I wanted a diorama with water ice representation, because I’m involved in ww2, I built a what if diorama,which never happened.
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Beautiful!!
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That is a masterpiece! I feel cold just looking at it.
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Very nice ice/water effects !!!
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Beautiful! But next time, why don’t you build an ice diorama instead of putting it in the tub with a bunch of water and ice? 
Great job! So realistic!
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The ice sheets are a bit thick to be in the southern Baltic during the winter.
The areas in the southern Baltic where German submarine crews trained
and got their boats ready for deployment were covered by ice during the
war winters.
Even the North Sea coast was impacted by ice in 1942.
German website:
the pictures are in a universal language though
and Google Translate can help with the text …
If there is a strong northern wind the ice can be packed against the coast.
The packed ice floes can then freeze together and create thicker ice layers.
So even if the smooth ice cover is only 1 foot thick it can become 10 feet
where it is packed together.
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Nice!! What scale is that…1/350? What did you use for ice? I’ve seen others use paraffin (wax) melted, then poured to make a sheet, then broken up to make “ice” floes and chunks. I’ve always wanted to do something like that, but never got “a round tuit” 
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The scale is 1/72,the ice is a ready wax plate , from a store with church goods , that I cut in several pieces
thanks
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That is some beautiful ice work! Oh, and the model isn’t too shabby either! Very nice, it looks like there is so much depth and coldness.
Would be really cool to have some crew topside observing the pack ice in the conning tower.
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Very nice! The water and ice are really effective!
If I might submit one suggestion, it would be to use some flat or matt clear on the tops of the larger ice floes, the ones that have the flat, plane top surfaces. Those are so large that it seems unlikely that they would be washed over with water and would therefore retain their snow covers. (The smaller chunks are logically wet looking all over…). The flat white contrast with the shiney, wetter, smaller ice chunks would, IMO, emphasize the bitter cold (rather than suggesting the air temp is warm enough to melt the tops of the larger ice pieces).
In any event, very well done!
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Every suggestion is acceptable, thank you.
Okay, here’s a very,very old diorama of mine,with the same title, that I did something like your suggestion.
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very nice, because my occupation concerns ww2 vehicles I did not go further
thanks
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good figures
thanks
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Also, very nice execution!
I’m sure that I’m not the only one here that would love to know your techniques for modeling the ice and water.
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Dim_pir,
Excellent result! Coincidentally, I recently created this scene (in 1/700 scale) … HMS Revenge breaking through the Arctic Ice.
Paul
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Nice and realistic job,if you crop the photo to the edge of the diorama, it’ll be like ascene of movie.
thanks
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the water is clear resin with a little color (blue-green)
thanks
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Dim_pir,
Strange that you mentioned cropping the image … that’s exactly what I did when I photographed the scene.
Paul
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great minds think alike 
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