David against Goliath - Winterwar - Raate Road, Finland - 6 januari 1940 - Final Album

Mathias Decommere
Thx for the likes mates!

Gary Curling
Wow,you have been busy.fantastic photos looking under the trees adds atmosphere to the diorama.how did you do the snow.You must be pleased how it turned out.

Mathias Decommere
Thanks Gary, I'm very happy indeed! I underestimated the imitation of the snow by a long shot, it was really a journey from christmas snowspray to a mix of quality products to get the result I wanted. Three products I can recommend: snow powder of green stuff world, this has a very nice texture and some shiney pieces in it, snow microballoons from AK, very nice on vehicles and accesoires and Vallejo water texture foam effect to stack up the hight of the snow and cover them with the microballoons as you can see on the trees. I started this one in januari, so I'm very happy to have finished it up with this result. Happy to see you enjoy it! Cheers!

Bruce Huxtable
Gritty realism... If the enemy doesn't kill you, the cold will... A very unusual presentation with the thick smoke and flames, in an almost monochrome world of Life and Death.... Superbly well executed work, Mathias.

Mathias Decommere
Thank you very much Bruce, for your beautiful poetic description!

Mr James
Well done Mathias. Excellent presentation of this great dio. Great snow effect and lovely painted figures. I like your ignited smoke effect, the trees, the figure placement and the split logs. Lovely work.

Rui S
Great Snow effects and winter Dio 👍

Mathias Decommere
Thank you Mr James, all these kind words are very appreciated and a motivation to move on to the next project. The smoke was a gamble, but I think I've won. Every project I try something new. Here the smoke was the "innovation". I was very nervous about it, but I am also very happy how it turned out.

Mathias Decommere
Thx Rui S!

another bob
Amazing scene! I love the smoke and snow.

Mathias Decommere
Thank you very much another bob!

Guy Rump
Brilliant dio and modelling! 👍

Bobby Thumbs
awesome as usual

Mathias Decommere
Thank you very much Guy and Bobby! Your appreciation means a lot!

Thomas E.
Finnish Theme 👍👍👍
Do you know Finnish Wartime Archive? If you like: www.sa-kuva.fi
There is a search engine. Type in - e.g.: silta [means bridge; only finnish words or makenames like RSO]
May be you are interested.

Mathias Decommere
O wauw! I wish I had this tip before I started building😅

Rui S
Thx for sharing that great link Thomas.
Now i know something more about the photo that inspired my "The unexpected Finland resistance - T26", dio.