My WW1 trench

[Jean-Loup]

EDIT: I HAVE POSTED PICS OF THE REST OF MY COLLECTION FURTHER DOWN.



Just having fun posting picture after finding out how to...

[Maximiliano]

Like big diorama, very nice

Maxi.

[junior]

Very impressive! How did you do that?

Regards,
Junior.

[Debra James]

Is that in you're house!!!

[John Ammons]

i'm with debs on this one... is it in your house???

Is that in you're house!!!

[ANDY BUTKUS]

What's up with posting only one picture????? We all want to see more....

[Tony & Kaiser]

Jean-Loup, that is very well done. Fantastic!

[Jean-Loup]

Yes, that is in my house. The space wasted is only about 1 square meter, or maybe slightly more. If you go around the trench, the other side is a book shelf.
I made the thing in one day. All I needed was some boards, mud from mw garden, a couple of stones, some grass, and a printer to print the background picture.

JL

[ccmax]

Congrats, very creative display.

[Debra James]

I agree very nice and imaginative!! but you are still nuttier than a squirrel turd!!

[Tony & Kaiser]

Here is mine, being German, much cleaner than the Allied mud-holes. Note Kaiser the Kampf-Hund on Guard.

<img src="http://www.kaisersbunker.com/bunker/b09a.jpg">

[Jean-Loup]

Here are some more WW1 french items: a plate and drinking cup with a schrapnel gash, and a picture of the original owner. These items were given to me by the daughter of the owner, who died a few months later. The small pencils are the ones he used to write home.

[Jean-Loup]

WW1 french and canadian helmet. If any one knows what the initials CMG mean on the canadian helmet, please tell me. My guess for know is that they meant to write CMGC, for Canadian Mashine Gun Corps.
The gas masks are both french, one is the 1916 model, and the other the 1918 model. The strange shaped drinking bottles are french.

[Jean-Loup]

More french WW1 helmets, and german gas mask.

[Jean-Loup]

WW2 german, italian and russian equipement. I found all these items myself, usualy for free. Nothing was ever in the collection of someone els. Some things were sold to me by locals living near battle fields. The dog tag at bottom right is a paratrooper one. The tent quarter to the left has never been undone since the war. It comes from a farm that about 30 gliders landed around on 15 august 1944.