Regnar Rick
Private 2
- Joined
- Dec 28, 2018
- Messages
- 90
“Entering the Reich…”
Since we are a mere 3 weeks out from the 80th Anniversary of the end of the War in Europe, I thought it deemed appropriate in posting some pics featuring some of W. Britain’s old and new US infantry and armor.
I really love that Ken and Team have covered the late war; it’s a subject not often covered in our hobby and I’ve always felt the uniforms and vehicles have such a nice foreshadowing effect of the coming of the “Atomic” age.
I will always have a soft spot for Normandy and the US airborne, the late war offers a nice reprieve from warm summer terrain to a much darker, grizzlier side of war — mud, rain and cold.
Jake
PS - For those who will be attending the Chicagoland Show in September, I will be offering some one-of-a-kind diorama boards for sale.
“A rifle squad of GIs maneuver as an M24 Chaffee opens up on a target off in the distance as Allied troops advance into Germany during the Spring 1945.”
Often when posing a scene, I often think which of the figures are the FNG — the replacement who has very little time or knowledge of combat under there belt. Is this there first fire fight?
Or who is the grizzled veteran, the man who’s now entered his second, third…or even FOURTH campaign. The dichotomy of knowledge that the end of the war is near, but until the gunfire ceases, death is all but a real possibility.
“11 o’clock! Two enemy in the open! 100 meters!”
Since we are a mere 3 weeks out from the 80th Anniversary of the end of the War in Europe, I thought it deemed appropriate in posting some pics featuring some of W. Britain’s old and new US infantry and armor.
I really love that Ken and Team have covered the late war; it’s a subject not often covered in our hobby and I’ve always felt the uniforms and vehicles have such a nice foreshadowing effect of the coming of the “Atomic” age.
I will always have a soft spot for Normandy and the US airborne, the late war offers a nice reprieve from warm summer terrain to a much darker, grizzlier side of war — mud, rain and cold.
Jake
PS - For those who will be attending the Chicagoland Show in September, I will be offering some one-of-a-kind diorama boards for sale.
“A rifle squad of GIs maneuver as an M24 Chaffee opens up on a target off in the distance as Allied troops advance into Germany during the Spring 1945.”
Often when posing a scene, I often think which of the figures are the FNG — the replacement who has very little time or knowledge of combat under there belt. Is this there first fire fight?
Or who is the grizzled veteran, the man who’s now entered his second, third…or even FOURTH campaign. The dichotomy of knowledge that the end of the war is near, but until the gunfire ceases, death is all but a real possibility.
“11 o’clock! Two enemy in the open! 100 meters!”
