1/6 DID/3R GM651 Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (North Africa)

[Asta]

The last parts of the set I could use at the moment were the belt, holster and PPK, which I'd planned to keep for my Hiterjugend Standartenführer.

When DID does their assembly videos they make everything seem so easy.

Well, they can't be using the production figure. Just look at how big the gap in the buckle is and how easily the belt passes through it:

I struggled for ages trying to get the belt through. The gap is about half the width shown in the video and the only way to get it through is by force, so that the metal pins indent the surface. At each set of belt holes it's another struggle to pull the pins out without ripping the leather.



It was exactly the same with the panzer commander, Jager.

Finally managed it, but I thought it was going to get wrecked.:

 

[Chambea1114]

Rommel's finished.

He has a poor selection of hands: a pair of bendy ones, which I've disliked since Dragon Models days; a right pointy finger and a left binocular gripper.

The left can hold the baton, but only cupped and braced by his side as the fingers are too far apart to grip it. The right pointy finger didn't work for me when testing, so I put his arm behind his back.

I was going to put Rommel on the next shelf along with the Hauptmann and photographer, but opted for the full group together for now:

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Awesome display rommel looks really good.
You should try getting a spot where they can be more side by side or staggered around rommel I'm having this exact problem with my SPR figures, I'm just going to put them on a floating shelf either above my desktop PC or a TV not sure yet.

 

[Asta]

Awesome display rommel looks really good.
You should try getting a spot where they can be more side by side or staggered around rommel I'm having this exact problem with my SPR figures, I'm just going to put them on a floating shelf either above my desktop PC or a TV not sure yet.

They aren't in their final places yet, and I do need to work out how to arrange them. I just realised looking at the photo that the six behind Rommel all ended up accidentally arranged by headwear.

 

[Asta]

Now with added staggering.

I'd kept the shelf next door empty to split them up, but I like them together showing off the variety of uniforms.

I've shifted the tropical Luftwaffe into the empty space next to them... until DID make some more Afrika Korps.

 

[Asta]

I'd forgotten that Facepool have the DAK Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) coming out. As General Staff Chief of Operations (1a) for 10. Panzerdivision he belongs more with Rommel than my 90. leichte guys.

So back to rearranging.

The space I allocated for WWII are the ten shelves in the middle, and possibly the one above next to the cowboys.

This is my current plan:

The first empty shelf will be for DID and Facepool's regular Stauffenbergs, and the general staff figures made from their spares. Then Northern Europe; Italy; North Africa (Rommel sharing with Luftwaffe); 90. leichte DAK; SAS and Commandos in North Africa and Italy along with the empty shelf next to them; Burma (with outdated 1930s Japanese); possibly the Pacific if Facepool ever get going on their Marines; and the Red Army women (with one 1930s winter Chinese Nationalist).

 

[Chambea1114]

I'd forgotten that Facepool have the DAK Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) coming out. As General Staff Chief of Operations (1a) for 10. Panzerdivision he belongs more with Rommel than my 90. leichte guys.

So back to rearranging.

The space I allocated for WWII are the ten shelves in the middle, and possibly the one above next to the cowboys.

This is my current plan:

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The first empty shelf will be for DID and Facepool's regular Stauffenbergs, and the general staff figures made from their spares. Then Northern Europe; Italy; North Africa (Rommel sharing with Luftwaffe); 90. leichte DAK; SAS and Commandos in North Africa and Italy along with the empty shelf next to them; Burma (with outdated 1930s Japanese); possibly the Pacific if Facepool ever get going on their Marines; and the Red Army women (with one 1930s winter Chinese Nationalist).

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Daaang that's a mans collection right there! I hate watching collection videos everyones collection is diluted with Mando Star wars or Marvel, but this is what I love to see Military, Space suits and clint eastwood!

 

[FlyAndFight]

LOVE your displays, Asta!!

Capturing history in miniature is what really makes a military display special.

 

[Asta]

The re-release of the periscope in green may mean DID are planning another Atlantic Wall Rommel:

 

[FlyAndFight]

That definitely makes sense. An upgrade from their original should be expected.

 

[Asta]

 

[Asta]

 

[Will68]

That definitely makes sense. An upgrade from their original should be expected.

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Never liked this version of Rommel - had the older Desert Fox (the best) and the latest version. This one looked like an old man - far older than when he committed suicide.....