Dolf
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Hi!
My dio "The 3rd Battle of Cassino" is almost finished.
For the moment it remains mainly the tracks of the Stug IV, and a few other details (for instance make the 88mm "corner" better, with some bricks visible, especially around the hole from where the cannon fires).
As for the rest, it's almost done!
So I guess some pictures are now due.
It took me over a year (well, part of that time I was moving, so couldn't work...) to reach this point...
Here are the pictures (notice that this is NOT an historical accurate depiction of the Battle! I call it the 3rd Battle of Cassino, because there were 4 Battles, and at the moment of the 3rd Battle there were still some German resistence; but there were never Stug IV in Cassino, and that hill in reality was totally destroyed, only ruins and rubble, no vegetation... I intended to create a more humane depiction of a Battle with this dio...) :
2 "idiots" laughing, and 2 others smoking...
1 is at the control of a MG 34 machine gun on a tripod:
The PAK "corner", with its team.
Plus, the workers team (RAD), working on the road blocks and surrounding areas not visible on the dio:
In the center of the town of Cassino, a German officer receives mail.
There are also two soldiers who supply combustible to the tank (one we only see his head as he is hidden by the tank, the other works with the fuel depot) :
The "feldküche", or the German field kitchen "corner".
Also a fountain nearby (with lots of buckets and other water containers), and a chapel with Mary and the child Jesus:
This guy is from the RAD (the working team), but is at the left edge of the dio because he carries the caddy with rocks to be thrown outside of our view:
On the top of the hill, outside the Monastery, the FLAK team. Also a sniper with his comrade spotter:
Two of the reloading team (two others missing as they will be one at the top of the tank, and the other passing him some ammo), and two cats:
The ruins of the Monastery itself, with the main gun from the dio, a 88mm, firing through that hole on the wall.
There is a spotter, on top of a altar, observing through a window, there are obuses (fired, and unfired) on the floor, there are light weapons, obuses boxes, everything one would expect to find in such a place:
Another one of the 88mm "corner", showing a statue of Mary with the child Jesus on the walls of the Monastery.
I used some "Crackle Medium" on the Platre de Paris and on the "Foam texturizer and filler" that I used to cover the walls (on foam) of the Monastery, but no cracks are visible... Will try to fix that later:
And finally, an overall vue of the entire dio:
It's on a 40cm X 60cm base!
That will be entirely covered (on the sides, and front and rear) by balsa wood.
Then a cover on transparent acrylic will be made to protect the dio!
The Stug obviously is missing the tracks problem solved... Will have to find some solution!
It has been giving me great pleasure to work on such a large project!
Hope you like it!
Cheers!
Dolf
My dio "The 3rd Battle of Cassino" is almost finished.
For the moment it remains mainly the tracks of the Stug IV, and a few other details (for instance make the 88mm "corner" better, with some bricks visible, especially around the hole from where the cannon fires).
As for the rest, it's almost done!
So I guess some pictures are now due.
It took me over a year (well, part of that time I was moving, so couldn't work...) to reach this point...
Here are the pictures (notice that this is NOT an historical accurate depiction of the Battle! I call it the 3rd Battle of Cassino, because there were 4 Battles, and at the moment of the 3rd Battle there were still some German resistence; but there were never Stug IV in Cassino, and that hill in reality was totally destroyed, only ruins and rubble, no vegetation... I intended to create a more humane depiction of a Battle with this dio...) :
2 "idiots" laughing, and 2 others smoking...
1 is at the control of a MG 34 machine gun on a tripod:
The PAK "corner", with its team.
Plus, the workers team (RAD), working on the road blocks and surrounding areas not visible on the dio:
In the center of the town of Cassino, a German officer receives mail.
There are also two soldiers who supply combustible to the tank (one we only see his head as he is hidden by the tank, the other works with the fuel depot) :
The "feldküche", or the German field kitchen "corner".
Also a fountain nearby (with lots of buckets and other water containers), and a chapel with Mary and the child Jesus:
This guy is from the RAD (the working team), but is at the left edge of the dio because he carries the caddy with rocks to be thrown outside of our view:
On the top of the hill, outside the Monastery, the FLAK team. Also a sniper with his comrade spotter:
Two of the reloading team (two others missing as they will be one at the top of the tank, and the other passing him some ammo), and two cats:
The ruins of the Monastery itself, with the main gun from the dio, a 88mm, firing through that hole on the wall.
There is a spotter, on top of a altar, observing through a window, there are obuses (fired, and unfired) on the floor, there are light weapons, obuses boxes, everything one would expect to find in such a place:
Another one of the 88mm "corner", showing a statue of Mary with the child Jesus on the walls of the Monastery.
I used some "Crackle Medium" on the Platre de Paris and on the "Foam texturizer and filler" that I used to cover the walls (on foam) of the Monastery, but no cracks are visible... Will try to fix that later:
And finally, an overall vue of the entire dio:
It's on a 40cm X 60cm base!
That will be entirely covered (on the sides, and front and rear) by balsa wood.
Then a cover on transparent acrylic will be made to protect the dio!
The Stug obviously is missing the tracks problem solved... Will have to find some solution!
It has been giving me great pleasure to work on such a large project!
Hope you like it!
Cheers!
Dolf
