"Who are you in a world on fire?" is the title on a new exhibition opening today at the Arctic University Museum in Tromsø. The exhibition focus on six people in northern Norway during the war and their different choices and fates . The theme of the exhibition is also closely linked to what is going on in Europe today. 
Some time ago I was contacted by the museum if I had some dioramas that could be displayed. Soon after I had sent over my portfolio they picked out four dios they wanted to have in the displays.
Me and the Girlfriend went over there this morning and got to spend a little time around the exhibition before the hoardes of visitors arrived. We were both pretty impressed by what the museum team had built up and it was of course great fun to see my own work displayed in very interesting ways. Three of the dioramas one have to view through peep-holes, and they had  added sounds to the scenes making it a bit eerie.
The exhibition will be shown there for the next two years and will later travel around to other museums and schools around the country :)

My latest miniature project done! "Austerveg" (Eastwards), scale 1/35. It is depicting two Norwegian Waffen-SS guys in deep snow somewhere on the Eastern Front. Prehaps they jumped off their vehicle to try find a waypoint on the blinding white steppes. The badge is a repro "Frontkjemper" (Frontfighter) badge awarded to Norwegian volunteers.
Now I just need to clutter up the bench with another project :)

Late last night I finally put the last dot of paint on this diorama that has cluttered my workbench since autumn. It is called "Frontkjemper" (`front fighter`) which refers to the scandinavians who volunteered to fight in the Waffen-SS, and it is in scale 1/35 which makes it ca 47 cm x 28 cm.
Many of the Norwegian volunteers spent their contracted time in the trenches surrounding Leningrad. That is where I imagined this scene taking place. The scene is showing a frontline bunker where soldiers lived for weeks and months, and a few meters up ahead the frontline with two firing positions. The soldiers by the bunker is ribbing each other while smoking and filling their pockets with ammo. In the trench line two officers are visiting the MG position, getting an overview of the frontline and the situation.
On the base I attached a replica of a Frontkjemper badge, an award given to norwegian volunteers.

"Memorial" 1/35. I completed this one over morning coffee a few hours ago. It is depicting a memorial and graves of Red Army soldiers who died in German labour camps in Northern Norway during WW2. They had been sent there to build the Polarbahn, roads and Atlantikwall fortifications, and to perish doing this work..
The base of the scene is a coil of barbed wires from one of those camps. R.I.P.

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 :)

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. 

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)