Hey all, this diorama was completed last year in november for the cover up campaighn. now that i am familur with putting pics in thread i would like to present you with my second latest diorama. you may find some things wrong with thid diorama but beause its almost a year old i have gooten more developed ( like we all do) so i know whats wrong and whats not.
this diorama is in the seeting of june 6th normandy d day. i based the scene from the move band of borthers when esay company takes out the implaced guns when they invade. i have the tamiyas us troops sneaking up behind the bushes ready to attack the germanshowever the germans have just spotted one of them and are getting ready to counter attack.

i call this diorama " the silent stare" matt

enjoy

looks good but the last pic was a little blurry to make out the details..

i like that flag, great dio!

Uh, Matt ... that swastika is backwards.

Give us some close-ups!

looks nice. the pics are quite blurry and i cant make out a lot of detail, but the terrain is great. the stream and trees and rocks really add to the dio. nice job with the trench system and the gun emplacement, looks wonderful. keep it up!

hollow point, how is my flag backwards?

matt

Matt,
The Swastika should run like this
I'm afraid yours is running like this
Your version is more common as an acient symbol of good luck and the Budhist Religion and not the version the Nazi's used. HTH
cheers,
Bryan

MATTTOMLIN, I like it!! Is there any chance of you reshooting it to post some clearer pics as this is my only complaint aside from fixing the flag. Cheers Kevin

thnx guys for your comments bryan, thnx for pointing that out, i will fix it. when i take my wirblewind diorama pics with a super dooper camera i will also take lots of super duper clear pics of my d day diorama, and lots of little close ups. should be within a week.

matt

very nice looking diorama.
I have a couple of question, about the reallity of it,
you says it the scenary is about D Day,
First the swastika, if you put a flag on the ground it is to be recognize from friendly fire or in this case friendly air plane but the only problem on D Day was that the Allies had control of the air not the Luftwafe, so or the officier in your dio is a suicidal thinking hey come here and shoot me or you might need too put the flag out of the dio the idea is good but might in reallity bring some trouble.
Second, you have one soldier hoe get out of the tranch as you said the German spoted the US troops, my experience is if you spot someone hoe is gone attack your defended tranch it will be wize to stay in the tranch and wait for the attack, let the ennemy think you haven t spotted it then the suprise is for the one hoe attacked *(in the fought of doing it in complet suprise ) and be then suprise that the defences are stronger ( hiope you understand my point.
ANY WAY GREAT JOB AND

rima, thnx for your opinion, you are right about the flag, and i hate having it in there but this diorama was in the cover up campain and the ruled were that you had to have a visible flag: maybe i can partialy hide it under some camo netting or sandbags? what do you think??

regarding the solider hopping out of the trench, he has not realised about the us soliders hidng behind the bushes as the germans have only, ONLY JUST found out.

matt

thnx rima you have opened some suggestions for me. i will have to have a bit of a think about what to do and when i take cleare pictures i will have this problem corrected.

matt

Ciao MATTTOMLIN,
My compliments, and I really look forward to the clearer pictures. YOu have done a magnificent job on this one!! I have been thinking about what to do with the flag, but can't seem to figure it out. Rima has a point, but....if you sit in your trench and the enemy knows where you are, you will be a sitting duck for artillery/mortars. Maybe that's why the Americans are sitting off a distance. They are calling in a strike on the unlucky Axis soldiers.
Ciao for now
Rob