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Defending Swords - Arnheim, September 1944 |
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Diorama (1:35) built by Dietrich Wolf |
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One of the most legendary fights of WWII took place in late summer 1944
near Arnheim (Holland) A visit of the "Airborne Museum Hartenstein"
in Oosterbeek inspired me to plan and built the diorama "Defending
Swords", which has been realized between October 1999 and March 2000.
The pictures provide some interesting impressions about the German approach
in Utrechtstraat, a street which looks today almost the same as in 1944.
Among several mixed units the main focus on defending the Arnheim bridge
were on the shoulders of 9. SS-PD "Hohenstaufen" and 10. SS-PD
"Frundsberg", whose soldiers were sent for rehearsal (NO wellness!)
into this area. The base of the scene measures 50x41cm. Although this is
not that big I managed to arrange a well balanced street fighting scene. |
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| As Utrechstraat was not damaged that much I took special
care to show this on the diorama. Houses, trees, masts, fences and the whole
street as such are built on my own. In all my dioramas I take special care
in creating a harmonic surrounding. It is important to transmit the "feeling"
of the scene to the spectator as realistic as possible. The stranded red
parachute is representative for those thousands of supply-parachutes which
have been intended for British airborne troops, but often fell into German
hands. In this case red means ammunition and for the diorama the item was
tailored from an old anorak. |
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| As typical German AFV representative I have chosen a
Stug III G late of Stug Brigade 280. The Revell kit has been detailed with
Zimmerit, ABER PE parts and camouflage branches (Reference from an issue
of "Ground Power"). Personal gear is loaded onto the engine deck
(Royal Model). The crew is Tamiya, with Warriors heads. The Möbelwagen
belongs to "Hohenstaufen" and is from CMK, the Flak 43 is from
Italeri (unfortunately Tamiya's 3,7cm Möbelwagen was not released at
the time I built the diorama) The BMW R75 sidecar in front of the Möbelwagen
has been superdetailled with PE parts from The Show Modelling. The staffcar
on the crossing to a sideroad, which shows an officer with his young and
impatient driver, is a Citroen Legere from Matchbox. All vehicles camouflage
schemes represent the original. Markings have been applied with stencils.
A total of 20 figures have been added to the diorama. They are from Tamiya,
Dragon, Verlinden, Jaguar Warriors (heads). |
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| This diorama has been given a total of 3 first places,
among several other rankings, during exhibitions in Germany (German Model
Masters 2001 ), Hungary (Mosonmagyarovar 1999), Czech Republic (Brno 2001). |
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meet the modeler |
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Dietrich Wolf |
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Since my earliest childhood modelling
has been fascinating to me. At the age of 7 my interest was
in historic sailing ships. While my grandfather built them for
me, I was watching eagerly and very impatient to see the finished
kit. As he did not have time to take care upon all my wishes
it was time for me to take things in my own hands and start
modelling.
Meanwhile I am 30 years old, for a short time only not married
and employed as engineer for mechanical engineering in the synthetic
industry. Since my early days I expanded my interests and today
I like to built German WWII aircraft/dioramas in 1:48, tanks
and AFV dioramas in 1:35, but still historic sailing ships.
Beside my own projects I built models for museums and private
collectors.
For constructive comments and questions please contact me at: |
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Email:  dietrich.wolf@utanet.at |
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- Arnheim 1944, Diorama (1:35) built by Dietrich Wolf
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