Here is my new project that I present to you, a diorama in the Ardennes.
It depicts a movement of troops and vehicles just before the famous report of road crossing at Kaiserbaracke (where we see the famous schwimmwagen in front of the panel Malmedy / St Vith and the passenger has long taken a long time wrong for Peiper) .
At this cross of Kaiserbaracke the Hansen Group separates from the Knittel Group.
I will locate my diorama near the village of Born, a few kilometers before Kaiserbaracke, early in the morning of December 18, 1944.
A Sdkfz 250 Neu, member of the Knittel group, has joined one of Hansen's group Jagdpanzer IV and has to exchange on the guidelines to follow.
The two columns will probably mix from here to separate a few kilometers further to the crossroads of Kaiserbaracke, what we see in the video mentioned above.
The ingredients of the project will be:
- A Sdkfz 250 Neu [MK72]
- A Jagdpanzer IV [Dragon / Hasegawa]
- Ardennes House [DioDump]
- Probably a bike [Preiser] or a Kubelwagen [?] If the place allows it.
- Then, various figurines of tankers and panzergrenadiers.
The editing of the Jagdpanzer IV is already well advanced despite some failures.
At 1/72, the catch is that none of the main available references (Dragon, Hasegawa and Trumpeter) are correct.
We will say that the least worse is that of Hasegawa but we must keep the idea to change the running gear, coming from a Panzer IV Revell for example
Unfortunately, the installation of the fenders in photoetched on the model went wrong. I do not really understand where the problem came from, but they were wider than necessary and were a good millimeter above the casemate. A gagging attempt to make up for it went wrong.
So I opted for the "B" plan, the pose of the Hasegawa's casemate on the model Dragon.
The transplant took well, there was no rejection!
The casemate fits very well to the Dragon sill even if it is a little bit too wide. After small blow grinding / sanding, we now see only fire.
Other ingredients have gone into the dance: Photodécoupe Part, RB Model cannon, some Revell pieces and 2-3 home crafts, which give this. And finally a painting challenge to raise for camouflage in "camo discs", at 1/72!
Less talk, now photos :
More photos in my blog :
http://scale72world.blogspot.fr/search/label/Ardennes%20Diorama