The end 1945 – Adolf Hitler

Posted by lorenzoimcabrio

One issue of the Weathering Magazine features a large scale metal figure of “the Führer”, looking over the ruins of Berlin (and his short-lived empire). I found this very inspiring, and decided to purchase the figure from Andrea. The subject is controversial, and this is by no means any glorification of Hitler, but I took the opportunity to paint a larger figure.

I also added another figure, called “the Speaker”, depicting Hitler around 1934 speaking to the public.

I added two small bases, with some scratch built microphones going with the “speaker”. Painting was fun, although quite a challenge due to the considerable weight of the metal figures.

Jagdtiger reworked

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After a longer break from modelling, I finished the second model of Jagdtiger 314 with the Porsche suspension. As the original tank had no Zimmerit coating, and was abandondened in March 1945, I decided to rebuilt the model, depicting the famous scene of the vehicle in a ditch near to a small tree besides a road.

I reused the two US soldiers from the original scene, and added my first attempt of a wire-made tree, which turned out to be quite time-consuming, as on the original pictures from early spring, the tree has no leaves, calling for many branches to work out… with foliage, these kind of trees are presumably less work.