Advances in Vietnam diorama "Low level hell"

Nice work. Looks to be shaping up nicely, I really like the look of the MG team. What did you use to form the groundwork? I'm trying to make a base for a tank, just want it to be rolling down a dirt road, but I've never done anything like this so I'm not sure what to use. Also, how did you bring out the fine details on the figures?

Looks great to me too, I also like the MG team and the dynamic poses.  It's pretty big for a 'nam dio, you've got some serious groundwork ahead of you.

This is some top-notch work...excellent figure painting...outstanding hut...all first-rate! Are you going to use the DML copter?

This looks fantastic! Great work so far, your figure painting skills are outstanding and the hut/building looks amazing! That was a great idea to use floor mats to make the building sides.

Can't wait to see it with the heli' !

 

Chris,

This is incredible--some of the best painting I've ever seen!

Amazing work! 

show us the copter!!!

the doog wrote:

This is incredible--some of the best painting I've ever seen! Amazing work!

  .....some of the best 1/35 scale figure painting i have seen on this site! Looking foward to seeing more of this one!

   Boomer...

csago wrote:

More advances in my dio. The figures of nva soldiers are almost finished ... you can see the new hut and the farmer cow, and a general view of the dio. Now it´s time for the vietnamese farmers and the us army oh-6 helicopter ... Coments welcome. Best regards. More pictures here http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v629/csago/

most all NVA that I met had khaki colored uniforms or black ones. I did see a very few that were green, but were not very common. The tennis shoes normally were black, and most of them wore sandles made from tires. The DSHK is really nice! You've got the sights right. Lastly you should have had at least one of the NVA carrying an M2 carbine as it was really their prefered weapon. The hooch is typical mountenard (sp), and there would never have been any NVA close by.

gary

Nicely done so far.  The NVA figures turned out well.  I like the East German pattern ammo pouch on the RPG gunner!  Pale olive green was an unusual uniform color; most NVA I saw had the tan uniforms.  It was most likely a matter of location and time period as to uniform colors anyway.  When I did my second tour in 1970, the older US weapons like the M-2 carbine had largely been replaced with the AK-47, SKS carbine, and captured M-16's.  RPD and M-60 machineguns as well.  The Montagnard hut is impressive, but looks too clean for a site where NVA are quartered; they tended to treat most of the 'yards badly since they had ties with US Special Forces.

Keyworth wrote:

Nicely done so far.  The NVA figures turned out well.  I like the East German pattern ammo pouch on the RPG gunner!  Pale olive green was an unusual uniform color; most NVA I saw had the tan uniforms.  It was most likely a matter of location and time period as to uniform colors anyway.  When I did my second tour in 1970, the older US weapons like the M-2 carbine had largely been replaced with the AK-47, SKS carbine, and captured M-16's.  RPD and M-60 machineguns as well.  The Montagnard hut is impressive, but looks too clean for a site where NVA are quartered; they tended to treat most of the 'yards badly since they had ties with US Special Forces.

It would have been fatal for the NVA to get that close to a mountenyard village and setup shop. Also from about the summer of 1968 the NVA had a policey of never shooting at a chopper, and would often shoot anyone firing on one. But they often did anyway. Usually trying to catch a chopper following the terrane thru a valley, and shooting at it from three sides. Also they prefered to use the Browning fifty for this as it was a much lighter gun (but still very heavy). Choppers normally ran in pairs if not threes; with one out in front by about 500 yards. So if you opened up on number one you had a bad meeting with number two & three. Same thing with a FAC.

gary

I know I may be ressurecting an old post, but I am curious how this diorama finished up!  Your work is OUTSTANDING! I have looked at your other pics on your Photobucket account and all are incredible!  Kudos to you on them all!! 

csago wrote:

 

Your three running figures all have their right feet off the ground.  Looks like they're in lock step.  You might want to consider modifying the stance on a couple.

 

 

EasyMike wrote:

csago wrote:   Your three running figures all have their right feet off the ground.  Looks like they're in lock step.  You might want to consider modifying the stance on a couple.

Don't lose any sleep over it...this was posted in 2004 and not updated since...either it is done or he has moved on to other things by now...either way, any feedback is probably pointless at this stage...

Woah... dead post or not-

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v629/csago/

he's got some crazy stuff in there! You'd think he took a digital camera back in time, dispite historical inaccuraciesand the like, definitly some skill involved.