Hellfire from Halfaya in scale

Holger Kranich
Is it 72nd scale? It looks great!

Roland Roth
Respect, Frank!
A very good successful diorama in this small scale! There is real life on the battlefield - with many details. A second 8,8 might have been even better to amplify the desired impression ...

... but this is criticism on a high level 😉

Frank Roth
Hi folks, thx.
@Roland:
I thought about a second kit, but the distance between them seemed too small.
( hätte ich auch in deutsch schreiben können 😉 )

Roland Roth
Schon klar :-D ... so unter uns Pfarrerstöchtern!
Aber die Folks jenseits unserer Grenzen bzw. Sprache sollen ja auch verstehen, was wir meinen 😉

Frank Roth
Das dachte ich mir auch..... 😄

Steve Wilson
Now the Handgun and Motorcycle & Sidecar tell the full story, triple brilliance8)8)8)

Frank Roth
thx Steve..... 😄

Frank Roth
Hello friends, yesterday I cut the diorama into two parts.
I never liked the Diorama really.
I meant, there's not really a center for the eyes view.
In a few days everything will be redesigned and revised. ( I hope )
Pics will follow naturally..... 🙂

Michal Z.
great dio! 🙂
I'm looking forward for the update 🙂

Christian Bruer
Very very nice! That reminds me to think bout Maj. Wilhelm Bach, the defender of the Halfaya Pass. I read about him for nearly 35 years ago in a book by Paul Carell about the Afrika Korps. Cheers, Christian

Es-haq Khosravi
Well done!

Dirk Heyer
Lovely diorama!
Wonderful weathering and a great paintjob at all!
Chapeau!

Lionel Marco

...And then it was the demise of the Queen of the battlefield (Matilda II)

Frank, I agree with your idea of focussing your diorama.
If I may suggest...
Maybe the problem is not so much the dioram itself the problem than the figures: they are nor focused, but each one seems to have a something particuliar and different to do:
one is carrying jerricans
one is washing himself
2 are having a snack
one is manning a shell
2 (in 2 differents parts) are working ont the firing position.
one find this place to noisy
and one is watching over there...
I think it will work better if the 2 standing near the Kubel and the one watching on the right of the gun were talking together with the 2 near the edge of the cliff
the rest of the gun crew must do one thing and only one.

Another thing that bother me: the position of the gun lower carriage: i will rotate it 90°. the way it is now, I can' see how the front wheel carriage was removed without an harassing and dangerous movement so close of the edge of the cliff.

The spent shells are of no use in this case: When i see this diorama, I'm more thinking of the preparation of the position than an after action scene. So why is there some spent shells?
If you want them, they might be better placed between the 2 wheels carriages, in the opposite direction of the gun: Halfaya Pass was a long range shooting of slowly advancing tanks. the position of the shells seems to indicate that the position was nearly overrun And if they are there after an after-action cleaning, I hope the crewman who left some among the live rounds will be punished!

I hope it's not too harsh, but the quality of the models deserve a great diorama!

Lionel

Zsolt Czegle
Sehr schöne Arbeit! 👍

Spanjaard
excellent models and painting. absolutely stunning. but i would certainly listen to Lionel Marco suggestions. it makes sense and it will turn this in a master piece (without those figures and 8.8 deserve)
i must say that your 1/72 dios really look like 1/35... my respect for the level of detail you achieve in those figures and models. incredible