Inspirational is the perfect word!
Verlinden's dioramas and then later his products are great!
The PzII in 1/16th scale I built was a Verlinden product.
Expensive stuff but his 1/35 figures when compared to the kit pictures are just light years better. I never enjoyed preparing the resin figures, but once put together, the painting was always a great pleasure... boy talking about this I'm getting the urge to build something, or at least finish building something. I would start building severla kits at once... crazy I know but my airbrushing facilities are not the best and I would then airbrush severla projects at once.
The other modeler whose work was also impressive and always had a feature in the Military Modelling magazine was ( I can't remember his name, Pfister maybe?) but he would make AFV conversions and his results were incredible.
Know what you mean about scenes with lots of figures.. one of my favorites was a group of germans crossing a bridge, don't remember the deetails but remember I would just stare at the picture for a long time lookig at all the details... the bridge itself was a work of art....
"Talking" to you now, I'm wondering why there is not a Models Museum. I bet modelers would love to have a venue for their projects. Then space is not a problem! It would duoble up as a history of warfare museum... I know many museums have models but I have never heard of one for models exclusively. Whi knows there might be somethin like that out there...
take care
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