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 This is an impressive debut here with a good eye for detail to say the least.

 Looking forward to some more informed and detailed retrospect as to what painting and weathering techniques you incorporated.

 Very good work.

That's really nice, a great looking Panther and a very good dio as well. Great work.

very good job, Durruti. especially crew. may be you should to use some pigments ? for example "road dust" , european terrain" or "russian earth". of course it's not a rainy weather on your diorama.

Durruti welcome, thats a very nice Panther you've built there and the figures are absolutely awesome. I agree with Vladimir that some pigment or road dusting on the tracks and wheels would really set it off. Keep them build coming.

Terry

Hi durruti,

Welcome to the Forum :)

What an excellent entry!

Your figurines totally steel the show, but that is in no way a bad thing since they just add to an XLNT build!

The scene presented is elegant, the execution very convincing!

Only constructive criticism  I can offer is:

The track is swiveling on the upper front left.

The track is hanging loose on the lower right rear.

Maybe you want to depict the vehicle in a turning movement?

Maybe a dusty layer to blend the insignia more to the hull?

And maybe you might want to add some more streaking, those rusty track links would bleed oxide .

Thank you for sharing durruti, very convincing Panther with an addition of outstanding figurines and detail work!

Very Best Regards

Johan

Congrats on an excellent job. 

A really excellent presentations. The figures are just divine. If I didn't know better, I"d think that you were a long-gone member here who used to go by the name of Manstein's Revenge and who excelled in clean figures and models. Really, a gorgeous model and dio.

Anyway, you're good enough to weather the critique. The models are excellent, all around, but need weathering to be put "in the scene". On a Russian road--notorious for the mud--you would have dust and/or dirt and mud all over those tracks and wheels. I can see some on the hull, but you need to blend it to the tracks as well. And you may have forgotten to silver those guide horns. They should be brightly polished silver.

A minor issue, but when you pick your photos, pick a batch of sharp, concise pics which capture the scene in detail, and post those. No need for 32 photos--they get kinda redundant after a bit.

I get your points, but I intended to reproduce a forzen ground; in fact, I put some spots of ice. Mud was a nightmare for tankers in spring, but in the coldest months the ground was hard like rock. In other dio, I used mud accordingly to the conditions I wanted to show. For sure the ground can be improved, but the mud was avoided on purpose.

Thanks a lot for your comments.

Luca

Luca,

Ahhh, I understand,. Thanks for the explanation. It's difficult to see the ice from the photos, but your presentation makes sense if viewed in that regard. It might be helpful to sprinkle just the smallest amount of snow powder on the ground to show that this is indeed frozen ground? Just a suggestion to avoid the confusion. But then again, I realize that if we could see the diorama in person, it might not need it.

:)