DAK TODAY - My own DAK Diorama - FINISHED

Finished!
Enjoy!

DAK TODAY - My own DAK Diorama - 03

In this stage, I finished the covering with molding paste, then I use small stones before it dry.
Next all is painted with a base of sand color.

Small stones and tyre tracks before dry

GENERALLEUTNANT KARL BÜLLOWIUS

Born: 2.3.1890 in Königsberg
Suicide: 27.3.1945 in Hospital Camp Forrest/Tennesse/USA

Promotions:

• Hauptmann: 1.6.1924
• Major: 1.4.1934
• Oberstleutnant: 1.8.1936
• Oberst: 3.1.1939
• Generalmajor: 1.4.1942
• Generalleutnant: 1.4.1943

Commands and Assignments:

• Pioneer-Leader of the 8 Armee: 26.10.1939-15.5.1940
• Pioneer-Leader of the 9 Armee: 15.5.1940-25.10.1942
• Pioneer-Leader of the Panzer-Armee Afrika: 25.10.1942-13.3.1943
• General der Pioniere in Heeresgruppe "Afrika" (25.2.1943-9.5.1943)
• Commander of Division von Manteuffel: 30.4.1943-9.5.1943)
• General of Pioneers with Heeresgruppe Afrika: 13.3.1943-9.5.1943

Awards:

• 1914 Iron Cross Second Class
• 1914 Iron Cross First Class
• 1939 Bar to 1914 Iron Cross Second Class
• 1939 Bar to 1914 Iron Cross First Class
• German Cross in Silver: 30.11.1942

Notes:

Campaigns: West (1940); Russia (1941/1942);
North Africa (1942/1943)
Captured in North Africa - American POW (9.5.1943-27.3.1945)

Thanks to Francisco de Asís Romero y Medina

(Adicional info and pictures needed)

DAK TODAY - DelPrado Warrant Officer - Afrikakorps

This is a lead soldier - Warrant Officer from the Afrikakorps 1942 was manufactured by DelPrado in 2000. I found this in a antique exposision in last June. Here goes the pictures (click on images to see it big):

DAK TODAY - My own DAK Diorama - 02

Part 02
Then I start to cover the cardboard with modeling paste:

The stairs...

All cardboar is covered with the moulding paste

To be continued...

DAK TODAY - My own DAK Diorama - 01

I start a new diorama.
The ideia was to use some old DAK figures, equipment and vehicles and join them in a new diorama using new technics. Here goes the first steps:

Start to building the ruined desert house in cardboard

A ex NVIDIA Video Card box...

The prototype display

 

Have the ideia of use a old and bad constructed kit of a Leichter Panzerspähwagen Sdkfz 222 to stay half inside the ruined house

(I dont do this kind of things for almoust 20 years)

Soon I will show the next stage of this diorama.

DAK GUNS - Schwerer Panzerspähwagen Sd.Kfz 231/2 "8Rad"

The crew of a reconnaissance Sd.Kfz 231 resting near a well

German was an early exponent of armoured cars, partly because, unlike tanks, they were not restrited by the Versailes Treaty, and they were a cheap and quick way of mechanising the Army and giving industry experience of building vehicles to military specifications. The multy-wheeled German armoured cars resulted from studies using trucks with drive on four rear wheels to achieve a good cross-country performance.

VIDEO - Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps

At least a nice video.

Colorized but fine.