A Break on the Front - SU-26
Leningrad Oblast, Summer 1942

A SU-26, its crew, and a group of infantry take a break alongside the road to repair a backfired quad maxim.
The SU-26 is an improvised assault gun that was built and in service only in the Leningrad pocket where for a lack of infantry support weapons they modified a handful of T-26 to have a deck and a naval-esque turret mounted up top with the crew and ammo exposed. There were so few there's not much record on their effectiveness. Regardless I'm a big fan of the design.

I think every previous diorama I'd done had been way too large for the scale and the amount of objects I had to put in the scene so this time I just jammed the diorama full of figures and details on a much smaller base than previous. I think the base is about 23mm x 23mm and it's one of a pair with my next diorama.