Last year a friend found this part from a Katyusha rocket engine while searching in the 
Kurland Kessel. He wanted it displayed somehow and gave it to me to do something with it. I cleaned off some 70 years of rust and muck from it and figured out a way to display it on a wooden base I had found. I bought a 1/87 scale BM-13 Katyusha and as soon it arrived I used some oil paintsd and pigments to make it look a bit worn and used. I made a small base in the rocket part and had the BM-13 fixed in place with some strong glue.
My friend was happy with the result and it is on its way to him now :)

A little diorama I put together recently. I wanted a diorama showing how it can look when a fallen and missing soldier is found deep in a forest along the old frontlines of WW2. I am a member of the Latvian War Grave Commission and part of the search group Legenda so this dio is a homage to all the guys and girls working and volunteering in these organizations.
The diorama is in scale 1/35 and the base I used is a german canteen I found in Northern Norway.
​Hope you like it:)

Some more miniature doors ready. Im having a blast making these.
First up some prison doors:

The first two items in a new serie of miniatures I am making, Doors. These are made from wood, metal and plastic, they are ca 12cm tall and mounted in frames. They will be available for sale in the shop. :)
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The first one is a 12th century church door :

The second door is from a 19th century shed:

About a month ago I built and painted this 1/16 scale figure I had laying around. I really liked the pose of the figure, and quickly decided to make it as a gift to a friend of mine.
The figure is well casted and little clean up was needed. I primed the figure after having assembled it, and the painting was straightforward. I used Vallejo Model Colors acrylic paint, and some oils and pigments for weathering it. I used paint mixes as shown by Calvin Tans book "Modelling Waffen SS figures".
The base I chose to place the figure on is the lid of a German detonator box found in the Kurland Kessel and I had a relic General Assault badge I also placed on the base. The soil is a mix of car body filler and sand from the old Kurland frontlines of ww2.
​My friend was happy to get this figure and it now has a new home in his display cabinet.

This was a project I ve wanted to make for a long time,and when I could afford buying the figure kit from Masterbox I decided it was time to get it made.
I had the helmet for several years. It is a surface find from the old Ypres battlefield, picked up by a local farmer. The top of it was long gone and it is ridden with bullet holes. On the inside of it,in the rolled edge there is still a piece of lead stuck, a real piece of history.
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 trenchsystem, so I cut the lenght I needed and began cleaning up the parts. With the quality of the production this process didn`t take long and soon also the figures had been assembled and made ready for paint.
In the kit comes a lot of extras,such as helmets, weapons etc, so I had an easy job making the trench a bit busy and cluttered. I wanted some S.R.D bottles and searched around a while for something I could use when I spotted the sprue from the figures. The attachment points can be cut off , have the mold line removed and voila,bottle, so easy :D 
For the painting I used Vallejo Model Color and made random mixes of the shads I wanted. Weathering and shading was done using oils,washes and pigments, and again I have realized that my flesh painting skills sucks and needs improving.
I also had a coil of LED lights laying around and decided to just glue it in place inside the helmet so it doubles as a cozy lamp.
After a few evenings of painting things were ready to be put together and final pics taken. Unfortunately the light wasn`t the best so some of the pics are a tad blurry, but I will get that re-done the next sunny day:)

Im fairly happy with the result, and the helmet sure looks impressive in the display cabinet now:)

As I have more diorama projects lined up and not room for it all I am open to offers on this one if you wish to have it displayed in your collection, just contact me with a serious offer:)

Slideshow below:

Here is a little 1/35 scale scene I put together last evening. I call it "For the Motherland" and it shows two fallen Red Army soldiers still missing somewhere in the wilderness that took over a once noisy and violent battle arena. Their Maxim machinegun still stands where it fired its last round defending the Russian soil.
The base used is a piece of grenade shrapnel.

The diorama is for sale here:
"For the Motherland" 1/35  

One of the last mornings I made this kool relic lamp. I used a German helmet from the Kurland Kessel and as the lampstand I took a U.S made 45mm recoilless casing which I found in Northern Norway. I had some old lamps laying around and took a part here and a part there and fixed it to the lampstand. I didn`t fix the helmet so that it should be easier to change lightbulb.
Hope you like it, and I have listed it for sale in my shop :)

http://www.hobbyhistorica.com/store/p464/German_Helmet_Lamp.html

Another of my recent builds, "Verloren,nicht vergessen" Lost, not forgotten). It is a little bit grim scene, prehaps from somewhere up north, the Litza or Petsamo front, or the Carpathians prehaps..
The scale is 1/35 and the skulls and bones is from Drakkar Models, painted with Vallejo acrylics. I used a relic WW1 German 77mm shell shrapnel as a base and built the scenery with rocks from under the stairs and a pinch of ground scatter from Reality-in-Scales "forest in a pot". The whole thing was then mounted to a wooden plinth.

​Hope you like:)