Noticias

Johne 69
Super 👍 great pictures from a great Dio

Jos Jansen
Wow, great dio...!

Laurent VILLANUEVA HELLER ForEver
fabulous !

Bart Goesaert
Splendid work... very, very lifelike...

Tom ...
Brilliant as usual! The photo taking is brilliant as well! Particularly love the tank damage.

gorby
WOW! Exceptionally realistic result!

Bob Hall
WOW ! That brings back Memories ! Spot on with the Chocolate Chip DCU's, Awesome work !

Rui S
Great Dio.. excellent job 👍

Michael Hickey
well done dio, and awesome photography.👍👍👍

Donald Dickson II
WOW. Just WOW.

Thomas K.
fantastic! i love your models! 😉

Neuling
Thank you mates! Robert, can you share your memories and explain the Chocolate Chip DCUs? Danke Thomas, sorry to say that for dramatic reasons the tank damage was inevitable.

Ingo F
Looks awesome mate. 👍

Arne Greve
I like it! On the one side the destroyed iraqie Tank with the US Boys and on the other side the british Tank. Really good!

Jan Raska
WOW!!!!

Spanjaard
So damn realistic that you can take some of the pictures as reference pics of the real deal. standing in awe in front of the pics. respect!

Bob Hall
I was a Calvary Scout when I first joined the Army, I was assigned to the 2nd ACR in September of 1990 Then in February of 91 is when we invaded from Saudi into Iraq. it was the tankers that were involved in the Battle of 73 Eastings. I wasn't in the battle, but I saw the after math of of what the M1 was doing to the Iraqi Tanks. Literally the turrets would "POP"off the chassis because Russian Tank turrets are held in place by gravity. The DCU is the Army name for "DESERT COMBAT UNIFORM" it was the first desert uniform we had and because of the little black dots on the uniform it got the nick name of the Chocolate Chip pattern,which got phased out a few years later around 92-93 in favor of the Tri-Color DCU we had in Iraq you may have seen us wear between 03-06. So there is my memory's and the DCU definition. Thanks for a great Dio !

Tim Heimer
Nice Dio! Just awesome detailing! Beautiful work!

Neuling
Thank you Ingo, Arne, Jan, Spanjaard, Robert and Timothy! Robert`s info is very interesting and I am honored that a participant of operation Desert Storm likes my diorama.

Zsolt Czegle
Looks good! 👍

Richmond
Wonderful work as usual

Neuling
Thank you Zsolt and Richmond for your interest in and appreciation of my diorama.

Xerxes
Weil done panzer wreck and dio

Olivier
Amazing !

Michael Phillips
This is really just an amazing diorama... That damaged area on the Iraqi tank is simply outstanding. Bravo!!!!

Ronny Verlaek
Beautifull

Karl Ei Ütle
Very nice

Michel Wingard
Great!

Jean-Michel Tilquin
Incredibly realistic! Everything, the tanks, the figures, the dio... You are an inspiration for sure!

Jean-Michel Tilquin
By the way, where do the figures come from?

Andreas Koziol
fantastic dio - impact & burnout looks premium! 👍

Neuling
Thank you all mates! German modeler, Tom, Xerxes, Michael and Andreas, the tank damage was inspired by photos in the book "Desert storm ground war" by Jim Mesko. Michael, the three GI figures are from Verlinden Productions.

Nigel
A superb diorama; something to inspire, and aspire to!
I applaud your bravery, and skill, in wrecking the T-62. I'm not sure that I could bring myself to do that.😉

Neuling
Thank you Nigel! The tank damage was a must in this diorama, but I conceived that the Iraqi crew had left the tank before it was hit by the Hellfire missile.

Bob Hall
This is how I remember them ! LOL !

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Neuling
Robert thank you for the interesting link!

Roland Sachsenhofer
You have an incredible talent to stage these ingeniously built models in atmospheric dioramas! It's more than amazing, it's brilliant!

Nigel
Robert: that's one way of showing off those otherwise invisible interiors!😉 👍

Neuling
Danke Roland, ein sehr schönes Kompliment.

Bob Hall
@Nigel-Yeah ! was like a T-62 Convertible ! but then we told not to get to close the ones that were taken out by A-10's, some were radioactive from the depleted uranium rounds that destroyed them. Funny thing too was when I went back in 03 and two other deployments, there were bone yards of these old tanks we took out in 91, fenced off with "DANGER-RADIOACTIVE" posted all around them.

Paul Shearer
Very nice. Damage on T-62 looks amazing!

Neuling
Thank you Paul!

Villiers de Vos
The result is very nice.

Dietmar Bogatzki
Spitzendiorama und gut fotografiert 👍

Guillaume Blanchet
Another great one! I'm verry impress by the destroyed T-62.

Guy Rump
Superb dio Neuling! 👍

The Challenger 1s I saw during Op Granby had the inverted V in black on their sides (and top) as Allied identification marks. However, I can not say that they all did as I only saw some of them during the conflict.

