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Today it is Winter Solstice and the Yuletide is upon us again. Here in the house of HobbyHistorica it will be a calm and cozy celebration. I have a couple of weeks more or less off work, and am planning to use some of these days to catch up on some diorama making since the nice and snowy holiday weather seems to have been replaced with a grey sky, warm and rainy days, so I guess I can forget about any skiing.

I like using a war relic as a base when i am making a miniature diorama. I have built dioramas on large grenade fragments, shell casings, rifle casings, boxes, coils of barbed wire, plus lots of other bits, and I am always trying to fit the scene and its landscape to the story of the relic.

I got the box to the surface and it was of the type that had held optical sights for machineguns. And it was heavy. I gently used my blade to open it, hoping the sight would have survived, coz the box was pretty rusted and had probably been cooked in the fire.

Some years ago I was bitten by the Beltbuckle bug and began hunting for german belt buckles. The small aluminum and steel squares are great

A little while ago I recieved an email from the company I had my website with since 2013. They were gonna increase the annual price by a

The germans began the work on the fortress in winter 1941. By early summer the first cannons were on place and the fort operative.

We had put our backpacks near a huge anthill so naturally the army of tiny workers had made highways towards the food bag and became a bit

The exhibition focus on six people in northern Norway during the war and their different choices and fates .

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

Here you will see everything from small uniform buttons to super-rare relics like an example of a Johnny Walker Diving Mine that were used

The exhibition is based around the local military history, ww2, the Cold War and modern International Operations.

Placed on the very tip of the peninsula there are very litte remains of the fort to be found today. Once it protected the entrance to the

The familiar shape of the brim of a German helmet drew a nice line in the wet sand holding it in a firm grip. I freed it from the ground

We climbed the hill and to our big surprise we saw rests of buildings and earthen dug outs. Between some trees old German barbed wire

I spent most of the day in the edge of the tree line where it some 80 years ago stood a large German Heer camp. One can clearly see barrack

We began in the bottom of a valley and our goal was a small section of the German defence system called the "Lyngen Line".

I roamed around a bit with the detector and soon found a patch with a bunch of signals. Under the moss were a whole bunch of full K98 clips

The days here North are getting shorter and the forests and mountainsides are rapidly getting dressed in yellow, red and orange, and the dig

Finding three helmets at once was pretty awesome and they were in good condition, one of them having winter camo even

We had to make a trip out to the fields of rust before the stormy weather drew in over our heads. On our previous berry trip we had located