The concept of this diorama is to show the human drama backgrounded by the tank in destroyed city. The task was to illustrate the war with no classical attributes – but giving the viewer the opportunity to witness the severities and horrors of a war.
The photo made on 2 May 1945 was taken as a historical reference. It’s one of the last Tiger tanks of the Muncheberg division, abandoned by its crew not far from the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gates.
The prototype is a heavy German tank PzKpfw. VI Tiger Ausf. E (early).
The tank, a huge iron beast, deliberately goes beyond the boundaries of the diorama, breaking the “fourth wall” - as if it stopped almost in front of the viewer.
Components of the Story
Two sets of models were used in this work: a set from Academy with an interior and a set from AFV with working chassis. Used metal working tracks and 3 sets of photo-etching, additional elements were made of resin and plastic.
All shields, all hatches, as well as all fastenings for entrenching tools are made movable.
Zimmerit and some of the parts are made from scratch.
Figures and ammunition are made of resin with modifications - belts for weapons and swivels. To paint the figures, archival photos from that period were collected and analyzed. Painted with acrylic and oil using pigments.
Diorama - paving stones made of MiniArt plastic, ruins are scratch built, landscape details - boot, machine gun box, etc. - conversion or scratch built.
An officer with a camera: the camera is aimed at the defeated iron beast, but he himself looks after those leaving, as if he is pondering what is to happen next.
The tiger Sherkhan was defeated, but Mowgli became a man only when he returned to the people. The Man Cub and the Tiger - a story once told by Rudyard Kipling suggested the name of this work, consonant with the title of his story "Mowgli".
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