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I am 14 years old, and this is my third diorama, and my first 1/35 scale diorama. I had bought a 1/35 scale model of the Tamiya Marder III. I felt like I needed to do something more with it. When I was in the model shop, I spotted the "Tamiya Frontline Reconnaissance Team" Kit, and knew that I could make a great diorama with it. I researched Stalingrad, and the German advance towards it. I painted the Marder according to the time period that I wanted it, and it turned out perfect in the end.
Like I said, the tank is a Tamiya Marder III, and it is one of the best kits I've built. The pieces fit nicely, and the instructions were great. The two trees in the diorama are actually scratch built. I gathered sticks from my backyard, and I used a hot glue gun to glue them together. I got some leafy-looking things from a craft store, and glued them onto the sticks. I then airbrushed fall colours onto them. Making the crushed tree was fun, considering the amount of frustration that I put into the alive tree.
The figures were pretty fun to build, but not too great to paint. It was a learning experience to paint them, and they are much better than some of my other figures I've made them.
I constructed the base in one day, while watching a football game on TV. I used a product called "Faster Plaster," and I applied "Static Grass" to the base. I glued the trees down, and I finished with the figures. The road sign that was crushed by the tree was one of my proudest parts of the model. I bought different types of balsa wood (or however you say it) and cut out shapes with scissors. I painted them white and painted names of cities on them. I you can't read them, they say "Stalingrad: 215km, Elista: 15km" I had researched many maps to get the right distances.
I named this diorama "Welcher Weg Zu Ivan?" because it means "which way to Ivan?" in German.
I would like to thank Tim Streeter for giving me tips and advice for building this diorama. Any comments or questions would be greatly appreciated.
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