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On the dioramas you see a lot of buildings. These are (formost) all H0 scale buildings.  There is really a lot to get in this scale and for me it is a sport to get these buildings reasonable cheap on railway events. Mostly the buildings I'm buying are second handed  (or third) and already build. The buildings are carefully dismanteld and build up again and do get a lot of plastic surgery for  the right fit and look on the diorama. 

1:87 "Oberembt, Germany 1945" 

Sturmtiger                Herpa

Sherman ARV           Artitec

Humber Scoutcar   Artitec

Figures                     Artitec, Preiser, Roco, Noch (all converted)       

1:87 "Russisch Stormgesschut" (Russian Sturmgeschutz)

Su 85                                Premo (a Russian company and is not existing anymore)

Halftrack SDKFZ 251     Trident

Wrecked car                   Wiking or Herpa?

Figures                             Preiser

1:87 "Aftocht" (Retreat)

The halftracks:

Sdkfz251/8 (Ambulance)                          Trident (I'v converted the normal SDKFZ251 to this ambulance version)

Sdkfz251/23                                                Trident

Sdkfz251/1  mit Wurfrahmen                   Trident

Sdkfz250/1                                                   Trident

Sdkfz250/5                                                   Trident

Kettenkrad                                                    Trident

The tanks:

King Tigers/ Panzer IV Wirbelwind            Herpa

Cars                                                                Wiking?

Train Br01                                                     Revell

Figures                                                           Preiser

 

Dit diorama is in bezit van het legerdioramawereld museum . 

This diorama is in possession of  the "legerdioramawereld museum"  .

https://www.legerdioramawereld.nl/

1:87 "Stad voor stad" (City after city)

The biggest military diorama I've made so far. This time not a H0 building but the 1:72 Berlin house (italeri) downsized to 1:87 (H0). It was an enormous job to do this but worth it. For example I made around 100 smaller windows. Behind some windows there are furnitured rooms. 

M4 Shermans, M5 Stuarts, M3 Halftrack, Panther A                        Artitec (some models were ready made but got some extra's)

Jeep, Beep, Wrecked Opel Blitz                                                            Herpa

Trams                                                                                                        ? The trams were toys and got a lot of plastic surgery to get tem realistic (they were totally not at the beginning).

Cars                                                                                                           Wiking

Figures                                                                                                      Artitec/ Preiser

 

Dit diorama is in bezit van  historamawereld . 

This diorama is in possession of historamawereld  .

https://www.historamawereld.nl/

 

1:87 "Barbarossa"

Panzer 2         Herpa

T28/ T35         Premo  (a Russian company and is not existing anymore)

Dit diorama is in bezit van  historamawereld . 

This diorama is in possession of historamawereld  .

https://www.historamawereld.nl/

1:87 "Stahl auf der heide" (Steel on the Moor Part 1)

All tanks     Herpa/ Roco Minitanks

Figures       Preiser, Herpa, Noch

1:87 "Stahl auf der heide" (Steel on the Moor Part 2)

All tanks     Arsenal M/ Roco Minitanks

Figures       Preiser, Herpa, Noch

1:87 "Laatste sneeuw in Duitsland April 1945" (Last snow in Germany April 45)

What started as a "green" spring diorama ended into a snow diorama (the last snow in Germany spring 1945). Lightning is build in. 

Tanks               Arsenal M

Half track         Trident

Kettenkrad      Trident

Mercedes         Herpa

Figures             For most Preiser some converted Noch figures

1:87 "De brug over het Wilhelmina kanaal bij Son" (The crossing of the Wilhemina Canal at Son...Operation Marketgarden)

I have built the diorama for the Historama World Museum/ Airborne Museum in Best Holland (it is nearby Son). As an example I took a black and white photo of a Sherman tank of the Grenadier Guards crossing the canal. 
 
A short story:
The objective of 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment after being dropped north of Son, was to capture the swing bridge over the Wilhelmina Canal and then advance southward to Eindhoven in order to link up that same day with British XXX Corps around 20.00 hr. An initial attempt by two battalions of 506 PIR to take the bridge over the Wilhelmina Canal at Son was thwarted when the bridge was blown up by the Germans, literally in the faces of the approaching paratroopers.
In the evening of 18th September Royal Engineers were dispatched immediately to construct a Bailey bridge over the canal. Sappers of 14th Field Squadron RE of XXX-Corps, with help of German prisoners of war, starting around 20.00 hr. managed to finish the job the next morning at 06.15 hr. allowing tanks of Grenadier Guards to advance on to Nijmegen, 33 hours behind schedule.

Tanks , truck            Artitec

Bailey Bridge           Artitec

Figures                     Civilians are Preiser and soldiers are a mix of Artitec and Roco

 

1:87 "Bijzondere Duitse rupsvoertuigen" (Modern German tracked vehicles)

I wanted to make a third "Stahl auf der Heide" but decided afterwards to put the vehicles on a small diorama/ display. All vehicles were extra detailled and got a crew.

Tanks               Roco, Minitanks, Arsenal M

Figures             Preiser

1:87 Sherman tank M4A3E8

Tank and figures        Artitec

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