The bunker

Sword beach d day ww2
No 3 commando come across a bunker ..

These are excellent , I am tempted to say your best work so far , but I can not be sure as your dios and set ups are all so good . The lighting and photography are top notch , good stuff indeed .

Fabulous pictures Rustygun.

Dramatic action! Impressive details... like that old wooden chair! Outstanding!

You do have a wonderful gift for composing settings and scenarios Dean.
Excellent work! 

Great looking scene and great photos! Those are really nice figures!

Your dioramas are all so greatly detailed.

So what's the technique for making those realistic looking shell holes in the concrete?

Really cool set up Dean and exciting pics too!

Thanks for all the comments guys..
Watched a documentary a while ago about the commandos on sword beach on d day which made me look at some photos I’d taken whilst visiting the invasion beaches in Normandy a few years ago..
So decided to do a dio…already had the British uniforms, sent off for 3 berets from eBay , they are great …to finish the figures
Barry…The holes in the bunkers ie …( thermalite building blocks )..I used a small drill bit on the bullet sized type holes , and a larger bit for the shell type holes , then scratched round them a bit with an old screw driver to make them look like flaking concrete from a shell hit …..the blocks are quite soft and can be cut up with a saw ….
I used the dust from the cuttings on the ground outside the bunker as I thought it would look like dust from the shell hits , but sort of wish I had used sand instead as it was supposed to be just off the beach… but it didn’t look to bad…

One of the bunker pictures I took
This one was on Omaha beach.

Rustygun wrote:

Barry…The holes in the bunkers ie …( thermalite building blocks )..I used a small drill bit on the bullet sized type holes , and a larger bit for the shell type holes , then scratched round them a bit with an old screw driver to make them look like flaking concrete from a shell hit 

...Thanks! 
And there was I hoping you'd tell us you shot up those blocks with your own personal Smith & Wesson....! 

I actually have some of those blocks that I use for sculpture. Very handy!

SCU_HQ wrote:

Dramatic action! Impressive details... like that old wooden chair! Outstanding!

The old chair is made out of costa coffee sticks …..I got the idea from a guy called John on another forum…his ones were perfect , but I made a couple a bit more distressed looking , or maybe I’m. It as good at making them as he was…
I think he stole so many from his local Costa ,for different projects.. they must have barred him in the end…

Chip wrote:

These are excellent , I am tempted to say your best work so far , but I can not be sure as your dios and set ups are all so good . The lighting and photography are top notch , good stuff indeed .

Thanks chip…
Kind words …

Great set of photos!

Awesome setup!

-Nate

Dean
brilliant - echo all the comments re set up and photography .. were they inside the garage/workshop ?

btw this section look the nuts .. would grace the cover of Victor or Warlord for sure

Thanks for the comments KTC and GD….
Gunner ..also thank you for the kind comments…
And yes the photos were done on a small set on my work bench in my garage/ shed …
The photo shows how small a space it was set up on…a piece of roof felt as a backdrop behind the set to cover up
My tools hanging on the wall…

But where's Lord Lovat?

Kimono Troop Command wrote:

But where's Lord Lovat?

Probably off receiving yet another of the numerous medals and awards so lavishly heaped upon him?
Why did he garner so many and his men, (who obviously did all the hard work and took all the causalities) were almost ignored? 

Dean, your lighting is so convincingly "outdoors" ! 

Kimono Troop Command wrote:

But where's Lord Lovat?

Here you go..