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This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/diorama-releases-2025-rt-diorama
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/diorama-releases-2025-rt-diorama
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As a former structural engineer and regarding ‘The Breach’ diorama, I find it hard to believe that the scrap of wall remaining between the roof of the ‘breach’ and the window above would remain in place for very long once the beam over the original opening had been destroyed.
That being said I could be overthinking it a bit, and old brickwork is quite/relatively pliable if it used lime cement and might therefore have settled into a self supporting ‘form of arch’.
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I kinda agree. The inference is that the damage was caused by a tank going through – maybe, but what’s left above the arch has no visible means of support. At least big cracks might have been appropriate, and signs of broken floor joists. But then again isn’t that the kind of thing we modellers enjoy enhancing? Overall I really like RT-Dioramas products and (without knowing the costs) could well invest.
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Indeed Martin.
One could make a story up where the tank has stopped beneath the ‘breach’ to use the house as cover, and an officer is standing by and pointing to the dodgy brickwork (suitably enhanced with cracks) and waving the driver to either pull forward or move backward.
Or, perhaps there could be an engineer trying to design some props to keep the facade from entirely collapsing, because if that scrap of brick went then the whole roof might also come down.
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On reflection, I hadn’t noticed there are actually 8 images in the link for this particular building, the last two show there are indeed shattered floor joists & floorboards. But thinking about it I don’t know why they bothered, given that it’s un-photograph-able from the interior – all the action’s really focussed on the street side. I’m no expert but if asked to design that, I’d just make the arch higher in order to leave it intact and make inward-opening wooden doors suitably shot up and/or off their hinges.
(It’s Tim, btw)
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My bad, Tim. I did wonder if I was also being too clever in trying to reverse engineer your handle. :sigh:
Dan
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