WIP: 1st Dio, a local location w/political overtones. Done.

Is that Schwinnwagen going to be in the dio or will it be replace by another vehicle? Also where in Canada is the barrel depot located?

Alex

Hellcat man wrote:

Is that Schwinnwagen going to be in the dio or will it be replace by another vehicle? Also where in Canada is the barrel depot located? Alex

The schwimmwagen will be replaced if the surgery on the LKW Wolf (G-Wagen) is successful. If my cutting skills aren't up to snuff, then the diorama is complete as it stands right now.

My diorama seems to have turned out to be sort of a satire, with the newpaper trumpeting a massive protest (with the photo under the headline) and the actual scene of just a small group of uniformed soliers standing around talking without any protesters anywhere in sight.

Or...you could take it as the UN troops have violated our national sovereignity and trampled our constitutional right to civil protest and are now just standing around afterward, drinking Pepsi and looking as though nothing is bothering them.

The Barrel Store's address is:

The Barrel Store, 155 Wellesley Cres., London, ON, Canada N5V1J6

They have a website (that's how I found them): www.thebarrelstore.com

Received and completed my reconstructive surgery on the Revell 1/35 LKW Wolf (also known as the G-wagen). I have been looking for a 1/35 kit of the VW Iltis but have been unable to find one. However, armed with a drawing I found in a Yahoo Image Search, I started chopping away at the Wolf with my trusty Exacto knife. I cut out the doors, trimmed the mudguards off the front fenders, trimmed the front skidplate, moved the front bumper up to hide the bottom part of the grill, scraped off the Mercedes emblems from the wheels, and added styrene "strakes" to match the ones which are on the Iltis.

One bad thing happened right at the start of building the model. The masking tape I used reacted to the type of styrene Revell used in this kit and it it frosted the windshield (but only on the inside, the outer windshield remained smoot and clear).

Anyways, here are the photos of it so far. I'm waiting for some more UN decals to arrive, since I used all the others on the Stryker.

Please notice the contents loaded into the back of my "Iltis."   I really had fun making them.

 

This diorama is Finished.

Here are the final two photos. Added is the dune which the retaining wall is holding back, and just in case I ever decide to enter this diorama in any kind of a show, I painted the back and added some caution signs.

ps., I'm sorry about having to rewrite this post. I'm having trouble with the place that's hosting my photos and they lost all the photos I posted in this particular post originally. And their site is now not allowing me to log on or upload anything else right now.

Here's the final installation picture, on my living room bookshelf lit with a set of L.E.D. lights.

I really like this! I think my favorite part is the concrete retaining wall, the stencil work looks great and I like that it, like the local subject is made of local material. Nice work on the UN Vehicles, I like all the soda boxes. Both in the trunk and smashed on the ground. Like the UN is there to do a quick, dirty job- and then pack it up, get out, not clean up and not fix the problem.

Good work on the political overtones. Sorry about the real park though.