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Normandy diorama
sharpshooter
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Lodi, Italy
Joined: December 12, 2003
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Posted: Friday, March 26, 2004 - 06:40 AM UTC
Dear gntlemen,

I mainly post in figures and armours but I would involve you too asking your considerations about images in my gallery.

Any help, suggestion or criticism is welcome.

By the way, this diorma awould depict late hours of D- Day or D-Day+1 with a certain qiuet on beach of Omaha and a lot of traffic going inside, soldiers wounded and awaiting help, prisoners to be collected., GIs having briefing and a GMC + willis.

Please shoot out all your ideas and I will thank you for this

happy modelling
sharpshooter
Easy_Co
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England - South East, United Kingdom
Joined: September 11, 2002
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Posted: Friday, March 26, 2004 - 07:31 AM UTC
I recon you have done a good job on it,the ground work looks very convincing, only one point the bunker with all the hits in the side, are they penetration holes or gouges because Ive seen those bunkers in france and it would take some serious ordanance to penetrate them other than that it looks great. :-)
DaveCox
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Posted: Friday, March 26, 2004 - 08:59 AM UTC
It looks well proportioned and appears realistic in perspective. Further comments would need the whole scene to be in view. I second the concern about penetration of the concrete. Some of the anti-tank walls were over 5' thick at the base, 3' at the top and took specialist demolition charges or rounds from ships offshore to penetrate them. To gouge out lumps on the surface of a bunker made of reinforce concrete then an armour piercing shell from a Sherman would make a hole about 8" deep and about 18" across, just taking a 'scab' of concrete from the surface. A glancing blow would just bounce off. Even bombs dropped from aircraft didn't penetrate many of the casemates.
Bus
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Sao Paulo, Brazil
Joined: December 11, 2003
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Posted: Friday, March 26, 2004 - 09:20 AM UTC
I think this will be an impressive dio...the groundwork is very good, and the figs too!
Did you made the bunker from scratch??
What did you use for the groundwork??plaster?
Keep the pics coming!!
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