Alberto Piacentini is a modeler who lives in Parlermo, Sicily, although he grew up in Milan. “I’m 53,” he wrote in 2025, “and I have been modelling since the eighties (with some stops). My interest are mainly 1/35 scale military models with an eye to WWII and the Soviet/Cold War era.” This harrowing box diorama, his first, depicts the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, incorporating the 1/35th Trumpeter BRDM (early), Trumpeter UAZ, and ICM Chernobyl Radiation Monitoring Station. “I used the background set and merged with street,” Alberto writes. Light from sky 3v led set. Same set for light in the barrack and in the nuclear power plant. Street lights in the paper background from optic fibers lighted by a LED.”