"O.K., wise guy. Just how am I supposed to get my armour across now?!" Fusilli Italy 1944

[spanner570]

Sorry for the delay in posting my finished diorama, but I wanted to wait until conditions were right to take some pictures. Yesterday was such a day. Luuuvverrly deep shadows!

Thanks to all those who posted such nice comments during the build for this. I truly appreciated every single one.
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In the Italian village of Fusilli, the rearguard of the retreating enemy has put up a short, but fierce resistance to the advancing Allies.
A Tiger tank has been destroyed along with a Panzer. Unfortunately an American gunner has destroyed the Tiger far too late, and the wreck has ended up blocking the bridge that elements of the U.S. armour wished to use as a means to crossing the river.

An American photographer has snapped the moment when the Major in charge of the successful liberation of the village is quizzing the poor chap responsible for the 'road block'.

"Lieutenant, want my tanks across that bridge - TONIGHT!"

I've taken far too many pictures, so I've chosen a mixture of colour and b/w. If you would like to 'suffer' some more, I'll post them. I also took a couple with the houses backdrop I painted, I gave it my best shot, but I'm not really happy with the effect. If anyone would like to see them, I'll post these too.

Here is my stab at the scene.






































Cheers all
Ron

 

[Mark1]

Absolutely fantastic love it! The damaged buildings look brilliant! nice work

 

[GerryW]

Lovely work, just can't believe how you've got the details into 1/72, looks so much like 1/35! Love the details in there and yes please for more photos!

 

[scottie3158]

cracking photos mate.

 

[yak face]

Fantastico ! A superb piece , thoughtfully composed and photographed to be photo realistic . The azure skies over Fusilli add to the feel , i can imagine those poor squaddies sweating in the mediterranean sun ( as well as sweating over how theyre going to get over the bridge now )
brilliant work , regards Antonio Tortiglioni

 

[papa 695]

Great work Ron

 

[Jim R]

Hi Ron
Superb. Can't have too many photos of eye candy this good.
Jim

 

[Mini Me]

Nicely done 570, I usually go for the b&w effect but in this case, the contrast between all the different elements in the scene come alive in the color shots..... that's how my eyes see it anyway. Tip 'O the Hat Sir! Rick H.

 

[Si Benson]

Stunning work as ever

 

[minitnkr]

BRAVO! Excellent compo & modeling.

 

[Gern]

Great little story to match an excellent result .... and definitely more pictures wanted!

 

[boatman]

AN RON why cant they just use the sherman to push the tiger off the bridge as its reight nr the edge of the bridge an yes i know that tiger wheighs in at 60 odd tons
an would a sheman be able to do it ? an brillant work BTW
CHRIS

 

[minitnkr]

A minor point, dry stowage Shermans had added applique armor on the front right turret side, both ammo storage locations right hullside & as you have it on the left hull side. It's at a very bad angle. Maybe a platoon of them could drag it over to the US side.

 

[spanner570]

Wow, thanks everyone. Great comments for sure!
Reading them all sure beats a cup of cocoa at this time of night.

Good thinking Chris.
Paul. Thanks for pointing out the omission. The problem is, I have no knowledge of such things. I just build what's in the box.

Right, you long suffering people. you can blame Gerry, Jim and Dave for this final batch of pictures.
































The only picture I took with the sketch background. It just didn't look right somehow. Not to worry, I had a go....


Thanks for your patience folks.

Cheers,
Ron

 

[minitnkr]

Great pics. I think with a little more work on the windows & doors to fake some depth, you would have been happier with the backdrop.

 

[JR]

Well deserved 570.

Regards.

453.

 

[adt70hk]

Ron

Yet again, another top diorama.

Great idea, great composition, lots going on and a fantastic Italian village.

Very well done indeed.

Andrew

 

[GerryW]

Great pics. I think with a little more work on the windows & doors to fake some depth, you would have been happier with the backdrop.

Completely agree - a little bit of 'depth' by shadows would've worked wonders!

 

[JayCee]

A truly excellent Dio, Ron . Very well done indeed.
John.

 

[spanner570]

Just arrived back home from a few days camping, so sorry for the late response, boys.

Thanks for all the positive posts. Much appreciated.

Paul and Gerry. When you did your watercolour paintings, I'm sure you will have come across the same problem I had with this effort of mine.- Depth.

I tried to get a balance between the model buildings in the foreground and the painted background. As I wanted them quite a bit back, I reasoned that too much detail to the painted buildings would bring them too close. I might have a second bash. I'll see......

Thanks again to all those who posted.

Cheers,
Ron