Hello all! I am fairly new to SMA but have been on Armorama for quite some time. Just found this place and wanted to share my first ever dio build currently in progress. I originally started this back in September and had pretty much no skills at all. Now, after a few months and a little layoff, I am returning to work on it here and there as time permits and wanted to share the journey with you. All input, criticism and questions are welcomed. I hope someone learns something from this as I too hope to learn in return. Here we go!
The idea is based on Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Regiment in World War Two. I have been a huge fan of the Band of Brothers series for many years and deeply respect what all the units did in the war. I wanted to depict a very specific scene from Part 3 of the series where E Co is asked to take the town of Carentan. It was a very valuable piece of land during D Day and the days following as it connected both Utah and Omaha beaches together, linking Allied resources with a central axis point to funnel men and supplies up inland to continue the rush into Nazi territory. Carentan was taken with a few causalities by E Co and the Germans had stationed their own Parachute regiment there to hold the town, the 6th Fallschirmjager unit. The enemy was prepared and held E Co down with machine gun fire from a 3 story building at the end of the only access point to E Co: a road that ran Northbound into the town.
I found these awesome renderings somewhere on the internet and have been using them as a resource:
I am building the Cafe, the half destroyed house and a building that is not really known, making it a music shop.
This was my original layout:
But a layoff from looking at this stuff got me thinking and I have finalized this layout instead:
Using MDF board as a base, I will work with it.
Roads and sidewalks laid down, just need to get some buildings done!
I ordered these a long time ago, and finally got to use one of the signs!
This will the hanging sign for the cafe/hotel:
Waiting for the house to dry. Had some trouble pulling it off the plastic while the plaster was sticking to it. Glued it together tonight, all is well now.
Got the inside of the music shoppe wallpapered and done. It won't be an open building, so I'm not concerned with doing as much detail. Still doing 2 floors and whatnot.
Here's an eye level shot of the cafe coming from the road where the E Co. figs will be laid out
And here's a birds eye of the new layout with the buildings set up so I could get an idea of how everything is working together. I am very pleased!
And lastly, the music shoppe getting its sign. Can't wait to get my new Harder and Steenbeck AB and spray it with some awesome green! Exciting. Get to make a door for it tomorrow, I think. Have never built a door before so it should be fun. the white stuff in the window frames is Krystal Klear..was trying to see if it will dry clear. Guess I will find out in the morning. I am wondering if I will regret this little experiment...
That's all for tonight. More tomorrow. Thanks for watching!
The idea is based on Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Regiment in World War Two. I have been a huge fan of the Band of Brothers series for many years and deeply respect what all the units did in the war. I wanted to depict a very specific scene from Part 3 of the series where E Co is asked to take the town of Carentan. It was a very valuable piece of land during D Day and the days following as it connected both Utah and Omaha beaches together, linking Allied resources with a central axis point to funnel men and supplies up inland to continue the rush into Nazi territory. Carentan was taken with a few causalities by E Co and the Germans had stationed their own Parachute regiment there to hold the town, the 6th Fallschirmjager unit. The enemy was prepared and held E Co down with machine gun fire from a 3 story building at the end of the only access point to E Co: a road that ran Northbound into the town.
I found these awesome renderings somewhere on the internet and have been using them as a resource:
I am building the Cafe, the half destroyed house and a building that is not really known, making it a music shop.
This was my original layout:
But a layoff from looking at this stuff got me thinking and I have finalized this layout instead:
Using MDF board as a base, I will work with it.
Roads and sidewalks laid down, just need to get some buildings done!
I ordered these a long time ago, and finally got to use one of the signs!
This will the hanging sign for the cafe/hotel:
Waiting for the house to dry. Had some trouble pulling it off the plastic while the plaster was sticking to it. Glued it together tonight, all is well now.
Got the inside of the music shoppe wallpapered and done. It won't be an open building, so I'm not concerned with doing as much detail. Still doing 2 floors and whatnot.
Here's an eye level shot of the cafe coming from the road where the E Co. figs will be laid out
And here's a birds eye of the new layout with the buildings set up so I could get an idea of how everything is working together. I am very pleased!
And lastly, the music shoppe getting its sign. Can't wait to get my new Harder and Steenbeck AB and spray it with some awesome green! Exciting. Get to make a door for it tomorrow, I think. Have never built a door before so it should be fun. the white stuff in the window frames is Krystal Klear..was trying to see if it will dry clear. Guess I will find out in the morning. I am wondering if I will regret this little experiment...
That's all for tonight. More tomorrow. Thanks for watching!
Will update in a few days.
