Omaha diorama in progress! formerly named"-Stowage on a landing craft?"

Just my two cents worth of comments on your sniper rifle.

 First of all, you are using M1 garand as your sniper rifle.  There were 2 types of sniper rifles made out of M1.  M1C and M1D.

M1C had a cone look a like flash hider, with scope rail attached to the side of the receiver with M82 or M84 scopes.   http://www.rt66.com/~korteng/SmallArms/m1sniper.htm

M1D had a 5 prong flash suppressor, scope mount was attached to the side of the breech of the rifle.  http://www.snipercentral.com/m1cd.htm

Both M1C and M1D had leather cheek piece. 

None of the U.S. sniper rifles from WWII/Korean War Era had bi-pods. 

If you want to make M1903A4 sniper rifle, you can use existing M1903A1/A3 rifles, remove the front and the rear sights.  place the scope mount over the ejector/loading port with the scope. 

http://www.snipercentral.com/m1903a4.htm

 

 

 

Heres pictuers of my trumpeter 1/35 LCM-3 so far along with a figure I have started.  By the way, Im gonig to change my title and turn this into a step by step diorama page for my Omaha Beach dio I am working on instead of making a whole new thread.  Comments and criticism are both wecome and wanted, since I know I'n still very new with models and I don't know a whole lot about historical accuracy. LCM-3

The 50 cal MG's

Part of the pulley system for the front gate

Here it is next to a diorama Im working on, just to show how huge the boat is.  for scale purposes, the diorama is almost 2 feet long.

And lastly, a picture of a US scout/sniper I am working on for the dio. His body is made from the DML 101st at Bastogne kit, with a mix of different gear, foliage and netting covered helmet and gun, which was made from a garand, bipod and a scope from another gun, in an attempt to model the basics of a springfield.  Please give me any advice on how to make him more realistic.  I still have a few details to add to him, and by the way, theres not that much glue on him, I dont know why the picture looks so messy

 

Thanks for looking, hope you liked them, or if you didn't, you tell me why and how to improve that part.  Another big thanks to steveM, and keep watching for more posts on progress on my figures/LCM and dio!

Ya, sounds like it ouldnt bee to realistic to have much stowage, so il stick with maybe a couple fuel drums on the back, s couple rope coils and maybe a chain.  Also, the idea of some soldiers who never survived the drop is a great one steve.  Ya, I pretty much did nothing but sleep eat and build over the weekend.  Ive still got to do some seem filling and sanding (not use to such large pieces).  Ill post pictures later tonight of my work so far.

Maybe some bodies that didn't survive the door drop.

You already finished that landing craft? The one you got yesterday? Speed modeling. Crazy fast. Send pics, dude. I'm dying to see your progress on this dio.

SteveM

hey ian i agree with aj. if the landing craft survived the initial landing it was heading back empty. anything the troops need was carrying on there person until the beaches were secured. once that is accomplished then the support units could move in and set up anything and everything they needed.

I doubt there'd be much of anything once the troops left. Those things were pretty tightly packed with men who were hitting a hot beach. Might be worth watching the landing scene in Prtivate Ryan again.