Makatashi's Carentan Build 28mm WW2

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Carentan A modelling odyssey by Dominic

Written by Dominic Additional photographs and research by Sgt Perry Editing by Matakishi

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Carentan A modelling odyssey by Dominic

Written by Dominic Additional photographs and research by Sgt Perry Editing by Matakishi

www.matakishi.com


Introduction By Dominic, Sgt Perry and Matakishi

This booklet has been put together from several posts on the Lead Adventure forum. forum. The main building photographs and instructions are Dominic's originals. I would like to thank another forum member, Sgt Perry, Perry, who contributed information, translations translations from the French and contemporary contemporary photographs of Carentan throughout the build. All right, that's enough background, on with ominic's e!planation of the construction... I received the Miniature Building Authority Cafe Authority Cafe last Friday. It's a good copy of the "Cafe de #ormandie" which appears in the Band of Brothers' Brothers ' Carentan scenario.

The $iniature %uilding Authority Cafe de #ormandie #ormandie model


&sing this as a starting point I decided to scratchbuild, one by one, all the buildings surrounding Cafe de #ormandie. (ere's what I've done so far)


DesireIngouf

This is a photo of Rue Holgate, at the end of it, you can make out the Restaurant Desire Ingouf


DesireIngouf The next step is to do the Restaurant "Desire Ingouf" Here are some step-by-step pictures for building Desire Ingouf. The measurements are all guessork. There are photographs of the ! front sides. ut the configuration for the ! rear sides is also guess ork.


DesireIngouf The main construction material here is 4mm thick cork tiles. These tiles are easy to work with, they take paint and glue very well. They can be glued with either super glue or PVA. Using super glue, with the occasional addition of some accelerator, makes building with cork tiles very fast.


DesireIngouf The base for the hotel is cut from hardboard.


DesireIngouf Here's the roof, the roof tiles are by Auhagen, a German railroad model company.

here is another photograph of the Restaurant Desire Ingouf from a different angle (along D91 in direction !herbourg".


DesireIngouf #nd no$ $ith the dormer $indo$s added.

%or the detailing, I started $ith some te&tured tile sheets and cut them into strips for the $indo$ outlines.


DesireIngouf


DesireIngouf Then I drew in the curved outlines at the top of each window using a masking tape roll as a template. To make the tile strips conform to the curved window tops, I did a half cut along each tile so the strip could curve a little. The keystones are just card cut into appropriate shapes to fit the gap. Next, using a textured brick sheet, cut into appropriate sized strips to line the base of the building. The bricks are textured plastic sheets from Modulor.de


DesireIngouf


DesireIngouf The next step is to mask off all the details in preparation for spraying. I'm going to use a granite textured spray paint to texture the walls. Here's the model after applying the granite texture spray paint.

After searching for the real name of the building of Mr Ingouf, the next page shows a picture with the road that asy !ompany "#$th %I& took during the attack on !arentan. The "#$th %I& was at the hamlet of a (illonerie on the roads to %eriers. )n the google map part you can see nowadays buildings which were in pictures shown on pre*ious pages. After some discussion and some +oogling, Sgt Perry and I managed to disco*er what was written on the long sign at the side of the building -Hotel du oleil e*ant / 0esire Ingouf &estaurateur-. iterally 1-Hotel of the &ising un and 0esire Ingouf &estaurant ownerI'm sure the +Is had some fun in there after they liberated !arentan2 -...There is a house in 3ew )rleans, they call the 4-



DesireIngouf Here is the (nearly) finished building. It's not 100% complete as I'm still looking for a couple of suitable road signs for the front, and a big poster for the rear corner (net to the !ormandie ship). "here is a specific poster that they used in the Band of Brothers episode that I #ant to try and find.


DesireIngouf I bought some 1/35 Verlinden signs that are exactly what I need I scanned them and reduced them to the correct size. Here is the model with the road signs.


DesireIngouf I toyed around with adding windows, but after putting in a couple, decided against it as it became very fiddly. I figure most people won't miss it on the gaming table. I finally found the poster for the back that was used in the Band of Brothers episode.



HistoryofCarentan Here's the famous crossroads from which Easy company 506th PIR attacked Carentan. This was taken in !"". #ccordin$ to the picture in Stephen Ambrose's %ook& Band of Brothers& Easy Company came from the eft side.


