Catch up on all the Omaha Beach Diorama posts
The Wall: Looking at some pictures and such, I saw a need to cover my bigger guns, add some blast wings and otherwise make the place looked lived in, as well as make a spot for all the German troops to fight from.
The top ended up with 4 different sally ports, that required learning to make sandbags. I’m still working on a good technique, but these will do for now.
Effects: Craters are fun, it takes 4 or mores washes, fills and paints to get ’em looking cool, but these will work well when it’s all said and done.
Paint
Wash #1
Wash #2
In Place
Water ‘Splosions: We decided to make some smaller stuff to round out the water, they should look great in the water.
Static Defenses: The barbed wire needed to be wrapped and painted before the Caltrops could be placed, but now the beach is finished, except for the details and sealing, which comes at the end.
In my usual fashion, I design and build as I go along, and find my direction that way, this build is no exception. Half of the men I bought won’t be used, half the pieces won’t be used, and different pieces/men will be purchased to fill in the blanks, you get what you pay for I guess. My terrain is very standardized and honestly somewhat boring, very grey scale, but the results will be fine.It will take several months to finish this one, so… I’m thinking for my next one, a castle on the side of a mountain, with waterfalls in several tiers, in COLOR!
Until next time.
Comments
149 responses to “D-Day, 1944 pt. 5 – The Atlantic Wall”
Looks far better than anything I have to patience to construct, Yufus.
Nice work.
Now gimme my mother-f’n Theme Music !
I’m finishing the Water right now, I poured it 2 weeks ago, I have a backlog of posts right now, my own fault.
Thanks! Tres!, how about this,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU64RQYLbtk
I don’t think I have that patience either. Well, I’ve built plenty of electronics. Although that is rarely a matter of being creative as you go along. You plan everything before you start.
It’s the whole methodically doing something that is relaxing. I used to repair mechanical watches.
Sadly been a decade or so since I did the last one. Tools and parts got crazy expensive when the watch craze started.
Nice job Yusef!
Soldering hundreds of parts is methodical.
I love Discrete Soldering on Perf Boards, I like to make the layout elegant
Soldering perf or vero has more decisions along the way than stuffing pcb’s.
Agreed. Sorry that was what I meant!
OK 🙂
It depends on the type of electronics building you are doing. Things like mods and circuit bending are going to involve more decision making.
Heh.
I’m in the process of adding BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) capability to a 1965 Sony AM/FM portable transistor radio powered by four D-cells that I’ve been restoring. I’m kinda hoping to blow the minds of some nieces who think technology’s history started with the iPhone.
I’m no expert on BLE, but I’m thinking the circuits are so small there should be plenty of room in a 1965 radio.
Pics plz.
There’s a ton of work out there if you want a side-job – e.g., my buddy had one of his Seiko’s eval’d here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZL_EiVllyw
That guy is backed up for months with repair jobs.
Killer Album, one more,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uiqgwUs1l4
Nah.
Do my mother-f’n Theme Music INSTEAD!
YAAAAA! Very good!
She should be up one Octave for this version, I am, the Guy is Perfect
2 people, very good
I want Mary to have my babies.
Plus her voice range is sexy as Hell. RooWWWRRR!
A nice Warm tambre to her Voice, but from a “cover” point of view, They had Him low, She should have went High,or at least up a Fifth,
IMO
Africa,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9FyLsfDzw
No. Not only is that the singularly most annoying Dire Straits song, but that cover makes me think Peter Steele and Type O got bored on afternoon.
RIP Pete, saw in in the springs up close, LOUD!
Fresh and interesting
although the interesting parts weren’t fresh and the fresh parts weren’t interesting
I have no idea who I stole that from, but, as always, covers can basically get off my lawn;
in this case, banjo picks on a Strat run through a Fender Twin or GTFO.
Looks far better than anything I have to patience to construct, Yufus.
Nice work.
This.
I used to build models as a kid but they all got blowed up by the time I was 14. Now days if I can’t put something in it or float on a lake or river in it I don’t have the patience for it. Although my last project I have been very patient with and it has taken over a year but I havn’t touched it for over six months.