Mathias Decommere
Stunning! The impactdamage is just perfect!

Robert Podkoński
Awesome!

Marcin Dudek
This is awesome! Grate job.

Olivier
Good to see some UK armour.

Once more a perfectly mastered 'mise en scène'.

Roland Sachsenhofer
What a sight! To repeat myself - and others - this is a masterpiece in model making as well as in model photography!

Michael Kohl
I absolutely go with Roland and the others. I am particularly impressed by the painting of the uniform camo the cracked road wheels and the blasted box on the T-62. But these are only my favorite highlights on a highlight dio. Nice that this one popped up again.

Neuling
Thanks a lot mates! - This is an old diorama inspired by the pictures I saw after Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm/Granby. With my new camera I took new pictures and pimped the album up. - Guy I´m honored to get positive feedback from a gulf war veteran! And your remark on the vehicle marking "V" is absolutely correct. In my reference booklets (both of them Concord Publications Company) "Blitzkrieg in the Gulf" by Yves Debay and "Operation Granby" by Bob Morrison nearly all British tanks have the "V" marking except for the tanks with the number "42" (written in black or white digits). Was the "42" a unit which did not go into battle or were the pictures taken before the battle began?

Alex Rodionov
Fantastic. Looks like historical photoes.

Guy Rump
Hi Neuling, The numbers on the side of the MBTs were, I'm pretty certain, identification numbers within a Squadron of MBTs, i.e. 41, 42 and 43 for example would be the ID numbers for differing MBTs within the Sqn. The inverted V was not present when exercising before going into the war fighting phase so the photos you have seen are prior. Hope that helps. As I'm sure you can tell I did not serve with a tank Regt, I was a Medic.

Neuling
Thank you Alex! - Very interesting infos from you, Guy. Maybe I should rename the album "Before the storm", but what about the damaged T 62 then? Btw hopefully you did not have to be too busy as a Medic ..........

bruno egral
Models and diorama are both Amazing !

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Awesome diorama, Neuling 👍
The damage on the T-62 looks incredible.

Neuling
Thank you bruno and WhiteGlint!

Andrea Succio
Love this job. And fantastic Photo

Alister Curnow
incredible work! 100% realism. Love it

Simon Nagorsnik
I've noticed this a few times and of course it's a great job of yours!
the style of your photographs really suggests that it is a real scene!

Neil
Agree with Simon, just looks so real - like all your dioramas do. Your work is always a pleasure to see in the feed Neuling 👏 your photo skills are to be admired also mate 😎👌

Neuling
Thanks a lot Andrea, Alister, Simon and Neil. Your feedback is highly motivating.

Stas Gorkin
really cool

DJ Fajardo
Brilliant work! 👍

Dylana Moss
Those are some of most well painted miniature figures I have ever seen! And the wreck is incredibly detailed. Amazing work here!

Grzegorz Janikowski
Beautiful!

Neuling
Thanks a lot mates! - Dylana, this uniform camouflage pattern is not so difficult to paint, but I do not know yet how to paint the modern pattern with the tiny digital spots.

Chan Li
Haha, I wasn't shocked like last time, cuz I know you were the man who authored them.
I suddenly shared these pics with my friends, show them how much an ace modeler can create.

Michael Osadciw
Excellent work! Especially the burned bits; really convincing.

Neuling
Thank you Chan Li and Michael!

John
Amazing job on the whole thing but that T-62 damage is on another level!

Neuling
Thank you John! I´ve seen lots of pictures of damaged Iraqi equipment, but those damages are nothing compared to the pictures of totally destroyed Russian vehicles on the ORYX website.

Harald Besold
Looks incredibly realistic and very nicely staged.

Neuling
Danke, Harald!

Николай Романов
Neuling, я первый раз сделал кусок асфальта для подставки на свой Тайфун-к...и понял сколько труда Вы вкладываете в свои диорамы...респект🤝

David Taylor
Another brill renditionNeuling.Recently purchased a Chally 1 so hope I do it justice.

Neuling
Thank you mates! Much appreciated! - David, looking forward to your Challenger. Meanwhile there are kits better than the old one from Tamyia.

Christian Lehmann
👍

Neuling
Danke, Christian!

Mr James
The detailed damage on the T-62 is superbly done. Your builds both inspire and depress me in equal measure. 🙂

Neuling
Thank you, Mr James. I´m glad to inspire and sad to depress. Your work is remarkable and - also - inspiring.

Zbynek Honzik
Very nice! 👍

Clement
Great work!

Neuling
I fully agree!

Dave
Really nice diorama, great details.

Kesa Tiho
Very nice, how'd you do such a fantastic job on the landscape?

Clair Greenwood
Holy Moly Dude, thats one hell of a great dio!!!

Gary Victory
That's really telling a story. Really fantastic work Dude....Top job Sir.

