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WWII Stalingrad 1942[Models][Heavy Graphic Warning]
Flickr ^ | Nov 2007 | sspz101

Posted on 05/21/2009 9:23:12 AM PDT by BGHater

German Officers observing battlefield with personal body guards and German medic attending to wounded

German SS squads attacking through destroyed buildings with many casualties as a German Panzerfaust moves in to take out Russian T-34

Hand to hand combat on the battlefield - Germans attacking Soviets

Soviet M-19 heavy machine gun crew firing rapidly on advancing Germans

German motorcycle team and paratroopers planning a right side flank on the Russians

Russian infantry and a female sniper have Germans in their gunsights as their Comrades lay dead from gunfire

Destroyed Church and buildings and fallen telephone as Germans advance through Stalingad

Soviets defending against the Germans as one Russian attacks German officer hand to hand with knife

German Pack 40 Antitank gun and Neberwefer Rocket launcher shelling the Soviets

German SS Hanomag crew and flamethrower team moving in on the Soviets

German Tiger I moving down destroyed Stalingrad street advancing on Soviets barricade.

Destroyed German Panzer IV and crew bailing out KIA!

German SS divisions heavily armored and advancing on Soviet stronghold

German SS squad attacking Soviet M-1910 machine gun crew with dead Soviet on ground in Church

Russian T-34 Tank and crew and mortar team on the defensive

Soviet Divisions defending Stalingrad at all costs

Soviet T-34 in firing position on German Panzer IV

Soviet Anti-tank gun 76 mm firing artillery barage on German tanks moving up the street

Russian GAZ-AA cargo truck with soviet infantry firing on German SS troops moving in

Soviet M-1910 Heavy machine gun crew in sand bag nest firing on German infantry and dead Soviet hit by German fire on ground

Destroyed Soviet BT-5 light tank with KIA crew bailing out and dead infantry on the ground

German Stug III moving through remains of a destroyed house

German Tiger I and infantry on the offensive

Russian GAZ-67B field car and commander with T-34 behind destroyed building firing on Germans

Soviet T-34 in winter camo with Infantry on the defensive

Russian medic attending to wounded as infantry lays cover fire

Russian 120 mm heavy mortar crew shelling all German reinforcements

The city of Stalingrad in ruins as the Germans and Russians fight it out

Russian infantry and supply truck holding off the Germans behind a barricade

German SS in Hanomag firing on Soviet postions in destroyed houses

German SS Units tearing through Stalingrad as Soviets fight to the last soldier

German SS armored and infantry units moving through the destroyed city of Stalingrad

Germans fight house to house to flush out the soviets, as a german SS sniper moves in postion.

Soviet General with a guard giving orders to a officer for a counter attack on the germans left flank.

German SS soldiers fight it out with Russian Units house to house with fallen soldiers in back of church

German Tiger I firing on soviet T-34 at other end of street

Germans attacking Soviet Barricade on the destroyed street of Stalingrad as the dead litter the ground


TOPICS: Hobbies; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: 1942; diorama; stalingrad; worldwarii
I thought it was pretty amazing. It's not totally historically accurate. But, wow!

He also did WWII Normandy 1944 and L.O.T.R. The Battle Of Helms Deep.

1 posted on 05/21/2009 9:23:13 AM PDT by BGHater
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To: BGHater
It's not totally historically accurate.

No kidding.
2 posted on 05/21/2009 9:27:30 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: cripplecreek

Yes, I thought the Germans were taller.


3 posted on 05/21/2009 9:29:18 AM PDT by edcoil (IF CA rolls pollution standards back to 1990 levels, lets roll CA spending back as well.)
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To: cripplecreek

Yes, exactly. I am unaware of any SS divisions fighting in Stalingrad, nor, to the best of my knowledge, were there any Tiger Tanks in that battle as well. Tigers were not introduced in any significant numbers until 1943.


4 posted on 05/21/2009 9:37:38 AM PDT by Welcome2thejungle
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To: BGHater

...Nice post...


5 posted on 05/21/2009 9:41:58 AM PDT by gargoyle (...66.7% , A good round number...)
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To: Welcome2thejungle

You are correct, no SS at stalingrad.


6 posted on 05/21/2009 9:43:35 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Welcome2thejungle

The captions give the impression of Germans advancing thought the streets with little real resistance.

On the other hand, the russians have been know to take a little creative license with history as well. Many russians I know will tell you that the war in the pacific ended not because of our A bombs, but because the japanese feared the russians


7 posted on 05/21/2009 9:44:03 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: edcoil

where are the Romanians?


8 posted on 05/21/2009 9:45:15 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: BGHater

I have seen better dioramas. Nice attempt, but a bit crammed. Historically inaccurate... as are many of the paint-jobs.


9 posted on 05/21/2009 9:49:46 AM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "We do not want to become slaves of Washington.")
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To: Welcome2thejungle

T34-85s at Stalingrad? Oooooookay...

Damn nice modelling, though.


10 posted on 05/21/2009 9:51:34 AM PDT by Legion
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To: BGHater

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsjpqviFC9k

Don’t think there were any Tigers there either.
The Liebstandarte were almost sent.


11 posted on 05/21/2009 9:59:41 AM PDT by tumblindice ("Blah blah blah blah blah. " Adolf Hitler)
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To: tumblindice

Yeah, I was trying to be polite. After all, putting all those hours into the work and it being ‘wrong’.


12 posted on 05/21/2009 10:00:56 AM PDT by BGHater (It's easy to be a Conservative now.)
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It’s still good work.
I did an Alamo diorama in the 5th grade. I wanted to give Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie M-60s and the Kentuckians a couple Patton tanks, but Mom vetoed those improvements.


13 posted on 05/21/2009 10:08:39 AM PDT by tumblindice ("Blah blah blah blah blah. " Adolf Hitler)
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To: BGHater

Very cool. Lots of Tamiya and Zveda figures there.


14 posted on 05/21/2009 11:14:35 AM PDT by Levante
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To: tumblindice

You could have put in a couple of strings of claymores and Mom would have never known the diference;)


15 posted on 05/21/2009 11:32:27 AM PDT by Sarajevo (You jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
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To: BGHater
Ok what with the chicken wire effect on some of the German armor?.. thats not zimmermites
16 posted on 05/21/2009 3:03:46 PM PDT by tophat9000 ( We are "O" so f---ed)
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