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                        TARAWA - Born a Legend

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                        m60a3
                        • Member since
                          April 2005
                        • From: I am at play in the fields of the Lord. (Texas)
                        Posted by m60a3 on Sunday, August 28, 2005 9:19 PM
                        Hey, Fabio. I got here kind of late, but I would like to make a couple of suggestions.
                        The bullet impacts in the water should have some corresponding ones in the sand ( easier said than done ) and the boxes of supplies and wooden posts.
                        Also, I would expect the palm tree fronds would be somewhat shredded as opposed to lying undamaged on the sand.
                        Hope this helps. Your talent is beyond me, but maybe my ideas will help.
                        "I lay like a small idea in a vacant mind" - Wm. Least Heat Moon "I am at the center of the earth." - Black Elk My FSM friends are the best.
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                        Fabio Moretti
                        • Member since
                          March 2003
                        • From: Brazil
                        Posted by Fabio Moretti on Sunday, August 28, 2005 9:47 AM
                        Thank you Tango 1...

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                        TANGO 1
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: A secret workshop somewhere in England
                        Posted by TANGO 1 on Friday, August 26, 2005 5:11 PM
                        Excellent work! Thanks for sharing,

                        Darren.
                        Regards, Darren. C.A.G. FAA/USNFAW GB
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                        Fabio Moretti
                        • Member since
                          March 2003
                        • From: Brazil
                        Posted by Fabio Moretti on Wednesday, August 24, 2005 7:43 AM
                        Dear friends, in the last weekend this dio was awarded with the 2nd place (silver medal)


                        This is the 1st place, a dio of my colleague Carlos Café (one of the better diorama builder in Brazil)


                        Cheers, see you in my next dio...

                        Fabio Moretti

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                        Fabio Moretti
                        • Member since
                          March 2003
                        • From: Brazil
                        Posted by Fabio Moretti on Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:40 PM
                        Thank you Duke, I´m happy to motivate you...good luck...

                        Cheers

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                        Duke Maddog
                        • Member since
                          June 2003
                        • From: Rowland Heights, California
                        Posted by Duke Maddog on Saturday, August 13, 2005 1:32 PM
                        Fabio, that is an incredible Dio. It really motivates me to try one of those. Your stretched sprue idea for the bullet splashes is simply inspired!

                        The change you made to the relaxed soldier is much better.
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                        Abdiel
                        • Member since
                          September 2004
                        • From: Florida...flat, beach-ridden Florida
                        Posted by Abdiel on Saturday, August 13, 2005 10:17 AM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by Kevleerey

                        Oh yeah, that reminds me- anybody see ads for a new movie called The Great Raid? I think its about Tarawa, but I'm not sure. Anyways, nice dio!
                        The Great Raid is based on the book, Ghost Soldiers and it's about a mission by US Army Rangers to liberate allied POW's from a Japanese prison camp that is well behind enemy lines. I read the book several years ago and it was a great read...unfortunately, the critical reviews I've read so far have pretty much panned the movie.
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                        Kevleerey
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                          February 2005
                        Posted by Kevleerey on Thursday, August 11, 2005 6:03 PM
                        You're right Tigerman- I realized that right after I wrote it.
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                        Fabio Moretti
                        • Member since
                          March 2003
                        • From: Brazil
                        Posted by Fabio Moretti on Thursday, August 11, 2005 10:09 AM
                        Thank you Tigerman.
                        Dear friends, a correction...the name of this dio is "TARAWA - A LEGEND IS BORN"..
                        I´d made a mistake...I´m sorry..

                        Cheers

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                        tigerman
                        • Member since
                          March 2003
                        • From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA
                        Posted by tigerman on Sunday, August 7, 2005 11:49 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by Kevleerey

                        Oh yeah, that reminds me- anybody see ads for a new movie called The Great Raid? I think its about Tarawa, but I'm not sure. Anyways, nice dio!


                        Nope, it's a true story about the liberation of an American prisoner-of war camp in the Phillipeans in 1945.

                        Fabio, truely well done dio. After some of the corrections, you will have a show winner. Good luck.

                        http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y269/wing_nut_5o/PANZERJAGERGB.jpg

                         Eric 

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                        Fabio Moretti
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                          March 2003
                        • From: Brazil
                        Posted by Fabio Moretti on Wednesday, August 3, 2005 9:56 AM
                        Thank you Zokissima and Double D

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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 2, 2005 12:25 PM
                        super work!!!! is that one guy wounded on his hand and still fighing?? he wouldnt go on the beach with a still bleeding hand but he probably says it just a flesh wound!! great work!!!
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                        zokissima
                        • Member since
                          July 2003
                        • From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
                        Posted by zokissima on Tuesday, August 2, 2005 12:06 PM
                        Excellent work Fabio.
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                        Fabio Moretti
                        • Member since
                          March 2003
                        • From: Brazil
                        Posted by Fabio Moretti on Tuesday, August 2, 2005 11:54 AM
                        Thank you guys...in August,21 It´ll be in a contest here in Brazil (city of Campinas/São Paulo State).
                        After that I´ll be posting the results...

