(PICS) Small diorama - "Ach so, ein exzentrische Archäologe!" (1/35) - FineScale Modeler - Essential magazine for scale model builders, model kit reviews, how-to scale modeling, and scale modeling products

Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:29 AM

What happens next, does the nazi shoot the officer, or take him prisoner?

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cassibill

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February 2003
From: Indiana, USA

Posted by cassibill on Monday, October 17, 2005 5:45 PM

The Germans were big into religious artifacts... the Grail, the true cross, crucifixion spear...and Viking stuff. Germany at this time turned out so much raw data I took German in high school just in case.
Thanks for the link. Makes me think about Elgin negotiating for friezes from the Parthenon. The Italians were big into Roman history at the same time. Much of the restored city was done under Mussolini. His biggest project (ironically) was restoring Augustus' Alter of Peace. He hunted for pieces all over. Him "visiting" the Pope over a section would be interesting as a figure diorama. I seem to remember seeing a couple photos of the ceremony rededicating it somewhere. Big military involvement in it.
German and Italian scholars traded artifacts of interest to the other. A couple archaes from each side exchanging items with elite troops from both sides as security would be cool.

cdw My life flashes before my eyes and it mostly my life flashing before my eyes!!! Big Smile The 1/144 scale census and message board: http://144scalelist.freewebpage.org/index.html

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, October 14, 2005 7:41 PM

the groundwork looks so cool!!! great subject!-DJ

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biffa

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January 2005
From: in the tank factory in my basement

Posted by biffa on Friday, October 14, 2005 9:46 AM

again with the great looking ground work and and fantastic fig painting, very nice.

Ron g.

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bultenibo

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September 2005
From: Uppsala, Sweden

Posted by bultenibo on Friday, October 14, 2005 6:40 AM

Cassibill:

As an archelogy student and diorama builder you should check out this diorama. Truly amazing stuff:

http://www.dynamicdioramas.org/MODEL%20SOURCE/Gathering%20Intelligence/index.html

I was thinking of what you said about german archeology and Schliemann. Maybe I should do a twin diorama - depicting a german archeologist taken hostage by the greek resistance?

/Tony

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hemble

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January 2005
From: Queensland/Australia

Posted by hemble on Thursday, October 13, 2005 8:31 PM

Great little build Tony the ground work looks excellent as do the figures.

Ron

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cassibill

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From: Indiana, USA

Posted by cassibill on Thursday, October 13, 2005 6:31 PM

Germany had it's share of excentric archaeologists. Think link with Crete and British archaeology is legendary. The Myceneans were Evans life's work. I'm an archae student and have read his book, but Germany did produce Schliemann's Troy.

cdw My life flashes before my eyes and it mostly my life flashing before my eyes!!! Big Smile The 1/144 scale census and message board: http://144scalelist.freewebpage.org/index.html

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bultenibo

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From: Uppsala, Sweden

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

Posted by bultenibo on Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:20 PM

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