Diorama "Photo for the Newspaper"

Well, it's built and finished nicely enough, but don't you think the Russian propaganda photographers would have used the tank somehow in the shot? I have to imagine that they would have had the soldiers posed in front of the tank rather than a bush.

The house is excellent, The snow looks pretty good, though I'm not sure it would cling to the turret side like that, like a beard....?

I think that the TC looks a little too disengaged from the scene and too "stiff". It would perhaps have been better to put him in the posed-photo too?

What Doog just said. The guys on the ground look like me when I come in from an interim snow blowing session in the middle of a storm. It doesn't seem likely they'd look like that for a posed picture.

The face on the guy holding the MG is pretty rough.

It looks prettey good but if you wanted accurate then you should have put the guys on the tank for the photo, show the might of the Soviet Union and all that.

Good job on the snow though, I think you did a great job on the turret since if you look at old pictures the winds would actually freeze the snow on the sides of vehicles especially if the vehicle wasn't moving during the blizzard. 

Over all I have too say good job, it looks pretty good.

Very nice winter dio there, I have a similiar dio idea for my hetzer, it the crew getting there picture takend by a swimmwagen patrole.

Here's a basic idea.

Model Maniac wrote:

Many thanks for your kind words, T-rex! Have you finished your dio by now? If so, show us!

what he said

made some, but its not yet done, and the hetzer is having some paint problems, look for yourself.

I've posted the progress in the armor and dio forum.

Model Maniac wrote:

The Hetzer looks a bit glossy, but overall it looks good. Perhaps the photographer should step back a little because the distance looks too close for me. ;-)

If the lenses was 24mm (very wide angle) then the distance would be fine. I thought the lenses was 50mm which is standard normal lenses.