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Liberated Soviet prisoners erected a beautiful wooden entry portal to the gravesite. In 1952 the bodies were exhumed yet again, and moved to a large cemetery on Tjøtta further to the south, during what became known as Operation Asphalt and the gravesite erased.

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.

When my passion for metal detecting and relics merges with my other passion, miniature modelling, the result can be things like these helmet dioramas. I think it is very fun to create small scenes from the particular battlefield the helmet was found, trying to catch a glimpse of the past.

It is in scale 1/35 and I have simply called it "Military Archaeology Legenda" and it is depicting part of the Legenda team

"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

The sculpting and casting is very good so very little clean up was needed. The parts fitted perfectly together with a few tiny gaps only to

I took three of the best looking cups and prepared them to become dioramas. I wanted to keep them simple but at the same time to tell

With the WW1 diorama kit from Masterbox I had what I needed to "improve"this relic a bit.The model kit comes with a section of a trench

The scene would be a knocked out machine of war a year after the guns fell silent on the Kurland battlefields. I wanted to try making alot