“Normandy 44”

[Dulux]

Courtesy of Roy from Dio Dump this resin construction is my first attempt at creating a Dio. I’m in the process of building a Tiger and have ordered some “Panzer Grenadier’s” from the maker “Stalingrad”. I’ll be creating a cobblestone path and road to complete. All comments welcome

[Tim Marlow]

Building looks good. It’ll make a nice backdrop for the Tiger.

[Dulux]

Building looks good. It’ll make a nice backdrop for the Tiger.

Thankyou Tim

[AlanG]

Will be following this one Steven

[Dulux]

Will be following this one Steven

How’s your Bocage coming along Alan?

[AlanG]

How’s your Bocage coming along Alan?

Getting there Steven. Just made a gate for it (pics uploaded) so need to weather that. Also i'm awaiting some spray adhesive for the tree foliage. Once they are done then i'm going to call it done and will move onto making some figures for it.

[JR]

Steven.
Love dios as many on here know so definitely in. More so with stone sets.

[Jim R]

Hi Steven
Love a dio. That café looks very nice. I'll enjoy watching this come together.
Jim

[Dulux]

Jim, very kind

[Dulux]

Getting there Steven. Just made a gate for it (pics uploaded) so need to weather that. Also i'm awaiting some spray adhesive for the tree foliage. Once they are done then i'm going to call it done and will move onto making some figures for it.

Forgive me Alan but will this be German or British/American? Where will you source the figures from? I’ve just ordered resin figures from the manufacture Stalingrad

[AlanG]

It will be German and American. I was very kindly given a set of Dragon 12.SS.Pz.Div 'Hitlerjugend' figures and i also have a set of Tamiya American troops.. Bit i might try and find some British/Canadian troops as that is what this German division came up against in the Bocage and not American.

I have looked into resin figures and the ones made by Alpine Miniatures 1, Alpine Miniatures 2, Rado Miniatures, S&T Products and SOGA Miniatures look great.

[Dulux]

Alpine do some beautiful sculpts.

Stalingrad here:

[Dulux]

Hi Guys,

Wanted some feedback on my first (not finished) diorama. Not sure everything is to scale (cobblestone may be too large) and the Tiger and figures need some serious work. I must say I do find the tank side of things quite intimidating, I’m always conscious of making mistakes regarding colours, camouflage and what goes where.

[GerryW]

Just needs René at the café now ;-)

[spanner570]

Looking good Steven.
Coming along nicely. :thumb2:
The street looks fine. As you progress with the build and you are not all together happy with the surface, simply hide it a bit with some muck and dirt..

I look forward to more updates.
Ron