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Hi Guys,
Almost a year ago a leading K&C collector in Asia contacted us about designing and producing a much larger, expanded version of a ‘Normandy’ diorama that, my late brother Gordon had built many years ago.
That original display piece had in turn been inspired by a classic AIRFIX D.DAY GUN EMPLACEMENT set.
Our collector really liked Gordon’s display which basically adapted many of the AIRFIX details but enlarged everything to K&C, 1:30 scale.
In addition, the client requested a large enough separate beach section that could accommodate a number of our landing craft, some vehicles and, of course, a large number of infantry.
After submitting our design to the client which was to measure 6’ x 4’... the collector asked us to extend the beach section by an extra foot in length.
Now, the final diorama measures 7’ x 4’ and comprised 2 sections: the Beach Road and German Defence Works (4’ x 3’) and the Sea Wall, Main Beach and Sea Water which now includes 4 x K&C Landing Craft (4’ x 4’).
To produce this amazing model K&C once more turned to our good friend David Marshall in the UK to execute our 2 x dimension plans and design into 3 x dimensional reality. David worked on the project for almost 6 months before shipping it out to us in Hong Kong.
Unfortunately for me it arrived the day after I left for the U.S.A. and our KING & COUNTRY TEXAS opening. My original 3 week trip to San Antonio eventually took almost 10 weeks due to all kinds of trials, tribulations and quarantine restrictions.
However, yesterday the diorama was delivered from our warehouse here in HK to our Head Office studio for ‘set dressing’ and principal photography.
Here are a couple of views of the finished diorama which I’ve ‘christened’ June 6 1944... I hope you like it... Placing all the many figures and vehicles on the display was great fun! Dodging the incoming shellfire was a bit more tricky...
All the very best and, as ever, happy collecting!
Andy
Almost a year ago a leading K&C collector in Asia contacted us about designing and producing a much larger, expanded version of a ‘Normandy’ diorama that, my late brother Gordon had built many years ago.
That original display piece had in turn been inspired by a classic AIRFIX D.DAY GUN EMPLACEMENT set.
Our collector really liked Gordon’s display which basically adapted many of the AIRFIX details but enlarged everything to K&C, 1:30 scale.
In addition, the client requested a large enough separate beach section that could accommodate a number of our landing craft, some vehicles and, of course, a large number of infantry.
After submitting our design to the client which was to measure 6’ x 4’... the collector asked us to extend the beach section by an extra foot in length.
Now, the final diorama measures 7’ x 4’ and comprised 2 sections: the Beach Road and German Defence Works (4’ x 3’) and the Sea Wall, Main Beach and Sea Water which now includes 4 x K&C Landing Craft (4’ x 4’).
To produce this amazing model K&C once more turned to our good friend David Marshall in the UK to execute our 2 x dimension plans and design into 3 x dimensional reality. David worked on the project for almost 6 months before shipping it out to us in Hong Kong.
Unfortunately for me it arrived the day after I left for the U.S.A. and our KING & COUNTRY TEXAS opening. My original 3 week trip to San Antonio eventually took almost 10 weeks due to all kinds of trials, tribulations and quarantine restrictions.
However, yesterday the diorama was delivered from our warehouse here in HK to our Head Office studio for ‘set dressing’ and principal photography.
Here are a couple of views of the finished diorama which I’ve ‘christened’ June 6 1944... I hope you like it... Placing all the many figures and vehicles on the display was great fun! Dodging the incoming shellfire was a bit more tricky...
All the very best and, as ever, happy collecting!
Andy
. Robin.
