Kevin Russel D-day Model Tabletop Gaming Show
Tags
ww2 tabletop showcase d-day bolt action

Recently we received some emails from one of our friends, Kevin Russel who has purchased some bunkers from our WW2 range. 

He was gracious enough to share with us his build log images for us to see and share with all of you.


 

Wide View of the table in progress A bunker in the dunes on the WW2 table WIP

 

This forms part of a very large table depicting a landing on D-Day.

A panoramic view of the D-day wargaming tabletop

“The boards are supposed to represent Queen Red & Queen White Sectors at La Breche in Normandy D-Day 6th June 1944, with Wn 20 also known as Strong Point `COD` to the British.”

Once dressed in miniatures this makes a huge diorama packed with detail and character.


A view of the troops storming the beaches at D-day Gaiming on the D-day tabletop build

 

The details of the build are outlined below:

“Base boards are made up of 12mm & 6mm Mdf to give the gentle slope of the dunes with custom built trenches, barbed wire fences with one of your double embrasures 50mm A/T bunkers. There are other larger gun positions.”


a view of the undressed d-day table build log a look at the bunker position on the beach head

 

The build seems to be part of a hobby that has scaled with his passion for painting and model making.

“These builds are generally for my personal pleasure as I love building terrain almost as much as painting my miniatures and figure if I am going to spend a couple of hours + painting up one of them, they need decent terrain to finish them off. I was kindly asked before Covid 19 to display it at Battlefronts Open Day in Nottingham which is where the images came from since the sea area has been complete with resin and surf area so that looks so much better now.”


a look from the landing craft onto the d-day beach

And finally, he says that there is more to come, and work is in progress.

“I have now just about completed those bunkers you kindly did for me for my Siegfried Line/West Wall, so when complete and a table is set up for a game will ping you some images, because all the bunkers used are yours.”

 


In the tables above you can see theese bunkers in use: 

Tobruk Machine gun position

Vf35 50MM Doppelschartenstand

Regelbau R667

Regelbau R634

 

 


If you have a project you want to share with us then please do get in touch, by email or any other social media and let us know what you are building. Also if you are on Instagram then use the #digitaltaxidermist to appear in our rogues gallery.


That's all for now peeps and we will be back in touch soon