Just excellence again, me likes this! Always love the backstory.

Jerry, I've long wondered about adding smaller scale subjects into the background of dios.
ex: A 1/16 figure in the foreground followed by 1/35 figures or vehicles to the rear, or a 1/32 aircraft followed by 1/72 in the distance etc. I suppose a conflict could be in bringing everything into the correct, believable focus as one image.

This is awesome, I'll be following along whenever time permits some serious lurking.

Cheers
Dave

These are farmers' fields,wheat and the like. That crop does grow kind of uniform or at least,the wheat fields near me do. The craters here very very minimal,according to testimony from a member of the 12SS,who endured this battle. The fuses were set on point detonation,for maximum schrapnel effects on Infantry. I have been on ranges in Germany that were just used and the craters were non-existent. There were,in Normandy,other times that involved large craters from Naval guns and from aerial carpet bombing,etc.,but not here.
Thanks for your comments,
J

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Hi Jerry,
The painting of the figures and the atmosphere you create with it, is really top notch!
The painted fur, just looks like that, I'm affraid. In my opinion, it is too uniform, looking very artificial. Also, if they are advancing close behind a wall of artillery fire, wouldn't the terrain they advance through be churned by the impact of the shells

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These are farmers' fields,wheat and the like. That crop does grow kind of uniform or at least,the wheat fields near me do. The craters here very very 6minimal,according to testimony from a member of the 12SS,who endured this battle. The fuses were set on point detonation,for maximum schrapnel effects on Infantry. I have been on ranges in Germany that were just used and the craters were non-existent. There were,in Normandy,other times that involved large craters from Naval guns and from aerial carpet bombing,etc.,but not here.
Thanks for your comments,
J

Grass is always greener eh? I guess a few longer stalks in the foreground would break it up a bit. My agricultural knowledge is below minimal but given normal farming schedules were somewhat disrupted on June 6th perhaps there’s an argument the fields wouldn’t have been as uniform as usual in the ensuing months? But Epsom started June 26th so the fields would have been nowhere near ready for harvesting anyway right?

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Just excellence again, me likes this! Always love the backstory.

Jerry, I've long wondered about adding smaller scale subjects into the background of dios.
ex: A 1/16 figure in the foreground followed by 1/35 figures or vehicles to the rear, or a 1/32 aircraft followed by 1/72 in the distance etc. I suppose a conflict could be in bringing everything into the correct, believable focus as one image.

This is awesome, I'll be following along whenever time permits some serious lurking.

Cheers
Dave

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Great work, Jerry, as usual!

Have been fantasizing about a dio with forced perspective for a long time.

Finding the correct distance is a problem. I guess several layers with different scales make it easier to fool the eye. In terms of scales, you also have 1/48, 1/56 from the wargaming stuff, 1/87 railroad modelling stuff, some 1/100 from Zvezda and some 1/144 from various brands. Combining all these scales plus the ones mentioned should allow for some awesome views, even in a relatively confined space.

For the forced perspective to work well, I believe that two more things are important.
1) Use uneven ground so as to hide the transition from one layer to the next. I believe it's impossible to do a smooth transition from one scale to the next. The actual seem can further be hidden by bushes/trees.
2) Strictly apply the scale effect when painting the vehicles (and everything else), i.e. as it gets a smaller scale, the overall color hues should get lighter and have less contrast between each other.

Maybe one day I'll get around to trying all of this out. Or others do it for me

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These are farmers' fields,wheat and the like. That crop does grow kind of uniform or at least,the wheat fields near me do. The craters here very very minimal,according to testimony from a member of the 12SS,who endured this battle. The fuses were set on point detonation,for maximum schrapnel effects on Infantry. I have been on ranges in Germany that were just used and the craters were non-existent. There were,in Normandy,other times that involved large craters from Naval guns and from aerial carpet bombing,etc.,but not here.
Thanks for your comments,
J

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Thanks for your reply. I was not aware of the limited impact on the terrain of the arty. A little more wisdom, for which I thank thee...

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Hi Jerry,
The painting of the figures and the atmosphere you create with it, is really top notch!
The painted fur, just looks like that, I'm affraid. In my opinion, it is too uniform, looking very artificial. Also, if they are advancing close behind a wall of artillery fire, wouldn't the terrain they advance through be churned by the impact of the shells

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These are farmers' fields,wheat and the like. That crop does grow kind of uniform or at least,the wheat fields near me do. The craters here very very 6minimal,according to testimony from a member of the 12SS,who endured this battle. The fuses were set on point detonation,for maximum schrapnel effects on Infantry. I have been on ranges in Germany that were just used and the craters were non-existent. There were,in Normandy,other times that involved large craters from Naval guns and from aerial carpet bombing,etc.,but not here.
Thanks for your comments,
J

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The most effective shelling of these kind of military units (weak, exposed bodies in an open field) would be done with time set fuses. They would explode approx. 50 - 30 meters above impact and create a fierce rain of hot, sharp shrapnel.
Any way, so far my input as an artyoff.
Remains to state (again) that mr. Rutman once again created a beautiful piece of modeling art.
Thanks for that, Sir!

You have grass dead right Jerry, take no notice! I've seen loads of photographs of this battle and that's just how it looks. Maybe the length hides the craters, I don't know, but that's just how it looks. I've also seen photos of Scottish Regiments being played up to the start lines of Epsom by pipers. But significantly they are wearing full BD, not kilts as in the "Scotland the Brave" set issued by was it Miniart?

Nice scene Jerry , I really don't know how you could have portrayed this any better or different than this ....... oh and I've seen many photos of pipers involved in this action too .

A very secret , rare , little know place called google , sorry man couldn't resist .....

Lovely work as always.
There is pics and info on the link below that may be of use to you.

http://ww2today.com/26-june-1944-epsom-scottish-troops-v-12th-ss-panzer-hitlerjugend

That looks fantastic!🤩

—mike

Hi Jerry,

Outstanding work, I was recommended to your build log as I was thinking of building a diorama that contained figures wearing rain capes...you've given me some good inspiration.

I'm looking forward to following this build.

Cheers, ,

G

Hello Jerry

I meant to reply to this earlier but work has go in the way recently. Anyway, smashing job with the figures, especially the resting guys. You've captured the rather damp nature of Normandy perfectly!

Excellent stuff, as ever. Really looking forward to your book project.

Cheers

Sean