As a kid, Mike Siggins always wondered why the German characters on the Hogaris Herocs TV show were so afraid of being sent to fight in Russia. I hat led to an interest in the history of the Kastern Front in World War II. About the same time, Mike built his first model. Over the years, the two interests converged into a focus on modeling late-war Kastern-Front dioramas. Mikes 1/35 scale diorama, Too Little Too Late, depicts the final resupply of a pocket of German troops in the city of Poznan shortly before it was cut off by the Soviet army in February 1945. Mike wanted to convey the raw conditions and desperation brought on by lack of food, water, ammunition, and shelter. He immersed himself in books of period photos to get a feel tor the poses and facial expressions of soldiers struggling in snow and mud. "It also helps," he says, "if you live in an urban area where it snows to get the look of fresh late-winter snow on top of old snow." A resident of State College, Pa., Mike knows a bit about such conditions!
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