Red Dawn Diorama thoughts

The scene at the gas station with the girl fleeing with the Soviet troops in pursuit just as the Wolverines sprung their ambush would make for a excellent diorama. The figures could all be sourced from a modern Soviet set and some minor conversion to the resistance fighters and the girl.

Add the T-90 (or was it a T-72?) tank and the gas station and you would have a shop stopper!

True, that is a cool scene, I think its a T-72, Russian tanks arent my forte

Add the T-90 (or was it a T-72?) tank...

It was supposed to be a T-72.  The T-90 wasn't develop until the late 1990s, about 15 years after Red Dawn.

The fake T-72 tanks from the film were built on the chassis of  surplus M8A1 Cargo Tractors, which was a stretched version of the M41 Walker Bulldog with four return rollers and six roadwheels per side instead of three return rollers and five roadwheels.

The fiberglass turret of the faux Soviet T-72.

And from the Gas Station scene...

Cool information, defiantly a excellent kit basking, conversion/scratch-building project!

Thanks for adding the reference pictures Gino.

It looks more like a T-64.

I was gonna say the same thing as the T-64 had four return rollers and the smoke mortars in a similar configuration.

Thanks for the info guys, im still trying to think of the dio and keep it on paper

So, I saw the new Red Dawn and I enjoyed it. It made me want to modernize my idea, I wanted to set it in Southern California. I was thinking it would be on the 91 freeway going west. I would Have a stryker with the mine plow on it, and maybe an Abrams, or M60 with it. I want to do the civilian truck with Fighters in it, but not to sure on where I could find the figures for that, unless they were also in military uniform. Then I wanted to place it like I said on the 91 freeway and maybe have them going through a Russian road block

Does the new movie have Russians as the invaders again? For  armed civilian type s Trumpeter makes a couple sets of Iraq/Afghansitan Contractors that might be a good starting point.  If you are doing it as the new movie an M60 would be out... those are pretty much long retired out of the US military except for those used at Hohenfels in Germany.

I watched the original with my teenage son last weekend. He had never seen it before and wants to go see the new one. He enjoyed it a lot and I forgot how decent of a movie it really was. A bit of a downer though.

The new one has The North Koreans taking the upper mid west, the chinese taking the south west. and the Russians taking the east coast.

Ok so no M60, im just bouncing ideas out here, im thinking like the Russians make a barricade on the free way and have an SPG on it aiming down the road. Ill look into those contractors also, thanks for that idea.