I really
enjoy making my own bits of terrain and objective markers, and something that I
think turned out rather well is this delightful fascist obelisk, hereafter
abbreviated as ‘DFO’.
This DFO was
based photos on an actual DFO, built by the Italians outside of Sidi Barrani in
1940.
It bore an
inscription on the side which read:
"LA 3
COMP. ARTIERI
SOTTO
l’INSIDIA NEMICA
PER LA
SAPIENTE GUIDA
DEL GENERALE
C. NEGRONI
E VIRTU’ DI
FANTI GENIERI E CCRR
DOMATE LE
SABBIE ROVENTI
DA SOLLUM A
SIDI EL BARRANI
QUI ANNODO’
LE LITORANEE
LIBICA ED
EGIZIANA
20 NOVEMBRE
1940"
…which translates
to…
“THE 3RD
SAPPER COMPANY
UNDER ENEMY
DANGER
THROUGH THE
SKILFUL GUIDANCE
OF GENERAL
C. NEGRONI
AND BY
VIRTUE OF THE ENGINEER AND CCRR INFANTRYMEN
HAVING
CONQUERED THE SCORCHING SANDS
FROM SOLLUM
TO SIDI EL BARRANI
HEREBY
LINKED THE
LIBYAN AND
EGYPTIAN COASTLINES
20 NOVEMBER
1940”
I took a bit
of artistic license with my homebrew DFO, and adding the inscription was beyond
my skillset. It’s built on a Battlefront medium base and made from Sculpey clay, but each part made individually, and
the fascios were the more difficult part. I started by making one fascio out of
a base of thin clay, overlaid with wire, then pressed that into clay to create a
mold.
Another
objective marker, and one of great importance in the desert, is this well.
It was very
loosely based on some images I found of desert wells, but mostly conjecture. It
was built from Sculpey clay on a Battlefront medium base, with the timbers being
made from toothpicks and the rope from wire.
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