HistoryofCarentan Here's the picture taken from the same pace nowadays. It's reay chan$ed a ot. The road on the eft dri(es you to a pri(ate housin$ estate %ut there were ony fieds durin$ the war.


HistoryofCarentan Here's the picture taken from the road from which Easy Company arri(ed. It's a $ente sope with od %uidin$s in the front which& from what I earned from the oder inha%itants of Carentan& e)isted in !"". *e can suppose that the +,"- was in position in this %uidin$.


HistoryofCarentan n the eft side& there's a wa with (isi%e %uets marks. That's the ony hint of a fi$ht in the area.


HistoryofCarentan /inay here's the picture of the house in which the 1 medica post was set up after the %atte.


HistoryofCarentan 2ow I understand %etter the path of Easy Company throu$h Carentan. 1o there was no Cafe de 2ormandie... and they did not pass Che3 4esire In$ouf. Easy Company& part of -506& arri(ed in Carentan to the 1outhwest which is to the eft of this photo.

They attacked across Rue Ho$ate south of the rai track towards this $roup of houses.


HistoryofCarentan Then turned north east to enter Carentan a%out -00m east of che3 4esire In$ouf& near the train station. #cross the road from the train station is today's Town Ha& I think in !""& this was a schoo.


FightinginCarentan Where were the Fallschirmjägers and where did they open fire? C. Carwood Lipton E Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment "(...)As we reached the outskirts of Carentan we started getting German rifle and machine gun fire. The houses in this area were somewhat like row houses except that there were enclosed stairways leading up to the second floors from the outside. I thought that we were getting sniper fire from one of the upstairs windows. uck Taylor and I were working as a team at this point! checking and clearing the uildings and area as went! so I told him that I would go up the stairway to that room and that after he had gi#en me enough time to get to the top he should throw a grenade through the upstairs window. I would then $ump into the room and finish off whoe#er was there. I ran up the steps and stopped outside the door. I heard the grenade thump into the room through the window and its explosion. I threw open the door and leaped into the room! my rifle thrust forward ready to fire. I couldn%t see a thing& The room was filled with dust and smoke from the explosion. If there had een a sniper there and he had een ale to shield himself from the grenade he would ha#e had me silhouetted in the door! ut the room was empty. 'e continued to check uildings and work our way toward the town center. The rifle and machine gun fire against us seemed to decrease somewhat as we mo#ed farther in ! ut mortar and artillery fire increased. en were getting hit. omeone yelled that Tipper was hit across the street from me. I ran o#er. *e was lying there conscious ut hurt seriously. A medic was andaging his face and his eye was o#iously gone. *e had ma$or wounds in on arm and one leg. I told him he would e well taken care of and mo#ed on. I came to a ma$or road intersection! nearer the town center. There was small arms and machine gun fire coming down the street from the right! across my front. Across on the other side of that street! on the continuation of the street I was standing on! were se#eral + Company men. There were explosions up on the walls of the uildings on the left side of the street that they were on! and they looked to me like German ,cm mortar shells fired at a low tra$ectory so that they were coming in somewhat hori-ontally rather than dropping in #ertically. I was on the right side of the street I was on! against a uilding on my right! and I did not think that the fire could get to me! ut I started yelling to the men on the other side to mo#e farther along. I thought that in the noise and confusion they might not reali-e that mortar fire was eing directed at them.(...)"


FightinginCarentan After reading this Sgt Perry thinks that the US Paras were attacked when they reached the first crossroad and that there was a house to house fight along the road up to the crossroads with the R!" and that #ipton was wounded there $near the %esire &ngouf restaurant'( & must admit & am still )uite confused a*out the e+act route taken *y ,asy company from #a -illonerie into .arentan( &f you follow this map/ it suggests 01234 $incl ,asy' attacked #a -illonerie and then mo5ed up the Periers road into .arentan $passing the rail junction and the restaurant %esire &ngouf'(


FightinginCarentan 6n the other hand/ if you follow this map/ then ,101234 may ha5e attacked #a -illonerie from the west/ then continued in a , direction into .arentan/ that means passing the train station and the 7airie1,cole(

