The awesome dioramas thread

[rickshaw]

It is very good.  I've seen similar done with large, "O" gauge stuff.  Very realistic.

[bearmatt]

Some stunning stuff here. And dito for me as for the train station.... Looks so realistic

[Dizzyfugu]

Not really a diorama, but... sort of? And maybe inspirational?

Check the nice cammo job on the gun!

[kerick]

Troops with a little time on their hands. I didn't see the tank at first, just the machine gun.

[Gondor]

Now THAT'S what you call camouflage!!!

Gondor

[dadlamassu]

To me it looks like a photoshop job.

Look for the joins and black outlines.

[Old Wombat]

The only photoshop element I can se is the guy leaning on the gun barrel, & the forward part of the barrel may have been altered to allow the pictured guy to be 'leaning' on it.

Everything else looks legit., wired on bark, etc., even the jacket.

As a pre-prepared defensive position it looks to be pretty good, not sure if there are enough earthworks to the front & sides, though.



Guy

[ChernayaAkula]

Nothing photoshopped about it. Maybe it's the camera's flash that makes the guy stand out a little (as with the bush in the right-hand corner of the pic below). 
There were a couple more (five or so) pics of this tank on some Russian website. Here are two, but I seem to recall there were more. Can't find the right source at the moment, though.





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[Dizzyfugu]

I also think it's legit - as someone mentioned a well-prepared defensive position, IMHO. I have seen Danish and Swedish tanks with great "on top" high-tech cammo, but this one here shows nicely that natural products have their charm, too. 

[rickshaw]

Unfortunately, natural products need constant maintenance as they die and require replacement.

The objective of camouflage (as I was taught) is not to make things disappear but rather to make them difficult to see by breaking up their outlines and render them simply a "part of the background".  This tank will look fine, as long as it's stationary and in the woods but once moving, particularly across open countryside it will stand out like a pair of dog's whatsits.

As we can't see behind the camera so we really can't see if there is an earth berm there but it does appear to be dug in a little bit.  If they were mounting an ambush, I'd give them about 9 out of 10.  Otherwise, they obviously have too much time on their hands...

[benskipper]

The Russians were always very good at cam. The Germans even used captured training films made by them during world war 2.

[Old Wombat]

On the right side of the 1st of those later pic's I think I can see 2 more tanks similarly camouflaged in what appears to be a defensive ambush position.



Guy

[philp]

A few more from Facebook.

[Mossie]

All nice but I particularly like Endurance in the top pic, very nicely done.

[dumaniac]

nice dioramas - thanks for the pics