“Brown sound” VH. Good call Tres.
Awesome YDAK!
TY,
/bows in humility
I was worried that this series might make my my kitbash article redundant, but there’s plenty of divergance in both content and style.
PS you work too fast…
(he’s kinda hyper….)
I disagree, I’m doing foundational layout, the details will come later, due to Scale, My eyes decided that for me.
OTOH, Ii asked SP if I can consolidate a few posts, so it will appear i’m going even faster, BTW, You are the reason i ever brought up Dioramas last Year, and I thank you for helping me find a little spot here, Have some Water,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ugLNweu8NLjdbvkF7
BTW, I have 355 pictures so far,s o I’m not giving anything away
Damn Yusef, that is cool!
I have four articles worth of the kitbash series written. I should just start uploading them and finish the last few.
Yes, you should, I eagerly await them, you know, since LAST YEAR?
Seriously, I saw what you do, and it’s good stuff, BTW need a Wargaming Board? any type or style
I posted the three for which I had text and pictures. I have text for the fourth but haven’t sorted the images. We’ll see if the editors accept the lot.
“We are glad that Brooklyn Law Review is bravely addressing the very important issue of milk-borne exploitation of “bodies” and milk-driven white supremacy”
https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/1038512546058326016
You know who else from 1933 was big on milk? And vegetarianism and non-smoking, one might add?
Will Keith Kellogg ?
Also….Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
Most people could do a lot worse than emulate the Dutch. My cousins on my wife’s side are all at least a foot taller than me — and that’s just the effin’ women.
Pics ?
“A no-deal Brexit could leave Britain vulnerable to dangerous space debris”
https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/13/no-deal-brexit-could-mean-uk-gets-less-warning-about-incoming-space-debris-7941437/
Remain, eating sugar, telling lies.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6164187/Denise-Richards-reveals-reason-chose-September-8-wedding-day.html
She looks great for 47.
“I just installed the Charlie Sheen app on my phone. You press a button, and it puts a gun in Denise Richard’s face”
-some comic I cant remember
That sounds amazeballs.
Believe it or not, Waterfalls are easy, Layout is hard, I studied a lot of Great guys out there, and the techniques are pretty much the same. This also means I can modify things as I see fit.
I may start it before I’m done here.
Waterfalls are easy,
Stick to the rivers and lakes that we’re used to
I know 3 women that felt the same way about waterfalls.
I saw a need to cover my bigger guns
They’re called sleeves, killer. Not all of use can walk around with socal 22 inch arms.
Now hit my mother-fn theme music (please be sure to take all the drugs before clicking that link).
I’ll show You bigger guns, just this Second, gotta click the theme music you know….
whoa, Old Guys that are Younger than me…. and of course they Rock!, they are Old!!!
Fuck yes
Sun’s out, guns out.
Cookie monster rock
They self identify as Technical Death Metal you shitlord.
I like some screamo so I shouldn’t bitch.
I’m alone, and drinking copious quantities of red wine. My liver hates me. My wife’s gallivantin’ with her girlfriends in the Okanagan (oddly enough, visiting many wineries), many hundreds of kilometres away. My dog’s barking at random events out the front window. My back garden’s overflowing with fresh veggies I have no interest in harvesting for food tonight.
That is all.
Cheers! Wife is tired…I slipped together beam and cheese burritos and drinking some beer. End my detail as a manager tomorrow with flying colors.
Jim Beam and Cheese, are you ok?
He won’t be tomorrow.
This is just a big bowl of wrong.
https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1039502426552692737
Youtube comments are basically how I imagine what Hell is like.
I’m thinking the Devil would be way more eloquent.
Regardless how much as violence against women has been politicized with sheer bullshit, it’s still a real problem.
Troops needed these.
