Some beach obstacles for a d-day diorama. The posts are made from bamboo toothpicks, the tellermines are made from styrene discs.

Very nice very nice. I will copy this

Hi Bugbrains, nice work on the mines, they almost look like they have sand blown on them already. From some of the shots I have seen there were some that were braced up by another pole sort of on an angle, you might want to mix a few of those in too. How are you going to do the tetrahedron shaped obstacles? Good luck on getting the dio finished, how is it coming along? When I visited the museum it looked like you guys had a long way to go. At least the beach obstacles are going to look good eh??

Hi Bison44

The tetrahedrons and hedgehogs have already been built. I still have to build some of the nutcracker ramps. The other guys are working away like crazy and have most of the landing craft, buildings, and figures done. Once they have the seascape finished I can start putting the obstacles in.

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Those look pretty good BB. In your picture is that a template etc that u used to cut out the pattern of the hedgehogs? Any Belgian gates in the works?? Is the scene a specific sector or is it going to be generic Juno beach? Are you going to have the troops carrying bikes ashore? You should post a pic of the main body of the dio so everyone can see what a massive undertaking it is! Can't wait to see some more pictures.

Hi,

The tetrahedrons are made out of paper cardstock, the template is actually one of the tetrhadrons cut-out but before it is folded and glued together. I don't have a any good pictures of the hedgehogs but those were made out of evergreen styrene...2mm X 2 mm L's with ten thou. reinforcement gussets. I'll post some pictures of the whole diorama on Saturday or Sunday.

The diorama is based a lot on the picture on the cover of the Time-Life D-Day book including the train station.


No Flemish gates this time, the maps we have indicte that no gates were on this section of NAN WHITE

I hope the whole thing turns out o.k. A couple of the guys have hyped it up way too much with the press.

BB