Take three tanks, coffee stirrers, twigs, a door, polystyrene and some filler. Gently stir...

[scottie3158]

Totally realistic very nice indeed.

[Mini Me]

Amazing...

[spanner570]

Thanks boys. Comments about the ice, much appreciated.... :thumb2:

Rain all day yesterday so moved on nicely with the model.

Some members might have mused why no muddy track going up to the bridge?
It's a railway! One of the few railway bridges still intact and therefore precious to the advancing Russian Army. In any case the river is shallow next to it, so no need to risk driving heavy armour across the possibly weakened structure.

I laid a sausage of filler down on the base and then squidged the length of track into it and then messed about with a stiff old paint brush.





That's possibly it for the main elements of the diorama.
I'll know doubt be tweaking and adding bits and bobs as they come floating into the cavernous void where my brain would normally reside.... :upside:

Cheers and thanks again for all your input thus far.

Ron

[Jim R]

Hi Ron
That railway with the snow on it looks great.

............ and then messed about with a stiff old paint brush.

We all fill our leisure time differently - each to his own! :tongue-out3: :rolling:
Jim

[spanner570]

Ha ha Jim!
I knew after I'd typed it that it would be open to all sorts of interpretations and smutty thoughts!:flushed: At least it shows you are concentrating...... :tongue-out3:

Thanks for your comments on the rail track too, and sticking with the build.

Cheers.
Ron

[papa 695]

It is looking very good indeed Ron.

[Guest]

Just simply WOW Ron :smiling3:.
I'm going to quit modelling and join another website and use your photo's and pass them off as my own work and wait for all the praise I will get for doing nothing:tears-of-joy:.

[spanner570]

Thanks Ian and Ralph.

Ralph - There is no other website!

The wife is out for the day, and it's raining. So after a delightful lunch of kippers, (She will know 'cos the place stinks of them now) the oily fish managed to get my brain functioning to a reasonable level of imagination. I had a look at the model and decided to fill in some of the space on t'other side of the river. It looked a bit empty and unbalanced somehow.

I came up with the idea to include a wrecked Tiger tank destroyed during the Russian advance.

Luckily, I had a wrecked Tiger I in my spares drawer, so I whitewashed over the original camo., dug a hole in the snow and in it went...

Here's the result of the kipper's influence.

Dig a hole in the polystyrene.



Add kitchen foil corrugated sheets supported by left over twigs. Then add faint tank tracks and explosion marks.



White washed tank placed behind its flimsy, made in a hurry by the crew, bit of a barricade cum camouflage thingy.





Fill in around the tank tracks and wheels with 'Snow'



The finished wreck.


A most rewarding couple of hours work, which I'm hoping will balance the diorama up a bit.

Cheers all.

Ron

[scottie3158]

Ron,
A great addition.

[Guest]

The Tiger is a great little scene on it's own Ron :smiling3:.

plagiaristmodellers.com.

[Guest]

Great stuff. I'm enjoying watching the magic happen

[Neil Merryweather]

Brilliant!
I must get some kippers

[Mickc1440]

You certainly can't second guess what you're going to come up with, that's a great addition.

[Mini Me]

You go 570!:thumb2:
Rick H.

[Gern]

You got another tank to go on this masterpiece then Ron? Your title says three tanks but you say the wrecked Tiger is a recent afterthought .....

I'm always doin' things like that. I'll have an idea then promptly forget it - then a week later it'll come back to me as an original thought!

When I forget the thinks I've thunk I reckon it's my senility gettin' worse. What's your excuse?