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These are both HL KV's. I removed the added turret armor from one of them.

Great diorama...... Love the crushing destruction.

MIchaelC.

Gotta love it.... great depiction Giant

ALPHA

Blunt Force Trauma at its best.
The window shot is especially poigniant

Glad you all liked it. It was the most complicated one I've put together. Alpha, The KV1E is on the cobblestones I made using that sheet of tub surround plastic. The stuff is hard to work, very tuff styrene, but if you want to make a road that slopes up and down it works great as it is flexible. I glued mine down flat though to match the height of my other modules. It is also slippery so a steep slope would be hard if not impossible to run a tank up unless it had real soft rubber tread inserts. I'll post a picture of that module somewhere and describe how I made it.
Herman, I like the window shot. If I had the figures I would have had a German sniper aiming out of it at the Russian tankers back.

or the crew of the quickly abandoned PzIII thinking they were smart enough not to go out with a last great act of defiance by having a crack at a K.V. !!

greengiant wrote:Glad you all liked it. It was the most complicated one I've put together. Alpha, The KV1E is on the cobblestones I made using that sheet of tub surround plastic. The stuff is hard to work, very tuff styrene, but if you want to make a road that slopes up and down it works great as it is flexible. I glued mine down flat though to match the height of my other modules. It is also slippery so a steep slope would be hard if not impossible to run a tank up unless it had real soft rubber tread inserts. I'll post a picture of that module somewhere and describe how I made it.
Herman, I like the window shot. If I had the figures I would have had a German sniper aiming out of it at the Russian tankers back.

That would be great Giant.... as I was going to inquire how you cut the bricks so evenly... thought maybe a band saw ...jig saw... table saw or tile saw...hard work buddy... couldn't have been easy setting up the walls
In my younger days of diorama building ...I would just use foam...and cover it with plaster it had a good effect till you had to make debris
You have a lot of patience my friend... the results are breathtaking

ALPHA

Alpha, its easy to build up a building using the scored and painted plaster pieces. Just cut them to the size you need and assemble with super glue. It took me a long time to find an adhesive that worked on plaster, I tried every type of white or carpenters glue, hot glue gun sticks and even a glue that foams slightly when exposed to air. None of them would penetrate the plaster and actually bond pieces together from the inside of the plaster. If you have a particularly hard to join place drill in some small holes and use some thin metal like small paper clips cut up and put in the holes like rebar before glueing.
Herman, the Germans really feared the KV's when they first encountered them. From what I've read the PZ3 couldn't knock it out so if caught flatfooted they would have probably blown up their own tank and ran to somewhere as far away from the KV as possible.

greengiant wrote:Alpha, its easy to build up a building using the scored and painted plaster pieces. Just cut them to the size you need and assemble with super glue. It took me a long time to find an adhesive that worked on plaster, I tried every type of white or carpenters glue, hot glue gun sticks and even a glue that foams slightly when exposed to air. None of them would penetrate the plaster and actually bond pieces together from the inside of the plaster. If you have a particularly hard to join place drill in some small holes and use some thin metal like small paper clips cut up and put in the holes like rebar before glueing.

I don't know Green...that's a lot of brickwork and detail....like I said...it might be easy if it were a static display... but yours are modular...Adding in the feature allowing them to be taken down and set back up isn't a minor task... a lot of thought has had to have happened so they could be displayed with relative cleanliness ....I'd say it's an example of a person with a High degree of Skill

I for one appreciate you sharing your scenes..as well as techniques with us

ALPHA

Thanks again ALPA. I would like to see more postings with dioramas to highlight the vehicles. even if they are just a small backdrop of some sort. Small scale modelers do it all the time on their display pieces.