Regarding #ipton8s account a*o5e/ it is )uite interesting( & would like to see some pictures of these houses that he descri*es 9 with the outside staircase leading to the 0nd floor( $&n Band of Brother/ this *ecomes the *ig factory which has a sniper on the staircase/ and #ipton runs in to clear the factory/ after that he is wounded outside the factory( -ut in this respect/ & think -o- is not accurate('


FightinginCarentan Anyway/ the only factory & can find in .arentan at that time was the :loria milk factory which is in the , of .arentan/ near the ri5er port/ which is totally opposite to the direction that ,asy .ompany arri5ed in .arentan( ;his is an e+cerpt on .arentan from the US Army official history

FightinginCarentan & think it is correct that ,asy .ompany mo5ed up the Periers road and past the restaurant %esire &ngouf( ;his picture should *e the Au5ers1Periers crossroads/ with .arentan in the *ackground(

6n the right side of the road *ehind the -elgian gate is the <.afe du Stade< where the 7:=0 was located and near the Para on the left/ the cd>3" $from Au5ers'(

;he .afe de ormandie in the ; series looks nothing like the real .afe du Stade@


FightinginCarentan ;he map is a little confusing( ;he red marked route suggests that ,asy .ompany did not mo5e north into .arentan/ instead mo5ing south towards Periers( ;he position of the first aid station is also different( Sgt Perry has found out that the first aid station is not the *uilding near the railroads(


FightinginCarentan & was puled *y the writing on the wall of this *uilding( &t looks like <;A&##,S
,5entually & found thisB


Carentangrows After 3 weeks' work, here's a status update on Carentan. As you can see, the approach to Carentan is almost complete. There should be one more house to the right of Cafe Normandie, and another ruined shop/house net to the eisting ruined house. These will be my net builds. After that, ! will ha"e to start thinking about the factory. #ere are more shots of the town from different angles. ! figured Cafe Normandie should get a backyard since there is one in the $%$.

Three weeks ago

Today




TheRuinedHouse This house appears on the Band of Brothers Carentan set. It is between the first ruined house and the factory/warehouse. This is the house with the chicken coop at the back, where "Shifty" takes cover from the MG in Cafe de ormandie. !rom this position, Shifty aso takes out the sniper on the stairs of the factory. #nfortunatey, I can$t say if this house actuay e%ists in Carentan. I use &'%&'cm cork foor ties which you can (et from any buidin( suppies store for around )#*+' for a pack of +' ties. ou need + tie to buid a house of this si-e. The restaurant in the other thread reuired & ties as it was much bi((er. !irst, draw in a the doors and windows. This wi determine the dimensions of the house. !or this house, I$ve opted for +.%0.cm windows and 0%1cm doors. )ach foor is cm hi(h.


TheRuinedHouse


!or the side was, my measurements are 2cm wide % +cm ta.


3fter cuttin( out a the was, 4ust sketch in the dama(ed areas.


TheRuinedHouse Cut out the dama(ed areas with a heavy duty pair of scissors and a the doors and windows. Then (ue a the was to(ether on a &mm thick M5! base. I find that #6# a7 purpose (ue works we. !or added stren(th, reinforce the corners with 893 (ue after the #6# has set. ote that I$ve added the upper foor supports on the inner was.

After building the basic house structure, I added the window frames and shutters. For detailed method on how this is done, see the next part for the House on Place de la Republique.




TheRuinedHouse The ruined roof is fairy easy :yay; no dormers on this house;;< =ust cut out the dama(ed part of the roof and use pastic strips to represent the dama(ed roof supports. The roof is removabe, and so is the upper foor. Thus the buidin( is fuy payabe inside as we.



Then add itte rubbe pies usin( broken7up pieces of cork (ued to(ether with white (ue>


3fter the white (ue sets overni(ht, the house wi be ready for the ne%t sta(e 7 maskin(, sprayin( with te%tured paint, and paintin(.


TheRuinedHouse !inay, the competed the house; I need to make the factory ne%t, then I wi see if I need a few more houses :need some shops< to fi up a +0' %+0'cm board.






HouseonPlacedela Republique Here are some step-by-step photos and instructions on how I build an ordinary Carentan house. This is the house on Place de la Republique that I intend to reproduce. I believe this real house is the inspiration for the house that appears in Band of Brothers 2 houses to the riht of Cafe !ormandie.


