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Andreas Grewin June 25, 2014

New book from Canfora

A new book from Canfora Publishing called a World of Dioramas witch sports Per Olav Lunds amazing diorama works will be released soon. I had the great pleasure to create a campaign website for the book so check it out:

http://canfora.se/campaign

Andreas Grewin April 13, 2013

California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento

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In the summer of 2011 we visited California and at that visit California State Railroad Museum was at the top of my list. To see all this historical railroad equipment was a dream come true. The amazing surrounding of the historical district of Sacramento made it even better. Wandering around like a kid in the candy store with the jaw glued to the floor I only managed to snap a couple of decent pictures but here they are! 🙂 READ MORE

Andreas Grewin April 10, 2013

KV-1 Heavy Tank Pictures & Profiles

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Andreas Grewin April 9, 2013

WWII Tunisia and Libya in Color

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Andreas Grewin December 21, 2012

Happy Holidays!

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Canadian National Railway EMD SD70I # CN 5770 at Raymond, Iowa, USA.

Thank you for all the support this year and I wish everyone a happy holiday! And here are some pretty winterscapes for you to enjoy! 🙂

White Pass & Yukon Route Rotary Snow Plow # WPY 1 at Skagway, Alaska, USA — Steamscape: Inspiration Point. The White Pass Rotary Fleet claws its way past Inspiration Point en route to another day of operations to clear the line for the opening of the tourist season, which is little more than a week away. The sun is now peeking over the aptly-named Sawtooth Range to the southeast and is finally beginning to erase the shadows in the valley. Each day, the conductor of our photographer’s train, Craig Cline, would stop just beyond the Cantilever Bridge and allow us to hike to the spot from which this photo was taken. I must tell you that watching the plow train ascend the mountain from here is every bit as thrilling as watching a double-header climb to Cumbres Pass in Colorado. The scenery is entirely different, but the experience is the same. The one thing I could not capture with my camera was the sound. The sound of the steam engines hammering up the steep grade and their whistles echoing off the mountains is a memory of this place that I will always keep.

Nevada Northern Railway Steam 2-8-0 # NNRY 93 at Wildwood, Utah, USA — Nevada Northern #93 operating on Heber Valley Railroad line for the Salt Lake Winter Olympics.

Norfolk Southern at Gallitzin, Pennsylvania, USA — Snow, wind and cold. A westbound freight creeps out of the western portal of the Allegheny Tunnel, greeted by snow covered tracks. With the wind whipping, I was surprised I was able to keep the lens clean long enough to get a shot.

Conrail EMD E8(A) # CR 4020 at Glen Summit, Pennsylvania, USA — Conrail #4020 charges through the fresh snow with an “Office Car Special”. It was tough chasing the train on the snow covered roads!

Canadian National Railway EMD SD75i # CN 5716 at East of Yetter , Iowa, USA — Yep Houston, we have a problem! L572 is stuck at MP 408 on the Omaha Sub, couple miles east of Yetter, IA. Big drifts and bad power cause this train to become stuck. Took contractors about 12 hours of digging to get this power dug out so 4 more unit could pull the train out. Drifts higher than the power isnt unusual during hard winter in western Iowa. It can be fun and miserable all in one.

Andreas Grewin December 16, 2012

Concept & Artwork Inspiration

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I very often try to argue that concept art and other artworks are a great source of inspiration. They are not only beautiful to look at but can be used to achieve very cool results in scale modelling. If we look at the the atmosphere, colour temperature and lightning, we see that the combination creates very interesting pictures. If we apply the same philosophy as a whole to our scale models we can achieve the same effect.

We can also take this much further if we choose to create a base for our models. With a more artistic approach and following visual key elements of concept art we can capture a more dramatic and interesting atmosphere on the base to.

Google is your friend when looking for inspiration. I especially find concept art for games very compelling. To show you what I mean I have added some very cool pictures here.

Andreas Grewin December 16, 2012

Tanks Encyclopedia – Colour Profiles

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I have come across a great website with plenty of colour profiles of many different subjects of tanks and guns. A lot of inspiration for future projects and no need to paint boring one colour camouflage schemes when you have this much to choose from.

www.tanks-encyclopedia.com

Here are some great examples:

Tank Mk.V Male With the Short barrel six pounders — A camouflaged late Mark V hermaphrodite. On the other side, a machine-guns sponson was fitted. Multi-pattern liveries were applied on site, with provisional, regulated colors. White, pale blue, brown, dark grey, black, were commonly used in spotted patterns, with or without black borders (French 1918 standard livery). The last Mark V were delivered well after the armistice. By then, the Mark V star has replaced them.

