Op de diorama’s zie je veel gebouwen. Dit zijn (grotendeels) allemaal gebouwen op H0-schaal. Er is veel te krijgen op deze schaal en voor mij is het een sport om deze gebouwen redelijk goedkoop te krijgen op modelspoorbaan evenementen. De gebouwen die ik koop zijn meestal tweedehands (of derdehands) en al gebouwd. De gebouwen worden zorgvuldig gedemonteerd en weer opgebouwd en ondergaan veel plastic chirurgie voor de juiste pasvorm en uitstraling op het diorama.
De tanks en voertuigen (kits) zijn van verschillende merken. Sommige modellen zijn al erg oud (zoals Premo en Roco) en heb ik verbeterd en extra gedetaillieerd. Voor de figuurtjes gebruik ik graag die van het merk Preiser en combineer ik vaak met die van andere merken zoals Noch, Faller en Alsacast.
On the dioramas you see a lot of buildings. These are (for most) 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 dismantled and build up again and do get a lot of plastic surgery for the right fit and look on the diorama.
The tanks and vehicles (kits) are from different brands. Some models are already very old (such as Premo and Roco) and I have improved them and added extra detail. For the figures I like to use those from the Preiser brand and I often combine them with those from other brands such as Noch, Faller and Alsacast.
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Hindernisloop/ Obstacle run
Halftrack/ GMC Roco Mintanks
Locomotive BR 41 Italeri
Figures Preiser, Artitec, Noch, Germania Figures (3d printed) (almost all figures are converted in some way)
Trainshed Unknow
The diorama is set in Germany, around April or May 1945. An American convoy has been stopped at a railway yard. In a heavily damaged train shed stands a locomotive. Meanwhile, some soldiers are busy clearing the last obstacles, including a piece of railway track that is blocking their passage.
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Wrecks!
Bulldozer Wiking
Wrecks Roco, Herpa, Wiking
Figures Preiser/Noch
No panzer gray or olive drab this time! I still had a number of 1:87 vehicles left that were missing wheels, windshields and more. I didn't know what to do with them until I came up with the idea of putting them together on this non-military diorama.
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Another 120 kilometers towards Leningrad
T34/ 76 Premo
Zis 5 truck Premo
T26 Premo
Figures Preiser/Noch
The Siege of Leningrad was the prolonged siege of the Soviet Russian city of Leningrad (modern Saint Petersburg) by German forces on the Eastern Front of World War II. The siege lasted from September 8, 1941 to January 27, 1944 and ended with the withdrawal of the German forces. In this diorama a truck is being supplied and 2 tanks are on their way to Leningrad to fight the Germans.
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Propaganda 1941
KV 2 Premo
Sdkfz 7 Roco Minitanks
BT 7 Artitec
Opel Olympia 38 Praline
Figures Preiser
Photography and film played a major role for Germany as well as the Allies during World War II. They were used, among other things, as a weapon for propaganda. This diorama shows (a part of) the invasion of Russia that was extensively filmed and photographed: Operation Barbarossa.
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Oberembt, Germany 1945
Sturmtiger Herpa
Sherman ARV Artitec
Humber Scoutcar Artitec
Figures Artitec, Preiser, Roco, Noch (all converted)
The Sturmtiger or Sturmpanzer VI was a German armored gun from World War II. The first prototypes of the vehicle were built in 1943, and series production continued through 1944–1945, ending with the production of only 18 vehicles. The Sturmtiger was powered by a 700 hp Maybach HL 230 P4 single-engine engine. It was armed with a single 380 mm STuM RW61 rocket mortar, 1 7.92 mm MG34 machine gun and 1 90 mm grenade launcher. The Sturmtiger was created as a result of the Wehrmacht's experience in street fighting in Stalingrad in 1942-1943. The new vehicle had to be able to demolish buildings or fortified resistance points with a single shot and be heavily armored. The design of the new armored gun was based on the chassis of the PzKpfw VI Tiger tank - interestingly, only the chassis of the PzKpfw VI vehicles damaged in combat were used to create all 18 Sturmtiger vehicles. The frontal armor was 150 mm thick and the side armor was up to 80 mm. Sturmtiger took a very limited role in the fighting during World War II. Units equipped with it fought during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, in the Ardennes offensive at the beginning of 1944-1945 and in the final battles of this war in Germany in 1945.
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Russisch Stormgesschut/ Russian Sturmgeschutz
Su 85 Premo (a Russian company and is not existing anymore)
SDKFZ 251 Trident
Wrecked car Wiking or Herpa?
Figures Preiser
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Aftocht 1945/ Retreat 1945
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 Historamawereld museum .
This diorama is in possession of the "Historamawereld" museum .
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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 museum .
This diorama is in possession of the "Historamawereld" museum .
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Barbarossa
Panzer 2 Herpa
T28/ T35 Premo (a Russian company and is not existing anymore)
Dit diorama is in bezit van Historamawereld museum .
This diorama is in possession of the "Historamawereld" museum .
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Stahl auf der heide 1/ Steel on the Moor Part 1
An annual tank event organized by the Panzer Museum in Munster Germany: Stahl af der Heide
All tanks Herpa/ Roco Minitanks
Figures Preiser, Herpa, Noch
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Stahl auf der heide/ Steel on the Moor Part 2
An annual tank event organized by the Panzer Museum in Munster Germany: Stahl af der Heide
All tanks Arsenal M/ Roco Minitanks
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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
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Operation Marketgarden
De brug over het Wilhelmina kanaal bij Son/ The crossing of the Wilhemina Canal at Son.
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. It was a lot of work to build this diorama. One of the biggest challenges was building the cafe that still exists today
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
Dit diorama is in bezit van Historamawereld museum .
This diorama is in possession of the "Historamawereld" museum .
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Moderne 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
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1:87 Sherman tank M4A3E8
Tank and figures Artitec
