Ubi Caritas! FINISHED!

thanks a lot guys!

the workbench is the place where you are happy as modeller! keeping that in mind i spent the last days with the figures and have only minor works left to do: finishing the splintertarn on the infantry unteroffizier helmet, painting his eyes (for the third time!), doing the final steps on the equipment and applying some scratches on them. then only three last additions to the diorama and everything is ready to be placed and glued onto the base!

so there will be most probably only one or two further updates with this build!

the freeze ignoring guy:




the bad mood dude:



(he needs some flat clear after finishing!)

the infantry unteroffizier:



(same here! flat clear after finishing!)

the haka bloke and the mp oberleutnant:




the freezing one and the very bad mooded panzerunteroffizier:




the two marder crewmen with coat:




the "leave me alone and bite me" dude:




as mentioned - minor works are still ahead of me but soon this endless task will end! sorry for the bad quality of some pics but it wasn't that easy to photograph them all!

Well they all look pretty cold , all of them have personality & they are all painted tremendously ! It is great to see this starting to take shape .

Jenny

Nice work Laura... really like the weathering around the bottom of the coats and boots. Very realistic........

Peter

Laura -

Outstanding figures, very well done details and look to the clothing. They really bring the theme to life. Anxious to see this all come together.

Mike

Dear Laura,

seems you worked very hard to finish this outstanding diorama.

We take the hats off.

Very nice figures Laura The muddy feet and lower body is a nice touch.

Just a tiny nitpicking if you may: The eyes on th efirst figures are a little big compared to the other figures.

Excellent effort on the figures, Laura! Very good!

My favorite is the splinter pattern dude!

I look forward to see the whole dio assembled!

Regards
Noel

thanks guys!

i personally am not that much satisfied with the figgies since i know i can paint better but i will live with it!

richard: you are absolutely correct! i had hoped to get away with it like they are but i will redo them! scratch away the paint and do the eyes again!

last update before i finish this!

again with some background music i went upstairs and did some of the last steps! (funny - that video was shot at the former location of my favorite club, the millennium! i thought i'd never see those holy halls again!)

i repainted the eyes that annoyed me, finished the figures (only applying matt clear to two of them!), spread some leaves (still wet and some are just blown all over the dio when i applied the glue - will be cleaned), made the tombstone of grave #2 (epitaph, grass and some lichen will follow), painted the fire in the fuel drum and created some smoke with cotton, added the rat and made two birds (jenny's brilliant idea!)

and those who will find the ladybeetle win a prize!!!



the tombstone:



roderick the raven:



peter the crow (sorry peter - i could not resist!!!):



the rat:





next stop will be the finished dio!

The wildlife is a great idea indeed It will add to the character of the scene in a very nice (or should I say morbid ) way

Here's my ladybeetle guess

Looking at the faces of those poor guys made me glad I'm living in a tropical island. They really look like they are about to freeze on the spot! That's another great job you can put in the list, congratulations Laura!

Ruben

BTW, here's where I think the ladybettle is hidding.

Fantastamatic work Laura & I think Ruben has already identified the Lady beetle !

Jenny

thanks richard, ruben and jenny!

nope no ladybeetle found yet! hehehehehehehehehe!

Here ?

Jenny

nope!

Hmmmmmmmmmmm
Here


Jenny

hehehehehe! nope!

shall i give hints?

although the dio is finished one detail is missing in the pics - i permanently had "now what did i forget?" in mind and after the shots, back at the comp i noticed the little detail! i'll add it and will show it when i have done a second run of the finished dio pics - better ones since i messed up some shots!

solemn music that inspired me to the title and dio itself (i strongly recommend to listen to this song while watching the pics as it is an essential part of the dio): Connie Dover: UBI CARITAS





























thanks to everybody that followed and accompanied me through this build! your forthcoming support was most important for me to actually finish it!

Magnificent work Laura

The grouping of figures work well together . The Lady beetle looks very distinctive .

Jenny

better shots - so i hope:



















and photoshopped:









the missing detail was the mg-34 on the marder!

special thanks for making this dio possible go out to my friends RICHIE and JENNY!

richie has sent me six of the ten displayed figures including de bad-mood-dude and the splintercamo bloke bringing me into the position to double the size of the planned dio!

jenny has sent me the church, the coffins and the ww2 production tracks - each single item a piece of art for itself!

thank you very much again! i'm thankful to be able to call you friends! BIG HUGS!!!

Wonderful work!

Hi Laura,

i think this is very very very nice dio...perfect configuration, hight detail, sweet figurines.
I like when dio have "live" and atmosphere......this dio have all.I say again perfect nice job.

Cheers.
Pavel

Congrats Laura for a very well done job

Another congratulations from me, Laura! (The music is still on! It adds a melancholy feeling............ and makes me think of all those young boys that fell on foreign fields far away from their family)

Anyway..... great diorama! Bravo!.... or Brava!

I like the night pics and the B&W pics. This one tops the reeper/stalingrad dio by a mile! You truly did a good job on this one!

The guys around the fire in my idea though!!!! I have the same thing planned for my XLL!!!

Regards
Noel

Nice Laura, I like the details like the crows, the smokey fire and the coffins. The Marder and figures are great too.

Ted