new trucks for my army

You never have enough trucks. Esspecially Rommel while fighting tín the dessert faced this problem. The german africakorps had everything to bring to the frontline by trucks as all attempts to use trains failled. Actually they habe been bombed by the RAF. So fighting at the Alamein line the trucks needed more gas than they could transport.
So here my new Merceds trucks, they are all from Panzer Depot .

no good day today

Today I took time to make some new pictures about the african szene I have been buidling. So far everything went well. As I was on the way to put the pictures on my computer the SD-card broke into two pieces.

So there will be no new pictures until I find the time to make new ones.

But first of all I have to go and buy a new SD-card for my camera.

50 cm search light in an open position

Open position for anti-aircraft searchlight
while I'm painting my tanks and scout cars for the African diorama I built a quick weekend project.
With the model of a 50 cm search light I created a fortified position. Over the weekend I will add some men to get it ready for action.

new tanks for Africa

As I had to decide which tanks I want to place on the african village, I took two from Panzer Depot and one old Panzer II from Dragon.

In the next days I will paint them and some stuff to make them more looking like in action in Africa.

sketch for my 1-144 train station

Here is the drawing I created before I started with the building.

just out of the box: US-Army in Italy in 1/144

While watching an Italian movie with my wife I had the idea to this small diorama.
It shows the approach of the American Army in an Italian village.
The GIs just received at the train station. 
As my space is limited I decided to build a narrow gauge line with two wagons.
The M3A1 Stuart gives the GIs a bit fire support. The tank is from “Panzerdepot” and just out of the box. All soldiers are members of the “Pegasus” Army and are out of the box too.
So here are some pictures:

While working on the train I tried several different tanks - as you can see not all of them fit perfectly.

some progress for my african diorama

Here some more picutres. 

Meanwille I filled up the ground with plaster of Paris what I coloured it with used tea bags. 

They give a really good natural colour.

The last picture shows the diorama before I decided the paint all houses and the entrance in the same colour. The vehicels are all from PanzerDepot and yet I have not decided which one will be definitly be later on the diorama.