"The Counter Attack": Carentan - June, 1944 (1 Viewer)

[razorboy]

I purchased this old Italeri Sturmgeschuetz IV model on ebay last year and I have been saving it for just the right diorama. I will be building it in conjunction with several Fallschirmjager figures (Dragon), four 17SS personnel (Dragon) in a farm lane deep in the bocage - outside of Carentan.

The figures are seen here in the "Out of the Box" configuration - before modifications are made. I plan to show some of the uniform combinations used by German paras in 1944, this will include ankle boot/gaiter combos, feld-grau para helmets, Luftwaffe Blue Stahlhelm, feld-grau trousers and the whole range of jump mocks available in June 1944. The figure at the top left for example, wears a stahlhelm covered with chicken wire.

I did a bit of work on the Stug. today, mostly sanding road wheels and basic hull construction.

Does anyone have a really good picture of an old wooden farm gate? This is the only one I have and I would really like to have a few more to go by.

Thanks in advance,
razorboy

 

[thebritfarmer]

http://images.google.ca/images?q=farm+gates&hl=en&rlz=1T4SUNA_enCA221CA221&um=1&sa=2

This may help

 

[Scott]

In French...

Ain't Google great?

 

[Scott]

A page of photographs of French gates. Some could work for Normandy.

http://delouche.over-blog.net/categorie-10742524.html

 

[razorboy]

Thanks All, some really great gates. I particularly like that last set you sent me Scott.
Many thanks fellas,
razorboy

 

[Scott]

Your welcome! It's fun.

 

[razorboy]

Got my gate built on Sunday. Need to "Age" it a bit now....

razorboy