EBFDN "A miserable pilgrimage"

Rui S
I'm pulling a couch and some drinks😎

Kerry COX
Yes, me too. 🙂 This looks most interesting, and the engine is a good indication of the rest that will appear. 👍

Ulf Petersen
Welcome Rui and Kerry! Glad to have you on board.🙂
I updated my project description with the text passage I am about to tell with this diorama and I would appreciate to have your thoughts.

Holger Kranich
Rui, i´ll take a tea!
Its time for me to get that book. This looks extremely interesting to me. Yes, the dio too!😉

Ulf Petersen
You are very welcome, Holger!🙂
It's easy to get the book as it is listed several times by amazon. An alternative source is the joined online platform of german second hand bookshops:
zvab.com

Kerry COX
OK, point number 1. 🙂
Don't forget the BLOOD. 👍

Ulf Petersen
HaHa! 😄 No Kerry, I had no vision of a splatter scene in my mind. The only blood will appear as some dried spots on the bandages of the wounded men. The dead soldier will be covered by the blanket the medic pulls over his head. The only thing you will see of him will be his boots.

Kerry COX
Ulf. 👍 hahahahaha. 🙂
I will be really looking forward to see what you do with these figures mate, as you will for sure give me some inspiration for my dio, hoping to do something of what was called "Red Ball Express".👍
google.com.au/url?sa..m=bv.137904068,d.dGo

Ulf Petersen
Kerry, I know quite well about the Red Ball Express as Dirk Fries and KlausH made a phantastic Dio about that topic which was published in ModellFan. I will be on board when you start with that for sure.

Rui S
Ulf, Thank you very much for that translation. 👍
600 Km??? they would be better when they passed away (even if it was in a highway). They also had to refuel during that journey. Just a thought😉

Kerry COX
Good morning Rui and Ulf. 🙂 👍
I am wondering if there was any information on the dio Ulf has mentioned by Dirk and Klaus. ? as I am unaware of it, but I have seen other dio's that were based on the RBE, and Rui, the refuelling was the big issue for the convoy from the moment the advance into Europe started, especially the armour.
And I have seen images of trucks loaded to the top with 'jerry' cans, as well as dedicated trucks with the huge tanks, not unlike what we see on our roads now, that carried all the fuel to the front.👍
Millions of tyres were used up in this massive exercise too, but to 'isolate' just one part of the whole story will be difficult, as it was such a complicated event, that to get my 'moment in time', I am going to be very careful not to typicalize the event with just a small snap shot. 👍
And, I am going to have to look at it for a while after it's done, and I don't like the idea of thinking that I missed the point of what I was trying to portray.🙂
Rui, just like your German half track, sunburned, hot, bleached out effect says it all for what it was like in North Africa, a model I will always admire. 🙂
And, Ulf's amazing dio of the 'Peas in a pod" and that it still takes my breath away.👍
All inspirational stuff that has encouraged me to have a constant reminder of all our relative snippets of history in my display case and on disk, for other to marvel at, long after I and all of us are gone.
Quite a legacy we will leave behind.🙂

Kerry COX
OK, I have done some searching for the names mentioned by you Ulf of Dirk and KlausH, and I found this.google.com.au/url?sa..ust=1478720809933472
Is this what you were mentioning. ?

Joerg R.
Oh I love these german truck, I'm in too 👍👍👍

Germen V
this is interesting, i'll take a seat

Rui S
@Kezza, I was just giving Ulf a hint about is dio history, but anyway I understand what you mean (take your time Mate) and thank you for your words about my half track😉

Ulf Petersen
Kerry, this is exactly the Dio I had in mind.👍
Rui, I understood your hint and I will consider it for sure, thank you. 🙂

Kerry COX
Ulf, Thanks for that mate, and it certainly is a most impressive diorama indeed. 👍
Cheers, and I will let you know when I am past the planning and putting it on the board. 🙂
I will be watching your doi with great interest. 🙂

Torben H.
He's started, he's started!!! 🙂

Kerry COX
🙂 :-0 🙂 Yeah. ! Exciting isn't it. ?

Ulf Petersen
Thank you, I feel very honored by so much enthusiasm. 🙂

Kerry COX
It's not every day we get to sit and watch a master at work Ulf. 🙂 👍

Ulf Petersen
Kezza, wanna marry me?!😉
Added some pics of my progress.

Kerry COX
Marry YOU. ?🙂
Hell no. !
You are too much of a perfectionist. LOL 🙂
But I could watch your work all day. :-/ hehehe👍

gorby
Thanks for you translation Ulf, I thought is was very good and the passage very moving. I'm interested in WWII, but I often think how lucky we are that it isn't our generation that has to endure such suffering. It puts your own problems into perspective.
I'll be following with interest.

Ulf Petersen
You are damn right, Gorby! I occupied myself with the history of the 2nd World War and the 3rd Reich since I was 12 - by reason of having read this book by the way.
This gave me a strong awareness of the worth of peace and democracy. A feeling that seems to get more and more lost among the post war generations as you can see by the rise of populists and demagogues all around the world now. A trend that makes me deeply worried about the future.🙁

gorby
Hence your concern about Trump, which I share. Brexit is also a concern to me, the world needs to be forming closer ties, not splitting into smaller and smaller parts.

Kerry COX
We perform better as individuals, but become something to fear as a group. Islam is the perfect example of what I call a 'group'. 🙁

Rui S
Interesting enough is that in the brexit, it were the older generations nearest to the WWII conflict, that voted most in favour 🙁

Ulf Petersen
My concern does definitely include the Brexit.

gorby
You are right Rui. Unfortunately that generation are also the ones to be more trusting of authority, which is why conmen target them. So they trusted the horror stories they read in the media (except the BBC) about being swamped with migrants, and about being infiltrated by terrorists etc. My dad still remembers the British Empire and although he is not racist at all, many of that era are distrustful of foreigners, so, many voted with their 'gut' rather than their 'head'.

A lot of lies were told on both sides of the Brexit argument in Britain, but it's the younger people who will have to live with the decision. I think a lot of people think, that if it doesn't work out, we could just rejoin. But I doubt that Europe will want us back.

Ulf Petersen
Well, I am sure Europe would welcome Little Britain back anytime but I am sure as well it would accept Britain only without any of those former exclusive cherry picking regulations it had before Brexit. Only as one member amongst the others. That would be too hard to swallow, I guess.

Spanjaard
a long as nobody has the crazy idea of following the UK example, and there is EU to return to in the future, then you can worry about that possibility of coming back.... it worries me some politicians who want to go also on isolation
and living the politics aside. the model is looking good😉

Michael Phillips
Now this is a cool project! I will be following along indeed.

Ulf Petersen
Thanks Michael and a warm welcome!🙂

Ulf Petersen
Added some pics of the growing ambulance interior.

Holger Kranich
Thats what I was looking for...😢

Xerxes
Looking forward to see more results of this interesting project 👍

Bart Goesaert
progress looks good... nice interior so far...

Ulf Petersen
Thank you, mates! 🙂 Masking the windows is kinda boring to me, but when I finally finished it, the interior painting will follow. Stay tuned!

Michael Phillips
So nice! That interior is really outstanding!

Holger Kranich
Looks really good so far. Are stretchers included?

Ulf Petersen
Michael, true! I was really impressed, when I opened the box.
Holger, yes, they are: 3 frames with 3 stretchers each (and I am lucky to have one spare in the figure box 😉)

Holger Kranich
You can never have enough stretchers! (As well as Tomcats, Tigers, Havana Club etc... )😢