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US Infantry, D-Day
wbill76
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Posted: Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 07:15 AM UTC
Vladimir Demchenko presents his vignette "US Infantry, D-Day" using Masterbox figure sets and scratch built iron beach obstacles.

"US Infantry: D-Day" Vignette



If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!
roudeleiw
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Posted: Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 10:33 AM UTC
Great groundwork and painting, great figure painting also.
The guy throwing the grenade does not hold his weapon rightly, it will certainly drop like this.
Cheers
Claude
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Posted: Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 12:41 PM UTC
WOW what a great peice, i totaly disagree with the grenade throwing guy as this is exactly how you want to hold the weopon throw and fight.


once again a very nice item.

rob
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Posted: Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 01:20 PM UTC
Vladimir,

Excellent work with figure painting and groundwork. One slight critique, however. On the left shoulder of some of the figures, you have the 3rd Infantry division patch. The 3rd ID did not land at Normandy. The US 4th, 1st and 29th divisions did.

The US 3rd Infantry division was primarily engaged in Italy and Southern Franc.e.

Steve
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Posted: Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 01:37 PM UTC
maybe he meant D-Day in the south of france?

anyway, this is a great example of how to paint good figures. i love it!
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Posted: Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 03:47 PM UTC
Nice tight action. Great piece glad to see it published. Vlad is a consistant contributor, I love to see his stuff.
hogarth
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Posted: Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 04:15 PM UTC
Why do they all have Marine style canteen covers? Do they come in the kit? If so, that is an error, and they should be replaced by Tamiya or DML items. Also, none of their haversacks have the outer pocket that usually covers most of the shovel blade. Usually these packs, I'd think particularly for D-day, would have that outer pocket attached.

Great painting and display.

Rob
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Posted: Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 04:43 PM UTC
I know hardly anything about the finer details of US kit so no nitpicks from me, I love it!

Well done!

Matt
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Posted: Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 06:36 PM UTC
is that masterbox figure set out yet?? i thought it wasn't released yet
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Posted: Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 08:56 PM UTC
Thanks for replies,guys!
Really,it`s one of the freshest sets by Masterbox.I made it for advertising aims,
(for Nerenberg toys exposition),that`s why I assembly it stright of box and do n`t changed some parts (canteens,haversacks) with more correct tamiya`s or dragon`s ones.Anyway,thanks for all notes,it`ll be usefull for me in next projects.
Vladi
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Posted: Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 09:43 PM UTC

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Really,it`s one of the freshest sets by Masterbox.I made it for advertising aims,(for Nerenberg toys exposition)



Interesting Vladimir - I took photos of this at Nuremberg - little realizing it would end up being a feature here!
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Posted: Friday, May 25, 2007 - 05:06 AM UTC
Vladimir,

This is a very nice diorama.
Its excellent painting and diorama layout is what has made me to purchase this group of figures .

Great effort .

Cheers
Michael

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Posted: Friday, May 25, 2007 - 12:39 PM UTC
I was just on the MasterBox site and noted that this is what they say about this set.


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On July 3rd 1944, the U.S. First Army initiated an attack near St. Lo. The battle was extremely difficult due to marshy ground with numerous shallow rivers and streams. The situation was complicated by the fact that the territory through which the G.I.s were advancing was crisscrossed with hedgerows. As a result, the U.S. forces suffered 40 thousand casualties in 17 exhausting days of combat. The kit includes 4 figures of U.S. soldiers hit by German troops. They are trying to pull out their wounded comrade by shooting back and using a smoke grenade as a screen.



They have another US infantry set that they are sub-texting as "D-day" but this set they do not, simply calling it "US Infantry - July".

Nice job on this Vladimir!

Cheers,
Jim
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Posted: Saturday, May 26, 2007 - 04:17 AM UTC
Verry nice work Bill

love you're painting skills

oh by the way, don't worry, not everybody is counting stitches and buttons,
some of just like a good , verry good vignette , just like yours,
makes us wanne achive the same skill level, cause you have SKILLS man!!

only Q i have 4 u; what's it with the piece of wood, looks like a splinter , in the middle of the path?
Do you need it? If not take it off, I don't feel like it belongs there, in that setting.


Tha Pit
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Posted: Sunday, May 27, 2007 - 05:38 PM UTC
Hi,

Youre vignette just looks excellent.
I love the way ou paint uniform, the different shade you gave it, worn and dirty. can you tell us a little about the technique you use. I've notice their is the same effect on the Miniart set published on their website on also on tank figures.
I love also the different tones on the groundwork.
lastly Hod did you make the grass ?
Thanks and congrat,
Julien
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Posted: Monday, May 28, 2007 - 11:23 PM UTC

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Verry nice work Bill

Tha Pit



I can't claim credit on this since this is Vladimir Demchenko's work, not mine. I just had the pleasure of editing the photos and putting them up as an On Display and announcing it here. My figure painting skills aren't anywhere near this level.
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