Experienced modelers will tell you the key to good modeling is imagination. Oh. that's easy.... nothing to it..., piece of cake ! But what if you're not that kind of person who can come up with new ideas like the magician who pulls the white rabbit out of his tophat time and time again. Reading books and talking to fellow modelers might help. Picking useful ideas from other dioramas and combining them on your display is another possibility. One thing Martin SCHUH does not have to worry about is new ideas. This prolific German modeler, who has a keen eye for detail, always seems to amaze the public with original ideas. One of his latest diorama's, combining some unusual vehicles and a factory ruin, is set in the "Barbarossa" era. Funny, but few modelers seem to be attracted by WWII Soviet armor and soldiers, although they had a major part in the downfall of the "Third Reich". This diorama proves it's not merely the type of vehicles that matters, but the kind of scene you create with them. Described on these pages is a story of an SS-Panzer unit running into a lost and lonely Russian KVIB tank. capturing the occupants, in the early days of "Operation Barbarossa . Themselves traveling in a Demag type. 1 Ton halftrack equipped with a 5cm Pak gun. took a short cut through the compounds of this brick-yard where they found the tank in hiding.