HouseonPlacedela Republique "irst step is to fiure out where all the doors and windows are. I normally ma#e each floor $cm hih. The doors are %cm hih and the windows 2.$cm.


HouseonPlacedela Republique Then cut out the front and bac# walls from the cor#. &on't use cheap bo( cutters. I use a ood heavy-duty )tanley #nife which cuts throuh the cor# really easily.


HouseonPlacedela Republique !e(t do the side walls and cut them out.


HouseonPlacedela Republique Cuttin out the windows is touh* but a little bit of patience and half an hour later+


HouseonPlacedela Republique I went to the hardware store and found this craft ruler thiny. I wish I had discovered it earlier. It ma#es measurin and drawin lines and anles such a bree,e* I'm never usin my old school plastic rulers aain. This picture shows the ruler set square thiny restin on a piece of mm thic# &" board which I've measured and cut out for the base of this house.


HouseonPlacedela Republique /nce the base is ready* 0ust stic# all the cor# pieces toether. 1ou can use H all-purpose lue for a quic# bond* and after the H has set* reinforce all the inside corners with P34 white lue to ensure a solid bond. 1ou'll note that I've left a 2cm marin around the edes of the house for the pavement* which I'll score in later.


HouseonPlacedela Republique I have no idea why the windows on the second story are set off centre. I've noticed that not all !orman houses are built symmetrically. aybe there's a room there that doesn't need a window* or maybe it's a stairwell. I found this old postcard on the web showin Carentan's main square with the 556 memorial. "rom the loo# of the cars it could be either late '7s or 0ust after the war. 1ou can 0ust ma#e out the house I'm buildin on the e(treme riht. The small car on the riht is either a Renault %C3 or a "iat 877. 9oth where build after 552. That ma#es the photo about late 6:%7s or early 6:$7s.


HouseonPlacedela Republique This photo is definitely pre-war. Probably 6:27s. The house is partly obscured by the 556 monument.


HouseonPlacedela Republique The ne(t step is to ma#e the cor# 0oints less visible. In my previous buildins* I used normal plastic modellin putty. "or this model* I'm tryin out a wood filler which I bouht at the hardware store. ;ust squee,e it out of the tube and use a sculptin tool to spread it over the 0oints* smoothin it out as you o.


HouseonPlacedela Republique The window and door frames are cut out from plastic strips. The curved part above the front door was cut out from a sheet of plastic card.



HouseonPlacedela Republique ;ust to add a bit of interest* I decided to build a small outhouse at the bac#. I have no idea if the bac# of the actual house loo#s li#e this as I can't find any photos of the bac#yard.


HouseonPlacedela Republique The house interiors are all playable* with removable upper floors. The first step is to lue in cor# supports alon the inside walls.


HouseonPlacedela Republique Reviewin the photo of the house aain* I noticed that I made a mista#e on the upper window frames. )o I spent some time to correct it with plastic strips.


HouseonPlacedela Republique The strip riht at the top of the house has some decorative protrusions. These were 0ust wedes of plastic cut out from waste strips.


HouseonPlacedela Republique To do the window shutters* 0ust cut out appropriate si,ed rectanles from plastic card* and use some strips for the hines.



HouseonPlacedela Republique !e(t come the doors. The rear door was cut from a te(tured plastic sheet obtained from a model train shop. The front door is cut from plastic card and decorated with plastic strips.



HouseonPlacedela HouseonPlacedela Republique The chimneys are cut from balsa wood which you can buy in a hobby or &I1 store.


HouseonPlacedela HouseonPlacedela Republique "or the roof I used te(tured plastic card from the model train store. ;ust measure it and cut it out with a )tanley #nife. &id I say already how much I love my new )tanley #nife< It cuts throuh plastic* cor# and &" so easily. /n the other hand* my old and cheap bo( cutters don't wor# as well and require a lot more effort to cut. &on't foret to cut a bit of indentation in the roof to allow for the chimneys=


HouseonPlacedela HouseonPlacedela Republique These roof tiles are from Vollmer, a Vollmer, a >erman model railroad company. /n some of my other houses* I used roof tiles by another >erman company called Auhagen. Auhagen. 1ou could also use other brands* for e(ample the ones stoc#ed by Antenociti's Workshop. Workshop.


