Very nice work, I'm shivering as I write BRRRRR....Jim
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Superbly done, great feel to this and nice composition.Comment
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Great work Catalin the Tiger looks fantastic, but it looks even better on the dioramaComment
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you all. I found some forgotten pictures.
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Rivethead, rivethead!Originally posted by \I have to say that's a great dio, I'm feeling cold just looking at it... brrr!
At the risk of being called a rivethead (!) , there's very little evidence to show German vehicles being whitewashed during the Ardennes campaign.
Snow didn't begin falling until Dec 23/24, a week after the battle began.
Also Tiger IIs with zimmerit would also have been unlikely as most German tanks fighting there would have been built after September, when the addition of zimmerit had ceased.
Is that ok to say? I can always edit this post if required
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Great dio, love the composition. I know you have phone problems but it's a shame about the photos.
Nicely done
Cheers
PhilComment
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So true Phil!Originally posted by \
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Originally posted by \I have to say that's a great dio, I'm feeling cold just looking at it... brrr!
At the risk of being called a rivethead (!) , there's very little evidence to show German vehicles being whitewashed during the Ardennes campaign.
Snow didn't begin falling until Dec 23/24, a week after the battle began.
Also Tiger IIs with zimmerit would also have been unlikely as most German tanks fighting there would have been built after September, when the addition of zimmerit had ceased.
Is that ok to say? I can always edit this post if requiredComment
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After a large number of photos I succeeded to save some pictures.Originally posted by \
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Nice try! But this is 03 of Abteilung 506 abandoned in January 1945 after the relief of Bastogne, which is clearly in ambush pattern camouflageOriginally posted by \
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Well, is not entirely my fault, my Google search make me to do that mistake. All I have to do is to change the name of this thread.Originally posted by \Comment
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Well it's not a mistake as such - it's your model & you can finish it however you wantOriginally posted by \
I was just pointing out that many books, references are flawed. Taking this one as a case in point, once the battle was joined, the Germans had tremendous difficulties in supplying their troops with fuel, ammunition & food. So shipping cans of whitewash was probably not high on the QM's list!
A similar situation existed during Operation Typhoon as the Germans closed in on Moscow.
But none of that detracts from a great dioComment
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Excellent diorama, Catalin. I do love working with 'snow' and this is a great result working with this effect.
This is just a quiet comment, as I don't know much about tank going's on to the enth degree, but I do read history.
So.......
Can it be categorically stated anywhere with 100% certainty, that there wasn't a single Tiger II pasted with zimmerit present at the Ardennes offensive?
Can it be categorically stated anywhere with 100% certainty that once the snow started, a quick thinking Tiger II crew, didn't scrounge a big tin of white wash from somewhere and quickly slapped it on just before going in to combat?
It's my guess is that no one knows, or ever will know the answer to these two questions....Irrespective what the books say - They sometimes contradict each other anyway!
It really doesn't matter a fig about right or wrong...This is one superb bit of modelling......Comment
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No , my mistake. I suppose to frame this scene with Mother Russia as enemy. Zimmerit had only one purpose .... To offer a kind of protection against the magnetic bomb, mines. Specialists in this kind of war was: Russian soldiers.Comment
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Personally. It doesn't really matter when, how, what or wasn't ........ It's a damn fine bit of modelling.
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