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/new-backpack-turns-into-bulletproof-vest/1440706374
“French literature, from the Middle Ages to today, has been consistently and remarkably scatological. Fecal matter is omnipresent in works and authors that we consider canonical (e.g. the fabliaux, Rabelais, de Sade, Beckett, Celine) and yet its presence has been remarkably submerged or passed over in readerly and critical reception of modern and contemporary “French literature. This course proposes to take this fecal presence seriously and to attend to the things it has to tell us (hence the plurality of cacaphonies) by starting with the following premise: If literature is excrement, then the canon is a chamber pot. We will focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and read a diverse range of scatological texts in order to use the scatological as a means to: 1) Theorize an excremental poetics where excretion provides a model for the process of writing. The task of excretion, which translates into concrete form our experience of the world (we excrete what we take in, processing and giving it new form), is also the task of literature; 2) Allow for a new interrogation and critique of the canon and the ways in which it serves to conceal, contain, sanitize, and compel culture; 3) Provide another angle from which to approach the question of gender and writing, as gender organizes both literature (e.g. the paucity of canonical women writers) and defecation (e.g. the gendering of constipation as a feminine condition); 4) Offer an alternative theory of the significance of fecal matter to the dominant one provided by psychoanalysis (i.e. feces as gift, gold, a la Freud). The goal of the course is to begin to articulate and realize an original approach to literature that, rather than take feces as a site of disgust, takes it as a site of creation.”
http://archive.is/KHXD8#selection-469.0-475.5
And here I thought that was a German thing.
Well what the hell was he supposed to do?
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/man-gets-five-years-in-prison-for-drunkenly-shooting-at-imaginary-clowns/1440415929
He should have kept his Mind out of the Gutter……
/guess the reference
They all float down here.
Nope, think 20th Century Imaginary, Scary Clowns…..
Like Gary Busey ?
I’m working on the Surfline White work and noticed I was missing spots i shouldn’t, so i turned it around, and found the Water end very Heavy, caution is needed to spin it without cracking the base.
Can you slip some plywood or melamine under it like a big pizza peel?
Yes, I need to now,
If you do that, you will need to add a pineapple grenade so that you have pineapple on your pizza.
“Dinesh DSouza. Asian white supremacist. @lauraloomer and Ben Shapiro are Jewish white supremacists. Ben Carson, Stacey Dash, Diamond and Silk, Sheriff Clarke, all black white supremacists. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Hispanic white supremacists.”
https://twitter.com/TalibKweli/status/1040205541434372097
Diversity.
Clayton Bigsby – black white supremacist.
“Clayton Bigsby divorced his wife because he couldn’t be with a nigger lover”
The Best, and using a Known Documentary Guy for the Narration, Priceless
I miss humor
Agreed, how can the SJWs blast a black Man for a Skit like that? oops, all the wrong targets
+10000 Dave C
Haha. That’s the rapper who has been harassing Tom Woods on Twitter for over two weeks and for some reason Tom Woods keeps responding to him.
I’m gonna get a little talcum
I’m gonna borrow it from Malcolm
-Wango Tango
He really said that? LOL
Citation
UCS, still around? a Question. i’m going to do a test Blood wash over a small portion of the Surf, if it’s too thin. like a wash, do I run the risk of washing out the whole area?
Hey Bob, send me an e-mail so I can get your addy. I’m at blackjackcc at gmail. I tried and failed to send you one “address not found” blah,blah,blah…
Expect a dick pic forthcoming
NOOOOO!
however, I’ll give you MY M-FING theme music!: tinyurl.com/just-another-ordinary-song
Actually that’s my m-fing s-f’d link.
try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw9QnDz8jcU
damn, links class is hard! just copy paste it already: youtube.com/watch?v=sw9QnDz8jcU
Don’t be a Code Hero, just copy pasta Bro
OK, Waiting on the Dick Pics….
I shall
28-7, Bengals.
Flacco just looks sad. His eyes are so vacant, I could build a hotel in there.
4th & 2 CIN 0 6:45
J.Flacco pass short middle to J.Allen to CIN 43 for 1 yard
See him ballin
I mentioned a while back I was thinking of submitting a history article after discovering a likely relative of mine fought and died on the German side in WWI. What was going to be a simple write up of the battles he fought in has become a more in depth likely multiple article write up. I found a book based off of documents in the Bavarian archives. It is so detailed it goes down to the regiment level. I’m still rummaging through the first battle he fought in finding all sorts of info.
