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Project - "Devildog" - USMC, Pacific Theatre, 1941-45

SteveKrieg

Company Commander
Hello all,

Firstly, I hope all had a grand festive season with no too much of a difficult New Year's break-in.

I spent a weekend or two packing away the 'D-Day Spearhead' series whilst, at the same time, corralling all the various odds and sods that I'll be requiring for Project "Devildog" which will essentially be another multi-diorama series dedicated to the U.S. Marine Corps and its fight against the Japanese in the Pacific Theatre during World War Two. I've been keen to get onto this one for 2-3 years now, putting everything I've obtained during that period away in order to concentrate on the FJR series (which will go in 2026) and last year's D-Day builds.

I could not help myself though by starting a little earlier in order to get a good lead noting I normally start the annual themes in March. Firstly the 'Facepool' out of the box 'Sledge Hammer' atop the two hardbacks upon which the Spielberg/Hanks series 'The Pacific' was based off. Next, G.I. Joe's 40mm Bofors mount repainted and crewed with the aim to have one vignette cover the importance of NGS to the Marine' amphib assaults. One of the opening scenes will go into the period recruit training, in this instance depicted by two piece-together figures featuring a "Boot" awaiting the signal to go from his DI to bayonet a target (probably the two most difficult figures of this series in terms of finding bits to outfit correctly). From the difficult to the most easy - a Bulldog with field hat to illustrate 'Chesty' - the Corps' mascot.
 

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I'm looking at about 20-odd scenes of varying size though unlike the previous 'Omaha' there'll be no more than several figures per each with an emphasis on each scene covering off on one of the dozen or so amphibious operations conducted by the Marines. Each battle will be broken by another scene which will cover off on things such as Marine firepower, aviation (utilising three 1:18 scale aircraft - two F4Us and one F6F along with a 1/6th scale pilot...er...naval aviator), the Japanese soldier, the American soldier (given the U.S. Army actually conducted more amphib ops than the Marines so a nod should be given), the EGA (I've a sizeable collection of those), the story of the KA-BAR fighting/utility knife (18 such blades from WW2 to current will illustrate that), the Corpsman and several others.

As with previous shows, I've also dragged out all the reference books I could scrounge to ensure accuracy in the uniform/equipment and the supporting info text and these are from a wide variety of sources with the likes of Osprey, H&C and Schiffer as the key titles. I brought the DML six-figure raising of 'Old Glory' many years ago when it was first released so looking forward to finally setting that up albeit with some changes to ensure it looks more akin the famous photo.
 

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The raising of the flag over Suribachi won't feature more towards the end though but rather more towards the start with Iwo Jima itself represented by two scenes, one featuring my old DML Sherman (repainted in Marine livery) being attacked by several Japanese tank killers. The other big model with be a 3d SOLO LVT-4 flanked by four smaller 3d printed LVTs (1:35th by Battle-to-war) in order to tell the LVT story whilst illustrating Saipan (several Marines exiting from that). A kit-form 1/6th Jeep will be the third and final big piece of the series. Some 35-40 Marines and a dozen or so Japanese should do it I reckon. So all-told quite a bit so will update as I go but off to a great start. Enjoy, Steve
 

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This is going to be fun to watch! Great bookshelf too. I've read at least a few of those. Your Bofors looks excellent.
 
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