General Roy Urquhart, Commander 1rst British Airborne Div., Arnhem, Holland, Sept. 1944.

[uss frolick]

We all remember Sean Connery's epic role as General Roy Urquhart in the 1976 film "A Bridge Too Far." This is my 1/6th scale tribute:

 

0-4 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr

 

0-3 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr

 

0-2 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr

 

0-6 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr

 

0-8 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr

 

0 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr

 

0-1 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr

 

0-3 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr

 

0-8 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr

 

0-6 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr

 

0-4 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr

 

0-13 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr

 

0-9 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr

 

0-12 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr

 

0-7 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr

 

0-12 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr

 

0-11 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr

 

 

 

 

[fnick]

Very realistic! If you are interested in the market garden operation I can recommend both the film "a bridge too far" and especially the book by Cornelius Ryan.

 

Nick

Edited May 6, 2020 by fnick

[ccoyle]

Nice job! I'm sure you already have Cornelius Ryan's book, which is an excellent read on the Market-Garden operation.

[amateur]

It took me a couple of seconds, but then I realized: you took stills from the film as background. That is why your general is looking towards the city centre of Deventer

 

But apart from that (only Dutch will realize) nice work.

 

btw: the reason that the dilm was shot in Deventer has ro do with the fact that the city centre of Arnhem (especcially around the part near the bridge) was almost completely destroyed during the action. After the war they did a reconstruction of a couple of important buildings, all other were removed, and replaced by 'modern' architecture. (Which by now is completely outdated, and is replaced by even more modern architecture....)

The bridge has been renamed to 'John Frost bridge'

 

Jan

Edited May 6, 2020 by amateur

[popeye the sailor]

really nice work  !

[uss frolick]

I have an entire library of Arnhem books! One little known film that I recommend is "Theirs is the Glory." Its only an hour, 20-minutes long, and it is in B&W, but it is truly authentic. It was filmed in 1946, and it stars some of the actual survivors of the reconstituted British 1st Airborne Division (upon their return from the Greek Civil War) , and it was filmed in the actual wreckage of Arnhem, prior to the rebuilding of what remained of the town. Many paratroopers found their old foxholes, and used them for filming. The Dutch army actually provided running German Panther and Tiger tanks for use the film, as they were still using them until they could afford to buy proper, new tanks of their own!

 

Fortunately, Theirs Is The Glory is on Youtube, in its entirety!

 

 

 

Edited May 7, 2020 by uss frolick

[amateur]

Thanks for the link. I didn't know that one.

 

and I checked on the dutch tanks. Our first proper tank was a centurion (1953). Until that moment we used old shermans. No german tanks in active use at the Dutch army (at least, according to the internetpage of the Dutch army )

 

Jan

Edited May 7, 2020 by amateur

[uss frolick]

 After watching the above film, you might also want to look at this documentary This is a small documentary revisiting the (battle) locations that were used for the 1946 documentary/movie Theirs Is The Glory were the real soldiers returned to the original battle locations to reenact the battle scenes as they lived through it.

 

The narrator is too adorable - Dutch with English subtitles:

 

 

 

[Moab]

Your figures are superb...Moab

[mtaylor]

Your figures very lifelike, Frolick.  Market-Garden was very sad time and a royal screw up by Monti in my opinion.

[Old Collingwood]

12 minutes ago, mtaylor said:

Your figures very lifelike, Frolick.  Market-Garden was very sad time and a royal screw up by Monti in my opinion.

I used to know an old timer who was there, he was a British Para   dropped in there out of a Dak,   but had a sad tail to tell  - he was dug in with his mate in a pit  with a morta  whne his mate was shot in the head by a sniper, very sad,   he alas  has since passed away, but a photo of him was in a book of the operation showing his expression just after it happened.

 

OC.