HouseonPlacedela Republique !ow comes the part I hate most - ma#in the 2 dormers on the roof. It is quite a 0ob cuttin out all the small bits of card for each dormer. 4s it requires quite a lot of cuttin* drillin and filin to et it attached to the roof* ma#e the dormers and fit them on 9?"/R? luin the anle of the roof toether @I almost forot==A &ormers are a bloody hassle* but they have to be done= )tart first with the side walls. 1ou have to et the anle riht* otherwise the dormer won't sit straiht. The little tab at the bottom of the side walls is for supportin the dormer on the roof. Cut a hole in the roof that will fit the tab. This will ensure that the dormer doesn't slide off while the lue is dryin.



HouseonPlacedela HouseonPlacedela Republique I ot so stressed buildin the little roof for the dormer* I forot to ta#e photos. )o here is a photo of the step after the dormer roofs have been built and fitted. ;oin the main roof toether and add trianular supports to strenthen the 0oint.


HouseonPlacedela HouseonPlacedela Republique In this photo* you can see what the dormer roof loo#s li#e. The fiddly part is ettin all the anles riht. I haven't wor#ed out a ood way to do this yet* so it's all trial and error. 4fter 0oinin all the roof tile pieces toether* hide the uly seams with strips of card from a corn fla#es bo(.


HouseonPlacedela Republique 4nd the finished product.


HouseonPlacedela Republique I haven't fitted the ate and arden walls yet as I'm oin to spray the house with a ranite-te(ture spray. I'll put in the walls and ate after the te(ture spray has one on. )o the ne(t step is to mas# off all the windows and doors in preparation for sprayin. Here's the house all mas#ed* ready to be sprayed with Dupli-Color Granit Texture spray @r!lon )tone te(ture spray wor#s 0ust as wellA.


HouseonPlacedela Republique The spray wor#ed* and the fence and ate have been attached.


HouseonPlacedela Republique The finished house. The fences and ate are from "aller* another >erman model railroad manufacturer. The "aller fences are H/ scale. I uess they are meant to be full heiht for H/* but they wor# well as low fences for 2Bmm.


TheFactory Here is the method for building the factory. The administration building is made from cork. The building front, sides and rear are measured as before, and the windows and doors cut out. Plastic strips are used for all window and door frames. The roof is a textured plastic sheet from Vollmer, cut to the appropriate size and glued together.

As you can see, the walls are simply cork cut to the required shape and glued onto !" board in which # ha$e scored a pa$ement pattern with a knife.


TheFactory The side shed and factory chimney are actually H%&scale 'erman railroad accessory models. The shed is actually a locomoti$e shed, so it is tall enough for people in ()mm scale. *ut the side door on the shed is too small +H% sized so # had to cut out a larger door for ()mm people.


TheFactory "or comparison, here-s a screen shot from *and of *rothers showing the factory in the background

*T/, the factory administration building resembles t he (0th Artillery barracks in 1arentan.


TheFactory


Carentangrowssome more Here's what Carentan looks like so far. I've made a 4'x4' (120 x120cm) board ot of !"#. I'm not sre I like the look of it as the $re% is &st a bit too overwhelmin$. I think it mi$ht be better to se a $rass board with cobblestone streets laced on to.


Carentangrowssome more


Shops Now that I have a load of houses, and a factory, I need some French shops for my town. As I already built a house on Carentan's Place de la Republiue, I decide to build a couple more buildin!s from this famous suare. "his is a view of the suare after the city was captured by the #$ %&%st Airborne in %((. I decide to build the houses startin! from )Cafe du Pro!res) to the )*orlo!erie, +iouterie) and )-eubles)


Shops *ere's another view of these houses.


Shops #nfortunately in both these photos, you can't mae out the full structure of the *orlo!erie/-eubles house. I mana!ed to find this picture showin! a victory parade on Place de la Republiue, showin! uite clearly what this house loos lie 0on the left1.


Shops $o usin! the techniue described earlier for buildin! the house with !arden on Place de la Republiue, I scratch/built these two buildin!s. It will take me a bit of time to make the roof of the Horlogerie-Meuble house as it has five(!!) bloody dormers!!


Shops


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TheGame Here are some photographs of the finished town in use. Miniatures are 28mm miniatures from Crusader and Artizan Designs.










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