1/72 Fast Roping Diorama Done 9 May 2010

camo junkie wrote:

i cant believe you ark...how on earth can you work with those itty bitty figures and parts???

carefully

Hehe ... its an itsy- bitsy little bird! Again, nice job on this!

But, on the conversation on what weapons to use in the squad. I think that you'd be right on if you went w/... 1x 240, 1x 249, 2x 203s, and 4x M4s. You could go w/ 2x 249s, but the 240B has become an asset in today's infantry squad due to the amount of lead it can throw down range. I always hated dismounting it, but you get so much more stand off distance w/ the 240.

Anyway ... history lesson is over. I think that if you've got it, use it. I can't remember, but if you're going for modern-modern, then yes, use it. But if you're going for Mogadishu-modern, I'd go w/ 2x 249s or a 249 and a 60.

HTHs. Again, nice work ... keep it up.

Thanks.

We generally do the "bang bang" drill with rubber ducks, atleast when we are on campus.  The littlebird is pretty much blue tac'd together...lol... That's for an up and coming 160th build (got an MH-47 too )

And it's going to be modern-modern (IIRC the -K rolled out in 94)

Here's small figure update.  I got the HGU's done. One guy has sunglasses on, the other 3 have visors down.  The gunner and FE both have the face shields.  Sorry bout the focus on the left guy in the second pic...

So now imagine this guy:

with this face (painted, of course)

and that's the pilot!  The co-pilot will be grabbing the instrument panel while looking out the open door with his shades on...

arkhunter2002 wrote:

camo junkie wrote: i cant believe you ark...how on earth can you work with those itty bitty figures and parts??? carefully

And with one heck of a magnifying lens!

Those pilots look way better than some in 1/35 I've seen. 

Good Lord, Ark! I'm sure glad that you're a young-buck .... otherwise you're eyes would be toast. You'd better do something in 1/16 or 1/9 for your next build! If might go blind by 25 if you don't!!! HAHA!!

Your figures look awesome. Are the face shields putty? They look nice too. And the pilot .... is that ... 1/72 ... ACU pattern!?! ..... Awww F*CK IT! I QUIT!!!!

Nice going brother .... you got game.

Thanks guys!

Just a teaser pic.  I should be able to put up a picture of the finished pilots tomorrow, and the progress on the figures.  Most of them have heads now...

And psst, yeah, it's slowly coming along, but my skills have gotten much better since I started this trek, so it's been worth it.  I doubt I'll finish it in time to go back to school.  I'm going to leave my modeling stuff at home, however, I am going to take my sculpting stuff to school and keep that up.  There's going to be a lul for a little while, but I might post my sculpting in this thread just to keep it alive, I'm working on a set to fit in the back of a Hasegawa UH-60.

Teaser pic:

Amazing! You're sure it's 1/72 scale?!

I love that Mr.Fantastic figure that's about to rope down! (Sorry couldn't resist)

He used to be The Thing....lol

Here's those pilots I promised .  It seems as though macro is my enemy, it catches all the things that I can't. lol

That said, I think the vests need a little work and thne I'll call these pilots done!

The guy on the left is wearing his visor and the guy on the right is wearing sunglasses .  The sunglasses are flesh based, but then I painted tamiya clear orange over it, and then visor is black (german grey) with tamiya clear green over it.

Good Lord, Son!!!! I have no idea how you're not in the mad house by this time ... after dealing w/ those little guys! They look great though.

As far as the the vest go. I think that a little washing will do the trick. I think thats what you need to bring out the folds and creases.

Looking good, so keep it comin'....

modelchasm wrote:

As far as the the vest go. I think that a little washing will do the trick. I think thats what you need to bring out the folds and creases. Looking good, so keep it comin'....

Completely agree on both statements!

