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Sword june 6, 1944 10:00 AM near WN18
Navy95
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Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 10:56 PM UTC
.... while a soldier from Commando Kieffer is carefully coming closer to the destroyed porthole of the H612 bunker flanking Colleville beach toward Hermanville, a grunt of East Yorkshire regiment - 3rd British Infantry division, is trying, despite the hubbub of the battle, to point out a new target to the tank commander of a Churchill Mk IV AVRE, 5th Assault Regiment Royal Engineer
jimbrae
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Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 11:12 PM UTC
Really excellent work - thanks for sharing it! 
In reference to Commando Kieffer:
In reference to Commando Kieffer:
thomokiwi
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Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 11:14 PM UTC
Excellent Diorama, I particularly like your bunker and the Commando. Were did you source your figures form.
AlanL
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Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 11:19 PM UTC
Hi Yvan,
Nice work, very good representation of the bunker. Just one thought should the AVRE not have wading stacks?
Excellent stuff.
Al
Nice work, very good representation of the bunker. Just one thought should the AVRE not have wading stacks?
Excellent stuff.
Al
Navy95
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Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 11:20 PM UTC
Quoted Text
Excellent Diorama, I particularly like your bunker and the Commando. Were did you source your figures form.
Thks !
The Commando is a limited resin edition figure that came with the subscription to french modeling magazine Steel Master
( maybe it was also available in the past as well from Nemrod ?
)The tank commander and the grunt are both the Tamiya plastic figures ( slightly modified arms position ) that come with the Churchill kit, and with Hornet heads
Navy95
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Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 11:22 PM UTC
Quoted Text
Hi Yvan,
Nice work, very good representation of the bunker. Just one thought should the AVRE not have wading stacks?
Excellent stuff.
Al
According to the pictures available, not all of them were equiped with wading stacks, probably depending on when they landed ( 1st wave or later on )
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Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 11:22 PM UTC
Nice work - is that the same Vickers K gunner who was later photographed cadging a light for his cigarette from some civilians?
David
David
Navy95
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Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 11:31 PM UTC
2 pictures of the real H612 bunker a few hours or days after D-Day
regarding the wading stacks, for ex. this one don't have
regarding the wading stacks, for ex. this one don't have
Drader
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Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 11:43 PM UTC
The BARV behind the AVRE in your picture looks interesting - is the darker surround to the star the result of a repaint or cleaning?
David
David
spitfire303
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Posted: Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 01:01 AM UTC
that's an excellent work! The painting job is really outstanding.
spit
spit
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Posted: Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 01:24 AM UTC
Gday Yvan
That is tremendous work mate.
A really different scene, which is great
The details are super, as is the figure painting.
A couple of minor things would be to add a wash to the tank commanders hands or deepen/remove the grooves between the fingers? Also the actual bunker looks a little too clean, even though the archive photo suggests it. Very minor things as I said...
Great stuff
Brad
That is tremendous work mate.
A really different scene, which is great
The details are super, as is the figure painting.
A couple of minor things would be to add a wash to the tank commanders hands or deepen/remove the grooves between the fingers? Also the actual bunker looks a little too clean, even though the archive photo suggests it. Very minor things as I said...
Great stuff
Brad
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Posted: Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 01:47 AM UTC
Very nice diorama,
The gunner must have been very accurate to get so many hits in one small area and avoid hitting the oblique wall!
Nicely painted figures also.
Chas
The gunner must have been very accurate to get so many hits in one small area and avoid hitting the oblique wall!
Nicely painted figures also.
Chas
Navy95
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Posted: Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 02:03 AM UTC
Tks all for your comments ! 
these are not impacts all those holes, but actualy holes made when building the bunker to create a kind of camo by trying to "break" the typical aspect of a bunker
the oblic wall indeed cannot be hit anyhow, because it's facing the opposite side ( on the 2nd picture, the beach is on the left )
the H612 bunker is a flanking casemate, with porthole axis more or less paralele to be the beach
Here is as well a picture from 1944
these are not impacts all those holes, but actualy holes made when building the bunker to create a kind of camo by trying to "break" the typical aspect of a bunker
the oblic wall indeed cannot be hit anyhow, because it's facing the opposite side ( on the 2nd picture, the beach is on the left )
the H612 bunker is a flanking casemate, with porthole axis more or less paralele to be the beach
Here is as well a picture from 1944
youngc
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Posted: Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 02:15 AM UTC
Quoted Text
these are not impacts all those holes, but actualy holes made when building the bunker to create a kind of camo by trying to "break" the typical aspect of a bunker
the oblic wall indeed cannot be hit anyhow, because it's facing the opposite side ( on the 2nd picture, the beach is on the left )
the H612 bunker is a flanking casemate, with porthole axis more or less paralele to be the beach
You learn something new everyday
Good on ya mate.
Chas
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Posted: Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 03:26 AM UTC
Great job on a well deserved subject area. I really like the way you weathered the vehicle and painted the bunker. Good job!
jjumbo
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Posted: Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 04:36 AM UTC
Excellent work Yvan !
Great looking diorama !!
Your photo-shopped B/W pic looks like the real thing !!!
Cheers
jjumbo
Great looking diorama !!
Your photo-shopped B/W pic looks like the real thing !!!
Cheers
jjumbo
chicane
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Posted: Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 07:19 AM UTC
great diorama like the figures alot . nice history backround to your diorama 
Navy95
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Posted: Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 11:27 AM UTC
Thank you very much for your comments
sparky
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Posted: Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 12:42 PM UTC
WOW
Great job Yvan!
Great job Yvan!
Jamesite
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Posted: Friday, October 17, 2008 - 01:00 AM UTC
Really good job,
your churchill is great and you've really re-created the damaged bunker very well, also nice work on the old Tamiya figs, although in the 'hubbub of battle' I doubt the commander would be so far out of his hatch. Also i'd suggest that the pointing tommy may have been better posed to be making eye contact with the commander to give a better idea of their interaction.
These are minor points though, a great scene, well done.
James
your churchill is great and you've really re-created the damaged bunker very well, also nice work on the old Tamiya figs, although in the 'hubbub of battle' I doubt the commander would be so far out of his hatch. Also i'd suggest that the pointing tommy may have been better posed to be making eye contact with the commander to give a better idea of their interaction.
These are minor points though, a great scene, well done.
James
Henk
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Posted: Friday, October 17, 2008 - 01:57 AM UTC
Excellent work Yvan, especially on the bunker. My first impression of the bunker exterior was similar to others here, thinking something was not quite right. Thanks for the pictures and explanation. Shows us all how that there is never a 'definitive' right or wrong when it comes to modelling 60+ year old reality....
Henk
Henk
Romeo12
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Posted: Friday, October 17, 2008 - 02:16 AM UTC
OUTSTANDING ! I like the way everything seems flow together in it. It all just fits together and you've captured the realism to a tee IMHO.Very well done sir!
mattjack
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Posted: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 09:39 AM UTC
Very nice diorama I like seeing RE / AFV
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