Trumpeters Karl-Morser in 1/35 Build

I think there are more pics in the Diorama Forum, and if theres any questions I'd love to answer them.

Terry

Here are some final pics of my Panzertriebwagen railyard diorama in 1/35.

In looking at these photos, I still need to drop in the figures and take remove parts of my basement but this thing is just to big.

Hunter thanks, I think I'll post some final pics on this thread to close it out properly. You can see the final build in the 1946 GB Forum.

Much appreciated, Terry

Panzer thanks for the nice comments. I did finish up that dio a few weks ago but I had a change of heart about two thirds of the way through, a lot of photos of Morser-Karls so I decided to set the railgun aside as a stand alone and replece it with a Panzertriebwagen Locomotive. Not many of those out there. You can see the final build in the Group Build Forum 1946 hosted by Bish. 

If you have any questions or cant locate it send me a message and thanks again.

Terry

Terry - 

What an awesome and very cool build/dio. I am very impressed with your great details and imagination. Excellant work sir. I have enjoyed following it, and thank you for sharing this with us.

jibber

I noticed I still didn't finish up the left hand of the mechanic with the black leather jacket, I had to restructure that hand to hold a pry lever and I forgot to clean up some unwanted plastic, otherwise hes holding the tool with a good hand and arm angle.

Just more to do. Terry

 

Wow, was going thru some old posts today and came across your nice build/dio.  Love this work. What an endeavor. Great use of other supporting vehicles to go alone with the rail gun.  The searchlight is spot on.  I have always wanted to do a rail gun kit and this makes me want to run out and buy one. 

You must have a dedicated room to store your models.  Do you have a link to the final pics?

I noticed I still didn't finish up the left hand of the mechanic with the black leather jacket, I had to restructure that hand to hold a pry lever and I forgot to clean up some unwanted plastic, otherwise hes holding the tool with a good hand and arm angle.

Just more to do. Terry

I'm closing in on finishing but not before a couple rails and tiny parts on tha main gun are installed and finish up on these few figures.

This scene is really coming together nicely! That searchlight is a really sweet piece of detail. Hiding the batteries is always something to put more than a little thought into and I think you've got that almost figured out. :)

Perhaps a false floor under a guard figure? Such as a raised dias or a box?

Just great work.   I'm constantly seeing new things in each picture.....Nice

Searchlight is painted and installed. I stuck the battery and switch to the tower floor and covered it with a piece of netting for now. I think I'll keep it b ut I need to comactit a bit. 

It's throwing off more light in the dark than I thought. 

Terry

I wired an LED for the tower's searchlight, all thats left to do is to paint it up and install it. Either I'm going incorporate the battery and switch in the tower below a shlef or simply cover it with a piece of netting. The light shows blue in the photo but when its on with the lights out it shines a much better color.

Terry

Karl thanks, we spend so much time on these things and the compliments sure are encouraging. I'm just winding down now, I still have a couple rails and smaller parts for the main gun and a couple figures to finish up, oh and I wired an LED to be placed in the tower for the searchlight. Mearly cosmetic, its not that bright and surely not to what I was hoping for but that may be the one thing somebody remembers from the build?

Anyway thanks, good to have you back.

Terry 

Man, Terry, you're killing this build! Great details and vision! It doesn't get much better than this! 

An update on my diorama. The watchtower is in and I've trimmed out the base board. I'm working on figures and finishing up the main gun and that should be it. There should be 4-5 figures in different areas mostly guards and maintenance personnnel.

Terry

jibber

The camera always catches things. I did a close up on the spikes and I'd forgotten to rust em up a bit. Still have the Morser, the watchtower, figures and telegraph poles to finish up.

Terry 

 

the rocks turned out great.

i did a 1/35 KV-2, weathered it took a pic and saw i had forgotten to weather the right side of the turret. a KV-2, not some little PZ-1. 

A couple more pics and I have to get back to work.

Terry

The camera always catches things. I did a close up on the spikes and I'd forgotten to rust em up a bit. Still have the Morser, the watchtower, figures and telegraph poles to finish up.

Terry 

I made the sleepers from stock basswood, then hit it with a Dremmel and aged it. The cleats are from stock Trumpeter rails that I cut off and also weathered and the spikes are from a motorized RR kit. All in all I think it came out well but this is only one little part of the board. I just added a couple wooden crates that holds more spikes.

Thanks Bish hopefully Ill have more later.

Terry

This is really somthing to be proud of Terry. There is some really nice work in there and some great detail. And lots of nice dio ideas as well. Where did those sleepers and pins come from.

A quick update on an area stores sleepers, cleats and spikes.

Terry

Mike your work is incredible and it means alot to me. I'm getting closer but I still have a lot to finish before I call it done. I've taken my time to get everything right as best I can so I'm back at it.

Terry 

This thing is sooooo cool! I think your vision is perfect and you have an excellent chance of pulling it off with little effort. Everything here is looking superbly finished. :D

Thanks Steve, one thing I wanted to do was to feature the Morser and place it something close to a natural setting without out it smothering everything else. On most dioramas the story jumps out at you, in my case I wanted to capture a photo in time as it might have been moving out a new Morser and other cars and its parts to a destination. Because this is a expensive and valuable weapon, I also plan on adding additional guards. 

Thanks again Steve.

Terry

With this grouping you get a sence of how massive that thing was.

I like the scale your landscape emparts to the over all effect as well as their quality.

I have a lot of smaler detail to work on such as figures and such, but I took a few minutes to set in the Morser to get a perspective of the entire build. I removed the guard tower while I work on the electronics for the spotlight. Anyway heres a few photos with the Morser in place.

Terry

Duster its supposed to show the reflection of the sun off the rocks, and thanks for the nice comments.

Terry

jibber

I, like so many others , am impressed with you diorama. Very impressed with your rocks as well and the colors look right on point.  There is one point you can help me understand; why the white edges on the rocks? Is it to represent snow? frost?