Black Hawk Down Diorama: Super 64 Crash site

Akin

Well-Known Member

• Sep 6, 2012

• #61

striker01 said:

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

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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*

 

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Stormin Norman

New Member

• Sep 6, 2012

• #62

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

Well-Known Member

• Sep 7, 2012

• #63

It works Norman :thumbsup

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

 

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Stormin Norman

New Member

• Sep 7, 2012

• #64

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

Well-Known Member

• Sep 8, 2012

• #65

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

Sr Member

• Sep 8, 2012

• #66

They look like being on the roofs in the film:

 

Robbie TPC

Well-Known Member

• Sep 8, 2012

• #67

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

Sr Member

• Sep 8, 2012

• #68

Which is plausable.

 

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Stormin Norman

New Member

• Sep 8, 2012

• #69

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

 

Robbie TPC

Well-Known Member

• Sep 17, 2012

• #70

Time for an update, started building the Black Hawk,

Next update ASAP :thumbsup

 

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Stormin Norman

New Member

• Sep 17, 2012

• #71

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

Well-Known Member

• Sep 18, 2012

• #72

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

 

MedixWerkeShopp

New Member

• Sep 23, 2012

• #73

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

 

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Stormin Norman

New Member

• Sep 24, 2012

• #74

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

 

Sebbo

New Member

• Sep 25, 2012

• #75

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

 

chuckyAPP

Sr Member

• Sep 25, 2012

• #76

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

New Member

• Nov 8, 2012

• #77

Any updates on this?

 

jkno

Legendary Member

• Dec 27, 2012

• #78

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

 

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Stormin Norman

New Member

• Feb 20, 2013

• #79

Why no new updates?

 

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S1LENTW0LF

New Member

• Dec 30, 2013

• #80

Robbie TPC said:

Thank you :thumbsup

Looks like crap right now,

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

Next step, sanding the diorama.

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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