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EBFDN "A miserable pilgrimage"

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6 November 2016, 21:09
Rui S
I'm pulling a couch and some drinks😎
7 November 2016, 11:21
Kerry COX
Yes, me too. 🙂 This looks most interesting, and the engine is a good indication of the rest that will appear. 👍
7 November 2016, 11:35
Ulf Petersen
Welcome Rui and Kerry! Glad to have you on board.🙂
I updated my project description with the text passage I am about to tell with this diorama and I would appreciate to have your thoughts.
8 November 2016, 08:05
Holger Kranich
Rui, i´ll take a tea!
Its time for me to get that book. This looks extremely interesting to me. Yes, the dio too!😉
8 November 2016, 08:26
Ulf Petersen
You are very welcome, Holger!🙂
It's easy to get the book as it is listed several times by amazon. An alternative source is the joined online platform of german second hand bookshops:
zvab.com
8 November 2016, 09:21
Kerry COX
OK, point number 1. 🙂
Don't forget the BLOOD. 👍
8 November 2016, 09:38
Ulf Petersen
HaHa! 😄 No Kerry, I had no vision of a splatter scene in my mind. The only blood will appear as some dried spots on the bandages of the wounded men. The dead soldier will be covered by the blanket the medic pulls over his head. The only thing you will see of him will be his boots.
8 November 2016, 10:08
Kerry COX
Ulf. 👍 hahahahaha. 🙂
I will be really looking forward to see what you do with these figures mate, as you will for sure give me some inspiration for my dio, hoping to do something of what was called "Red Ball Express".👍
google.com.au/url?sa..m=bv.137904068,d.dGo
8 November 2016, 12:37
Ulf Petersen
Kerry, I know quite well about the Red Ball Express as Dirk Fries and KlausH made a phantastic Dio about that topic which was published in ModellFan. I will be on board when you start with that for sure.
8 November 2016, 13:09
Rui S
Ulf, Thank you very much for that translation. 👍
600 Km??? they would be better when they passed away (even if it was in a highway). They also had to refuel during that journey. Just a thought😉
8 November 2016, 15:41
Kerry COX
Good morning Rui and Ulf. 🙂 👍
I am wondering if there was any information on the dio Ulf has mentioned by Dirk and Klaus. ? as I am unaware of it, but I have seen other dio's that were based on the RBE, and Rui, the refuelling was the big issue for the convoy from the moment the advance into Europe started, especially the armour.
And I have seen images of trucks loaded to the top with 'jerry' cans, as well as dedicated trucks with the huge tanks, not unlike what we see on our roads now, that carried all the fuel to the front.👍
Millions of tyres were used up in this massive exercise too, but to 'isolate' just one part of the whole story will be difficult, as it was such a complicated event, that to get my 'moment in time', I am going to be very careful not to typicalize the event with just a small snap shot. 👍
And, I am going to have to look at it for a while after it's done, and I don't like the idea of thinking that I missed the point of what I was trying to portray.🙂
Rui, just like your German half track, sunburned, hot, bleached out effect says it all for what it was like in North Africa, a model I will always admire. 🙂
And, Ulf's amazing dio of the 'Peas in a pod" and that it still takes my breath away.👍
All inspirational stuff that has encouraged me to have a constant reminder of all our relative snippets of history in my display case and on disk, for other to marvel at, long after I and all of us are gone.
Quite a legacy we will leave behind.🙂
8 November 2016, 19:36
Kerry COX
OK, I have done some searching for the names mentioned by you Ulf of Dirk and KlausH, and I found this.google.com.au/url?sa..ust=1478720809933472
Is this what you were mentioning. ?
8 November 2016, 19:49
Joerg R.
Oh I love these german truck, I'm in too 👍👍👍
8 November 2016, 19:59
Germen V
this is interesting, i'll take a seat
8 November 2016, 20:15
Rui S
@Kezza, I was just giving Ulf a hint about is dio history, but anyway I understand what you mean (take your time Mate) and thank you for your words about my half track😉
8 November 2016, 20:17
Ulf Petersen
Kerry, this is exactly the Dio I had in mind.👍
Rui, I understood your hint and I will consider it for sure, thank you. 🙂
8 November 2016, 20:51
Kerry COX
Ulf, Thanks for that mate, and it certainly is a most impressive diorama indeed. 👍
Cheers, and I will let you know when I am past the planning and putting it on the board. 🙂
I will be watching your doi with great interest. 🙂
8 November 2016, 21:58
Torben H.
He's started, he's started!!! 🙂
8 November 2016, 22:12
Kerry COX
🙂 :-0 🙂 Yeah. ! Exciting isn't it. ?
8 November 2016, 23:08
Ulf Petersen
Thank you, I feel very honored by so much enthusiasm. 🙂
9 November 2016, 15:01
Kerry COX
It's not every day we get to sit and watch a master at work Ulf. 🙂 👍
9 November 2016, 15:17
Ulf Petersen
Kezza, wanna marry me?!😉
Added some pics of my progress.
14 November 2016, 21:56
Kerry COX
Marry YOU. ?🙂
Hell no. !
You are too much of a perfectionist. LOL 🙂
But I could watch your work all day. :-/ hehehe👍
14 November 2016, 22:26
gorby
Thanks for you translation Ulf, I thought is was very good and the passage very moving. I'm interested in WWII, but I often think how lucky we are that it isn't our generation that has to endure such suffering. It puts your own problems into perspective.
I'll be following with interest.
15 November 2016, 16:42
Ulf Petersen
You are damn right, Gorby! I occupied myself with the history of the 2nd World War and the 3rd Reich since I was 12 - by reason of having read this book by the way.
This gave me a strong awareness of the worth of peace and democracy. A feeling that seems to get more and more lost among the post war generations as you can see by the rise of populists and demagogues all around the world now. A trend that makes me deeply worried about the future.🙁
16 November 2016, 06:31
gorby
Hence your concern about Trump, which I share. Brexit is also a concern to me, the world needs to be forming closer ties, not splitting into smaller and smaller parts.
16 November 2016, 07:34
Kerry COX
We perform better as individuals, but become something to fear as a group. Islam is the perfect example of what I call a 'group'. 🙁
16 November 2016, 09:36
Rui S
Interesting enough is that in the brexit, it were the older generations nearest to the WWII conflict, that voted most in favour 🙁
16 November 2016, 10:38
Ulf Petersen
My concern does definitely include the Brexit.
16 November 2016, 14:04
gorby
You are right Rui. Unfortunately that generation are also the ones to be more trusting of authority, which is why conmen target them. So they trusted the horror stories they read in the media (except the BBC) about being swamped with migrants, and about being infiltrated by terrorists etc. My dad still remembers the British Empire and although he is not racist at all, many of that era are distrustful of foreigners, so, many voted with their 'gut' rather than their 'head'.

