(PICS) Small diorama - "Ach so, ein exzentrische Archäologe!" (1/35)

This small diorama (or vignette) needs a bit of explaning. When I was reading Anthony Beevors book about the invasion of Crete in 1941, I was struck by the sheer number of excentric british officers that served there during the campaign: one had a porcelain eye that he used to play with, another one was a real nut case and quite a few of them was enthusiastic amateur archeologists, that spent most of their time wandering through the ruins of the ancient Minoan culture (to judge from the lousy defence of Crete, they probably should have pursued an academic career). Then I pictured myself a meeting between a german Fallschirmjäger and one of these officers, and this was the result. The titel translates into the somewhat ironic phrase that the german utters: "Really, an excentric archelogist!". Understandably, he has already met a couple of the kind. The officer belongs to a small tank detachment that were sent to Crete - the 7th Royal Tank Regiment - they didn't do so well against the germans and no tank left the island.

/Tony