T34/76 model 1940 of the Moskow rfiled guards bataillon, march 1942. — A rare early tri-tone camouflage for the 1940 model, Moskow rifles guards bataillon.

M5A1 Stuart, Saipan, june 1944. — M5A1 pacific, Saipan, Mariannas islands offensive, june 1944. Notice the simpified “jungle” pattern camouflage.

Panzer IV F/G 16pzd Stalingrad — Ausf F/G upgraded on H lines, with full Schurzen armor – XVIth Panzerdivision, Russia, southern sector, summer 1943.

Stridvagn L-60 M/40K (L-60D) army designation S/V. Karlsverk produced some 80 of these tanks until 1944.

Matilda II captured — Infanterie-Kampfpanzer Mark II 748(e), (Captured Matilda), 8th Panzer-Regiment, XVth panzerdivision, Libya, 1942. Notice the makeshift camouflage and the absence of any Balkankreuz. I some cases a simple flag was displayed instead.

Flammpanzer Ausf M — 200 Ausf M were converted on the stocks by Wegmann at Kassel as Flammenwerfers, under the designation Ausf M(FI) or officialy Sd.Kfz 141/3. They were almost identical externally the the regular Ausf M, but with a 140mm Dummy gun, which also conceiled the flamethrower. They had also additional 30mm to 50mm armor plates welded on the frontal part of the hull and glacis, because their range was quite shorter (limited to 60m at best), hence exposing them to dangerous close fire. The two coaxial and hull Mgs were retained, but they carried also 1020 liters of inflammable oil into two tanks inside the hull. All this additional weight made them the slowest of all versions. These tanks were often given to SS assault squads, like this one, fighing in Normandy in june 1944. Notice the zimmerit anti-magnetic paste and complex camouflage of this period, well adapted to the bocage.

Andreas Grewin November 21, 2012

Greatest Tank Battles Season 2

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This is not one of the most accurate documentaries out there. But I still find it interesting to see illustrated and detailed engagements of different tank battles. Here is the complete season 2 of this series, check it out:

The Battle of France

The Battle of Tunisia

Tank Battles of the Great War

Tank Battles of Korea

The Battle of Italy

Tiger vs IS-2

Tank Ace: Ludwig Bauer

The Six Day War: Battle for the Sinai

The Battle of Stalingrad

The Battle for the Baltics

The October War: Battle for the Sinai

Andreas Grewin August 18, 2012

The Fighting Lady WWII Documentary 1944

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Oscar Winner 1945 (Best Documentary, Features)

“The Fighting Lady,” provides a portrait of life on a World War II aircraft carrier USS Yorktown CV10, a vessel that is “enormous, wonderful, and strange to us.” After profiling the various activities of the soldiers’ day and following the ship’s voyage through the Panama Canal, the film takes the audience through a litany of actual combat engagements. The Fighting Lady participates in a strike on the Marcus Islands, then defends itself against a surprise nighttime raid by Japanese fighters. Some of the photography comes from cameras set up in the cockpits of American planes, showing first hand what it’s like to be diving through enemy anti-aircraft fire. The film culminates in a major confrontation with the Imperial Japanese Battle Fleet. In this massive operation, later dubbed the “Marianas Turkey Shoot,” American pilots downed almost four hundred Japanese Zeros, while incurring only twenty-two losses themselves.

USS Yorktown CV-10 1943 aerial with F6F Hellcats

USS Yorktown (CV-10) at Puget Sound 1944

F6F Hellcat on USS Yorktown — “Dynamic static. The motion of its props causes an `aura’ to form around this F6F Hellcat on USS YORKTOWN. Rotating with blades, halo moves aft, giving depth and perspective.” November 1943

Andreas Grewin August 13, 2012

WWII Pacific Theatre in Color

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Attack On Wake Island Excellent in-flight of US Navy Douglas SBD “Dauntless” torpedo dive bomber after bombing raid on Japanese-held Wake Is. October 5, 1943

Martin PBM Mariner of Naval Air Transport Service, Pacific, May 1944

Andreas Grewin January 30, 2012

Bridge Diorama Inspiration

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I just recently started the construction of a knocked out KV-2 on a railway bridge. I will soon post pictures of the completed construction before painting. But I thought I could start with sharing some of the inspiration for this diorama.