"Frozen blood" diorama 1/35 scale

[HamilkarBarkas]

It´s been a while since i made a winter diorama, it was time again! The season is right.
The diorama shows a StuG III F8 on the march through the steppes of the Eastern Front in March 1943. The thawing reveal the remainings of the battles fought all over the winter 1942/43.
The tank model is an old kit from Gunze Sangyo from 1995 (the old Dragon Panzer III and StuG III kits are based on this one). Despite the age still a nice kit which can look pretty nice. I only added photo-etched engine grills and few resin stowage boxes apart from the ordinary stowage i place on tank models. The Maxim machine gun is from ICM, detailed kit but there is only one gun included. The crew figures are from Verlinden, the dead soldier is made out of several left-over pieces from various manufacturers.
The mud was created with earth from my garden and gloss varnish. For the mud puddles i used cast resin. For the snow i used a modelling snow powder called "Rast Deranauo".
I painted everything with acrylic paints from Revell. Oil paint washes were used for weathering. I want to emphasise that not a single grain of pastel pigments was used for the project.


























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[UKguyInUSA]

Awesome work! I'm happy to see that there were no "black-handled" knives present

[CAMO]

Those puddles, geez man they are stunning!

I love it, awesome representation of the weather.

cheers!

[schweinhund227]

Nice work Michael !

love the broken or damaged Tracks extensions

You sure love your Mud+Snow....

Keep up the good work !

[HamilkarBarkas]

Thank you guys for your kind words it means a lot to me! the effort payed off, it was on of the must enjoyable projects this year.

You sure love your Mud+Snow....

Best environment for tanks!

[RedDevil66]

Beautiful, beautiful work!

[rodrant]

What can i say ... your Mud is so real ! Very nice effect ...this dio really depicts the nasty winter war in Russian front !

A dramatic scene , a frozen moment in time and a beautifull build !

[Reini]

Hello !

Beautiful Work, very nice Stug III one of my favourite Tank.

Reini

[Hillbilly]

Wow! absolutely top notch build I love a Stug with ostketten and the mud effects are amazing!

[garywintin]

such beautiful snow. I been trying for 3 years to get a nice snow but no avail. Your looks just beautiful...

[PaulAyrey]

Absolutely top class work. Really impressive and well executed!

[Coen]

Again.... The mud master calls!
That is freaking superb work Michael. No pigments eh? That was an interesting choice. I'm curious as to why you didn't use them. It's obvious that you didn't really need them, maybe that was why.
Nice use of that Maxim and the soldier. I had similar plans for a future diorama with a few figures.
Excellent and inspiring work my friend.

[HamilkarBarkas]

Thank you very much guys

Coen, i only followed your advice: "Keep your StuG on the ice"

[Nev]

Bravo mate lovely stuff

[wappynutter]

Beautifully crafted scene Michael... Well done my friend...
I especially like the mud and puddles and weathering on the tank...
Very realistic, and the figure reminds us of the harshness and reality of war...
Very good indeed buddy.. Excellent... Thanks for sharing..

[Opapapa]

Again... simply just beautiful work!!! Wunderbar!!!

Olli

[Joesdad]

Amazing

[Yevgeny]

Excellent work. Mud, water and snow looks amazing. Tank and crew looks great as well.
The dead soldier's figure looks fitting, you done very good job considering resent topic on gore.

[digger303]

[quote="HamilkarBarkas"]It´s been a while since i made a winter diorama, it was time again! The season is right.
The diorama shows a StuG III F8 on the march through the steppes of the Eastern Front in March 1943. The thawing reveal the remainings of the battles fought all over the winter 1942/43.
The tank model is an old kit from Gunze Sangyo from 1995 (the old Dragon Panzer III and StuG III kits are based on this one). Despite the age still a nice kit which can look pretty nice. I only added photo-etched engine grills and few resin stowage boxes apart from the ordinary stowage i place on tank models. The Maxim machine gun is from ICM, detailed kit but there is only one gun included. The crew figures are from Verlinden, the dead soldier is made out of several left-over pieces from various manufacturers.
The mud was created with earth from my garden and gloss varnish. For the mud puddles i used cast resin. For the snow i used a modelling snow powder called "Rast Deranauo".
I painted everything with acrylic paints from Revell. Oil paint washes were used for weathering. I want to emphasise that not a single grain of pastel pigments was used for the project.


http://www.mailmodel.com/catalogo/Strum ... ranauo.htm

[waylow]

Amazing work! You can almost see their breath in the cold air. The frozen dead great idea.

[HamilkarBarkas]

Cheers, always good to digg through the older posts, there is a lot of good work aswell

[gerry7944]

Lovely work.

The Stug is beutifully built and painted and the diorama, especialy the mud sets it off perfectly.

Great all round job.

Well done.

Cheers

Gerry