US figures For Omaha Beach, need lots!

Guess you covered most kits I know of.
Have a look at Verlinden, Warriors and Jaguar they might have some more figures, but they are all resin so your prices go up.

Probably the cheapest way would be to do as you thought, i.e. get another set of infantry and rangers and modify the poses. That way you'd be sure to have a better scale match between the figures.

I saw a dio like you are planning on a post somewhere. It had an LCM(3) and a whole mess of infantry on the beach. I'll see if I can find it and get back to you

Avus wrote:

I saw a dio like you are planning on a post somewhere. It had an LCM(3) and a whole mess of infantry on the beach. I'll see if I can find it and get back to you

No landing craft, but is this the one you meant? IIRC, it was done using multiples of only a couple different Dragon sets.

http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=914

Wow, thanks even if its not the same one, its alot like what Im attempting, the only differece is I want about a 50/50 of land and water so I can have my LCm and I most likely wont have quite that many figures.  Its also great to see you can make that varied of a look with only a few different sets.

ajlafleche wrote:

No landing craft, but is this the one you meant? IIRC, it was done using multiples of only a couple different Dragon sets.

Yep, that's exactly was I was talking about. Thanks for doing the dirty work!

ajlafleche wrote:

Avus wrote: I saw a dio like you are planning on a post somewhere. It had an LCM(3) and a whole mess of infantry on the beach. I'll see if I can find it and get back to you No landing craft, but is this the one you meant? IIRC, it was done using multiples of only a couple different Dragon sets. http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=914

you know whats interesting. Of all the figures produced there has never been any figures made of combat engineers. And Combat engineers were spread out all over the landing craft during the Normandy landings. Their main job was to take out the barbed wire at the ends of the LZ to allow the infantry units to advance off of the beach. And of all the units in the US Army to take heavy casualties were the Combat Engineers with about 40% to 50% dead or wounded. My grandfather was a Combat Engineer with the 1308th Engineering Battalion Easy Company and he was lucky enough to land at Utah Beach in the second wave just an hour after Utah Beach was secured. And BTW the 1308th also built the Red Ball the road from Normandy to the Rhein River. Without combat engineers who knows how the war would have turned?

Oh and if you are using the Dragon figures and Tamiya figures try to use the spare weapons found in the Dragon figure sets they might come in handy.

Hi.  I'm re-reading my grandfather's letters (13 still existing) home from WWII.  He was also in the 1308th Engineering, Company E.  I'm trying to research the regiment and company.  I'm not finding many references to this regiment online, unfortunately.  Can you help me out with where you've found information on them? 

Thanks, Amy

senojrn

DML/Dragon makes another Normandy figure set: (#6211) "US 29th Infantry Division Omaha Beach, Normandy June 6, 1944."  It comes with 6 figures in various poses of storming the beach.  I have not built them yet, but looks like a good kit.  I also bought Tamiya's old Barricade set (#35027).  It is old, but comes with various barricades (including hedgehogs).  Keep us posted on the progress!  Look forward to seeing the build!

Right! I think Dragon's #6211 is the best choice, It looks very good, buy 2 box and you have 12 figures. I had one set built by my main modeler 4 years ago:

Master Box also offers a set named "D-Day" which includes 4 figures:

and another set named "US Infantry, July 1944" which can be used on the beach too:

Hope this help!

The figures MM suggested can be used for your D-Day dio. However please don't follow the vehicals that are shown in his Dio. They are in the wrong place and time.

The Amtrack wasn't used on D-Day. This version was more seen in the Pacific.

The M4 with the late large turret only entered the ETO way after D-Day.

The US equipt M4 already had the newer mantlete by the time of D-Day.

Anyway we're just talking about figures so you should be ok.

Cheers,

Richard

Ian created this thread years ago. I sent him about a hundred figures for his dio, and I'm not sure he ever completed it.

Ian was 14 when he started this thread, he's probably in college by now, chasin' girls instead of D-day figures.

Steve

Thanks Steve for the heads up I confess I didn't see the dates. Well let's hope Ian returns to his D-Day figures once his hormones kick back alittle.

As for Amy's question on the 1308th  Engineering, Company E, can anyone help him with some references?

Cheers,

Richard

Boy, if I could just learn how to post pictures, I could show you my dio of Omaha beach with an LCVP plus 2 sets of Italieri 29th Inf figures.  I modified the figures in those sets so it looks like 12 different guys, some in the water, some on land.  It is a big dio, but I will post it as soon as I learn how.  Lenny

OOPS, I meant Dragon figures,  Lenny

I'd take a couple of the sets and then cast copies (of torsos mostly), along with using arms & legs from other sets you have lying around, just making sure that the legs had the canvas leggins, not the leather ones with the buckles.   You can then easily modify them into any poses you want without spending gobs of money on figures...