                        Cheers

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                        Kelly_Zak
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                          April 2003
                        • From: CANADA
                        Posted by Kelly_Zak on Tuesday, August 2, 2005 9:27 AM
                        Very nice dio, most excellent. The new figure looks great, and much better. Waves come in different sizes, so I don't know how they can be underscale, they look great, and much much better than I could do! LOL The beach area is fantastic, you have a awesome dio here!
                        "There you go with those negative waves again!"
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 2, 2005 8:19 AM
                        great work on the dio
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 2, 2005 7:20 AM
                        Wow!!! Excellent work!! Outstanding diorama. I love the B/W photos mixed in with the color ones. Nice touch. Other then what was mentioned, I cant add a thing! Again, nice work.
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                        Kevleerey
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                          February 2005
                        Posted by Kevleerey on Monday, August 1, 2005 9:14 PM
                        Oh yeah, that reminds me- anybody see ads for a new movie called The Great Raid? I think its about Tarawa, but I'm not sure. Anyways, nice dio!
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                        Fabio Moretti
                        • Member since
                          March 2003
                        • From: Brazil
                        Posted by Fabio Moretti on Monday, August 1, 2005 4:44 PM
                        Hi guys, I changed the figure in relaxed position, I think it´s better than the other...




                        Cheers

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                        Fabio Moretti
                        • Member since
                          March 2003
                        • From: Brazil
                        Posted by Fabio Moretti on Monday, August 1, 2005 8:50 AM
                        Thanks to all...
                        Thrashergklm I use Henkel Pattex (epoxi adhesive) very workable, a good choice for make waves...
                        That´s it Tiger II I agree with you...thank you for explanation..
                        Next weekend I put more pics with the corrections...

                        Cheers

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                        thrashergklm
                        • Member since
                          January 2005
                        • From: Driving Down the Road in A M1A1HC Abram
                        Posted by thrashergklm on Monday, August 1, 2005 5:28 AM
                        very well done, very life like on everything. Just love the water effects as well, how did you do the waves anyway?
                        Driving Down the Road in A M1A1HC Abram
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 31, 2005 8:18 PM
                        VERY NICE! I like the water effects very much.
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                        sasd
                        • Member since
                          November 2004
                        • From: Canada
                        Posted by sasd on Sunday, July 31, 2005 3:42 PM
                        Great work Fabio,very well executed,the idea is excellent! Alot of work here and I commend you on adding water to the mix,your braver than I am!
                        "Battleing Bastards of Bastogne"
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                        TigerII
                        • Member since
                          June 2004
                        • From: East Stroudsburg, PA
                        Posted by TigerII on Sunday, July 31, 2005 2:37 PM
                        "Your wave effects look under scale, The white water of the breakers look way to narrow and it looks like we're seeing them from an airplane"

                        This quote is incorrect. The white water of the breakers is correct. That was the problem at Tarawa. The tides were too low at the time of the invasion and alot of LCM's found themselves grounded on the lagoon reefs, 50 to 100yds out from shore and alot of Marines had to wade ashore under heavy MG fire. The LCVT's made it OK, due to their tracks, but alot of them couldn't bridge the seawall because of the low tides.
                        The figure in the water looks OK, because he's still in the water, the other one is too relaxed and should be in a low crouch running for the cover of the seawall. All in all this is an excellent dio depiction of Betio Island at the Tarawa atoll, and once you tweak those corrections that everyone has commented on, it will put your dio over the top. Being a former Marine I know what I speak of.Wink [;)]

                        TigerII

                        Achtung Panzer! Colonel General Heinz Guderian
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                        ajlafleche
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Massachusetts
                        Posted by ajlafleche on Saturday, July 30, 2005 9:08 AM
                        Good references on your part, thanks for the information.

                        Remember, if the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

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                        Fabio Moretti
                        • Member since
                          March 2003
                        • From: Brazil
                        Posted by Fabio Moretti on Saturday, July 30, 2005 9:05 AM
                        Thank you guys, for the compliments and the advices...
                        The figure with his rifle at port arms is really very relaxed I´ll try to change it.
                        The bullets splashes I used heat stretch spue (clear sprue).
                        The tracks marks in the beach I´ll try to correct.
                        The trees I made with a balsa wood (diameter of 1 cm) and them I used paint tape (3M) around the balsa, paint with enamels and them applied some Judea bitumin very dilute with a thinner.
                        Well Ajlafletche in Tarawa I think the armor doesn´t use the snorkels, take a look in this pics:














                        Thank you very much guys...cheers

                        Fabio M. Moretti

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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 29, 2005 11:01 PM
                        Great dio, Fabio. One other niggle: the Stuart's just driven across wet sand. Wouldn't it leave some tracks behind it? If you're able to fix up what's been suggested, it'll be a show winner! Thumbs Up [tup]
                        Cheers,
                        John
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                        djw1
                        • Member since
                          February 2005
                        Posted by djw1 on Friday, July 29, 2005 10:13 PM
                        It does look great. I sat down one time with a Vet. from D day. I asked him if he was shaking when he hit the beach. He loughed so hard." No I saw all my frinds
                        dead and I strolled up the beach". His thoughts"If I am killd more $ for my wife."
                        So thats the way some of them thought. Not all.
                        ARTE ET MARTE
                        djw1
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                        madspaniard
                        • Member since
                          May 2004
                        • From: Portugal
                        Posted by madspaniard on Friday, July 29, 2005 6:02 PM
                        Great dio ,I love the beach.Well done
                        Pedro
                        Fw 190 A-3 Richtofen JG
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