New D-Day dio: "Honnor their charge"

bbrowniii wrote:

The German's uniforms look too blue.

Yeah i thought they were WW1 french for a few seconds (with the trench and all) and became confused.

The only new thing i have to say is that the beacch has a lack of obsticales in between the water and the bunkers. i also think (if this is omaha or utah) that the bunkers are too close.

It might be the camera angle, but the beach obstacles appear to be too large for the scale of your figures.

Hey all,

   Thank you all very much! This didy was a can of worms, adding and changing things. One area where I dropped the ball was the choice of paints.  Which of course was picked up by the keen eyes that frequent this forum!  Some crappy paint I stole from one of my kids "play coloring set".  I started four years ago with the figs and that's all I had at the time.  Big mistake. 

The beach was easy....after the foam hardened, just glue and fine sand for the color.  The first bit of dry land was done with bathroom caulk and brown "muddy" looking paint.  The same caulking was used for the water.  Differnt color blues to give the look of depth. The bathroom stuff isn't as stiff or sticky, easy to work with, slow to dry so if you don't like the results, just scrap off and start over.

The bomb bursts started with a half sheet of paper towl, rolled tight to look like a joint

glue a pop stick to one end, then hang it upside down to begin adding the bathroom caulk. Work from the pop stick down.  Let dry and add more to the bottom (or top) to give it some width, and then turn it up right to add the higher water jets. If you use white caulk, no painting is needed.  Look for these tricks on "You Tube", they may be deminstrated in Japanese, but you get the idea.  The bullet rips were from clear silicone with a fine hole at the end. Just touch the ground and lift slowly. This stuff is alot stiffer, after if drys (over night?), snip off the very tips and paint.  I tried this on land but had bad results. 

All the figs came as is, one box of Gerries and two boxes of GIs.  I will admit to ya that a few of the GIs are actaully German pieces, but "I see nothing!"  Only the cassulites needed some gental minipulation (sp).

I'm just glad it's done so I can move on!   Kurt

Very impressive dio.  The size of it alone is comendable.

Couple of things:

I particularly like your water effects.  How did you do the shell and bullet impacts?  The demarcation between wet and dry is pretty impressive too.  The different poses are well done - did they come like that or were you forced to do major surgery?

One thing that I see that seems off (and maybe it is the camera lighting) is the color of a lot of the soldiers gear - Helmets, boots, and rifle barrels all look to be gray.  Some of their personal gear (bayonets, ammo pouches, etc) seem to have gotten painted with the trousers (which I don't think were that brown).  The German's uniforms look too blue. 

Still, all in all an impressive build, particularly with that number of figures.

Hey,

   The scale is in 1/72, the project ended up being much bigger than I thought....lol.

Any sheen that is away from the water must be camera flash.  Th gloss-up everything near the water to show how wet it might have been.

The figs were from Pegasus Hobbies (@100 total), 'hogs and landing craft were from Ilteari

products.  Everything else was scratch built.

Really cool, man. What scale is this?