Hi All
Inspired by all the sculpting and scratchbuilding going on here, especially Jason Whitman's Firing Line Vignette, I have decided to make my own! So, it will be produced in a Bill Horan/Jason Whitman method.
It will be either a 54mm or 1/35 single figure of a US rifleman on the edge of a hedgerow in Normandy.
To give you an idea, here's some pictures:
US in hedgerow
US in hedgerow
The 'Bocage' terrain in Normandy greatly hampered invading forces in the days following the Normandy landings, as no planning was given to tactics prior to landing and the small fields bounded by huge hedges created excellent defensive positions for the Germans.
While searching the Web for photos, I found some interesting sites. The Bocage does not exist today in many places but there is a conservation group:
Bocage
Great diagram and the rest of the site is interesting too!
Even holiday sites reveal interesting pictures:
Bocage today
Thats the sort of thing I'll be trying to replicate.
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References:
The Normandy Campaign - Robert Hunt & David Mason 1976: horribly out of date but good pictures and cheap in a second hand shop.
The GI in Combat - Steve Zaloga + Ron Volstad (Concord)
Operation Cobra - Steve Zaloga (Osprey Campaign 88)
The WWII GI - Richard Windrow (W&G)
The Battle of the Hedgerows - Leo Daugherty (Ian Allen)
+ lots of others, but these are the most useful for my purposes
Thoughts, comments, ideas, other references would be greatly appreciated!!
Hope to get the next installment up in a few days
(by typing all this in I feel compelled to do this now!!!)
cheers
Rob
Inspired by all the sculpting and scratchbuilding going on here, especially Jason Whitman's Firing Line Vignette, I have decided to make my own! So, it will be produced in a Bill Horan/Jason Whitman method.
It will be either a 54mm or 1/35 single figure of a US rifleman on the edge of a hedgerow in Normandy.
To give you an idea, here's some pictures:
US in hedgerow
US in hedgerow
The 'Bocage' terrain in Normandy greatly hampered invading forces in the days following the Normandy landings, as no planning was given to tactics prior to landing and the small fields bounded by huge hedges created excellent defensive positions for the Germans.
While searching the Web for photos, I found some interesting sites. The Bocage does not exist today in many places but there is a conservation group:
Bocage
Great diagram and the rest of the site is interesting too!
Even holiday sites reveal interesting pictures:
Bocage today
Thats the sort of thing I'll be trying to replicate.
_________________________________________________
References:
The Normandy Campaign - Robert Hunt & David Mason 1976: horribly out of date but good pictures and cheap in a second hand shop.
The GI in Combat - Steve Zaloga + Ron Volstad (Concord)
Operation Cobra - Steve Zaloga (Osprey Campaign 88)
The WWII GI - Richard Windrow (W&G)
The Battle of the Hedgerows - Leo Daugherty (Ian Allen)
+ lots of others, but these are the most useful for my purposes
Thoughts, comments, ideas, other references would be greatly appreciated!!
Hope to get the next installment up in a few days
(by typing all this in I feel compelled to do this now!!!)
cheers
Rob
