Steve

Great job on the flames. The best I have seen.

A couple of points

• 1-  You and jibber are right you need black smoke too

• 2-  Wouldn’t the electric cord burn up with the intense hea……. OH, Wait,  Now I Get It- never mind.

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P.S. Sincerely, A great job so far; this is going to be a pleasure to watch this come together.

modelcrazy

Instead of an urban scene, I will be doing the causeway at the Rumaila oilfield since I can’t find any evidence of a destroyed T-72 at the battle of Khafji. 
This is one of the flame pillars with the LED’s installed. I will be placing it in the hatch and add black smoke when I complete the build. What do you think?

 

Hot and very " F-ective "  

That destruction looks real good so far.

Steve I did one a while back and took my blade to take chunks out of the wheels and track and heated an awl to punch holes and when you pull it out it'll leave a nice rim around it. Doing great Steve.

Just a couple a damaged ones I've done.

I didn't try any fire but I cut and twisted some metal and punched a lot of holes. Just offering some ideas Steve, I think you're going along great.

Steve, the 'fire' looks fantastic! I wasn't sure how it would come off but I love what you've got going on there. Probably could use more black smoke added to the top as the guys said but it shouldn't be too hard. 

The destruction looks really cool too though as I understand a shaped charge just burns a coin sized hole in the side of the tank and then spews red-hot gas into the vehicle's interior. I'll let more people here with more knowledge of the subject correct me here though. 

RBaer

Am I the only one not seeing any pictures here? Wazzup?

Ah.....  that explains a lot.

Yeah, I am totaly bummed. ALL of my posted pics in all the forums are gone right now. I just hope my pics come back after they get their problem fixed.

wow what a cool idea! im blown away (no pun intended) by all you guy's skills and creativity.

RBaer,

my pics are back!!!

modelcrazy

Instead of an urban scene, I will be doing the causeway at the Rumaila oilfield since I can’t find any evidence of a destroyed T-72 at the battle of Khafji. 
This is one of the flame pillars with the LED’s installed. I will be placing it in the hatch and add black smoke when I complete the build. What do you think?

 

In one word : "Incredible flames"

You can start a factory what u made here,can i order 2 pieces please?

Now that it's been a little while and I have finally gotten back to it, I think it's ready for some paint.

Steve

An evening of painting several builds and here's the Lion. I still have much to do.

Steve

She looks pretty darn good so far! 

I worked on the flame out of the barrel and wanted to show how I did it.
First, after drilling a hole through the barrel all the way to the mallet, I inserted some wire for the LED.

Next I soldered the wires to the LED and covered them with shrink tubing to prevent shorts.

Attaching the battery pack provides me with the assurance that everything is working well.

I then applied some white glue to the bulb to attach the cotton.

I applied a bit of cotton to simulate the flame.

And lit it again to see if I have the desired effect.

After painting yellow, orange and black and letting it dry.......

This is the result, with the flame piller attached to show the whole scene.

That's where I am so far.

Steve

WOW, that looks awesome Steve! If I didn't know better I'd swear you'd filled the turret up with propane and torched that sucka off!!! 

Ri

Gamera

I'd swear you'd filled the turret up with propane and torched that sucka off!!!

Right? I can feel the heat from here.

That is SICK!

I'm thinking your going to be getting some awards for sure! This is awesome!

HOLLY SH@#%!!! THIS IS INCREDIBLE

That looks awesome.  I think that is the most realistic flame effect I have seen.  Usually, it looks fake and bad, but not this one.  Great job.  I can't wait to see it finished and on the base.

Steve that is scary good.

As you show us, it isn't all that hard to do.....it's just the  immense   talent used, to get it to all come together and look like that

Hey Steve, make sure when you put this finished Dio on the display table at a contest that no fire extinguishers are close by!! 

The flame looks that real! Great job!

She is looking fine Steve, not far to go now!