vietnam diorama

How wide is the door to your modeling room?

You don't want to build the proverbial boat in your basement....

Mike

that would be cool you do the scene when all the troops are loding into the huey's and when the huey blows the Gi's cards off his table...just a thought

Go for it ! I built a small one in 1/35th some years ago when I found a photograph of me and my radio sitting beside an M-48 when we were on a sweep. People get a kick out of comparing the diorama to the photograph.

Were you thinking of a firebase or something like that?

Franklin Mint has 5 or 6 figures entitled 'Jungle Squad'. they're probalby a little larger than 54mm. they are posed walking and scanning. i've been using foliage from a Hobby Lobby store, cutting to size, painting them to real and using all kinds to replicate grasses, ferns, trees, debris, vines, bamboo and even rice plants. i've been using chaulking and toning them to stimulate trunks and thier roots. my diorma has these figures coming 'out' from the jungle, entering a rice paddy cautiously . its about 2' by 11/2'. its based on my training experiences in the philippines near clark afb in the 80's with the air force pararescuemen. the rice paddy is tedious to make, especially trying to simulate the muddy water. hope the ideas help with yours. doc boggan

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I like ddayomaha's idea, go with the troops loading up into the huey's. That'd be awesome, and the scale would allow you to make quite a sizeable piece.

ya thnx guys 4 the ideas iam a big fan of the vietnam war although usa lost n iam canadian ive always loved the highly americanized movies and t.v shows such as tour of duty, n yes i think ittl probloably be a fire base on a clear cut hill with lots of jungle n scenery around it

for those oversized trees found in some jungles dried sunflower stems really look the part and dont seem to perish .....dig for victory get planting

I always thought that this pic would make a nice diorama. http://www.geocities.com/plymonkey2/rvnpic.jpg

Lots of goodies around all of the hootches and stuff. Tons of detail to be added.
I had planned to do it in 1/35th scale, but size kind of put it on the back burner.