Bloody Omaha ... D day

Let's get out of here..
















The gis have made it off the beach , but the general and his sergeant have got away...






Episode 2 coming soon

Simply fantastic work Dean! everything about it is superb! Do you use the small wooden stick hidden up the trouser leg to help with positioning? Really enjoyed the posts mate, looking forward to part two

A tour de force!!!

Fantastic dio, Dean!!!

Pound for pound 'Saving Private Ryan' has nothing on this!

It's every kid's dream VAM set-up and battle!

Excellent set up Dean, very well executed, superb photography well done,

Awesome set of pictures! Love it!

Epic photo shoot! Well done!

-Nate

Thanks guys ,   Didn't quite turn out the way invisioned it. ,   A beach would have helped ...  
and  I left  my coxswain navy guy and my German. Mg 34 at. Home

but turned out ok...

Blondeactionman wrote:

Simply fantastic work Dean! everything about it is superb! Do you use the small wooden stick hidden up the trouser leg to help with positioning? Really enjoyed the posts mate, looking forward to part two  

Thanks dal ... I didn't have to use the stick up the trousers trick , as they were in coup of inches of sand and they stood up easily onthere own..

Terrific! I guess the sand helped give them plenty of stability , either way, it worked a treat!

A great deal of time and effort , churned out a good set of photos , and a good deal of fun I bet .

A proper battle for sure, well done on sharing these cool photos

Another fantastic diorama there Dean, must have been great fun setting it all up!

Very impressive

Beatlefan wrote:

Another fantastic diorama there Dean,  must have been great fun setting it all up!

Very impressive

Thanks mate... yes was good fun to set up ..

Outstanding.... thanks for taking and making all that effort!


Awesome post...

SlackElastic wrote:

Outstanding.... thanks for taking and making all that effort!


Awesome post...

Thanks mate..

The way you handle a cameras and your incredible feel for the dynamic angle and composition of a shot could see you as a serious film director anyday!
You do have a real talent for this sort of thing.

Thanks mate ..appreciate the comments

WOWSER!

Those are awesome battle scenes!

inntruderr61 wrote:

WOWSER!

Those are awesome battle scenes!

Loved seeing these again Dean- even the builder bum echo all the comments - your work is excellent.

That is intense! Like, seriously intense!

The eye for detail you have in kitting out all your figures is amazing, not to mention constructing all the sets and props! Barbed wire barrier in 1:6 scale... that's wild!

Love the bunker.

But the landing craft... that is so cool!

I can't even imagine all the hours involved in something like this. The initial hours of putting together each figure, more hours on each set piece -- the buildings, the barriers, the landing craft -- and then the hours spend setting everything up, snapping photos, moving things, snapping more photos, and then, I'm sure, additional hours of tediously combing through hundreds or thousands of photos to select the couple of dozen that tell the story you had visualized.

As mentioned before, there are many parallels with directing a motion picture in your photo-stories. A big difference is that you are a production crew of one, unlike the hundreds of people who work on a film.

Amazing work.

SCU_HQ wrote:

That is intense! Like, seriously intense!

The eye for detail you have in kitting out all your figures is amazing, not to mention constructing all the sets and props! Barbed wire barrier in 1:6 scale... that's wild!

Love the bunker.

But the landing craft... that is so cool!

I can't even imagine all the hours involved in something like this. The initial hours of putting together each figure, more hours on each set piece -- the buildings, the barriers, the landing craft -- and then the hours spend setting everything up, snapping photos, moving things, snapping more photos, and then, I'm sure, additional hours of tediously combing through hundreds or thousands of photos to select the couple of dozen that tell the story you had visualized.

As mentioned before, there are many parallels with directing a motion picture in your photo-stories. A big difference is that you are a production crew of one, unlike the hundreds of people who work on a film.

Amazing work.

Thanks Dave
I have just replied to you on one of my other threads, about the photos set up , etc, it does take a long time building the sets , and setting up, but I seem to get through the rest quite quickly , set up , photograph, then move the guys , set up photograph, And so on .... my main pleasure is making and photographing them , I don’t keep any of the scenery or boats , trucks , I burn it all when I’m finished playing and start on something new... as you said, sorting through the hundreds of photos is the bit I dislike...