A lot of lies were told on both sides of the Brexit argument in Britain, but it's the younger people who will have to live with the decision. I think a lot of people think, that if it doesn't work out, we could just rejoin. But I doubt that Europe will want us back.
16 November 2016, 16:03
Ulf Petersen
Well, I am sure Europe would welcome Little Britain back anytime but I am sure as well it would accept Britain only without any of those former exclusive cherry picking regulations it had before Brexit. Only as one member amongst the others. That would be too hard to swallow, I guess.
19 November 2016, 11:22
Spanjaard
a long as nobody has the crazy idea of following the UK example, and there is EU to return to in the future, then you can worry about that possibility of coming back.... it worries me some politicians who want to go also on isolation
and living the politics aside. the model is looking good😉
19 November 2016, 17:02
Michael Phillips
Now this is a cool project! I will be following along indeed.
30 November 2016, 14:35
Ulf Petersen
Thanks Michael and a warm welcome!🙂
30 November 2016, 14:45
Ulf Petersen
Added some pics of the growing ambulance interior.
10 December 2016, 12:29
Holger Kranich
Thats what I was looking for...😢
11 December 2016, 10:06
Xerxes
Looking forward to see more results of this interesting project 👍
12 December 2016, 13:13
Bart Goesaert
progress looks good... nice interior so far...
12 December 2016, 13:18
Ulf Petersen
Thank you, mates! 🙂 Masking the windows is kinda boring to me, but when I finally finished it, the interior painting will follow. Stay tuned!
12 December 2016, 13:28
Michael Phillips
So nice! That interior is really outstanding!
12 December 2016, 14:45
Holger Kranich
Looks really good so far. Are stretchers included?
12 December 2016, 15:33
Ulf Petersen
Michael, true! I was really impressed, when I opened the box.
Holger, yes, they are: 3 frames with 3 stretchers each (and I am lucky to have one spare in the figure box 😉)
13 December 2016, 06:09
Holger Kranich
You can never have enough stretchers! (As well as Tomcats, Tigers, Havana Club etc... )😢
13 December 2016, 08:48

Album info

This is going to be the second project based on the novel "Einen bessern findst du nicht" ("You won't find a better one" ) by Walter Düpmann.

In the summer of '42 the author still fought on the front line in Karelia and suffered a wound, a shot right through the shoulder.
Basically this means at first that he made it to escape alive the fighting in that theatre which was horrible in every sense and this was associated with feelings of great relief.
But he had to be brought from the casualty station to the back area military hospital in Oslo and here's how he describes his experience on that transport:

"... Also ich kam mit einem Transport von Verwundeten und Kranken von der nordkarelischen Front zurück und fühlte mich zunächst wie im Himmel. Den andern erging es auch so, soweit ihre Schmerzen sie nachdenken und fühlen ließen.
Und dann verging uns die ganze Freude. Der Transport ging auf holprigen Waldwegen und Pfaden an die sechshundert Kilometer weit durch den Urwald, zunächst bis Torneo an die schwedische

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