The Lehr-Regiment 901 (mot.) is formed officially December 28, 1942. There are two battalions of grenadiers with four companies motorized on each, one on trucks and the other on half-tracks. Two anti-tanks companies endowed with Pak 40 towed come in support, as well as a battery of ten assault guns Sturmgeschütz III armed with a gun of 7,5cm long, a mixture of Ausf F and Ausf F/8.

   The Sturmgeschütz Lehr-Batterie 901, is constituted from the 8th battery of instruction of the school of artillery of Jüteborg. With the Lehr-Regiment 901, she/it is transferred in Russia since the mid December 1942 to participate in the tentative of freeing of the troops surrounded in Stalingrad in the big buckle of the Don, then to suppress the soviet thrust in direction of the sea of Azov (close sea of the Black Sea).

   The battery is ordered by the Hauptmann (captain) Alfred Müller that will get, in reward of his/her/its constant bravery to the forefront of the action and the conduct exceptional of his/her/its unit at the time of the two following months, knight's Cross (Ritterkreuz), awarded February 20, 1943. At the end March Müller (named Kommandeur of the Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 191 in the Kouban) is replaced by lieutenant Rausch, then at the end April the battery is dissolved, its staff sent back in Jüteborg, after having bequeathed the hang-over of its materials to the 19th Pz Division.

   At the time of this ephemeral career of four months and half, the ad hoc battery is hired without truce in protection on all hot points of the sector, that it is within various groupings of circumstance, subordinated to the 19 Pz Div, or the most often in cooperation with its organic infantry regiment, the Lehr-Rgt 901 (mot.). In the general fold movement that prevails, it wages multiple battles of rearward, repulsive every time victoriously of dangerous Russian progress.

Presentation of the diorama.

  Conference of the chiefs of platoons and officers of the Sturmgeschütz-Battery 901, in presence of the Oberst (Colonel) Georg Scholze ordering the Lehr-Regiment 901 (mot.). One makes the point of the local situation while debating the positions of the troops friends and enemies on the card. Alfred Müller and Georg Scholzes listen to with attention the report of an advanced observer, while the radio-shipper receives in his earphones a communication radio from a superior command echelon, intended to the colonel of the Lehr-Regiment. A Feldwebel of the Lehr-Regiment 901, retarded by an unforeseen, joined in hurry the scratch briefing. He also gleamed of the information crucial to transmetttre to his superior, resulting of the latest developments on the front line: a hostile counterattack draws itself altogether!

   Some grenadiers observe the stage, curious to know the objective neighbor who will be assigned to their unit. A corporal attached to the protection of Scholze is anxious ready to riposte with his MP 40 if a bad surprise caused by the irruption of isolated Russian infantrymen occurred in this freshly conquered zone and secured not really again quite. 

   The attention of all protagonists is captured by somewhat alarmist news. The present respite will probably be of short length because the Russian are concentrating their strengths to throw a new assault in an imminent manner. However, the enemy has just undergone an important reverse, that cost him of heavy losses in men and material. It is why the report is listened with a certain incredulity because one imagined the adversary stunned for some time.  

The isba:

Ground:

   It is preferable to tint the sealer in the mass with a liquid gouache of ochre color in order to get rid immediately of the white coloration of this one and, to make he more legible. Then, a more realistic texture is given to the land while painting it with a preparation composed of a little sealer, white glue and "terre à décor" (pigment) of Libéron (other brands exist, Mig, MMP, Sennelier, Rambrandt, Windsor & Newton…). The "terre à décor" are no more no less that of the pigments to paint (that enters in the compositions of the pastels).

   The main idea is as always to work damaged some, that wants to say in this case, to start then with the dark brown, to pursue with brown, to make intervene of the yellow ochres, brief to play with the dark and the clear, to generate the depth and a chromatic variety is pleasing to the look.

Vegetation:

   All small shoots that spring of soil approaching the spring, are garbage of whole cool thyme. They are planted one by one in an opening of 5-6mm of long pierced with a carry-drill. Every stem is repainted to the acrylic in a green wood tone. 
 
   The twigs of straw strewing soil are cut in the string of sisal and are fixed to the white glue. They are not let nature because the individual sprigs of sisal are a little transparent, they are repeintent in tones beige neighbors of the original but more sustained, and in instillant - as usual - of the effects of damaged newborn of darker juices and clear brushings, nearly white. 

Palisade:

   The rudimentary palisade that acts as enclosure to the adjoining little garden to the isba, has been prepared with small branches of thyme of different sections that represents the pegs driven in the earth and, of others more long and finer that, interlocking horizontally around the pegs on two levels represent the palisade in her even. The thyme is an interesting material, it provides a profusion of very knotted small branches and with a peel very. Alas, they are very knotted and rarely straight as a result of which, rare are the more or less right stems. The fence is therefore little regular and with a lot of convolutions, defect an attenuated little by the effect of mass produces by the accumulation of tight pegs. The finished palisade is painted to Humbrol and oil paints.

Snow:

   Snow is in starch of potato and in bicarbonate of soda (available in all slip supermarkets). They are sprinkled in an irregular way on soil, in order to avoid an effect of monotony... that is not all the same completely absent because of the creation of the thing. It would probably be necessary again to "to mess up" this snow too half note by splatters of painting acrylic Prince August greatly soaking blackish brown, achieved as rubbing the silks of a small brush the wrong way lasts stuffed of liquid (for example of the tip of a small spoon or all other utensil of kitchen).

   Since then the consultation of the site Missing-lynx proved to be a priori fruitful with the discovery of a recipe promising to make realistic snow. It will be about putting it in practice without lingering to verify what this hose that takes the same ingredients a priori is worth that mine but, with one knack that makes the difference maybe...

   Indeed, the result of this transformation will be visible on the numeric views of the diorama, achieve and integrated subsequently. Snow has been been back at work between time with a solution composed of bicarbonate of soda + water + white glue, that, give to the departure a sort of "translucent mud". While drying, it hardens making opaque (+ or - according to the white glue proportion). Finished the problems of pulverulence. To note that on the small surfaces the technique of fixing to varnish acrylic brightness remained very valid. Otherwise, the unscathed portions of soil of snowy deposit received an application of varnish shining in order to confer them an appearance of humidity of the to the melting of snow.

   The ground also lacks humidity, the applications of varnish shining were not generous enough. And yet a bright varnish acrylic (bright varnish/medium Liquitex) has been used to fix snow, but the product has been absorbed. The film of snow remains nevertheless very fragile, a good part evacuates itself when one blows over or that one returns the basis. A second application, possibly completed by a third session of retouchings, is not often useless.