Neuling
Very impressive diorama. Living history for sure. 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Looks like the installation of a new boiler... but is the very first shell of the 'Trevithick', the first steam locomotive....
The vintage kit doesn't appear to be bad and quite well thought out, only the plastic material in an unhealthy-soapy looking green plastic made me a little uneasy. But it will be fine! 🙂
I'm really looking forward to the next steps - a highly interesting and refreshingly different topic!

gorby
Looking forward to see what you can do with this oldie.

Alex K
👀

Roland Sachsenhofer
Appreciated, Gorby und Alex!

Roland Sachsenhofer
The main assemblies have now been completed. Care must be taken here to clean up the numerous ejection marks and the many moulding protrusions, but that's the only thing holding it up 🙂
The colours on the parts shown are, apart from the primer with black acrylic paint, Alclad II metal paints, namely Gunmetall, Steel... and above all Alclad ''Panzer Grey''. Traces of various shades of pastel crayon brown have been applied on top with a dry brush.

Juergen Klinglhuber
Sehr cooles Projekt - ganz nach meinem Geschmack. I'm curious about the outcome.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Das freut mich- very appreciated!

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat here, of course! (I have built another incarnation of this kit...)

Roland Sachsenhofer
Robert, very pleased!

René "Lord Bilbo" Bartholemy
@Robert Podkoński : Me too! Much less details than this one though...
Taking a seat!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Hello Rene, the seat is happily yours, but the show is already over 🙂
I am proud to present you the completed 'Trevithick'! It was great fun taking photos of this gearwheel, linkage and flywheel work of wonder. Please excuse the resulting large number of pictures.
This time Alclad paints were used for the colour scheme, but not only from the metal range: what you see here is Alclad's 'Panzergrau' primer, together with 'Gunmetal' and 'Smoke' and similar shades. I have replaced the plastic parts for the push rods with metal bars. I hope you like the result as much as I enjoyed building it!

bughunter
Sehr geil 👍

Alex K
That was quick! Great result, great photos! 👍

gorby
Nice result Roland.
I was wondering how they added more coal to the boiler when the tender is so far away and the boiler door is under the pistons.

Ben M
Great subject, great build!

Robert Podkoński
You've turned this kit into the piece of art, Roland. Chapeau bas!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you very much, mates! This is highly appreciated and motivating feedback! I'm glad to have ventured into an area new to me; the kit, for all its age, has charm and possibilities 🙂 Your words really make me very happy!

Juergen Klinglhuber
Great what you have mangaged with this kit in such a short time - wunderful!

Roland Sachsenhofer
I'm delighted with your praise - danke Jürgen!

Roland Sachsenhofer
.... and Gorby: You're absolutely right! The layout of the loading and coal tender also seems puzzling to me 🙂

gorby
I had a look into this and it turns out the original company who produced this kit got it wrong:
Youtube Video
Sorry Roland. 😉

Bruce Huxtable
Goodness! You wouldn't want to get your fingers (or hair) trapped in the moving parts!!

Nice build, Roland, I'm enjoying the sound-track to the video, whilst admiring your model 🙂

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you very much for sharing this great video! Yes, Bruce, a highly dangerous device, and a highly illustrative demonstration of it too

Neuling
A beautiful build anyway and wonderful photos!

Rui S
Great work as usual 👍 The weathering and clean and shine interior on the road whells just wonderfull stuff...
I've also done a Panzer Regiment 8, Panzer II, but in North Afrika. Realy like that Bull Stencil.
Any issues with the kit?

Kristjan Lind
Hey, Rui! Thanks!
About the kit: Getting the lower hull together was somewhat tricky and needed care, patience and attention.
The brackets that support the idler tensioning mechanism on the rear of the hull were wrong for
Ausf.B, and needed to be replaced. And I replaced the commanders cupola with a Dragon one too, because Tristar didn't have any interior details on theirs. Otherwise it's a great kit and a quite fun to build.
You can see the building of it here: britmodeller.com/for..547-panzer-iv-ausfb/

Mathias Decommere
Beautiful job!

Doubtingmango
Excellent work!

Pepe
Great!!!!

Trez
Nice build - I like the figs and the fact that you can see the interior.

Markus Antonius
Great realistic weathering! Finally, a Tank thats just DIRTY, not aged for centuries with excessive paint chipping.

Neuling
I agree with everyone above. Superb.

Neuling
Nice work!

Nathan Dempsey
That's a beautiful build! Excellent idea to create sagging on the kit supplied tires.

Pascal Van Acker
thx Nathan

Erik Off
Realistic weathering and a great idea for the tires. 👍

Treehugger
I guess in photo 1 for the loaded wheels, the metal rod is first glued to the rubber wheel around the hole in the rubber wheel, and then pushed inwards through the hole in the plastic part, deforming the rubber tyre, and then I guess adding superglue to fix the metal pin in place with (hopefully) the deformed wheel still in same deformed shape. Otherwise, I don't think I understood the explanation there in the text.

Neuling
Excellent build which looks like the real thing.