"Dinner in the desert" Panzer II DAK diorama (Academy 1/35 scale model) 

I have a lot of German tanks but the PzII is one I keep building. A good one to start with.

Your colors drew me right in. Good job. An egg frying on the tank would be cool .

Excellent as always, I love your model builds and the diorama is simply inspired, thankyou for yet another brilliant and inspiring video.

It turned out really good. It's nice to see a diorama as opposed to just a single model. Again, well done.

Nice subject and fantastic work, superb scenery!

Looks like an actual photo in a book about the afrika korp.great ,fantastic job.please have more in the near future!

It looked really good . Another great build 👍

The desert scene looks good.

Thanks!

Great result, many thanks

A nice little dio here with the tank and crewman

I agree with your comment that the cracked earth was a plus as it certainly detailed a very dry environment. Shame the tank covered it up. The scene is very evocative and creates an atmosphere of solitude and loneliness. Great job, MN!

MN, love the "burnt wood" effect, very nice! I have used AK North African dust acrylic as a pin wash on my DAK vehicles as the nooks and crannies are where the dust likes to settle, it does a nice job of bringing out the details as well. Cheers!

Greetings Nerd, that diorama turned out absolutely fantastic, not really a modeller of German armour, but never say never,best regards from a Kiwi living in Australia 👍👍👍👍

brilliant work on the fire pit 😍

Looks great thanks for sharing cheers Liam. .

The desert can be vexing to model--almost as vexing as living in/upon it, too. The results look good to me.

Looks great thanks for sharing cheers Liam

Looks good to me mate, a lovely little diorama. 10/10 mate👍🇦🇺👍

Awesome work my friend keep up the good work 👍👍👍

Love a desert diorama!.......quite difficult to do though......well done.

Great diorama 👍

Beautiful

Looks outstanding, and very well done, I think it flows very well. I have to get better at my "Pen Washing" you make it look soo easy. Cheers! another First Class diorama!

Very nice

Wonderful scene! 👍👍👍

I recently got a book on the afrika corps called “images of war the armour of rommels afrika korps” it’s full of great diorama ideas and interesting photos

Didn't know any Panzer ii went to Africa ,good work as always.

Hi MN, very nice detailing on this one. The cup, the fire tripod and the tarp are all well done. You did a fine job recreating the photo reference. It would seem that the simplicity of the diorama components lend themselves to the solitary feeling that the soldier may have in such a situation. It conveys an emotion. All around fantastic job mate. Thanks, Mikey V.

Yes, it was enjoyable to watch, as always, and I think it turned out brilliantly. I am a big fan of the North Africa scene although I doubt very much whether the combatants would say the same, lll.

I notice so many modelers paint utility items such as shovels or axes or cables when already attached to the kit. Why do you not paint them separately? I think the weathering of the tank model without all the added extras would give a more uniform finish. Utility items that get used would end up looking a fair bit different in color and texture than the tank body. Just asking because I want to learn more as a new modeler Thanks for the great video

Awesome work! One constructive criticism; Tarp needs some weathering...dirt, sand, dust...

Nice work. Where is the rest of the crew though? Shouldn't there be at least 4 of them?

I am pretty sure that the main colour of a German tank in Africa (and beyond) was RAL 1002 Sandgelb (sand yellow). The standard German primer had always been "Rostbraun" (rusty brown), a redish brown.

Wow excellent, how is this possible, it looks almost too quiet and peaceful for a war scenery 😅 Nice work✨👍✨

Very nice scene.with sticky greetings from good ol'germany. Christian

Brilliant video! Incidentally, who makes your cutting mat? Thanks. Cheers!

A nice little diorama. Two things stand out to me though. Firstly the tank is very clean, vehicles moving through sand throw up a lot of dust, quite a bit of which settles on the vehicles themselves and the model would have benefitted from a light coat of dust and maybe an accumulation of fine sand in the angles of the hull. Secondly the ground doesn't really read as sand due to the lack of imprints, in the second reference photo you showed, the sand around the tank was very heavilly dimpled with footprints and I think an attempt to duplicate that on the diorama would have made the ground look less rocky and more like soft sand.

No need to beat yourself up, MN - that little scene looks very good! Btw, did you enjoy your four days of F1 bliss? And were you involved in the recovery of Magnusson's car?

Very well built. Super idea with the fire pit. 👍

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