Howdy cheyenne,

My apologies for missing this thread almost entirely.........geeeeesz, I gotta get out more often!

I just love what you've accomplished with your barge cheyenne.
It looks like a superb scratch built piece, and I am thrilled to see another here on site.
I also like your 'eye' for balance when it came to layout and load out. And just to throw another 'atta boy' at you (may as well) I think moving the flak gun to a more elevated position not only looks better.......but is historically more accurate.

As I have stated elsewhere, I am working on multiple projects. And strangely enough a good number of them are 'water-bourne'. One of the builds I have been working on is a German Flak Barge. Originally I was going to use my Tammy Flak 36/37's for a Brecourt Manor dio. That is until I found out the guns at brecourt Manor were German 105's.........soooooooo, I switched my German 88mm's to the barge build.
It is basically a large square 'raft' or barge with four (4) 88's at the corner's, and two (2) Flak guns on an elevated central platform. So your efforts at 'scratching' the barge have been helpful. And I am even more glad to see you getting some attention for your efforts.

Keep up the good work. And if you don't mind, I'd like to PM you about a couple of things.....

Tread.

Oh......sorry, almost forgot . Here's a photo of the barge I originally used as reference........


As you can see, there's only two 88's on this barge (the other gun is on the other side of the barge), but I am basically combining at least two reference photograph's I have and creating a version I'm quite sure existed....
Please take note of the ammo cans lined up around the perimeter of the flak gun position.....(probably for the photograph).

Treadhead, thank you very much.
Most of my planning and layout work is done up in my melon. When I got the idea to add a river supply barge to the dio I'm working on I searched everywhere for ref. pics. I only came up with some written discriptions and documents and found the subject was pretty loose on the Ger. t.o&e. especially later in the war. I did however find some Ger. invasion barge pics [ Sealion era stuff ] but found out that most of them stayed on the coastal areas for Atlantic wall work after Sealion was scrapped.
As I've stated before I've only been building since Jan.05 and as a hobby I find when I get mired in research I tend to build less. Don't get me wrong I would like to be as accurate as possible but in the barge build I used a little poetic license in lieu of photo refs. I'm amazed at the pic. you have of the barge with the 88's on it, that would be a sweet project.
By all means p.m. me if you'd like I'm usually up at all or any wierd hours, my work clock is all screwed up, I'm nursing a bum knee. - Cheyenne