Hi all
The Saturday before the Ciney show I visited the museums in Diekirch/Luxenbourg and Bastogne/Belgium. The Diekirch museum is probably the museum with the most stuff on display on the continent! It's in private hands but had meanwhile been recognized by the local authorities as being the "national army museum". The collection is mostly presented in 1:1 scale dioramas, many of them copied directly from period photos! Simply superb...but the lighting conditions are rather poor and make photographing very difficult. Not too much FJ gear in there but a bit anyway...
The owner must have at least 30 MP44s in his various dioramas, most of those are around the battle of the buldge and hence they fit in very nicely.
The second museum is the one in Bastogne, here 1:1 sacle dioramas as well, presented in a new, purpose built, building and in a very modern way. Not too much on display, though. More a tourist's place...
cheers
Uwe
The Saturday before the Ciney show I visited the museums in Diekirch/Luxenbourg and Bastogne/Belgium. The Diekirch museum is probably the museum with the most stuff on display on the continent! It's in private hands but had meanwhile been recognized by the local authorities as being the "national army museum". The collection is mostly presented in 1:1 scale dioramas, many of them copied directly from period photos! Simply superb...but the lighting conditions are rather poor and make photographing very difficult. Not too much FJ gear in there but a bit anyway...
The owner must have at least 30 MP44s in his various dioramas, most of those are around the battle of the buldge and hence they fit in very nicely.
The second museum is the one in Bastogne, here 1:1 sacle dioramas as well, presented in a new, purpose built, building and in a very modern way. Not too much on display, though. More a tourist's place...
cheers
Uwe
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