AIRCRAFT, ARMOR, FIGURES, SHIPS - D-Day Group Build, 5-8 June 1944

Spector822002, figures are allowed, and will count. the official start dates are on the1st page, (june 6th-August 6th)

Mobydick,
Its pletty fine to do the same subject, No matter wich way you go you will probably end up doing the same thing as somebody else. I am doing italeries C-47and glider, and also i am looking for a landing craft. So dowhat you feel like.

i haven't found any pics of those grappling hooks(ponte Du Hoc) yet does any body have any ?

I am gonna build a M20 armored car. I just don't want any more tanks in the works right now... Plus I would like to have another go at some OD... I may make a small dio with a jeep and some figs too...
I can't wait...

mobydick

I wouldn't worry about duplicating-- there are three of us doing Priller's 190 (although I came up with the idea first )...and I am also doing a Hawker Tempest as they flew missions on the 8th over the beaches....

Couple of questions on the GB , first Official start and end dates ? ( Just too lazy to go through 19 pages O' thread ) 2nd , do we need a to do a vehicle to join in ?( I would like to do a small fig dio of the intial assault on the beach ,( no vehicles ), would give me a chance to do some allied figs for a change .

Thanks reb! Just after I entered the previous post I believe that I saw that an
English fellow is also doing a Typhoon in 1/48. If that's true & it creates problems then I'm also prepared to switch to a 1/72 Italieri C-47 or a landing
craft. Is it Kosher in a group build for more than one person to build the same
subject? I also wouldn't want to offend our English friend since he was there
first with the Typhoon idea (assuming that he is in fact officially in the build &
doing a Typhoon). I think I'll go back over the posts & double check this. But
whatever the case, thanks again for the invite.

Tappie, Pleas, please, please, post pics!!!! Id love to see it. u r welcome to post progresses here if you want. What Scale?

Mobydick UR in. I'm almost positive (99.9%) that no one is doing the British Hawker Typhoon. Your welcome to do it.

Oh crap... I just looked in this thread and realized I was in it.... I'll have to decide what to build....hhmmmm decisions...
I am excited but whoa.. .I forgot I had joined... I'll have to go back and catch up on all the post

hey Tappie, make sure you post some pics, either in progress or of the finished product.

Rebelreenactor: Is it too late to join the build? I mainly do aircraft, so I was thinking of
building a British Hawker Typhoon ground attack fighter-bomber (1/32 Revell-Monogram) with invasion stripes. These tactical aircraft played a large part in helping to
paralyze German communications & destroy the Wehrmacht's vehicles both on D-day &
afterwards. If you think it's not suitable or someone else is doing it, let me know & I'll try
something else. Is there a list of all the participants so far & what they're doing? By the
way, I'm sorry to see that your attempts to be accomodating have provoked acrimonious feelings from some of our members. I guess that's what you get for trying to be nice. Anyway, don't let it bother you. You're doing a great job organizing all this. Keep up the good work.

QUOTE: Originally posted by Tappie Hi, Would have loved to join the build. Unfortunately our project is already under way. The idea was to have it finished by 6 June. We are doing a large diorama depicting a small section of Omaha Beach. The diorama measures 1.8 meters by 1.2 meters ( approx. 6 ft by 4 ft) and has figures, armour, bunkers, landing craft, beach obstacles, mines and the lot thrown in.

Your nuts Tappie! But I'm sure it will turn out great, I wish I had the money to do that

dwight your animation is quite powerful. well done.

joe

Bah Ill get this right before the start date yet! For the record Ill be doing T.J. Christians LOU IV from the excellent Tamiya P-51D kit.

After looking through mydecal sheet Ill be changing from the F6 to a P-51B. Capt Felix M. Rodgers "Beantown Banshee".

Hi,
Would have loved to join the build. Unfortunately our project is already under way. The idea was to have it finished by 6 June. We are doing a large diorama depicting a small section of Omaha Beach. The diorama measures 1.8 meters by 1.2 meters ( approx. 6 ft by 4 ft) and has figures, armour, bunkers, landing craft, beach obstacles, mines and the lot thrown in.

Great!!!

Thx for the invite I plan on full invasion stripes as opposed to partially removed. This is my first group build and am really looking forward to it.

9x19mm C'mon in. Aslong as you put some D-Day invasion stripes on it.

If it isnt to late I would like to join the build. I looked through my collection of unbuilt kits and I have a Accurate Miniatures F6-B Tac Recce mustang Little Sir Echo 2 flown by Maj. Russ Berg. If this fits your idea for the build then count me in. Sadly its the best kit that represents the build theme and if it doesnt fit then Ill have to pass as Im already buying a kit for a different GB and have way to many unbuilt kits.

I haven't see a detailed picture of the grappling hooks/launchers used a Ponte du Hoc, but I remember them being pretty simple affairs. With a could of good reference pictures you would probably be able to stratch build a few without too much trouble.

Ponte du Hoc would defintely make for a cool diorama, hope you can get something that works

nice sig Dwight

Anyway does anyone know of kits for those gappling hooks that the Rangers used on Ponte du Hoc, i'll be making a diorama of it

Very cool Dwight.
Can one imagine hitting the beach with all that mg fire buzzing around you and nowhere to go? Those guys were amazing.

I have a question about that website. is every vehicle on the site actually there on D-Day, Seems like a lot.

i agree, that thing is pretty cool.

Dwight nice piece of work that hits it on the head.

For the veterans!

OK guys. I know that I said that I will be just an observer but when I previously decided to join this GB I prepared a sig animation for this GB. So let me break my silence for just a moment. I finished it already and it seems to run just fine.

I am giving this GB the right to use this as a GB logo or signature. However, please don't use it as a personal signature animation or badge. The file size of this thing is quite large and it will slow down the thread if used by many.

Anyway...here it is. For the Veterans! For our Heroes!

http://www.info.com.ph/~tdwight/dday.gif

Now let me go back to my observer's status.

That my friend is well said and I agree but you cant help please everyone all the time.

Will- I agree with you, For the Veterans.

Well put Will. It is about the veterans, that is the main reason we are doing this group build. I would love to see the very belated WW II memorial. Glad you got to go.

Sorry i havent posted in a while i was in D.C.

I saw the WW 2 memorial and that is really what this build is about. Its about building vehicles used by the honorable solders who went to hell and back, saw their best friends get killed, were injured or killed, and saw some of the most Horrenedous images that we could not even imagine what it was like to be there.

Next time you want to complain about the stupid guidelines just think of the GI's Brits and Germans who actually were shot at from the vehicles were building. just think about it, you guys sound like a bunch of 5 year old kids bickering about 4-square rules. Come on just think about why we're doing this.

At the memorial i saw many WW 2 veterans and they showed me why I was building armor. To honor the people who used them and their fight for the freedom of the World, or the honorable soldiers who they were fighting against

Sorry about my ranting but I needed to get that off my chest.

As for what i'm going to build:

A DUKW in a ponte du hoc dio
and more...

as for the dio I'm building to you guys know if there are kits of those Grappling hook things.