently in a semi-WIP with Trumpeters Morser-Karl in 1/35 and I highly recommend it. The engineering is fantastic and the details are awesome. If you check the Armor Forum you can see my posts and click on any photo to see my Photo Shop for abouty 100 build photos. Like you I do a lot of German rail builds and dio's. Thanks again for the nice comment and good luck.

Terry  

Unusual subject and very well done!  I enjoyed reading your background info.

All the best,

Dan

Dan thanks it was something I hadn't seen here and something worth modeling. 

Terry

How did I miss this before??? Now that's just plain cool Terry, neat subject and the model looks fantastic. 

I've seen your work and thats means a lot coming from you, thanks.