WW2 Marines - Pacific (2 Viewers)

Great small dio Alexdakar!! Tarawa is one of the best studies of the island campaigns, and all the lessons learned there saved more lives--- even in todays Corps!!...............Stryker II
 
Nice work Alex. If I remember the amtrac was one of your early repainted vehicles you made. John
 
:cool: FOR USMC:----- LVTA-4 75mm Howitzer on Turret-----105mm Field Howitzer Gun, a "Flame Throwing" SHERMAN Tank-----Small 75mm Mountain Howitzer----Radio/Command Jeep----M-29-WEASEL Tracked Vehicle---HEAVY Mortar Team---HEAVY MG 30/50Cal Team---Sachel Trowing GYRENE's----Flame Thrower GYRENE's! CIAO!
 
King and Country dabbled in the Pacific, so did Figarti. OK Collectors Showcase let see where you can take this important and somewhat neglected Theater.

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Figures and vehicles from Figarti
 
Nick did out do himself on that seawall. He made it to my specifications, along with the palm trees. Which I added to my overall scene. It is one of my favorite Nick Pieces. I don't want to deviate from the thread, so Collectors Showcase, make some more cool Pacific stuff I can add to that scene. Alex
 
I dont have sound on my computer. What channel will this series be aired on? It looks great!
 
Captain:

The series, on HBO, is in 10 parts, probably an hour long or could be 90 minutes for the first installment or last. It was filmed with full cooperation and the FULL SUPPORT of the Spielberg/Hanks team in and around Austrailia. It is thier representation of the PACIFIC WAR in WWII. The premise was and is, that when Ryan and Band of Brothers came out, they had received thousands of complaints from the men and women who served in the pacific campaign, which was longer, bloodier, and more of a close in fight due to limited island's geography. Hanks has said and has been quoted, that "THIS SERIES, is by far, the BEST we have ever put out on film." I'm sure some may disagree with that statement, as they are only interested in Europe or krauts in general, but the facts are in, stated by the man himself.

The series will evolve around three real-life marines and the battles they endured. This particular trailer looks like a possible landing on Saipan, as they all have the later cammo gear issued after Guadalcanal, I have seen pictures of the Guadalcanal landing and they are in the standard helmets with no helmet covers. Spielberg has stated that this series is so realistic, that it could put anything ever done on film before as obsolete! The fact that it is based on true stories, should be a real fine series, WHENEVER HBO DECIDES TO FINALLY SHOW IT. I will be awaiting it, just like thousands of other former and present--day Marines...............Stryker II
 
From the HBO site...
Production has begun in Australia on THE PACIFIC. Shooting through mid-2008, the epic ten-hour miniseries is executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman, the creative team behind the Emmy®-winning 2001 HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers."

THE PACIFIC is produced by HBO Films in association with Playtone and DreamWorks Television. The production is based at Melbourne Central City Studios in Melbourne, Victoria, with filming taking place in and around Melbourne, where U.S. troops camped in 1943, and multiple locations in Far North Queensland. Kary Antholis, senior vice president, HBO Films, is the executive in charge of the project. THE PACIFIC is scheduled to debut on HBO in 2009.

The miniseries tracks the intertwined odysseys of three U.S. Marines - Robert Leckie (played by James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda) - across the vast canvas of the Pacific. The extraordinary experiences of these men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.

Carl Franklin (HBO's "Rome"), Jeremy Podeswa (HBO's "Six Feet Under"), Tony To (HBO's "Band of Brothers"), Tim Van Patten (HBO's "The Sopranos") and Graham Yost (HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon") will direct episodes. Writers and additional directors will be announced as they are confirmed.

In addition to James Badge Dale ("The Departed"), Joe Mazzello ("Without a Trace") and Jon Seda ("Kevin Hill"), actors featured in THE PACIFIC include (in alphabetical order) Akos Armont, Jon Bernthal ("The Office"), Joshua Biton ("National Treasure"), Adam Booth ("Doctors"), Simon Bossell ("Hotel de Love"), Laurence Breuls ("Ghost Rider"), Tom Budge ("Last Train to Freo"), Linda Cropper ("McLeod's Daughters"), Brendan Fletcher ("Tideland"), Eamon Farren ("The Outsider"), Leon Ford (HBO's "Tsunami: The Aftermath"), Daniel Frederiksen ("Stingers"), Scott Gibson ("Lucky Number Slevin"), Joshua Helman, Ashton Holmes ("A History of Violence"), Andrew Lees, Rami Malek ("The War at Home"), Martin McCann ("Closing the Ring"), Ian Meadows ("Home and Away"), Toby Moore ("Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback"), Rohan Nichol ("All Saints"), Henry Nixon ("Happy Feet"), Keith Nobbs ("The Black Donnellys"), Annie Parisse ("Law & Order"), Sam Parsonson ("Love My Way"), Jacob Pitts ("The Novice"), Rupert Reid ("The Matrix Reloaded"), Mitch Ryan, William Sadler ("The Shawshank Redemption"), Gary Sweet ("Down in Splendor"), Anna Torv ("Young Lions"), Sandy Winton ("Two Twisted"), Dylan Young and Ashley Zukerman. Additional actors will be announced as they are confirmed.

THE PACIFIC is based on the books "With the Old Breed," by Eugene Sledge, which was hailed by historian Paul Fussell as "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war," and "Helmet for My Pillow," by Robert Leckie (recipient of the Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Annual Award), as well as original interviews conducted by the filmmakers. Continuing the World War II oral history work begun by his father Stephen E. Ambrose (author of the book "Band of Brothers"), Hugh Ambrose serves as a consultant on the miniseries.
THE PACIFIC is produced by HBO Films in association with Playtone and DreamWorks Television; executive producers, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Gary Goetzman; co-executive producers, Tony To, Graham Yost; supervising producer, Bruce McKenna; producer, Gene Kelly; co-producers, Robert Schenkkan, George P. Pelecanos, Michelle Ashford.
 
FYI - For ALL USMC WW2 enthusiasts - Figarti has come out with three 54mm metal sets of Wake Island Marines, well done stuff. At least somebody out there is listening...
 
I'm glad somebody is doing something!! I was expecting Brian to get some pieces out by now, but that hasn't happened yet. These manufacturers are all going to be caught without, when the new series comes out........Stryker II
 
I spoke profusely with a myriad of different retailers and what heard resonated heavily:

" They ask for Pacific ( customers ) all the time, but when we get sets in they just don't move well "

In this economy that really scares me as its a matter of diverting our resources to a genre that must be maintained as well. So when a commitment is made its made for years. Also there is plenty of unsold metal pacific inventory in stock at dealers presently.

One must step so carefully right now in regards to genre selection. Don't think ill of us, we have to balance the bottom line with high art at the end of the day:)

Happy Collecting!

Brian
 
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