Need help for my next Diorama

Dave,

No input sadly but will watch your blog with great interest, especially after your Me 109.

Cheers Mike

Hi Dave,

Exciting to hear you've got another diorama up your sleeve.

In general terms, for an early Ardennes scene, a mix of both SS and fallschirmjager troops would ad visual interest. Something nice to break up the vehicle colors would perhaps be a captured American jeep. Lot's of captured allied supllies, as well.

I look forward to seeing your interpretation.

Cheers !

Ian

PS: I've got two future dio scenarios up my sleeve, as well !

Thanks everyone, appreciate all your interest.

Great idea on the US Jeep etc, might well incorporate that.

Items purchased so far:-

1 x AF35082, SdKfz251/21 Ausf D Drilling MG151 20mm AA Gun
1 x TA32549, German Steyr Type 1500A/01
1 x TA35224, Schwimmwagen Type 166

1x King Tiger(Dragon)

1x AFV Howitzer

1xSDK8F7 8t half track (dragon)

still shopping lol

DAVE!!!!

Way to go mate........Loadsa good stuff there!!

Can`t wait to see this progress.......I`ve got a rather large one in the planning stage myself!!

I`m nowhere near your skills,,,,,,,,But i`ll give it a go!!

Top stuff mate,looking forward to it sir!!

Cheers,

Andy

Thanks Andy

I have not moddled at this scale for about 25 years but should be ok with a little help.

I think a Panther G will complete the vehicles and then it's the task of planning and getting all the figures. Are any of the Dragon figures any good does anyone know?

Dave

Hi Dave

How about a Harley Davidson M/C ....with a couple of troops looking it over as a decent bit of booty!

Have troops carrying syphon hoses and looking for any fuel they can

This is going to be an ace dio

Nick

There are some decent Dragon sets out there Dave,just be carefull if you are doing SS figures though as some Dragon sets depict there Ardennes figures wearing padded reversibles in SS camo but I have never seen SS camo being worn on winter reversibles during this offensive.

Carl

Hi

you may want to consider this set, especially with your avatar image

Dragon 6176

Alan

(or is that Andy )

Thats a good set of Figures there posted by Alan .. Kampfgruppe Hansen I think.

In resin we did have the lovely set from Warriors a very early release of the above figures but long OOP.I brought some originals on e - bay a couple yrs back so worth checking now and then still.

Now we have this set from Mantis Miniatures available from Darren on here at Firefly Models.

I have it and its superb,maybe the MG42 rounds need tweaking as look overly big but easy enough for you