D-day, Omaha Beach diorama WIP UPDATED 1/24 with pictures.

Well, it's been in planning for a long time, and with some help, I am glad to say I have all the necessary stuff.  Its around 30'' by 12",  and as you can see It's going to have trumpeter's 1/35 LCM, assorted barricades from tamiya and italeri, and around 40+ figures, mostly DML, with a few tamiya and some others im not sure about.  Its going to have LOTS of resin water.  The base is styrofoam cut into the right shapes.  Next, with air drying clay, I placed my barricades and LCM and used the clay to sort of "blend" the barricades into the sand, so it looked like they were buried in the sand instead of sitting on top of it.  Then, with a heavily watered coat of plaster of paris I coated everything.  When that was dry I spread some watered down wood glue and sprinkled my sand.  I would have liked to leave the sand its natural color, but it was natural, and too dark to look like beach sand.  So, I primed everything black, since doing that, to me, sort of "prepares" it, and is less overwhelming to look at when painting, although it makes it harder to take pictures of. By the way, the LCm looks better than the poor lighting of these pictures show. Still got a lot to do, but here it is so far:

I tried to replicate th mines that germans tied to the tops of these underwater barricades:

Some Czech Hedgehogs:

The gate needs to be fixed so it lays flat, and the string need to be replaced with something much thinner:

An overview, I know its hard to see since its all black:

View from the front:

A picture of the LCM on its own:

You may have seen before, but these are some of my figures.  Not all will be used , and I have more to make.  They all need to be painted.

Hope you like them, ctriticism would be great!