"Battle for Mogadishu" ***COMPLETE*** 24oct09

SOOoooo ... I'm retarded.

I just realized that I didn't put US flags on the Delta figures. DUH!!!

We'll be fixing that here VERY shortly!

Great job! and it defanitly deserved the medal

This Dio is amazing, i like how the heli is "hanging" in mid air, try sending it in to the finescale gallery thing, or post this over at Armorama, this Dio looks great!

P.S just a little question, what company makes the m4's?

Congrats.  It came out looking great.  Great presentation and capturing the action.

Don't worry about the contest situation.  If you worry about how contests are won and why you didn't win, get comments, etc., you will go nuts.  They are always far from perfect.  Just go, see a bunch of great models, and have a fun day.  Don't let it be more than that.

Thanks Gino! I'm glad you liked the way it came out. And as far as the show .... overall I had a GREAT time! And some of the models that were there!!!! HOLY COW. When I saw some of the figures on the table I almost repacked my boxes and left ... but I'd already paid my money. HAHA!!!

modelchasm wrote:

Klaus, you the man! Thanks again.

Sorry but I have to contradict you: YOU'RE the man!

Great work and congratulations on the bronze, which sould have been gold to me.

I'm glad that I could help out.

Thanks Klaus ... I was hoping that you would "approve". HAHAHA!!! It would have never happened w/o the inspiration I got from the builds you and Gino did. So many people went into making this one happen.

A10 ... glad you like the finished build. Hopefully, I'll be able to add just a few more touches to make this one REALLY pop.

Thanks again to all those that made this one happen ...

Fantastic work. I, too, saw this one close up, and was amazed at the work. You made this look easy, Scott. I recognized your sniper vignette as well, and sat there eavesdropping on a couple of bystanders who were ga-ga-ing over it.

I didn't hang out all day; spent my money at Tank Rat's and split. It was fun, and a beautiful day for it.

Again, great work, and congratulations on the medals.

Steve

Hey Steve, thanks for all the comments! I didn't know that you had stopped by, but I'm glad that you liked the builds. Thanks to for lettin' me know others liked them as well.

There was a guy there .... uh, Alex, I think. He was one of the judges ... funny hat and all, but he started gocking as I was pulling this one out of the box. That made me feel pretty good.

Thanks again for all the compliments.

Although, as I side note. I did figure out that the two bronze medals I picked up in the figures cat was for my SF "Quick Build" Figure (which I titled "Chris"), and for a set of SAS figures I did in a vignette.

This is FREAKING AWESOME!  I predict this diomara will win hundreds of awards... no question about it!  Now I have to watch Black Hawk Down again... thanks for sharing this with us.

Scott this is Phenomenal!

Well done! 

Congrats on your win it was well deserved!

Wow-stunning isn't the word, that is just awesome!

Remember the scene in the film when the Sgt takes a bullet in the nech when manning the .50 on the Humvee? I can picture a great street scene diorama of a humvee racing down a street in the Mog with a Ranger manning the .50 and skinnys on the rooftops with AK's letting rip-now that would be sweeeet!

Bit beyond my skills at the minute-who fancies it!

Ben

modelchasm wrote:

Great build you've got here - cool idea, and good execution. Nice photoshop work getting rid of the support, too.

modelchasm wrote:

1) If you had multiple entries in a category and all of them received medal scores, one bronze, one silver, and one gold, you were presented w/ one gold medal for that category since that was your highest score.  .... WTF?!? .... I personally didn't get this since all the pieces were judged individually, and then in the end, they lumped all your scores together. 2) ... and this is really my biggest disappointment ... I entered 6x pieces for the show and 3x of them medaled ... however, I only got 4x comments .... TOTAL ... on all the score sheets for all the pieces! FOUR!!

Part of the way AMPS is judged is to get people to branch out a bit with their subjects - otherwise (as is often the case) you'll just get tons and tons of 1/35 scale German WWII armor. The fact that the judges you had neglected to leave you some constructive criticism - especially after obviously thinking there were areas you could improve - is unfortunate. Part of what I like about the AMPS system (vs IPMS-style) is that you get some hints as to what you could have done better...and could change in the future.

Either way, nice job.