discussion Man in the high castle

[Guest]

has anyone seen this series? It looks like my kind of programme. Set in a world where the nazis and Japanese won the war and occupy the USA. Just wondering if it's any good? It is also a book I think?

 

[dave]

The series is based on a book of the same name by Philip K Dick, never seen the series so I cannot comment on how close to the book it is.

 

[Snowman]

I have heard good things, but as such can not comment as I have not seen it.

Philip K Dick, there are so many adaptations based on his writing out there! Visionary, only starts to describe his influence and writings.

 

[Guest]

It's quite good, and a cracking idea, certainly worth a watch!

 

[Guest]

Hello all. First post here. I joined the forum specifically to see if anyone out there has done anything related to the series. My wife and I just finished binge watching all three seasons last month on Amazon Prime. I think it's a great show, but then, I live on the other side of the pond from you guys. I've begun a diorama of the border between the Neutral Zone and the Greater Nazi Reich. It'll involve scratch building a few vehicles but ought to be a lot of fun.

 

[Mini Me]

Welcome Robert!
From where do you hail? Looking forward to your DIO. You won't find a better bunch out there
To mingle with!
Rick H. Montana USA

 

[Guest]

Thanks Rick. I'm from a little berg called Mansfield. I'll post some in progress photos soon.

 

[minitnkr]

Ohio? I'm in Dayton, not far. What else do you model? PaulE

 

[Guest]

I have seen the first 2 series very well made. But I will not giveaway the storyline...

 

[Guest]

Ohio? I'm in Dayton, not far. What else do you model? PaulE

Ah, my Bad. As some folks from Ohio like to say the Ohio State, I like to say the Mansfield. In Texas . :smiling3:

Here's the first bit of my Greater Nazi Reich diorama:

This guy, wearing NVA Rain Drop Cammo fatigues, Cold war US leather boots, and of course a stahlehlm. He also carries a G3 rifle, which I have not added yet.

And my efforts so far to replicate him. I'll fill in the gaps with plastic shavings saved from when I cut the details from his BDU's. He still needs pocket flaps and straps from lead foil, and extended jacket with Miliput:

I mainly do 1/35 armor, although I'm trying to do several D Day related dioramas for the coming year.

 

[minitnkr]

Oh, that Texas. I spent a month driving across it one weekend:smiling4:. The star field in west Texas was awesome, a 360 degree horizon. That's quite a fig. project BTW. PaulE

 

[Guest]

This guy, wearing NVA Rain Drop Cammo fatigues

I’ve got one of those jackets, in case you need detail photos of it Awkward, useless arm pockets, by the way.

And my efforts so far to replicate him. I'll fill in the gaps with plastic shavings saved from when I cut the details from his BDU's. He still needs pocket flaps and straps from lead foil, and extended jacket with Miliput:

I think I would have started with a WWII German, to avoid the need to build web gear. Pockets are easier to add than belts, IMHO. The left sleeve looks like it came from a figure wearing a German camouflage smock, with the tab that closes the cuff some way up; on the real jacket it’s at the very end of the cuff so that kind of tapers nicely without the ruff of the WWII smock. Also, the tab comes up and inward from the outside of the sleeve, not down and outward as on your figure

But those are minor details that I notice mainly because of owning the real thing, and that I doubt most others will spot.

a 360 degree horizon.

You get 360-degree horizons absolutely everywhere you look — it’s just that in many places, that horizon isn’t very far away

 

[Guest]

I appreciate the offer but I've enough photos to get the pockets right. Since you collect, we may need to talk - I've got a long NVA winter coat that would probably look smashing with your outfit. Even has the green Grenztruppen der DRR band on the sleeve. I also have a Bundeswehr Pea Pattern Gore-Tex rain jacket. I might be talked out of either one.

As for the uniforms, you're probably right, but I could only find three German figures when I started. Two had the long coats and one was an officer . Even if I had had found my old Tamiya figures I'd have had to add US boots. Plus this guy had exactly the pose I needed. I posted the wrong photo earlier - his head is actually lowered even more:

By the way, toss up on the best star field between Big Bend, Texas and BFE, middle of the Paktika Province, Afghanistan.

 

[minitnkr]

I was speaking of the REAL :smiling2: horizon where the curvature of the earth meets the sky. In much of west Texas it's like being on the ocean only more bugs & crazy big rig drivers trying to make time. PaulE.

 

[Guest]

I appreciate the offer but I've enough photos to get the pockets right. Since you collect, we may need to talk - I've got a long NVA winter coat that would probably look smashing with your outfit.

I don’t have an East German outfit, just the jacket with lieutenant’s (IIRC) shoulder boards, plus a few bits and bobs like more rank insignia that I picked up from a big hole in the ground in the formerly patrolled zone immediately around the Berlin Wall in the summer of 1990. (I bought the jacket later, as military surplus, though.)

I also have a Bundeswehr Pea Pattern Gore-Tex rain jacket. I might be talked out of either one.

Those rain jackets aren’t overly difficult to find in Europe, and I already have a very good Dutch equivalent that I use as a raincoat anyway

As for the uniforms, you're probably right, but I could only find three German figures when I started. Two had the long coats and one was an officer .

Yep, then it’s easier to make do with what you do have.

 

[Mini Me]

Interesting figure, hope to see more soon.
Rick H.