I gave them a bath, well, I washed them   Then I buckled them up and gave them the rest of their controls and PE pedals.  I also started work on the minigun.  I am going to see if I can make HobbyBoss's usable or not, as they start off way too long.  I picked up some .50 cal pre-painted ammo in 1/72, which should be good enough for .30, and if not, I could fold it in half or something, pictures of that coming soon...

Yeah, I got it at a thrift shop and it is like a foot and a half

But yeah, the seatbelts were off a little (first picture is from my UH-60M walkaround showing how the seatbelt should be...)

Then I have pictures of both the rotor blade and the ALQ-144...

C&C welcome,

Austin

Nice disco ball! Looks like things are coming together nicely. I'm stuck in the "figure phase" with mine .... but thanks for showing me there's "an out".

What is you use on the "ball"? Silver under clear red?

modelchasm wrote:

Nice disco ball!

very cool to see that it even reflects enough to throw back a shine on your matte black roof! Impressive in any scale.

Thanks!  I've been looking at ways to try and reproduce it, and well, Echelon came out with a very helpful product.  The M113 purple/pink vision blocks.  They have a good reflective quality.

It's proceeding splendidly!

I might get hold of one of these "vision blocks" ... if it looks that good in 1/72  it can't look bad in 1/35!

Okay so here's an update.  I got some (most) of the figures primed!  Dark pictures, I know, but there isn't much to see other than my mistakes (which is why there is Mr. Surfacer 500)...

Work continues on the two figures hanging out the side of the chopper... And I also worked on the IP.  I painted the wires white, then I gave it a black wash, and then drybrushed it.

I messed up two of the rotors while gloss coating them today.  Thank goodness they weren't the two that I glued to the rotor head.  Here you can see the dust and then you can see my finger prints from when I tried to remove the dust.  I am going to sand the two blades back down and repaint them.  Should be an easy fix.

Then comes the minigun part.  I have three options.  My first option is the RoG minigun from the MH-47E kit.  My second option is from the hobbyboss HH-60H that I modified (has the newer style dilleon aero upgrades) and then a mix of the two (the HB barrel with the RoG reciever, as I'm not too sure which one is more accurate).

Then comes the ammo feed.  I have seen it both with a cover and without.  If I do it with a cover, I will probably use procreate a different ration mixture of procreate to make it flexible (the one in the picture is quite flexible).

If I choose to do it without a cover, I'm not  100% sure how I will do the chute, but I found some .50 cal PE from a P-47 that fits the ammo bill (or could be trimmed to fit the bill).  Either, way, I think this is a very nice thing to have in 1/72, could use it on some humvees too)...

Either way, I will use the brass wire that I coiled around a steel wire to make the empties chute.

Comments and Critiques welcome...

Take care,

Austin

All I can say is WOW!

It's starting to come together!

As for the miniguns I like the grey one better. The coil is great, but you might consider leaving it out since it's not always used. Acutally I've seen it used more by the AF then by the Army.
Those .50 ammo rounds might do the trick as ammo chutes, if you remove the bullets.

Those lenses are pretty magnificent.  Almost makes me want to build a 1/35th M113 so I can use them properly....lol

Avus, I can't find a whole lot of evidence one way or the other.  I've seen them with them (the most recent pictures I've seen surface were an MH-60L with Iraqi SF and they had the chutes on it.  Again, I haven't seen too many pictures of Kilo's with chutes (well, I haven't seen too many pictures of Kilos in general...)  Instead of cutting off the ammo though, I decided to bend the ammo, giving it a 3D shape.  That way I can put two belts together (there are 9 belts in the set) and create an ammo feed.  I'll have to go back and check dilleon aero later to see which minigun reciever/lower half I'll be using.  Anyways, here's the other idea for the ammo feed with the hobby boss minigun.

The legs below the knees are going to be hidden inside so I'm not too worried if it looks a little off, but I need to touch up the camo a little bit.  I gave the vest a khaki grey wash and then a field drab wash in the front to make it a bit darker, although I'm not too sure about how it looks (I would imagine it to be darker, but I don't want to screw it up...lol)