Hi Fellow diorama enthusiast,
I'm new here in the forum and in my introduction I had promised some close-up of the diorama that I posted.
It's a build I did in 1998 and features the British 6th Airborne that's taken over a bridge at Normandy. It's not the Pegasus bridge but a fictitious one I scratch built.
Figures are a mix of Tamiya, Dragon and Italeri. The Airborne troops were heavily modified and thier Stens were modified to Mk V versions with the wood stock and pistol grip. Dragon later came out with Mk V's but only one per box. The figure about to cross the bridge in picture 6 is a stock standard Dragon Brit. Paratrooper with the Mk V Sten.
Top view showing the tram line across the bridge. I don't think there were any trams in Normandy, anyway I thought it would look good on this bridge.
See if you can spot which figures belong to which brand in this picture. One of them was a Russian Special Forces troop from Dragon.
The 37mm anti-aircraft gun emplacement with sand bags made from milliput.
The jeeps were from Italeri. They were one of the best detailed at the time. Note the Enfield sniper rifle.
The radio set is from Verlinden and fitted the back of the jeep nicely. These guys are confering what to do next as re-inforcements are coming up the road.
The scratch built bridge gun emplacement was done with Evergreen plastic strips and I-beams.
Overall shot of the bridge.
I'm sure there'll be lots of comments. Hope I can answer most of them. Thanks for looking.
Cheers,
Richard