Washing Day +1

Great little diorama. Captures the picture perfectly. Nice work !

Regards, Rick

Nice job on recreating the photo. Looks like the GI's are getting some much needed rest after the horrible experience of landing on the beach.

Great job of taking a photo and bringing it into 3 dimensions. You've done some really nice work there. Give us some details; scale, what kits you used, what you had to scratch and/or kit bash to bring this project to life.

Excellent work. like LemonJello, I am really impressed with the way you have taken a photo and turned it into something tangible.

cool!! hey............are those "skids" i see in those underwear? mine would've certainly been "soiled" if i had to do the utah beach landing i'm sure. great job. later.

Thankyou all,let me start with the stuff I didn`t have to scratch which was the gun,I used a German pak40 from Tamiya and the figues which were also from Tamiya. The scale is 1/35. The bunker was carved out of a chunk of the blue construction foam which I would recomend using to everyone,comes in pink or blue and in a variety of thicknesses. The angle of the bunker in the photo didn`t give too much in the way of length but having three overhangs and the middle one being the longest for the operation of the gun I proceeded to carve out the bunker. The base was built up with foam to also get the depth that the soldiers had to stand in. Crates were imbedded into the sand around the edge of the bunker to give a platform for various pieces of equipment maps etc. The sand was dry spooned onto the base and after getting the proper depth up to the crates was frozen in place with whiteglue/water and an eyedropper. Various containers and equipment to match were added and the barbedwire was an afterthought. I had every intention to use cammo netting on this bunker but I got so engrassed in the project I completely forgot about it and used vines instead,like in the pic. This vig was an absolute blast to build,a nice change of pace with the lack of vehicles to do.

Very differnt thanks for the photo & pics...

Now that is a piece of art exceptional work all round well done indeed.

Ron

Nice work Sasd

Thad

Great little scene, Russ, sometimes you see a picture, and then it hits you..."I have to do THAT!!" LOL
You've done a great representation of the original picture, Bravo!

Great job turning the pic into a dio. Very original scene.

Hey sasd, great job as always. Is that the foam you told me about on thelandline.

great job as always are you out to build the history of ww 2 ? HAHA.leave some of it for us OK.

One hell of a dio. You brought that pic to life.

TigerII

spantenious, very ERADical
-ERAD

You ROCK, Excellent build. It's amazing, looking at the BW picture I would think theres nothing interesting about it, but leave it to sasd to prove me very wrong. By given the picture a third dimension the whole scene comes to life and tells a story I would not have seen otherwise.

Thanks for the "outstanding" show.

sasd, as usual, you do not disappoint. Very nicely done.

Many thanks everyone, this is one of the ways I like to portray vehicles and situations of war by looking for the unusual and building it into a scene. It`s sometimes not always
the easiest to do because of the lack of certain vehicles needed but we make do.
Von,I have no intention of slowing down so if you want to get in on the action you best get building,LOL! See,Kelly maybe done posting what he`s got done to date,but I`m not,LOL!!
Roy,it`s about time we heard from you,yes that is the foam I was telling you about,beautiful stuff!

What is the barbwire made of?

Hi Kev, the barbed wire,yeah,back in the 80s all the guys used to take a medium chunk of screen,rip it off yer screen door if you have to,the old metal stuff would be excellent!
Now taking a long length of screen you cut dead centre on the squares up the full length of the screening,this will give you one full length of barbed wire with what represents barbs. Of course now the guys like to twine and wrap their own,guess I`m still old school,but it`s easier!

Thanks, now i just need some metal screen... The nylon kind or whatever it is works ok, but I think metal would probably work better.

Great work,very nice dio
Pedro

Superb!

Excellent work Russ. Always enjoy seeing your projects.

Thanks for the comments folks,my hope is that you all get creative and we`ll see some new stuff real soon. Thanks again everyone!