blast wall in vietnam airport .

Phil-- PM me you email and I'll forward the drawings I got from striker here on the forum.  You can scale thedimensions from them, and IIRC styrene sheet in close to 1/32 scale is available from Evergreen.

Would have been around a hundred bucks to do a revetment for a couple of 1/32 Phantoms, and that is not leaving the actual spacing on thesides or behind.

If you poke around on the internet, you can find dimensions and detailed construction information for the revetments.  There were a couple of misconceptions I had about the structures:

- They were NOT painted green.  A friend who was there during the Vietnam War informed me that they were steel or dark gray, like the photo you posted.  I always thought they were O.D. because that's what I usually saw in dioramas.

- They were not filled with loose sand or dirt.  The construction of the sheet steel walls to the tarmac was not sand-tight and would have leaked FOD all over the place.  Fill material was bagged.

- The walls were thick!  About 6 feet.  I was used to seeing lots of dioramas with walls that would have scaled out to maybe 2 feet.  I thought that was the norm, but no.

At 1/32 scale, maybe you could set up rows of square wood strip and vacform the wall material.  The revetment system was modular, so if you have a halfway decent overhead shot of parked aricraft, you can count the posts to figure out the total length you will need.

HTH

hello .

 thank you for your answer has both .

goldhammer , Igive you my e-mail adress by mp .not be surprise , I'm french .

 realG ,great satified to have a small word of hawaiian islands .

         yes , I knew that these walls were not painted in OD .

phil . 

Phil,

PM me if you want some drawings I did for the revetment.  It has notes and model construction details.  I was planning on making some in 1/48 but I never got around to it.

Neal

On the way to you.  Hope they help, and they are for your own use and not to be used commercially as per the owner of them.  I added the Plastruct number for the siding, you can find them online and order direct IIRC.  Would still need to scale up the corners and joint flat stock and add to it.

bonjour .

 RealG , I send you my e-mail adress , these drawings interest me .

goldhammer , it is for personnel use , I wants to make a master's degree of section then a mold of a way has not to have repeat the work to make a complete shelter .

 plastruc and evergreen , I can have these profiles in france with no problem at all , I have just ended in scratch a trailer M172 .

thank you again .

 phil .

Dig down a few pages here in the dio area and look for strikers Arc Light B52 dio for what they look like set up. 

aloha as both .

 thank you for your e-mails , I am great satisfied , if I not arrive has to make something of well with it , I am a no , ah ah ah .

when I would have moved forward on walls , I would put you photos here on this thread , all right , it's the least I can do .

there is no more than has to attack the conversions of the size .

 thank you , guys .

 phil .

Here's a couple shote that may help:

hello ikar01 .

thank you for photos , goldhammer and Real G supplied me with plans and drawings with the dimensions and I redraw the plans has the scale 1/32 and 1/35 because theirs were in 1/72 .

 I work above friendly .

 phil .