Welcome to Geoff’s D-Day 80th Anniversary tribute chat thread.

[Guest]

Not me yet, I want to finish the Tyrrell P.34 first but I’m struggling with motivation on that one :sad:

Ohh you can do it, just think how awesome it'll look when its done!

[Waspie]

Not me yet, I want to finish the Tyrrell P.34 first but I’m struggling with motivation on that one :sad:

Struggling, not a word I would normally associate with you Jakko???

[Lee Drennen]

a word I would normally associate with you Jakko???

Weird isn’t. Now I know the unbreakable is breakable. Lol

[Guest]

Ohh you can do it, just think how awesome it'll look when its done!

I’m trying, but not quite seeing it myself yet …

Struggling, not a word I would normally associate with you Jakko???

I used to have this T-shirt:

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Well, I still do, but haven’t worn it in ten years or more because it’s too faded

[Gern]

Silly question.

All the sites I've looked at insist that all US soldiers wore a gas mask during the D-day invasion. Considering it was such a momentous occasion, how come nobody except Dragon make 1/35 figures with gas masks - despite the fact there are quite a few sets saying they are D-day figures?

I'm toying with the idea of doing summat for this GB and a small dio with figures seemed OK - but I don't like Dragon kits (too many parts!). I've even thought of trying to make a gas mask but I fear that's beyond my limited abilities.

I'm OK with the idea that soldiers would discard them once landed, but that means I can't show the actual landing. Doohh!

[Tim Marlow]

Can’t see any gas masks here Dave.

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They might have carried them, but don’t seem to have worn them…

[Airborne01]

Silly question.

All the sites I've looked at insist that all US soldiers wore a gas mask during the D-day invasion. Considering it was such a momentous occasion, how come nobody except Dragon make 1/35 figures with gas masks - despite the fact there are quite a few sets saying they are D-day figures?

I'm toying with the idea of doing summat for this GB and a small dio with figures seemed OK - but I don't like Dragon kits (too many parts!). I've even thought of trying to make a gas mask but I fear that's beyond my limited abilities.

I'm OK with the idea that soldiers would discard them once landed, but that means I can't show the actual landing. Doohh!

... mini-diorama showing squaddies about to land fidgeting with, or discarding their respirators...small landing craft internals (very basic in reality) perhaps? -, loads of potential for effects (water, vomit, equipment and 'human interest' in shed-loads ...
Steve

[Neil Merryweather]

they are the black rubber pouches front and centre.
you can' see them in the first and third shot because they all have their backs to the camera.....
I reckon the second shot was taken a few days before

[Waspie]

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I reckon the second shot was taken a few days before

I imagine there would have been many embarking and disembarking drills prior to the actual landing. Keep the troops busy, its good for morale!!!

[Tim Marlow]

they are the black rubber pouches front and centre.
you can' see them in the first and third shot because they all have their backs to the camera.....
I reckon the second shot was taken a few days before

First shot, guy in the centre by the ramp, not wearing one……third shot, guys to the right do not have anything on their chins. Caption on second shot says LCT taken on 6th June. Follow up wave probably, but D Day, certainly. Shots were taken from the National WW2 museum, so I’d like to think they were accurately labelled….
Dave asked if they were wearing them, not carrying them, by the way Neil……but I may have misunderstood what he meant.

[Airborne01]

I imagine there would have been many embarking and disembarking drills prior to the actual landing. Keep the troops busy, its good for morale!!!

Really ... ?
Steve :thinking:

[Neil Merryweather]

here they are

How many do you need Dave-I've collected a few for my LCVP dio-I can spare some

[Neil Merryweather]

First shot, guy in the centre by the ramp, not wearing one……third shot, guys to the right do not have anything on their chins. Caption on second shot says LCT taken on 6th June. Follow up wave probably, but D Day, certainly. Shots were taken from the National WW2 museum, so I’d like to think they were accurately labelled….
Dave asked if they were wearing them, not carrying them, by the way Neil……but I may have misunderstood what he meant.

hmm, I took it to mean carrying them....

[Neil Merryweather]

here are a whole load more-
pic taken in Weymouth on ,I believe, 4 June, so the real thing.
Genuine colour photo from the time as well, not colourized.

[Tim Marlow]

here are a whole load more-
pic taken in Weymouth on ,I believe, 4 June, so the real thing.
Genuine colour photo from the time as well, not colourized.

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Guy taking the picture must be on a stepladder. Fair drop to the beach there LOL…..good shot though.