Intermodellbau Dortmund 14-18 April Photos Croebern

[Paul]

This dio has to be seen to be able to appreciate it in full. It is absolutely incredible!!!! My photos can in no way do it justice.

[ColeF]

Ouch! That's a lotta white!

[monty]

i wouldn't like to be in the way of those coloums

[musketier]

An Amazing set up, I liked the traffic jam picture the most

[Dad's Army]

Thats an impressive work of art, thanks for these pics

[Cor V.]

Absolutely incredible, and yes I like the traffic jam the best.
Thanks for the pics.

[phhoog]

wow that's outstanding !
I of course like very much the traffic jam but the nearly peaceful farm court is wuite nice as well and contrasting with the crowd outside.

[je_touche]

wow that's outstanding !
I of course like very much the traffic jam but the nearly peaceful farm court is wuite nice as well and contrasting with the crowd outside.

The 'nearly peaceful farmcourt' is a guesthouse, used by the Prussians as a dressing station and field hospital. As you look into the windows you see legs being amputated on tables.

This is a great piece of craftmanship, indeed. What is more, the situation as it was at Cröbern in the early afternoon of October 16, 1813, has been meticulously researched. All the units are represented in 1/1 strength as they were at that time. Presumably, the greatest problem was to reconstruct the appearance of the village of Cröbern, which doesn't exist anymore. It had to yield to brown coal mining south of Leipzig in the 1970s, there is a quarry pond now where the village used to be. So the model buildings had to be reconstructed, using contemporary plans as well as photographies from the late 19th century and the 1930s and 1960s.

[Maurice]

That's a big battlefield, quite impressive.

How many figures?
How long did it take to build?
How many people have worked on it?
Can a dog walk on one leg?
How many square meters is the diorama?

[Paul]

That's a big battlefield, quite impressive.

How many figures?
How long did it take to build?
How many people have worked on it?
Can a dog walk on one leg?
How many square meters is the diorama?

answers to these and many more can be found here
http://www.croebern-1813.de/40199/41551.html
Oh, and if the leg is big enough, ie an elephants, then yes a dog can walk on it

[je_touche]

How many figures?
How long did it take to build?
How many people have worked on it?
Can a dog walk on one leg?
How many square meters is the diorama?

- Don't know how many at present but planned to have 20.000+.
- The dio is still growing and planned to be finished by the bicentennial of the Battle of the Nations, in 2013. Work on it begun some five (?) years ago.
- There are three people working on it on a constant basis, and two or three more from time to time.
- I have no clue if a dog can walk on one leg.
- Don't know how many square meters at the moment, but ca. 30 in the finished stage.

Really have a look at the link given by Paul, all the information is there.

[Maurice]

I am looking, and the more I read, the more impressive it gets. There is no way that I could spend several years working on one thing. Already takes a lot to keep me focused on a project of several weeks...

[je_touche]

I am looking, and the more I read, the more impressive it gets. There is no way that I could spend several years working on one thing. Already takes a lot to keep me focused on a project of several weeks...

Same here. I very much admire their stamina. I was talking to the guy who is doing most of the figure painting. He is able to paint several hundred figures in a week. Even he was telling that after having painted 6,400 figs for the Austrian grenadier division (you see the guys in the pics, wearing bearskin caps) he had quite enough of it.

[T. Dürrschmidt]

Three cheers for the Croebern-boys.

[Dad's Army]

Three cheers for the Croebern-boys.

Only three?

They deserve more!!

[Cor V.]

A cheer for every fig. then?

[Susofrick]

Absolutely a cheer for every fig! Amazing work!

[Samuel Alonso]

Kolossal ! Those guys have made a superb diorama !
I'm waiting fot what's coming !!!

[entrauner]

my very sincere congratulations to such madness-just amazing!