Black Hawk Down Diorama: Super 64 Crash site

[Akin]

Cant wait for your Marines and angry crowds to come in...

heh... Marines? I play airsoft with Col. McKnight, he might have a thing or two to say about that...

First Sergeant Eversmann shows up occasionally, too... *grin*

 

[Stormin Norman]

Alright I'll give the photos another try, now this photo is old and my model is way ahead of what is pictured.

 

[Robbie TPC]

It works Norman :thumbsup

Received a set of tires today, need about 20 tires to put on the rooftops of the small buildings.

 

[Stormin Norman]

Great, I'll post an update of my helo soon when I'm done with school work, will be posting less often now that school has started.

 

[Noumcea]

Why are you putting tires on the roofs of buildings ? They were always stacked in the middle of the roads then set on fire. Firstly to send a signal to the "militia" that U.S. / U.N. forces were on the way. Secondly, the smoke from the tire fires was used as a smoke screen to blind the friendly forces and conceal the ambushes set up by the militia.

Thought I would just let you know what really happened in Mogadishu.

From a veteran who spent 9 months in that hell hole of place.

Cheers.

BTW, I do love the buildings for the diorama. Looking forward to seeing more of this project.

Dave.

 

[NAZGÛL]

They look like being on the roofs in the film:

 

[Robbie TPC]

Indeed, the screenshot above shows the tires on the rooftops, i guess they are used (in the movie) as weight to keep the crappy corrugated iron rooftops in place.

 

[NAZGÛL]

Which is plausable.

 

[Stormin Norman]

Yeah cardboard (what I'm using) seems like a pretty plausible solution the the metal shacks and roofs.

 

[Robbie TPC]

Time for an update, started building the Black Hawk,

Next update ASAP :thumbsup

 

[Stormin Norman]

So where'd you finally get your Pilot kits from? Just ordered my Pilot and Delta pieces today, from some company called Evolution Miniatures that produces mostly 1/35 infantry pieces.

 

[Robbie TPC]

I don't have much of a choice so I used this NATO Fighterpilot kit,

 

[MedixWerkeShopp]

I'm very impressed with your work to show the Dedication of those who served and unfortunately lost theri lives. I look forward to your updates.

Mike

 

[Stormin Norman]

Hey Robbie, what did you use to cut off part of the nose on the Blackhawk?

 

[Sebbo]

This looks amazing The level of detail and thought that you have put in to it so far.
I'm really impressed

 

[chuckyAPP]

Looks awesome! Some kitty litter on top of those broken walls would look great too imo. Love the little details, don't go blind painting this 1/72 scale figures...lol

 

[DesTROYer8564]

Any updates on this?

 

[jkno]

One of the most interesting diorama projects I've ever seen. Impressive!

 

[Stormin Norman]

Why no new updates?

 

[S1LENTW0LF]

Thank you :thumbsup

Looks like crap right now,

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s319/propceeper/IMG_1577.jpg

Next step, sanding the diorama.

I've started to make my own one of these and came across yours whilst looking for the rough colours I would need and I was just wondering what the dimensions are for your base board