Now as winter has arrived and the temperatures makes it difficult, if not impossible to do any digging I have time to complete a few miniature dioramas I have been working on for a while. This one I finished a few hours ago and is called "Krig" (War). It is a scene made up of four kids playing war around a ruin somewhere in the North, prehaps Finnmark in Norway some time after 1945. The kids are playing war and is armed with weapons made from twigs and the two older boys have found themselves some rusted old German submachineguns, and some Red Army headgear. Many years after the war it was normal for kids to play with real weapons and discarded military equipment. Playing with explosives and ordnance was not uncommon either, and most people of a certain age in the North of Norway knew of- or heard about a kid loosing fingers, an eye or their lives while toying with such dangerous items. I dont know how it is today in 2021 but when I was a kid we still fought imaginary battles in the forests around the neighbourhood, and the occasional real German World War Two helmet was still in use then :)
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My latest miniature project is finally done. "Brent Jord" scale 1/35 (Scorched Earth). This little scene depicts the German burning of Finnmark and Nord-Troms in 1944/45 as they withdrew from the area. The civillians were removed by forced evacuation, and more than 12000 houses were torched together with the destruction of virtually all infrastructure.
My latest miniature project, "The Iron Cross" scale 1/35. Depicting to WSS Pz.Grenadiers somewhere in Europe towards the very end of the war. The figures are from Dragon. The base is a 7.5 cm LiG casing on which I attached the silver frame from a groundfound Iron Cross. Hope you like it :)
The latest figure projects off the workbench. These two I built and painted for a customer recently. The one with k98 rifle is a resin cast from Andrea Miniatures and the other one is an old Tamiya plastic figure.
My latest figure project complete. "British Bren Gunner, Northern Norway 1940" Scale 1/16, figure from Mitches Military Models. I mounted the figure on a cut-down british 40mm shell casing.
I just completed a diorama I have been working on lately. This one I have had in my mind for quite a while and when I found some figures (Bravo-6) that could work for it I decided it was time to make this one happen. It is another of the "self biographical dioramas" I have made a few of, and it is the first one I have put a figure representing myself in. It is in scale 1/35 and I have simply called it "Military Archaeology Legenda" and it is depicting part of the Legenda team on one of its summer expeditions, which we sadly didn`t get to arrange this year because of the Covid situation. I used a winter camoflaged German helmet found in Kurland as a base. I hope you like it :) It ll be for sale, but the price is high, send me a message if you are interested in buying it. (hobbyhistorica@gmail.com)
During the rainy and nasty days, when I havent felt like going out searching for old war junk I have been working on a few miniature projects and finished up the first one this morning. "6. SS-Gebirgs-Division «Nord». Karelia" in scale 1/35. The base is a Soviet canteen with a bullet hole, found on the old battlefields in Karelia. The figures used is a pair from one of Masterbox` Stalingrad sets. I ve painted them with Vallejo Model Color, alittle bit of oil paint and Mig pigments. I used decals from Archer and the ground scatter is from Reality in Scale.
Hope you like it :) "Gebirgsjäger im Nord". Here is a figure I finished while waiting for spring to arrive. It is a 1/16 scale figure from Jeff Shiu, mounted on a thick piece of shrapnel from something heavy duty. I also used the ring from a wartime era ski pole as a backdrop. Hope you like it.
My latest commissioned figure. Andreas` Sturmbannfuhrer 90mm, painted in acrylics and mounted on a small resin base :)
During my years of metal detecting I have picked a fair amount of rifle casings from the old battlefields, POW- and army camps. I have chosen some interesting ones and made them into some unique and historical cuff links, both stylish and great conversation starters. I found many of them in trenches or fighting positions and the spent casings had most probably been fired against the enemy. They come in cool little military style wooden boxes and they are for sale in the webshop : https://www.hobbyhistorica.com/store/c1/HobbyHistoricaShop Norwegian 7.92 casings, produced under the German occupation. British .303s from the fighting in Northern Norway in late May 1940. German 7.92s from their Norwegian campaign in 1940.
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