| Tango01 | 12 Oct 2016 12:33 p.m. PST |
Superb job here!
Much more here
link Amicalement
Armand |
| Combat Colours | 12 Oct 2016 12:53 p.m. PST |
Thanks! That's some awesome work! |
 StoneMtnMinis  | 12 Oct 2016 2:41 p.m. PST |
Thank you for the link. Those are excellent. |
| Joes Shop | 12 Oct 2016 2:59 p.m. PST |
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| pmwalt | 12 Oct 2016 3:27 p.m. PST |
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| Joez66 | 12 Oct 2016 6:03 p.m. PST |
That is a fantastic diorama, and some of the best water work I've seen ! Bravo ! Joe |
| Marc at work | 13 Oct 2016 8:43 a.m. PST |
That looks cold and wet – brilliant work. And a great find Armand – bravo my internet friend |
| Tango01 | 13 Oct 2016 10:35 a.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed it my friends!. (smile)
Amicalement
Armand
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| number4 | 09 Dec 2016 10:34 p.m. PST |
Historical note: tanks never landed from the LCM because although rated at 30 tons (the empty weight of a Sherman) a fully loaded tank with crew and ammo would swamp the boat in any sea condition short of a dead flat mill pond |
| Tango01 | 11 Dec 2016 3:10 p.m. PST |
Good point my friend!.
Amicalement
Armand
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| Mark 1 | 15 Dec 2016 2:50 p.m. PST |
Historical note: tanks never landed from the LCM… [Mr. Picky]
Well, not quite so. Tanks didn't land on D-Day from the LCM = true M4 Sherman tanks never landed from the LCM during WW2 = true Tanks never landed from the LCM ≠ true
[/Mr. Picky]
To wit:
This pic, from Wikipedia commons, shows a USMC M2A4 being combat-loaded into an LCM-2 for the Guadalcanal landings. The USN took virtually it's entire inventory of LCMs to Guadalcanal in August 1942, specifically because they had the carrying capacity for items like tanks or AA guns, which LCVs lacked. The USN then took virtually it's entire inventory of LCMs to the other side of the world within less than 3 months, for the Torch landings in November of 1942. There they combat loaded a much larger number of M3A1 and M5 Stuarts for the beaches in Morocco and Algeria, much the same way. YouTube link
Stuarts can be seen driving off of LCMs onto the Torch beaches within the first 10 seconds of this video. But all of the mediums carried for the Torch landings had to wait for the capture of port facilities to be off-loaded. The LCMs could not carry either the M3 Lee or M4 Sherman mediums for beach landings. As has been raised in other threads, while today we assume that that the US shied away from heavier tanks just because the bureaucracy didn't care about tanker's lives, for the US, heavier tanks were in fact very challenging logistically, particularly if you didn't plan based on the premise that you would have a major port in working order at your beck and call. -Mark
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| number4 | 03 Feb 2017 4:07 p.m. PST |
Mea culpa, I should have said SHERMAN tanks, but thought it was kinda obvious referring to the OP. |
 20thmaine | 08 Feb 2017 5:49 p.m. PST |
It's a nice diorama – lots of action and well posed overall. |
| RealisticWargames | 12 Feb 2017 4:25 a.m. PST |
very nice, love the shell water splash |
| Tango01 | 12 Feb 2017 3:21 p.m. PST |
Glad you like it too boys!. (smile)
Amicalement
Armand
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| PeterH | 28 Feb 2017 11:25 a.m. PST |
love those figures and actually met the man from Pegasus who produced them – was prompting him to make a follow up set suitable for inland fighting/Italy/etc… (in essence more flexibility) but his concern was, as always, "will it be popular enough?"
I had high hopes – the poses on that set and some of the other Pegasus sets was so novel, realistic and out of the box. Pegasus really took chances, and I appreciated that |
| uglyfatbloke | 01 Mar 2017 6:04 a.m. PST |
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| DHautpol | 01 Mar 2017 6:09 a.m. PST |
The waves hitting the beach in the second picture are amazing! |
| Tango01 | 01 Mar 2017 10:59 a.m. PST |
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| Baranovich | 05 Mar 2017 4:47 p.m. PST |
Those are some of the best water effects I have ever seen! In particular, the water spout from the shell impact is simply spectacular. |
wonders why create different 3D models, if you can create one that can be customized?
