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Thanks DoubleD,funny you should mention that,just got a very nice phone call from the director of the Army part of the museum in Victoria expressing thanks for the dio/vignette
donations,so I`ll be making alot of new room for myself.
Also I`m back,got a little choked at my machine so started throwing in recovery disks and low and behold it worked,ya just don`t know till ya try!
Got my 3in1,wow!!

where do you put all these great dios!!! i always look forward to your work! excellent detail! great job!

Thanks gang, yep,lol,that`s me,a livin breathin model makin machine, yeah right lol!!
The dio took about 3wks to put together, one week for the vehicles which btw the trooper is a partial scratchbuild. It doesn`t really take that long if you have a mental pic of how you want it to look,gather the parts,the figures,the vehicles and the ground cover and put it together.
Well,my computer died yesterday,can`t get into it,but today I`m going down to my LHS and pic up my Tiger1 3in1 kit, Kelly sounds like yours is probably in too,
ta ta for now,off to the hobbyshop!

What can I say, WOW. That is beautiful work Russ, congratulations . Mind if I ask how long it took you to put it together?

Cheers
Darren

Fantastic work, sasd! What a diorama...wow.

Regards, Dan

sasd, you never cease to amaze. Keep em comming.

QUOTE: Very, very nice. Wre do you get the time and space to build all these dioramas. That is outstanding work, and you share it with us like every week. Tell us your secret.

QUOTE: id'e like to see this one up close, thanks for showing i just have one question?,,,,, do you ever sleep?

Well to answer y'all question: No one knows this but he is actually a Modeling Robot, he does not sleep, he does not eat, he builds, thats his programming..

Great build, the amount of detail you manage to put in a space this small really defies the laws of physics.
Thanks for the show.

Another excellent piece of work, Russ!

Yes the maps and papers and newspapers are all printed on a computer,I`ve even got wartime pinups and pinup photos,posters,portraits of Hitler etc. They seem to add more to a radio area or a vehicle.

Great job!! I love the little maps and stuff. Were they copied and then reprinted smaller?

Very nicely done.....

Cool as usual Russ, and the musueum will be glad to get some of the Sharp Colleciton in their hands!

Looking good Sasd

Thad

Thankyou very much guys and gal,the comments get more interesting by the minuite,
oboy,where to begin, Dru the sidewalk is an old Synergy piece from the 80s. Biffa,I`m
usually up and working at my hobby by 4:00am,either at the computer or putting together a dio.I do rest from 8am to 12pm noon,then it`s back at it for the rest of the day
until midnight,minor breaks here and there for some Wendys,lol. It`s funny you should ask about storing the finished models as well T34,I store them in California tomato boxes,3 to a box and the boxes are stacked on 2 shelves. There they stay until a public display comes up that my model club partakes in. As a matter of fact we are currently doing a display at the Navy base in Victoria. Lately my dios and vigs are getting a little on the big side so storage is at a crucial point right now therefore I will be donating a few of my older vignettes to the military museum that we are displaying at. In the last 3wks I have completed 4 new dio/vignettes. I need to make some space!
Thanks again for the comments.

really cool. i like it!

Very, very nice. Wre do you get the time and space to build all these dioramas. That is outstanding work, and you share it with us like every week. Tell us your secret.

really good russ. i've alway's like brit's vehc.thank's for the pic's

where to start?
11 figures? 2 vehicles, numerous road signs, telegraph pole and lines, maps and newspapers, stowage gear of all kinds, untold amounts of rubble, its amazing how you get all this in one dio and made to look like it belongs together with great weathering,its easy to imagine all the conversations goin on, so busy and alive id'e like to see this one up close, thanks for showing i just have one question?,,,,, do you ever sleep?

Very nice, as usual! Love the rubble and the details overall. I especially like the newspaper :)

Is that curbwork a commercial item or scratched?

Great build! Thanks for sharing.

very nice work sasd!!

i love the layout here..Very good work...The weathering on the vehicles is very impressive as is the lay of the rubble about. Can't wait to see what else you come up with ...
Mary :)

Beautiful work. Excellent Diorama. Thanks for sharing.

Regards, Rick