I’d love to read that, funny how the simplest thing can turn into a full blown project eh? Keep going, it’s a lot of fun, I’m Learning how to spell…..
Fuck Yusef with a rusty coat hanger. He posted a YouTube link to Frank Sinatra last night and I ended up doing a deep dive on old comedy routines and a Frank Sinatra roast that kept me up past midnight.
Watch Don Rickles on Johnny Carson.
I did. And Robin Williams first appearance on Carson, and Seinfeld on Leno, and the Sinatra roast that was well over an hour…
Don Rickles! Yes Sir!
And the diorama looks like it’s coming along nicely.
Thank You and You’re Welcome, Frank and his ilk will never be seen on Earth again,
/Sheds tear, pounds Martini
Seriously, my main thought was that all of these people would be driven out of public life in today’s America. I actually remember watching some of the clips last night when they first aired. That’s gold, Jerry. Gold.
My Son got me into the Rat pack in a more serious way, just Classic american music,
We are weird…
Sinatra did a radio drama called “Rocky Fortune” in the late 40s. He played a detective. It’s a pretty good show. Listen to it.
Sinatra played the same character that John McClain from Die Hard was based on, so they were legally obligated to offer the role to Sinatra when they casting Die Hard. Imagine that reality.
I’m guessing Ted S is fapping to that trailer right now. Sick fuck. Their aren’t even any transwomen in that movie, it’s totally sexist and problematic.
OK, no Dick picks, just a very good Job lead, very cool, or a complete scam….
/Sarc
My Surf is Pink, Blood Pink, it’s an additive process……
Whoah, I must be tired, I marvelled that I got a new record for battery life on my phone. According to the phone it’s been on the same charge for 12 days, and never shut down.
Maybe the phone is lying, maybe not. I suspect it’s lying.
Usage?
See?
Great minds.
Or, like me, you have a phone that you just dont use very often.
Not working, my phone rings twice, just for the Wife
Working, 50 times a day, can’t get shit done with the Damn phone ringing…
It’s on, but I almost never need to make or recieve a call.
I got a really weird error
I swear I only hit ‘post comment’ once.
I have had it a few times, errant clicks for me,
I have successfully double posted by accident on several occasions. I consider it a gift.
It’s a little early for a Hanukkah miracle.
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https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2b/aa/c6/2baac630dd2da4c2986d506940c373e2.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f6/8f/a4/f68fa4e648e98f7fbf1bd8276e1cd5a3.jpg
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Last one is Thicc, Yes
This one.
I think you need a way to put all those pics on one page so no one has to click on six links.
Sure, make Q enact your labor, commie bastard!
there is a way. look
Florence is kid’s stuff.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Typhoonsizes.jpg
Fuck you! Denier! Burn the Witch!!!!
/like that?
Well done.
Yeah, it says it right there, SUPER Typhoon, like one that can only happen because you are literally KILLING the planet!
Everyone is focused on the portrayal of Wakanda, but everyone forgets the tragedy of Zamunda.
Whatever happened to Arsenio Hall? Did he run away with Joe Piscapo?
He got on the reboot train, and got booted.
Excellent.
“There were now a dozen washers for each penis!”
“The penises were not big enough to warrant that.”
Heh: “Yet another historic example of black people suffering en masse and Wakanda doing nothing to help.”
“Bronx teacher who performed oral sex on 14-year-old gets 10 years probation, avoids jail, keeps teaching certificate”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/ny-dori-myers-bronx-teacher-sentenced-probation-20180912-story.html
https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/1040047691152154624
I’d buy that for a dollar!
Huh, didn’t even need to click through to divine the sex of the participants. Just the sentence alone tells the tale.
Oh heinous alright. 14 year old self totally wood.
I’d buy that for a dollar!
To the victim: “have you ever beat-off to the memory of this ‘crime’?”
(though I do hate double-standards)
If it weren’t for double standards most people wouldn’t have any standards.
To anyone striving to make their life better, all I can say is “Don’t Stop, Never Give Up, Hold Your Head High and Reach the Top”
Thanks to all you Guys, til next time,