Build history
September 21 2024 |
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Placing the streetwork fits, with a couple of little adaptions, but there is a colour difference. My pre-made street is to blue against the original. The 20's little truck is a distraction to cover it a little. Now that the street is fixed, the ANWB-pole is placed on the crossroad, and the next plan in peeking around the corner. But what is that scheep upto? 
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September 2024 |
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First step in restoring the street is a blue fom patch to fill the gap that will emerge when the eart bunker is removed. The plans to how to fill the market square get more outlined. I need som transport vehicles that farmers ans small traders would have used in the 1940's. A small truck? The market square is small. A vintage Pyro Morris bull nose car is the donor for chassis and nose. These small car's like the T-Ford and A-Ford where used for simple farm work. 
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July - August 2024 |
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The 2 ambulances are replaced with one straight Opel Blitz truck. It delivers goods tot the hotel and patched up soldiers that can stay there for r&r. The stretcher party is to thigh the delivery of men and goods to the hotel. The small ambulance turns out to be a surprise. structural damageed, but it's an 80's scratch attempt to make a Phänomen Granit 25H out of a Horch Kfz15 of Italeri. It's restored and will find housing elsewhere. All figures that where in the attic and some new additions have been used now to make a reception and handling party. 
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March 23 2024 |
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Biggest issue is the earth bunker. It blocks the crossroad. Carefull deconstruction reveals a big problem. There is nothing under it. If I want to make it a normal crossroad, I need new pavement that is the same stuf as the old one. 
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March 23 2024 |
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On Thingyverse I found a gravestone for the church cellar. Building diorama's kind of sticks to you. I get all kinds of ideas to enhance the whole. I put a couple of boxes and old furniture on the hotel's attick. While doing that I thought to put a scene of people hiding in it there. Neh, not my diorama, just fix the lesser poins, don't add new things. |
March 2024 |
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On to the 2nd cellar, the kitchen! Again Thingyverse has a kind of a medieval kitchen that provides parts. The cooks I found in my stash, the potato peales where added later, and are converted drivers of the Italeri Opel Blitz. 
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March 2024 |
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The wine cellar has new occupants. An infantry man and a panzer man share a tast of the hotel's treasures. The converting and painting is every time done at home, the placing in the diorama on the build days in Historama Wereld. 
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February / March 2024 |
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Bunk beds for the hotel rooms. The original where made of cut sprue. Changing details that put the general magnificence of the diorama down. With some of the occupants of the cellar field lazaret, bunkbeds are easly made. On Thingiverse a bedroom provides the other parts. pillows, matras and bed ends. 
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February 3 2024 |
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The first cellar is relieved of medical stuff, (including a body bag) and has wine barrels. One of the soldiers and a nurse take inventory(?) and put a nice table in it. 
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January 6 2024 |
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Some touching up, cleaning and some small things removed and changed. The hotel has now only Dutch signs on it. Charles Dickens has the chrismas decorations covered. And more like that |
January 1 2024 |
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Lets start with these 87th scale lights. I've found some old 35th scale Tamiya's. The don't have to be lit, so, an easy swap. |
August 8 2023 |
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Inventory. On the market square are a German newstand, 25th scale figures 87th scale laterns. The swastika flags are navy. The earth bunker is nice, but it blocks a street. A wine salesman selling pumpkins? I'm not sure the were sold in Holland in the '40's The hotel has German and Dutch writing on it. The 2 ambulances are a but much filling on the limited space and the Einheitsdiesel has never been seen with red crosses. The other looks very odly. In the basement of the Hotel a field hospital you would expect on the battle field. The beds in the chaimbers are made of huge logs. As most Dutch as possible. Where to begin?. 
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