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On Display: Setting Their Sights On Kursk
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Posted: Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 12:51 PM UTC
Michael Wolfe has submitted his first OnDisplay feature for your viewing pleasure. A great looking diorama.

Setting Their Sights On Kursk
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Posted: Friday, January 23, 2004 - 01:21 AM UTC
nice very nice

MVG

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Posted: Friday, January 23, 2004 - 02:23 AM UTC
It looks fantastic. Was it usual for the Luftwaffe to put its planes on wooden crating to prevent them from sinking into the ground?

Stephen
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Posted: Friday, January 23, 2004 - 03:37 AM UTC
Looks great!
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Posted: Friday, January 23, 2004 - 08:00 AM UTC

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It looks fantastic. Was it usual for the Luftwaffe to put its planes on wooden crating to prevent them from sinking into the ground?

Stephen
Thanks for the kind words. I sat the tail of the plane on the wooden crates so they could level it off to test the planes guns. If the aircraft were used in ares with soft ground the crew would lay down wood planks to keep from sinking in the earth. Thanks again.
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Posted: Friday, January 23, 2004 - 08:24 AM UTC
Hi Micheal, welcome to Armorama. Nothing like starting with a bang :-) A very well done diorama, the title says it all
Mal
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Posted: Friday, January 23, 2004 - 10:08 AM UTC
Very nice diorama.everything is great. 1/48 scale gives you a chance to tell and show lots of things in a little diorama base and Micheal did it 100%.congrats
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Posted: Friday, January 23, 2004 - 10:29 AM UTC

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It looks fantastic. Was it usual for the Luftwaffe to put its planes on wooden crating to prevent them from sinking into the ground?

Stephen
Thanks for the kind words. I sat the tail of the plane on the wooden crates so they could level it off to test the planes guns. If the aircraft were used in ares with soft ground the crew would lay down wood planks to keep from sinking in the earth. Thanks again.


Michael, glad to see you got my email regarding creating a user account. Welcome to Armorama. I'll update the article to reflect your armorama screename.
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Posted: Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 06:09 AM UTC
Hi Michael,
That is really nice work on the dio.
Will be looking forward to seeing a lot more.

Good modeling,
Wayne
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Posted: Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 08:30 AM UTC
Hi Michael

Welcome to Armorama! :-)

That really is a beautiful diorama - both the aircraft and the figures are superb... and all combined with some fantastic photography! :-)

It captures the primitve working-conditions of the Eastern Front perfectly...

All the best

Rowan
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Posted: Sunday, January 25, 2004 - 05:12 AM UTC
Wayne, Thanks for the kind comment. I have some other pics on the way, two more Stukas, a Corsair dio and a dio that has 4 German fighters that were captured and put on display in a German field with American pilots and crewman checking out their fallen enemies aircraft. Wingman out.
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Posted: Sunday, January 25, 2004 - 08:15 AM UTC
:-) Can't wait to see them
Mal
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Posted: Monday, February 02, 2004 - 01:43 PM UTC
This is BEAUTIFUL!!!!
More please.
(Or more pics of this beauty)
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Posted: Monday, February 02, 2004 - 04:21 PM UTC
Beautiful, I have always been a big fan of Kursk. I love the Stuka too. So its a double treat for me!

~Chip :-)
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Posted: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 02:54 AM UTC

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This is BEAUTIFUL!!!!
More please.
(Or more pics of this beauty)
Thanks, I posted some more pics in my members gallery. Hope you enjoy them, I love this website ,the people are so cool and you can post your pics for everyone to see and comment on , Congrats to all the people involved in running this site! Wingman out.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 03:00 AM UTC

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Beautiful, I have always been a big fan of Kursk. I love the Stuka too. So its a double treat for me!

~Chip :-)
Thanks Chip, I love the rugged look of ground attack aircraft, the Stuka, Typhoon and the Il2 Russian Shturmovik, I posted more pics in my members gallery.Wingman out.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 03:04 AM UTC

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This is BEAUTIFUL!!!!
More please.
(Or more pics of this beauty)
Please disregard the Letter from Laura under the Stuka pics, that's from another dio I did, I don't know how that got in there, Wingman out.
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